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In the recent issue of Famitsu magazine there was a feature on Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud Strife. The magazine finally destroyed any rumours of a Final Fantasy VII re-make. The magazine which shows a glimpse of games that Cloud will be appearing on as a cameo, has a qoute from Nomurathat says not to expect a full revival of the beloved classic anytime soon.

With Final Fantasy VII being one of the most highly requested games to be revamped, Nomura’s statement will surely disappoint the core fans of the series, and classic gamers in general. I myself am really shocked that they are not making a remake of just a popular game that has many a gamer wanting it. Do you think its a shame? If so please tell us in the comments.

Source – Famitsu Magazine

In a possibly bizarre move, Nintendo has re-registered the rights to Luigis mansion. Could this mean that a Wii sequel is inbound? Or maybe just a new play control scheme similar to what they did with Pikmin. Personally, we hope for the former, but it has been a few years since the last Luigi game. Nintendo always treats the better of the two brothers with a shameful attitude compared to the slower, poorer performing jumper, main star Mario.

Do you want a new Luigis mansion game? Let us know us in the comments!

It appears that Naughty Dog has decided to do the obvious thing regarding Uncharted and make another sequel. After the massive success of the first two games I can’t wait for a 3rd one myself and it appears we may not have to wait to long. Nolan North, who has voiced many characters in various video games but is more often known for his portrayal of Drake in Uncharted, said in a recent interview that sequels to both Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted need to be worked on this year.

Besides, 2010 “is gonna be a busy year,” he says with a smile. There are sequels to Uncharted 2 and Assassin’s Creed 2 that need to be done, not to mention “a couple of other big premiers that are still unannounced.”

We can’t wait for Uncharted 3, but is it to soon? Please tell us what your thoughts are in the comments!

Thanks to the EU Playstation blog, we now have details for the Final Fantasy XIII collector’s edition. So, what’s in it?

• FINAL FANTASY XIII Original Sound Selection: a soundtrack CD including a selection of tunes from the game, especially chosen for this Limited Collector’s Edition by composer Masashi Hamauzu. The CD is presented inside a slipcase featuring artwork from FINAL FANTASY XIII, with liner notes written by the composer himself.

• The World of FINAL FANTASY XIII: an exclusive hardback book featuring characters artwork, CG rendered images and environments from across the game production.
• Exclusive Art Prints: 3 highly collectable art prints showing artwork of the Eidolons, powerful summoned allies of the lead playable characters of FINAL FANTASY XIII.
• Unique ‘Brand of the l’Cie’ decal: Collectible decal featuring this most iconic symbol from the game storyline.

Game: Mystique Chapter One: Foetus
Device: Any android phone
Developer and publisher: Bendroid
Previous chapter available on the market free with each chapter release.

I have to start by saying that Mystique is a bit of a different style of game for me to be playing, let alone reviewing. This is simply because I do not have the patience for a point and click game and I get scared easy. So to play a game which is a horror point and click puzzle game is relatively new for me. However was Mystique worth it?

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Everyone’s favourite horror first-person shooter Killing Floor by Tripwire Interactive has won a few awards this past week in the Voodoo Extreme 2009 Readers Choice Awards.

Last Week, Voodoo Extreme announced the winners of it’s 15 Readers Choice Awards some of these went to some pretty awesome titles Killing Floor being one of them.

Overall Killing Floor won awards for “Best PC Shooter of 2009″, “Best PC Game DLC of 2009″ and it also won a quite impressive accolade of “Overall Best PC Game of 2009″. Well Done to the folks at Tripwire.

Killing Floor originally a Unreal Tournament Mod was released in 2009 via Steam, because of it’s large following it was also released to retail in 2009 the game also boasts a very impressive SDK of which it’s large developer community utilizes very well with extensive community built maps and mods available.

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. The game allows you to solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

The game is celebrating its one year birthday today and as such is allowing anyone to pay what they like for the game. This could be 1p,£1 to 1c or $1 or even £10/$10. The level of donation just shows how moral you are really when it comes to picking your own price and how much you support indie devs. I paid a pound myself and its more than worth it so now i feel a little bad that the graphical style made me pay so little. If you have got it what do you think of the game and what did you pay? Tell us in the comments.

First of all, I would like to start and say that I am of course, a massive bat-fan. My fandom is only beaten by my passion for Formula 1. So when I heard that this game was coming out, I was undoubtedly ecstatic.

Batman – Arkham Asylum is for both PS3 and 360, with an updated physics engine for the PC released last month (September). This reunites just a small amount of the rogues gallery that batman has, but there are many, many cameos and Easter eggs in which avid fans of The Dark Knight will pick up on.

So, straight onto the story. The beginning of the game is a mix of in-game cut scenes (which, the entire game uses, no CGI here folks) and Gameplay. It starts off with the Joker being captured all-to-easily by batman, after threatening to blow up parts of Gotham City. Joker is taken to the ‘Madhouse’ of Amadeus Arkham. Now, first I must point out, that the voice actors (Kevin Conroy for Batman, Mark Hamill for the Joker) return from the Bruce Timm cartoon of 1994. These two have had roughly 4-5 years of sparring with each other in their on screen alter-egos, and it’s extremely refreshing to hear all the puns and the Batmans ‘empty threats’kehat joker labels oh-so-often. So to cut it short, after a reunion with Commissioner Gordon, the joker is taken into the prison with Batman stood behind a double-thick pane of glass which means he can only watch as the Joker kills both the guard and the doctor, and has his squeeze Harley Quinn (Also voice by her animated series counter-part, Arleen Sorkin) disengages the electronic barrier separating The joker from the entrance to all of Arkham.

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Published by – Sony Computer Entertainment
Developed by – Ninja Theory
Platform - PS3
Age Rating - +16
Official Site - www.heavenlysword.com
Score: 8/10

An evil king, Bohan, seeks the Heavenly Sword for himself to increaswehis power. Nariko is the daughter of then hief whose clan is sworn to protect the sword from those who desired its power. The clan had a prophecy that a boy would be born and able to wield the sword and save the world. However, Nariko was born. To protect the sword and her clan she is driven into wielding the sword even though it means giving her life as the sword gradually drains her life force.

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2K Games have finally announced the release date of the highly aniticipated sequel to Bioshock, Bioshock 2. Bioshock 2 will be hitting stores worldwide on February 9th 2010.

Looking forward to Bioshock 2? Let us know in the comments! Read the rest of this entry »