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Star Trek Online due in fall 2009?
Big Download Blog — ... for Cryptic who only got the license from the now defunct Perpetual Entertainment back in January. Emmert stated during his Trek covention speech that they already had the engine and technology in place for Star Trek Online and that it was just a matter of putting in content for the game. Big Download has emailed Cryptic's PR rep to confirm the fall 2009 release date from the magazine but at the time of this news post we had not received a response.%Gallery-28614%   Read | Permalink | Email this |  ...

Star Trek Online in Game Informer!
Star Trek Online - — Check out the October issue of Game Informer for 10 pages of exclusive art and information about Star Trek Online! "We have to make sure that the universe feels vast, along with all the storyline and plots – that there is a place where you can go out into deep space and explore and go where no man has gone before," said executive producer Craig Zinkievich. Go to Game Informer's web site to learn more, or grab a copy for yourself! ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 9/27/08
GameSetWatch — ... Above are all the games laid out on the futon (plus a dog's leg). On the bottom-most row are the games I had the most trouble finding: Surgical Strike, Fahrenheit, Psychic Detective Series Vol. 4: Orgel, and Sing!! Sega Game Music. (The first two are really the only Mega-CD games that go for serious premium prices in Japan.) Exciting? Ohhhhh yes it is! But not half as exciting as all the new magazines on the stands I have to cover this installment. Onward! Game Informer October 2008 Cover: Star Trek ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 10/25/08
GameSetWatch — ... of ferret magazines instead. Sorry, Simon. As I've discussed earlier, this isn't such a merry holiday for US print mags, most of which are peaking just a wee bit above 100 pages even though the number of games they're expected to cover continues to balloon. They're doing the best they can, though, and I'd like to take a look at the holiday editions I didn't get around to last week -- including Game Informer, which I continue to foster a love/hate relationship toward. Game Informer November 2008 Cover: Dragon Age ...

Halo 3: Recon Is 5-6 Hours Long, "Not A $60 Title" [Halo 3: Recon]
Kotaku — Someone's already got their hands on the Halo 3: Recon-themed December issue of Game Informer. Spilled the beans. Those beans tell us that, as you could probably have guessed when you first heard it spoken of as an "expansion", Halo 3: Recon is only 3-5 hours long. Which is pretty damn short. Luckily, then, it'll have a pretty damn short price tag, Bungie's Joe Staten saying "we do not view this as a $60 title". Hopefully he means $30, and not $59.99. Also mentioned is the fact the expansion will allow users to unlock the previously unlockable Recon armour, provided you've completed the Vidmaster Challenge ...

Halo 3: Recon Is 3-5 Hours Long, "Not A $60 Title" [Halo 3: Recon]
Kotaku — Someone's already got their hands on the Halo 3: Recon-themed December issue of Game Informer. Spilled the beans. Those beans tell us that, as you could probably have guessed when you first heard it spoken of as an "expansion", Halo 3: Recon is only 3-5 hours long. Which is pretty damn short. Luckily, then, it'll have a pretty damn short price tag, Bungie's Joe Staten saying "we do not view this as a $60 title". Hopefully he means $30, and not $59.99. Also mentioned is the fact the expansion will allow users to unlock the previously unlockable Recon armour, provided you've completed the Vidmaster Challenge ...

'Halo 3: Recon' Story And Voice Talent Details
G4 TV - TheFeed — ... Some more Halo 3: Recon details have slipped online from the upcoming issue of Game Informer and it looks like Bungie is trying something new with their gameplay formula. The player will assume the role of a silent member of an ODST drop squad sent into New Mombasa during the Halo 2 storyline. ...

Column: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 11/25/08
GameSetWatch — ... with Mielke behind it) to the Goichi Suda interview where he talks about how porno inspires his games to a think piece about why more games don't do "funny" correctly. There's also a gift guide, but it's very small and doesn't get in the way of things, which I give high marks to. Sometimes I wonder if holiday gift guides exist solely to get PR people off the editors' backs. Hang on. That's the cynic in me talking. Please ignore that. Strike it from the record! Now! Game Informer December 2008 Cover: Halo 3: ...

