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Tycoon City: New York Review
The Tycoon series of games has presented very few enjoyable titles in recent years. Sure, the Roller Coaster Tycoon games were among the best, but other titles like Prison Tycoon or School Tycoon felt more like cheap, low-budget games that… Read More »
Dead or Alive 4 Patch Released
One of the banes of console game developers is the immense pressure that is on them to produce titles that are free of major issues, bugs and glitches before launch. In usually rare cases, as many game console owners know,… Read More »
Hospital Advises Games as Therapy
Uchida Hospital, located in Kyoto Japan, has taken the unusual step of making handheld game consoles available to its patients who suffer from dementia. Dementia is the medical term for individuals who have lost their cognitive functions such as making… Read More »
Sony CEO Says PS3 Will Be Late
Sony CEO, Howard Stringer, has officially admitted to the press that the PS3, will indeed, be delayed for launch this year. He made his remarks to Hollywood industry newspaper, Variety, and stated that the PS3 will most likely be launched… Read More »
2K Games Signs Family Guy
We™ve all heard of video game tie-ins to movies, but another form of tie-in is becoming more popular”the game tie-in to television shows. Add Family Guy to that growing list. 2K Games has announced that it has signed an exclusive… Read More »
Lionhead Studios Set for Layoffs
Lionhead Studios, as with many companies in the game industry, is trying to weather stormy game sales and realign to strengthen business. Activision planned to produce game console versions of the title, “The Movies,” but later cancelled the titles due… Read More »
Offset Studios Goes Next Generation
There’s only a few months left before Epic Games releases the much anticipated Unreal Tournament 2007 but already, another buzz in the industry has drawn away some of the spotlight. Three people: Sam McGrath, Travis Stringer and Trevor Stringer, formerly… Read More »
Xbox360 Motion Capture Technology
This week, Microsoft was granted a patent for their new motion sensor technology by the US Patent Office. The technology is capable of tracking 3D motion using multiple sensors, allowing it to track depth in a more effective way than… Read More »
Rockstar Astounds the Game Industry
In some of the most stunning news to hit the game industry since the hot coffee incident regarding Rockstar, comes news that is so shocking, so unbelievable, so totally *weird*, that most of us here at GN needed to sit… Read More »
Virtual 360 Memory
For Xbox 360 owners who are worried about losing all their saved data, there is a product from UK based Datel that will solved these concerns. A new program named, Datel™s Transfer Kit will enable you to transfer your memory… Read More »
