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Rumour: Shadow of the Colossus and Ico Bundle Coming to PS3

By Alice O'Connor, Sep 13, 2010 7:30am PDT

A Walmart.com listing has sparked a fresh round of rumours that Team Ico's much-beloved PlayStation 2 exclusives Ico and Shadow of the Colossus...

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"Why not both? Personally, I didn't have FPS problems with SotC on my PS2 Slim."

- shurcool see all 45 comments

Confirmed: Layoffs Hit Stardock After Elemental's "Disastrous Launch" [Updated]

By Brian Leahy, Sep 03, 2010 7:25pm PDT

[Update 10:30pm] Stardock CEO Brad Wardell has confirmed the layoffs in a forum post, attributing the cuts to Elemental's updated revenue...

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"But if they fix those issues in six to eight weeks...at that point will you still be sperging ..."

- Vorlonesque see all 200 comments

LucasArts Hit With Layoffs, The Force Unleashed 2 Team Rumoured to be Among Targets

By Alice O'Connor, Sep 02, 2010 6:02am PDT

LucasArts has confirmed laying off an unspecified number of staff, Kotaku reports. Rumours say that the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 team is...

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"Are you kidding? Just buy the damn thing. Good sales vindicate the team and look good on their ..."

- wedgeski see all 60 comments

Rage Gets Page on Steam; Rage Using Steamworks? [Updated]

By Brian Leahy, Aug 20, 2010 4:40pm PDT

[Update 8/23 4:10PM] Bethesda has clarified to Shacknews that the Steam page "does not mean anything one way or another regarding Steamworks. Too...

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"Of course Steamworks has critics. The "problem" is, SecuROM, Blizzard, Ubi and the rest have ..."

- paketep see all 102 comments

Rumor: PSP2 Uses Touch Controls on Back of Device

By Brian Leahy, Aug 19, 2010 10:20am PDT

According to "three separate development sources who have seen and used the new PSP," Eurogamer is reporting that Sony's next-gen PSP "is roughly...

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"The lesson I hope Sony learned from the PSP is that the hardware is only as good as it's ..."

- strangejames85 see all 29 comments

Report: 31 Rock Band 3 Tracks Revealed via Video

By Brian Leahy, Aug 18, 2010 4:00pm PDT

At Gamescom 2010, a video (since removed) with Rock Band 3 running the background has been picked apart by fans and a new list of possible tracks...

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"A lot of older rock, which is great, don't recognize a lot of the rest which is a bummer (on my ..."

- TrustAvidity see all 18 comments

Rumor: Mortal Kombat Arcade Compilation Coming in November

By Brian Leahy, Aug 16, 2010 11:10am PDT

A UK retailer had listed (since removed) a curiously named "Mortal Kombat Arcade Compilation" and described it as "MK 1, MK2 and Ultimate MK" and...

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"Regardless of love or hate for that game (Quan Chi kicked ass!) it was the last MK arcade ..."

- Distortion462 see all 27 comments

Rumours: Realtime Worlds Fires Project: MyWorld Team, Looking to Sell APB

By Alice O'Connor, Aug 13, 2010 6:00am PDT

Crackdown and APB creator Realtime Worlds has laid off the entire team behind its recently-announced Project: MyWorld, according to rumours picked...

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"Everyone knew after the Beta this was a steaming pole of shit. GTA4 multi was made better ffs."

- abjectblitz see all 32 comments

Rumor: Valve and IceFrog Working on New DotA

By Brian Leahy, Aug 10, 2010 1:00pm PDT

Voice actor John St. John (Duke Nukem) recently tweeted (now deleted) that he had just wrapped a session at Valve recording for an interesting...

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"I predict that you should be hired for even suggesting such an awesome concept! The minions ..."

- bannacha see all 76 comments

Report: New Borderlands DLC Information Buried in Recent Patch

By Brian Leahy, Aug 06, 2010 12:30pm PDT

Information about future Borderlands DLC might have been hidden in the recent Steam patch for Borderlands, according to a user on the Gearbox...

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"You know, you paid $49.99 for a full game, and you received a full game. Those DLCs are meant to ..."

- cainx10a see all 30 comments

Report - One Confirmed Layoff at Harmonix: Designer of RB3's "Meta-Game" [Updated]

By Brian Leahy, Aug 06, 2010 11:00am PDT

[Update - 5:15pm] A Harmonix spokesperson has released the following statement to Shacknews: As we do at the end of every project, we are...

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"Doesn't really seem like it was used to find rumors about the game. It's to show what the guy ..."

- ThomasElla see all 18 comments

Three New Trademarks Filed by EA for Syndicate; Game Announcement Imminent?

By Brian Leahy, Aug 04, 2010 2:00pm PDT

The long-expected revival of its classic Bullfrog Productions series Syndicate could be nearing an official announcement, as Superannuation spotted...

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"Considering how much Lucas has ignored both of those franchises I'd say that's not how to get ..."

- daggot see all 25 comments

Borderlands PC Getting Steamworks for Achievements [Updated]

By Brian Leahy, Aug 04, 2010 1:00pm PDT

[Update - 6:16PM] A 2K representative has confirmed to Shacknews that Borderlands will implement Steamworks achievments, but will not use any...

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"The game certainly has some problems. Crappy collision detection, allot of loading screens and ..."

- Scrubasteve see all 59 comments

New Characters for Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade?

By Brian Leahy, Jul 23, 2010 11:00am PDT

A picture surfaced last night on Twitter (via Gootecks) showing what appears to be the character select screen with two placeholder silhouettes...

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"Ryu/Ken/Sean/Akuma/Gouken/Dan/Sakura, to a lesser degree Honda/Blanka. Street Fighter has a ton ..."

- Sideways Bob see all 7 comments

Co-op, Versus in Plants vs. Zombies XBLA? [Updated With Confirmation, Price]

By Alice O'Connor, Jul 19, 2010 5:40am PDT

[Update: 9:42am] PopCap has now formally announced that it will release Plants vs. Zombies on Xbox Live Arcade this fall, with an "early September"...

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"I'm sure if they find the controls to be bogging down the game in later levels they will tone ..."

- Fpsnut see all 13 comments