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Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of Sarbakan Games. The Canadian game company has been around since 1989, but has been making solid advergames and titles-for-hire for clients like Warner Bros., AOL, Nickelodeon, Disney, MTV, and Mattel. Lately, though, Sarbakan has decided to create some original games, including an Xbox Live Arcade title. I love [...]
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 knocks Battlefield 1943 out of the top spot on this week’s list of top 10 Xbox Live Arcade purchases (data, of course, from Mr. Major Nelson). A fighting game that basically anyone can pick up and find enjoyment in, even if you’re not tourney-tested, MvC2‘s got huge appeal. But I’m willing [...]
Although band-based multiplayer is still all the rage, no one has pure karaoke gaming nailed quite like SingStar. Stateside, the franchise has only been around for three years, but in Europe, it made the PlayStation 2 a hit with casual gamers way before Nintendo duct-taped two GameCubes together. Sony’s last band-centric effort, SingStar ABBA, crossed demographics [...]
Raymond Padilla: Sony is going to kick off a new affinity program in hopes of generating loyalty from its PlayStation customers. The program is called “P.S. Thanks”…and it has already worked on me. I just have a thing about affinity programs. Whether it’s racking up miles on United Mileage Plus, gaining points on my Starwood [...]
Apple has announced that Eric Schmidt, CEO of a little company called Google, has resigned from its board of directors. Today’s press release on the matter contained a prepared statement from Apple CEO Steve Jobs: “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make [...]
One of the major hits of E3 was Microsoft’s NATAL, especially Milo, the AI boy created by Peter Molyneux (Black & White, Fable 2) earned both accolades and sarcasm after video was made public of Milo interacting with people. Of course, in the real world outside of tech demos, creating a computer friend that even [...]
Just as I suspected! (Two weeks ago!) Potter, Part Six reignited the UK’s interest in the Half-Blood Prince game, which means it’s a magical summer for EA. Not that success was hinged solely on young Harry, because Tiger, The Sims, Fight Night and Sports Active have nailed their demographics as well. As always, numbers are [...]
The iPhone and iPod Touch are big sellers, but how big? Really big. The iPhone Blog was listening to Apple’s third-quarter sales results conference call this afternoon, where the company announced combined sales of the iPhone and iPod Touch have surpassed 45 million units worldwide. 45 million. There’s no doubt Apple’s is wielding a powerful [...]
Last week, X-Play and G4tv.com traveled to Cary, North Carolina to visit the offices of Epic Games, developer of Gears of War 2. During our visit, we got our hands on the upcoming downloadable content pack for Gears 2 called “Dark Corners,” which consists of seven new multiplayer maps and the deleted scene “Road to Ruin.” For more on that, read our [...]
There must be something in the water over at EA, because for the second time this week, the publisher has announced a partnership deal to turn one of their franchises into a comic book series. This time it’s BioWare’s space-operatic RPG Mass Effect, the comic book publisher is Dark Horse Comics, and the comic is [...]