iPad World

Ever since savvy manufacturers realised that gamers were prepared to pay top dollar for pieces of near-useless plastic that claim to improve their gaming experience, there’s been a flood of largely pointless peripherals for home consoles. Right now, countless Wii Remote tennis racket attachments sit gathering dust in cupboards the world over, waiting forlornly for that dreaded day when they are unceremoniously recycled as landfill.

Traditionally speaking, these regrettable money-wasting exercises are largely confined to domestic hardware. Attempts to augment the functionality of portable consoles have proven largely unsuccessful in the past (remember the D-pad cross attachment that … Continue Reading

Everyone expects 2011′s handheld battle to be a re-run of PSP vs DS, but the world has changed since then.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz’s widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial, is a weekly dissection of an issue weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

With the details of Nintendo’s 3DS launch plans finally in the open, and the rumour mill building up to a potential unveiling of Sony’s PSP2 before the end of next week – not to mention inevitable … Continue Reading

Console-quality titles just five years off?

Web browsers, not home consoles, will be the true next-gen gaming platform, according to former Sony president Phil Harrison.

Speaking at the Italian Videogame Developers Conference in Rome, as reported by Develop, the industry veteran asked the crowd whether they believed they would ever see a Modern Warfare 2-calibre game running in a browser.

“I think the answer is yes,” he said. “I think in the next five-to-ten years we will easily get this level of game inside a web browser, on your mobile platform, on your iPad, and we will be able to deliver that level … Continue Reading

Kirby your enthusiasm?

After the best part of a decade, Nintendo’s weirdest mascot – the one who inhales his enemies and plods through bright cartoon worlds looking like a squishy little tumour – is back on home consoles in a game that looks, for all this world, as if my grandmother made it to sleep in.

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