And The Best-Selling DS, PSP Games Of All Time Are... [Sales Charts]
Kotaku — ... best-selling DS & PSP games (in the US) of all time. Here's the DS list. Predictable in both its composition and its scale. No matter how many times you see those New Super Mario figures, it's still a little mind-blowing. And here's the PSP list. Predictable in how, well, how sad it is to look upon. The handheld itself, it just keeps on selling, but looking at this list, nobody's bought anything of consequence in a long time. Game Informer Magazine [via Gamasutra][Image] ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 12/20/08
GameSetWatch — ... eh? The feature inside is straightforward, to the point, and accompanied by two preview roundups: one covering other superhero games, and another on the lesser-hyped games of '09 to watch. That, alongside a whole bunch of reviews, rounds out the mag. The main highlight, then: the front section, laden with interviews (the LittleBigPlanet guys, the Fable II guys, the Tenchu guys, Metal Gear Solid music guy Norihiko Hibino) and industry think pieces. Worth readin'. Game Informer January 2009 Cover: ...

Rumour - GTA: Tokyo to appear on Wii in 2009?
Wii Wii — ... is reporting that the latest edition of US mag Game Informer carries a piece suggesting that “RockStar North is alreadyworking on the next instalment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, which should be ready for release this holiday season.” ...

Grand Theft Auto V In 2009?
The Escapist : Latest News — ... is already well into development on the next Grand Theft Auto title, and that it may be ready in time for Christmas 2009. Grand Theft Auto V is already in the works and "should be ready for release this holiday season," according to a Loose Talk report in the latest issue of Game Informer . "We're not talking about new DLC or a collection of previously available DLC, we're talking about a full retail game," the report says. "We expect this title to follow the suit of previous GTAs and use a subtitle such as GTA: San Andreas , etc. Tokyo might be a possible setting for ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 1/17/08
GameSetWatch — ... he talks a great yarn about being "the future" and all that, and spins faster than the fan on my air-conditioning unit as his product's faults get brought up. It's not a very big surprise that LittleBigPlanet wins most of the bigger awards in Edge's 2008 roundup. It's also no surprise, given that the holidays are over, that the reviews are pretty harsh this month -- nothing gets over 7 and most are a fair bit below that, such as the 5 Prince of Persia earned. Game Informer February 2009 Cover: ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 2/21/08
GameSetWatch — ... bit stale will find ample ammunition for that argument in that issue, given that they interview Jon Ritman and cover Head Over Heels for about the bajillionth time, this time as part of a top-25-isometric-games piece. The mag's still worth buying, though, because of the cover piece and because of the massive Wing Commander history inside -- one of the first times, I think, that creator Chris Roberts has talked much about the series since he left games for the film industry. Game Informer March 2009 Cover: God of ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 3/20/08
GameSetWatch — ... like a large map or a hum'rous anime screengrab or somesuch. I dunno. Just not a picture of a Pokemon with some photoshop effects applied to the background. At least the interviews in the included feature are interesting -- you never heard enough from the devs for these projects, for some reason. A great deal has already been said about A Boy and his Blob on the net, so I won't go into how pretty this hot-sclusive preview is in the mag, but you should have a look. Game Informer April 2009 Cover: BioShock ...

Rumortoid: Beatles Rock Band to support vocal harmonizing
Destructoid — ... Fresh from the May issue of Game Informer's "Loose Talk" gossip section comes an interesting rumor about the upcoming The Beatles Rock Band. ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 4/18/08
GameSetWatch — ... Informer's "exclusive" piece this month) is much more colorful and exciting. PlayStation: The Official Magazine May 2009 Cover: Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Almost certainly the best cover of this column, and it's a very stylish feature on the inside as well, alongside similar bits on God of War III and assorted baseball games. (The GOW3 article's black text on red background is a bit straining after a while.) Game Informer May 2009 Cover: Assassin's ...

Tons Of 'DJ Hero' Details Revealed
G4 TV - TheFeed — ... The latest issue of Game Informer magazine contains a ton of information about upcoming Activision music game DJ Hero. Below, in bullet-point form, is some of what we learned from the issue: ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 5/31/08
GameSetWatch — ... by thinking they are past due on a bill when they're actually just getting an invitation to resubscribe. No publication in the game biz has gone this low, fortunately, and so I am resubscribed once again to everything that I can in the genre. Read on to find out about every game mag that's come out in the past couple weeks (and that I care about). Things are generally pretty slow in this month's stack, given how there wasn't much to talk about before the E3 rush: Game Informer June 2009 Cover: Modern Warfare ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 6/27/09
GameSetWatch — ... also some filler -- a large piece on upcoming comic book films, "Top 10 Blu-ray Discs" -- that could've shown up in P:TOM or basically any other game or entertainment mag. Overall I like the concept, which seems a lot more coherent and thought-out than PCXL two years ago. I think it could do with fewer of the traditional filler bits, however, and more of the hard CGI coverage -- more how-to pieces, for example. (NVISION has only a page of that in this issue.) Game Informer July 2009 Cover: Max ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 7/25/09
GameSetWatch — ... since its debut in 1995. This month's Edge is another thick one (164 pages! In August no less!) thanks to a dev-sponsored "Region Specific" section on the city of Hamburg, Germany. Most of it is of interest only to high-roller devs looking for jobs, but one piece -- a roundtable featuring 13 local devs -- offers a really unique look into the challenges that German studios big and small face, dealing with a competitive market and a less-than-game-friendly government. Game Informer August 2009 Cover: ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 8/22/09
GameSetWatch — ... It never fails -- whenever a game mag does a split cover, I always get the ugliest option in the mail. The other B:RB cover is totally brilliant, but this one is way too "uncanny valley" for my tastes. (I should stop whining, though, because I always take GI to task for putting bald space marines on the cover and the early-era Beatles are the exact opposite of bald space marines.) ...

