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Tomb Raider's protagonist Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider series has won no less than six certificates in this years Guinness World Records, Gamers Edition. They include "Most official real-life stand-ins in a video game", "Highest grossing computer game spin-off" and "Most recognisable female character in a video game". These and more record-breaking entries can be seen in the Guiness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition, available from bookstores and online today.
Of course, we'll be so bold as to assume the main reason why you clicked on this news item is to ogle the current Lara croft model/gymanst, Alison Carroll. The people at Guinness World Records appreciate this too, which is why they've kindly provided us with a small gallery of photos. Enjoy!
My New Year's day hangover was mercifully shorter than my fading fond memories of 2009, but looking back through that skid-tinted pane and with the aid of a little perspective from M2 Research, I've realised just how bloody awful 2009 was for many people in the games industry:
True story: at a recent screening of a finished chunk of James Cameron’s 3D magnum opus Avatar, a director friend of mine realised abruptly that sitting in the row in front of him was Cameron himself, alongside Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Briefly before the lights went down, he overheard them discussing the glorious future of 3D filmmaking. All three men were embracing the notion that soon everything was going to be shot in 3D – not just big CGI ...
Developers dust down adventure classics for iPhone and, in turn, drive re-makes and sequels for the PC too
When The Secret Of Monkey Island was announced for the iPhone, it generated much excitement – especially when it became apparent that a new game, Tales Of Monkey Island, was being released for the PC as well. But that is just the tip of the iceberg, with the iPhone causing more and more developers to take a fresh look at their ...
"Single player experiences are no longer the future," Electronic Arts UK's general manager Keith Ramsdale told an attentive crowd at the EA Winter Showcase yesterday. The event was highlighted by Bioware's upcoming MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic though Mass Effect 2 and Command & Conquer 4, both single player titles with online content as part of the experience, featured.
Ramsdale's opening speech confirms EA's gravitation towards online content as an integral part of all games in ...
New directory champions Apple’s iDevice as market leader
Apple’s groundbreaking smartphone, the hugely popular iPhone, is set to become the world’s best device for handheld videogaming according to The iPhone Games Directory.
“With giant publishers such as Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and Konami now supporting the device with bigger and better games, which include the likes of Assassin’s Creed, Brothers In Arms, Spore and Metal Gear Solid, the iPhone is fast becoming the handheld gamer’s platform of choice” said iPhone Games Directory Editor ...
The Chinese version of World of Warcraft is back online after an enforced 2 month hiatus following Blizzard changing local operators from The9 to NetEase. The whole process, which could have cost Blizzard and its partner NetEase an estimated $9 million, should have been a simple swap from one operator to another but was held up by Chinese government bureaucracy. Blizzard needed a new permit from the General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP) department of the Chinese government, but ...
Bethesda Softworks, the current owners of the rights to the Fallout licence is suing the previous publisher to hold the rights, Interplay, for trademark infringement.
According to allegations in the complaint filed on September the 9th with the District Court of Maryland in the US, and originally picked up by Gamasutra, Bethesda believes Interplay infringed its trademark when it distributed Fallout Trilogy, which packaged together the classic PC games Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics. Bethesda is ...
Some things are just inevitable. As sure as Tuesday follows Monday, so Google – which has already created an operating system for mobile phones – has decided to enter the PC marketplace with a similar offering aimed at being an alternative to Windows. David Crookes considers what effect Google's Chrome operating system could have on PC gaming…
The PC Gaming Alliance has announced that eight new members will be joining its ranks. The organisation, which was created to promote the PC gaming industry, has representation from across a broad spectrum of the industry and now Gas Powered Games, BFG Technologies, GameStop, Bigfoot Networks, Flextronics, GameTap, Howie’s Game Shack and InstantAction have joined their growing roster.
“I've spent most of my career fully immersed in the world of PC gaming. It's where many of the world's biggest gaming franchises ...
The financial relationship between publishers and developers often dictates development in the video game industry but Gabe Newell, head man over at Valve, has suggested an alternative- with gamers themselves funding development of games. "One of the areas that I am super interested in right now is how we can do financing from the community," Newell told ABC in an interview. Games, Newell explained, often require a minimum investment of between USD 10 million and USD 30 ...
Being the highly competitive guy I am, I'm not going to be out-done by Ben or Sam's 'noob' press trips. Actually, Ben's Chernobyl pics probably have the edge, but while Sony's Fan Faire 2009 didn't feature mortal danger or fire breathing it had more than its fair share of scantily clad models and over-weight American fancy dress freak shows.
Beat that!
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A good number of PC gamers are anticipating the release of Windows 7, given some of Windows Vista's more unstable traits, and Microsoft has finally announced pricing on the OS.
Windows 7 is slated for release on the 22 of October, and anyone buying a new PC between now and then can get it installed for free. The Home Premium edition of Windows 7 will be £79.99 until 31 December 2009 but buying it after that date will cost £149.99
Unlike the rest ...
Onlive has confirmed that it has no release date for its upcoming cloud gaming service in Europe. Vice President John Spinale told TPCG in an interview for our podcast #6 that Onlive would go into beta testing in the US this summer and would be available in both the US and UK in 2010, but this is not the case: "We don’t have a European launch timeline yet," an Onlive representative told us, "The team is really focused on ...
