Metal Gear HD gets touch controls on Vita
| It looks like the Vita edition of Metal Gear Solid HD Collection won’t be just a simple port of the PS3/360 version. Series mastermind Hideo Kojima has taken to Twitter to reveal that … |
Star Wars Kinect has a date (on the dance floor)
| Has Star Wars Kinect earned the past year of mockery its received from critics and gamers alike? We’ll have a definitive answer pretty soon as Microsoft today announced that the game will be … |
Risen 2 Limited Collector’s edition announced
| Becoming one with the ever-growing crowd of Limited and Collector’s editions and what have you, is Risen 2: Dark Waters as developer Piranha Bytes and publisher Deep Silver have announced the “limited collector’s … |
Spec Ops: The Line video interview
New Gran Turismo patch hits tomorrow
| Heads up, a new patch for Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo 5 will hit tomorrow. Kazunori Yamauchi, the game’s creator, confirmed as much on Twitter (via Andriasang), though no details about what was inside … |
EA confirm small layoffs at Vancouver studio
| EA is currently in the process of reorganizing its Vancouver studio, which houses both EA Canada and Need for Speed developer Black Box. Sadly, this means that a “small number” of layoffs have been carried … |
Naughty Dog looked at new Jak game “extensively”
| Despite the imminent release of the Jak & Daxter HD Collection it would seem that the team at Naughty Dog won’t be reviving the much-loved franchise any time soon, sadly. A new Jak game has … |
Xbox 360 tops 2011 console sales charts
| The Xbox 360 has been dominating the console sales charts for the past couple of months and has now been branded the best-selling console of 2011. Microsoft’s console beat its main rival Sony … |
Final Fantasy X HD is a remaster, not a remake
| Despite the recent popularity of HD remasters, there were hopes that Square Enix’s Final Fantasy X HD, announced at TGS last year, would be a complete remake of the popular JRPG and not … |
A “mystery shooter sequel” to be revealed next month
| Teaser time; the latest issue of UK mag PSM3 is promising a look at a “mystery shooter sequel” in its next issue. The tease is complete with a picture of two bullets, the significance of … |
Final Fantasy at 25: What makes a Fantasy reality?
| Here’s Lawson, TVGB news writer type and avid Final Fantasy fan. For the series’ 25th anniversary he’s going to be compiling a bunch of features to form a retrospective of the series. This … |  |
Vita adds Macs, maps and videos with firmware 1.6
| Good news! The PlayStation Vita, yet to be be released in the west, has received an major firmware update in Japan! Bad news? Well, we need to find out how long it takes … |
New Natural Selection 2 trailer shows off the “mineshaft”
SSX trailer looks at more online features
Rockstar hiring for new open-world game
| Rockstar San Diego, the studio that brought us Red Dead Redemption, the Midnight Club series, Smuggler’s Run and even the odd one that is Table Tennis, is moving on to its next big … |
Mass Effect 3 Achievements out
| The full list of Achievements for next month’s Mass Effect 3 has made its way onto the web, via X360A, including both campaign and co-op accomplishments. In an interesting twist though, all the … |
LittleBigPlanet getting Cart Racing spin-off?
| Looks like Sackboy might be throwing in the platforming towel (for a while at least) and trying his hand at cart (kart?) racing. US online retailer FutureShop has been covering the announcements of … |
Is Star Wars Battlefront 3 in development?
