Xbox

Kinect Googly Eyes, Crimson Alliance, Kinect Me And More Outed By Aussie Ratings

Microsoft may be running shorter on genuine new surprises for this year’s E3 expo, as Australia’s ratings classification board shines a light on new, unannounced Xbox 360 and Kinect games. That said, I’m dying to find out what Kinect Googly Eyes is.


May 18, 2011
Xbox

‘Human Tetris’ Coming To Kinect?

Looks like Microsoft is turning game show Hole in the Wall, the Western take on Japan’s Nōkabe (aka Brain Wall or colloquially “Human Tetris”), into an Xbox 360 game. And, yes, that does seem like a very natural fit for Kinect…


May 7, 2011
PlayStation

Burnout Crash! Finally Adds Lobster Monsters And UFOs

Already outed by Australian ratings board, the ESRB details the next game in the Burnout series, a PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game that sounds… well, really different.


April 23, 2011
PlayStation

It’s Time For Chrono Trigger To Become A PSone Classic

Looks like the enhanced PlayStation port of Square Enix’s seminal role-playing game Chrono Trigger is bound for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. The ESRB has just rated Chrono Trigger for those platforms, so expect the update of that JRPG favourite to show up at a PSone Classic on a PlayStation Store near you soon.


March 27, 2011
News

Metacritic Now Rating Humans

Metacritic, whose 90s, 80s, 70s and dreaded 60s are points of pride and shame for the video game industry, will now be applying ratings to individual game developers, giving them a score based on an average of all the games they’ve worked on.


March 19, 2011
Mobile

Metacritic Now Ranks IPhone And IPad Games

Metacritic, whose cumulative scores provide a thumbs-up/thumbs-down barometer that can move games publishers’ stock prices, has expanded. The review aggregator has begun listing iPhone and iPad apps.


March 17, 2011
News

Just 5% Of Games Were Rated M Last Year, Says ESRB

Just 5 per cent of all games rated by the ESRB and published in 2010 were classified as M, a marginal decline from 2009 when they accounted for 6 per cent, the board said in a news release today.


March 16, 2011
PC

Dragon Age II Dev Rates His Own Game On Metacritic

A glowing fan review for Dragon Age II on Metacritic discovered to have been written by a member of the game’s development team sparked outrage among the gaming community yesterday. EA’s response? That’s how it works.


February 26, 2011
PlayStation

The Original Parasite Eve Bound For PSP & PS3

The ESRB has rated 1998 PlayStation game Parasite Eve for the PlayStation 3 and PSP, a sure sign that the game will receive “PSone Classics” status at some point, likely coming to the US PlayStation Store before the latest entry, The 3rd Birthday, ships to the US on March 29.


February 18, 2011
PlayStation

No More Gimped Lyrics When You’re All-In With An M

It’s an appropriate opening for a song placed in a game that begins in prison. “You know you fucked up, right?” begins “The Loser Wins”, by Atmosphere. In another sports game, this would have to be blanked out, or just not used.