Call of Duty: Black Ops Announced for DS

Call of Duty: Black Ops Announced for DS

n-Space returns to the series on DS for the fourth year in a row. The latest game in the Call of Duty series, Call of Duty: Black Ops, is also coming to DS, according to IGN. Developed by n-Space, who worked on the past three Call of Duty DS titles ...

Aonuma: 3D Technology is Perfect for Zelda

Aonuma: 3D Technology is Perfect for Zelda

Eiji Aonuma is excited to bring The Legend of Zelda to 3DS. In an interview from the latest issue of Official Nintendo Magazine UK, Eiji Aonuma talks on the possible enhancements that 3D technology could bring to the Ocarina of Time remake for 3DS. Aonuma states that 3D, in combination ...

MAG update deploying in August, making Suppression mode ‘Faction Neutral’

MAG update deploying in August, making Suppression mode ‘Faction Neutral’

Zipper Interactive must have received some positive feedback from its recent decision to make MAG’s Sabotage gametype “Faction Neutral,” effectively letting any of the game’s three armies attack and defend any map. The developer recently announced that v1.07 of the title will be launched in early August, giving a similar ...

Preview: Dragon Age ‘Golems of Amgarrak’ DLC

Preview: Dragon Age ‘Golems of Amgarrak’ DLC

“We just brought it down,” the marketing guy from BioWare told me while waiting in line. The company was already bringing a bunch of computers to Comic-Con to let visiting fans preview Dragon Age 2, so they figured why not bring some PCs down all loaded up with unreleased DLC ...

Clash of the Titans – PS3 (E 10)

Clash of the Titans – PS3 (E 10)

Clash of the Titans is an action-adventure game pairing to the theatrical release of the same name, slated for a March 2010 debut. Featuring a thematic setting based on Greek Mythology and a story entwining the “War of Hades” the game delivers an intense world of Dark Fantasy. Gameplay standout ...

Clash of the Titans – Xbox 360 (E 10)

Clash of the Titans – Xbox 360 (E 10)

Clash of the Titans is an action-adventure game pairing to the theatrical release of the same name, slated for a March 2010 debut. Featuring a thematic setting based on Greek Mythology and a story entwining the “War of Hades” the game delivers an intense world of Dark Fantasy. Gameplay standout ...

Gamestop acquiring Flash game portal Kongregate

Gamestop acquiring Flash game portal Kongregate

GameStop just took a large step into the casual on-line gaming market, by concurring to buy the Flash game portal Kongregate. According to the announcement, the site will remain under the management of founders Jim and Emily Greer following the purchase, which should finalize on August 1. CEO J. Paul ...

Nintendo trademarks suggest new names for 3DS features

Nintendo trademarks suggest new names for 3DS features

Look, considering Nintendo drew just about every one of its huge guns from their respective holsters when it revealed the 3DS lineup during an E3 press conference last month, we do not blame you if this story doesn’t thrill you to your core. The company recently filed a set of ...

Daily Filter: July 26, 2010

Daily Filter: July 26, 2010

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you are eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to ...

Catch of the Week 26 July 2010

Catch of the Week 26 July 2010

PC Catch of the Week: Help Steve The Sheriff recover missing treasures in this hidden object game that was second runner-up ideal hidden object game of 2008. Search the town and talk with citizens to uncover the location of Neptuneville’s stolen artifacts. Scour a multitude of levels for the pilfered prizes ...

Gorillaz: Escape to Plastic Beach via iPad and iPhone

Gorillaz: Escape to Plastic Beach via iPad and iPhone

Gorillaz, the ideal nonexistent cartoon band since the Archies, appears in a new iPhone/iPad game called Gorillaz: Escape to Plastic Beach. Even though the concept of the game seems to be about escaping from Plastic Beach. Players control psychotic bassist Murdoc, who flies above Plastic Beach on a “Doom Glider,” ...

Meet Victini, Pokemon Black and White’s #000 Pokemon

Meet Victini, Pokemon Black and White’s #000 Pokemon

This is Victini, a very special Pokemon introduced for Pokemon Black and White. So special, in fact, that it occupies number 000 in the Pokedex. It’s a “phantom Legendary” Pokemon. Isn’t it adorable? Doesn’t it make you want to go to Japan in September, purchase a copy of the game, ...

Sakaguchi on Working with Nintendo on Last Story

Sakaguchi on Working with Nintendo on Last Story

In his on-line blog, Hironobu Sakaguchi posts about his visit to Nintendo in Kyoto. In his latest entry on the development of Last Story, Hironobu Sakaguchi speaks about a four-day training camp held at Nintendo’s old office buildings in Kyoto. He writes of nostalgic feelings returning to the company’s offices ...

Review: Hydro Thunder Hurricane

Review: Hydro Thunder Hurricane

Remember Yaris for Xbox Live Arcade? No? Good. It was undeniably the low point for downloadable racing games on Xbox 360. Finally XBLA gets something to wash the taste from your mouth for good: Hydro Thunder Hurricane. Upstart developer Vector Unit did not actually begin out making a Hydro Thunder ...

Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike Online will be a ‘downloadable title’

Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike Online will be a ‘downloadable title’

Capcom producer for all things Street Fighter, Yoshinori Ono, dropped a bomb on all of us this weekend when he revealed Capcom’s intent to re-release Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike. We hypothesized that the game would be distributed digitally — think: the recently re-released Marvel vs. Capcom 2 — and ...

BioWare lending Maxis a hand on Darkspore development

BioWare lending Maxis a hand on Darkspore development

We suppose the Sims franchise has a few elements in common with the role-playing genre — after all, it’s about character improvement and, more often than not, all of the characters are startlingly, impossibly attractive. Still, it seems Maxis is getting a helping hand on Darkspore development from a more ...

Street Fighter X Tekken two years out according to producer

Street Fighter X Tekken two years out according to producer

Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono anticipates Street Fighter X Tekken to be released in two years, with the Capcom-developed fighter debuting first in the proposed two-game deal. Speaking to Famitsu (via Andriasang), Ono added that Tekken X Street Fighter, under development at Namco Bandai with long-time franchise producer Katsuhiro ...