Sunday Comics: Dead Island 
Gearbox: The Wii U Will Get The Best-Looking Version Of Aliens: Colonial Marines 
Microsoft Responds To Reports Of Xbox Live Account 'Jacking' 
GAME Australia Lays Off 281 Employees, Closes 60 Stores 
How Diablo III's Always-On Internet Requirement Makes It A Better Game GAME: No Buyers Yet, Crisis To Drag On For Another Month There are many games well-suited to Apple’s iPhone. SimCity, for one. Advance Wars, that would be another (HINT). But first-person shooters? Hrm. But hey, maybe Prey – of all games – can change that.
Remember the 2008 BAFTA gaming awards? Liar. There weren’t any, because the organisers realised holding the awards in October – before many of the year’s biggest games are out – was silly.
Gears of War is a hugely successful franchise. It’s what the kids call a “juggernaut.” But don’t expect this juggernaut to fade like the summer sun. Oh no.
Earlier tonight, we told you that Britain had overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-biggest games market. Last week’s sales charts are as good an example as any as to why.
Displaying the same kind of “throw that money away” attitude that won them exclusivity for the Grand Theft Auto IV expansions, Microsoft have announced that Xbox Live Gold will soon go (sort of) free.
Companies are haemorrhaging money and jobs. Even Nintendo is cutting its profit forecast. That’s not to say the company is cutting back on everything, though. Nintendo’s expanding.
Sega just reported their financial results for the nine months ending in December 2008. And they’re not good reading. The company is losing money, and as a result, will be losing staff and arcades as well.
Pokémon Centres are official retailers in Japan that sell, you guessed it, official Pokémon goods. Now there are five of these stores in Japan. Starting next month, there will be six.
We’ve seen dodgy, unlicensed games on Apple’s App Store before. But rarely have we seen a dodgy, unlicensed game that takes the words “copyright infringement” to heart quite like CuBert.
Last week, Lara Croft model Alison Carroll appeared at an mobile phone shop in London to promote Sony Ericsson phones — only one of which has anything to do with Tomb Raider. Um, yeah.