Analysis: What The (Game) Papers Say - August 2009
Gamasutra Blogs — ... Cover: The Beatles: Rock Band (2 covers) It never fails -- whenever a game mag does a split cover, I always get the ugliest option in the mail. The other Beatles: Rock Band is totally brilliant , but this one is way too "uncanny valley" for my tastes. (I should stop whining, though, because I always take GI to task for putting bald space marines on the cover and the early-era Beatles are the exact opposite of bald space marines.) Andy McNamara mentions here that GI is getting both a print and online redesign in time for the Nov. '09 issue. McNamara emphasizes in ...

Microsoft says Xbox 360 failures are “well behind” them
That VideoGame Blog — ... breakdowns. Microsoft responded to this a while back by lengthening the warranty of the console for another 2 years, 3 years total. Despite this and admitting that these issues should not happen anymore, in a recent survey done by GameInformer, the result were quite alarming, showing that a 54,2% of Xbox 360 owners have at some point had problems with their console in one way or another. ...

WoW Insider Show Episode 106 with guest Phil Kollar
WoW.com — ... Our podcast was on the virtual airwaves yet again last Saturday, and in addition to WoW.com folks Eddie "Brigwyn" Carrington and of course Turpster (whose birthday was September 7th, so happy birthday to that guy), we welcomed Phil Kollar, former 1up editor, current Game Informer associate editor, frequent Twitterer, and World of Warcraft guild leader (he's running a guild called In Defense of the Genre over on Area 52, as we talk about during the show), not to mention all-around fun guy. He helped us talk about the latest news in Azeroth, ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 9/19/09
GameSetWatch — ... I've seen in a long time. The number of pages, plus the high-quality paper stock Edge uses, makes this thing as thick as EGM during the glory years of the mid-1990s. About 80 of thoes pages, though, are devoted to ad-supported developer content -- partly a region-specific look at dev outfits in Ontario, partly a more general "how to get into games" info-blast. Not content appealing to everyone, I suppose, but still, kudos to Edge for pulling off a mag this size in 2009. Game Informer October 2009 Cover: Crackdown 2 ...

Epic Mickey
GayGamer.net — Joystiq uncovered this new Game Informer cover art featuring Epic Mickey, Disney's new Wii exclusive Mickey Mouse game. The art style on the cover seems to confirm the controversial leaked art we saw in July. GameInformer.com will be posting an interview with Warren Spector at 4 PM CST later today.

Game Journalist Shake-Up Shifts Personnel At Several Outlets [News]
Kotaku — John Davison, former boss at What They Play and 1up is in at GamePro. In the last week, significant personnel changes have also been made at 1up, Shacknews, G4 and Crispy Gamer. Tomorrow GamePro will officially announce that John Davison, who recently sold his start-up parent-targeted gaming site What They Play to IGN, will assume the role of executive vice president of content for the company's editorial initiatives in an attempt, the veteran editor described to Kotaku as an effort to "re-boot" one of gaming's oldest editorial brands. In the same week that the biggest ...

[MW2] Infinity Ward Responds To PC Fanboys' Dedicated Server Woes
Total Gaming Network — ... training or what have you; all they lose is the ability to customize the game on a deeper level with mods and such. Infinity Ward sees the addition of solid matchmaking and community support like IW-run tournaments to the PC as a huge win, and not something that could be done under the old system. Why not have both? West does not want to include dedicated servers alongside the custom-built backend, stating that it would just "bifurcate the community." Taken From gameinformer.com ...

[Wii] Here's Some More Epic Mickey Information
Total Gaming Network — The folks at Game Informer have supplied a steady stream of news in relation to Epic Mickey since the release of their November magazine. This time, they're looking at the artwork in the game. Check it out: An In Depth Look at the Art and Animation ...

COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 10/24/09
GameSetWatch —