Category: GN
It took quite a few years, but strategy game developer Creative Assembly has finally decided to create a successor to 2004’s Rome: Total War. Total War: Rome II will once again put players in control of the famed dynasty’s history,… Read More »
Usually Pokémon, the seminal critter capture/battle simulator, has a pretty regular release schedule. Two versions of the same game are released simultaneously. Later, a third version comes along, acting as a sort of best-of release. Not so for the fifth generation… Read More »
After five years of development and a release window of “when it’s ready,” Guild Wars 2 finally has a firm, official release date for both North America and Europe: August 28th. The announcement comes just under three weeks removed from… Read More »
During Japan’s Nintendo Direct presentation tonight, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced Namco Bandai will co-develop the next Super Smash Brothers games for Wii U and 3DS with Sora, headed by long-time Smash Bros. lead Masahiro Sakurai. Yoshito Higuchi of the… Read More »
THQ has sweetened the deal for fans of the Darksiders series that pre-order the game’s next installment, Darksiders II, from the THQ store. The company has announced that pre-orders placed through shopTHQ will receive an exclusive set of in-game armor… Read More »
The kitchen was closed for a week of repairs, but we’re firing things up big-time with a double-sized helping of Hot Off The Grill! Every weekend, join GamerNode Senior Editor Jason Fanelli (with videographer Matt Boyle behind the camera) as… Read More »
Back in March, luminary and icon Peter Molyneux announced his departure from Lionhead Studios, the company he had co-founded in 1997, as well as his exodus as creative lead at Microsoft Studios Europe. Molyneux said he had decided to move… Read More »
The Miiverse, Nintendo’s new social network, will be open to all Wii U players at launch, as well as 3DS users in the future. As we previously reported, the service will allow users to post messages and draw pictures to… Read More »
Sometimes the timing of layoffs and studio closings is an unfortunate coincidence. Sometimes it’s a deliberate attempt to bury bad news during a major event so the company doesn’t look that bad. In the case of THQ closing their San… Read More »
“Day 1” of E3 2012 kicked off this morning with Nintendo’s press conference. In case any gamers out there missed it, here’s a brief rundown of what happened. Things got off to a strong start when Shigeru Miyamoto came out… Read More »
