Nintendo

$6.6m In Fines Issued Against Video Game ‘Pirates’

The Paris’ Court of Appeals last week issued €4.8 million ($6.6 million) in fines against a half-dozen companies importing and selling devices that can be used on Nintendo platforms to play homebrew and pirated games, Electronic Theater reports.


August 20, 2011
PlayStation

Meet My Favourite ‘Game’ From Gamescom

Warning: the “game” I saw today wasn’t much of a game at all. All I saw was some concept art, all I heard were some basic outlines of gameplay and a very detailed description of the game’s universe.


In Real Life

The Great Ubisoft Post-It Wars End With Assassination

They say that any war can be ended by a single, well-placed assassin. Ubisoft Paris proves this to be true with what is surely their final salvo in the ongoing Paris Post-It war.


August 11, 2011
In Real Life

The Ladies Of Street Fighter Trade Face Punching For Wine And Coffee

The delightful French artist Bastien Vives returns with another unconventional take on the Street Fighter universe.


August 9, 2011
News

Heavy Rain Is Now Safer For The Children (Well, Teenagers)

Over a year since it was first released, a revised edition of Heavy Rain is being cobbled together in Europe that reduces some of the game’s content in order to get it a less adult rating.


August 5, 2011
In Real Life

The Crazy Video Game Post-It War That’s Spreading Across Europe

Kotaku AU

It all began in Paris, at Ubisoft – the most French company in the history of France. Apparently employees began creating video game characters on their windows with post-it notes. Before long the company opposite began creating their own in response. Then another company joined in the fun. Soon it began spreading across the city of Paris – now the craze has spread to London and Berlin! Those crazy Europeans, what will they do next!


May 23, 2011
News

Ocarina Included In Ocarina Of Time 3D Premiums

French gaming site Le Mag Jeux Video got pictures of what appear to be the official premiums for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D; it includes a wooden (or wood-patterned) pen and a plastic ocarina with the holes identified by their note. I had no idea an ocarina looked like a blue athletic cup.


May 12, 2011
News

Test Drive Unlimited Studio Stages One-Day Strike

Atari’s plans to lay off more than 50 per cent of Eden Games’ workforce, plus alleged “mismanagement”, were the catalysts for a one-day symbolic strike today by the developer of Test Drive Unlimited 2.


February 14, 2011
PlayStation

This PS3 Smashes Up Real Nice

We’re big fans of the classy way French gaming mag Amusement handles its visuals. If you’re not, maybe you should check these out.


February 10, 2011
PC

This Strategy Game Could Be The Best Of Both Worlds

Indie studio Brain Candy is working on a game called Fray, which it describes as a “turn-based, multiplayer, real-time strategy game”. Hrm. Let’s see how they explain that little contradiction.