| God we hope so. Rumors of Star Wars Battlefront 3 being in development over at Spark Unlimited have been strengthened by OXM today. The site has found a listing that suggest the game … |
A look at Shoot Many Robots’ robots
The Last of Us to have online mode, no campaign co-op, more
| Scavenging for information on Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us has been like the search for supplies seen in the debut trailer. Yes, we had to beat a man to death and raid … |
Final Fantasy XIII-2 not teasing XIII-3 — director
| Final Fantasy XIII-2‘s ending — the “To be continued” message — is not a tease of Final Fantasy XIII-3, director Motomu Toriyama has said. According to an Impress Watch report (via), the note does not … |
Sony, Microsoft squabble over 2011 Australian sales
| It looks like the PS3 had a very good year in Australia in 2011. As a whole Sony’s system account for 25% of units sold and 31% of value at Australian gaming retail. … |
Skyrim Creation Kit tomorrow
| Skyrim‘s Creation Kit, the free tool that allows modders to create an endless amount of new content for the RPG, will be out tomorrow, according to Bethesda’s VP of Marketing Pete Hines. “For … |
Twisted Metal Europe release date confirmed
| David Jaffe has confirmed that the upcoming PS3-exclusive Twisted Metal will launch in Europe on March 7th. The game was revealed to have a short delay last week, though creator Jaffe suggested that … |
Driver dev working on secret Kinect project
| LinkedIn, as annoying as it may be with its constant emailing, is becoming a rather viable source for industry news. Especially when you have people like Superannuation scavenging any and every bit of … |
Street Fighter X Tekken leaks four new fighters
| Taiwanese gaming site Gamer (via Shoryuken) has reportedly leaked the move sets of four new fighters for the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken. A list of move set cards innocently included the four unannounced characters. Included in … |
Not even the developers know BioShock Infinite’s story
| Ken Levine is a secretive man. He and his team somehow managed to keep BioShock Infinite a secret right up until its shock reveal two years ago, and the same can be said … |
Arma 3 delayed
| Initially due to release this summer, Bohemia Interactive’s Arma 3 has slipped later into the year. The PC military sim will now launch in Q4 of 2012, meaning anywhere between October and December. … |
Sega nearly halves Australian workforce
| Sega’s Australian studio in Brisbane has suffered cutbacks of nearly half its workforce, Kotaku reports. The developer, currently working on the official 2012 Olympics videogame, has let go of 37 of its 80 … |
Jak & Daxter HD has simultaneous PSN release, no Vita version
| The future! The future I tells ya! Well, we’re not quite in that all-digital age just yet, but Sony’s release of the Jak & Daxter HD Collection this week for both PSN and … |
EA holding Medal of Honor event early next month
| EA and Danger Close will be showing off the next Medal of Honor to US media next month. Kotaku has received an invite to the event, taking place on March 6. This comes … |
Jaffe explains Eat, Sleep, Play departure: “Games are getting too big to develop 300 miles away”
| Following reports today that Eat, Sleep, Play co-creator David Jaffe was leaving the developer, the man himself has commented on Twitter (in two parts). “But if I may clear this up,” Jaffe wrote. … |
Eat Sleep Play to focus on iOS games, David Jaffe expected to exit
| David Jaffe “is expected to leave” Eat Sleep Play, the development house he co-founded in 2007, according to a report in The Salt Lake City Tribune, as the studio will be moving on … |
Elise Riggs gets SSX trailer
Hawken announced for 12.12.12 as free-to-play title
| Hawken, an indie multiplayer FPS game from Adhesive Games, finally has an official release date: December 12, 2012. Even better than that, though, is that it will be a free-to-play title. Adhesive Games … |
Resident Evil for the Game Boy Color now available for download
| For those of you interested in those lost games that never were, here’s a fun little bit of news. The previously never-before-released Game Boy Color port of the original Resident Evil is now … |
New Trials Evolution trailer shows off the crazy
UK Charts: FIFA dethroned, Final Fantasy on top
| Finally! Some action at last. That is to say that FIFA 12‘s six week run at the top of the UK charts has finally been toppled by none other than Final Fantasy XIII-2. … |
Psychonauts 2 might be about to happen…
| Okay, you’re joining us at a kind of exciting time here. Originally this story was about Double Fine CEO Tim Schafer revealing that he and his team want to make a sequel to their Xbox … |
Starhawk Limited Edition revealed, adds more co-op
| Sony has revealed a Limited Edition for the upcoming Starhawk, available to anyone who pre-orders the game at GameStop. Inside this special edition is a bunch of extra DLC, including maps, missions and … |
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning to see “a lot more” content
| EA and 38 Studios’ RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning hits the shops in the US today, accompanied by some rather nice review scores praising the game’s size, among other things. But even though … |
Sonic celebrations set for summer
| We here at TVGB tend to go blue in the summer. No, not with life threatening illness of drink inducing depression, but instead with excitement for the many Sonic celebrations headed our way. … |
AW’s American Nightmare gets dev diary
Natural Selection 2 out this summer
| There is still no specified release date for Unknown Worlds’ Natural Selection 2, but in case you missed the “Gorilla” trailer, to which you will be happily linked to if you click here, … |
RE6′s early demo “a strategic business decision”
| As announced last week, Xbox 360 users who pick up Dragon’s Dogma will be getting access to Resident Evil 6‘s demo two whole months ahead of PS3 owners. The timed exclusivity to Microsoft’s … |
BF3 on PS3 gets voice chat fix
| A new PlayStation 3 update for Battlefield 3 has fixed the voice chats issues that players have been experiencing since the shooter’s launch months ago. The patch is available now and will be … |
GAME cuts staff at head office
| Last week was a bad week for UK retailer GAME, as rumors of the company no longer being able to offer credit assurance were quickly backed by the likes of EA. This week, … |
