Bizarre Creations, makers of the massively popular Geometry Wars game available through XBLA, claim they are "beginning to feel the effects" of Mark Incitti’s freeware PC title Grid Wars and requested that the author remove the game from the internet for download.
In the email sent to Mark:
"We’re beginning to feel the effects of [...]

Xbox news site Xboxic have on their site, a scan from a page in Consumer Electronics daily that indicated that, in the future, games on the 360 could require the, as yet unreleased, HD-DVD drive. This is a quote from the article in question:
"Microsoft hasn’t determined yet whether to do Xbox 360 games in blue-laser [...]

On Monday, Bethesda Softworks announced, in a press release, that all the actors that played the captains in the star trek films and series will be lending their voices to the forthcoming game, Star Trek: Legacy. This included William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Scott Bakula, Avery Brooks, and my favourite, Kate Mulgrew.
This, [...]

In a recent interview with USA Today, Nintendo’s president and chief operating officer, Reggie Fils-Aime, revealed that the company plan on offering a free, non-subscription based, online service ready for the consoles launch. From the article:
“We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They’ll be [...]

For those of you still missing the Dreamcast, Sega Direct has unveiled a set of hardware themed merchandising, one of the best being this deluxe Dreamcast replica wrist watch which opens to reveal the analogue face.
Though mainly sold through the Sega Direct site, It has been spotted on various import retailer sites (play-asia for example) [...]

Rockstar Games have released the first teaser trailer of their upcoming controversial prep-school title – Bully.
Scheduled for release in October 2006, The PS2 exclusive title (Xbox version apparently cancelled) doesn’t look to be half as bad as the media built it up to be. Anti-game activist Jack Thompson even went as far as [...]

By now, most gamers know about Spore, the next game from Will Wright, designer on SimCity and The Sims. The game will let players create a custom-built microscopic germ that can evolve into a macroscopic critter that can walk on land, build its own cities, and eventually discover the secret of space travel.
In [...]

Sierra Entertainment announced today that the multiplayer portion of its highly acclaimed first-person shooter, F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon), will be released for free online starting August 17. The game will be titled F.E.A.R. Combat, and it will require users to register for a keycode on the official website.
"We had a good multiplayer component and [...]

Electronic Arts confirmed today that the next edition of NBA street will hit store shelves next spring. However, the title will not be released for any current-gen systems. It will only be released for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and the Sony PlayStation 3.
"The power of the next-generation hardware gives us the horsepower to break new [...]

Ubisoft has confirmed to both IGN and GameSpot that there is a Prince of Persia game in the works for the Nintendo Wii. It was purposely left out of the announcement of the seven Wii launch titles because the release date of the game is unknown and will likely be in 2007 or 2008.
"I [...]