With Dirty Harry the next game to get the movie to game treatment, we ask: what's the point of basing videogames on movie licenses, and the pros and cons surrounding their increasing use...
(All this Friday's new releases.) Singstar versus Rallisport Challenge 2, Way of the Samurai and Riding Spirits sequels, and a whole lot of strategy. As they say in LA: are you PUMPED?
World Exclusive: The biggest independent publisher in the business has even bigger plans for the future - and there's no time to rest on his laurels for EA's CEO Larry Probst, who spoke exclusively to GamesIndustry.biz about his company's ambition.
It's a quiet week in Europe, what with E3 creeping over the horizon, but there's still Transformers and Euro 2004 (FIFA in dis-guise!) to get excited about. And plenty more over the water in Statesville.
Point of View's adaptation of Fox's hard-hitting good-cop-bad-cop drama will push the acceptability envelope at E3 next month, says the developer, while talk of a 24 game is hushed.
Ubisoft unveiled its E3 line-up today, which includes the above titles and other recently announced projects like Brothers In Arms. But is this everything?
(Updated throughout the day.) New EverQuest expansion out in July, Majesco announces wireless GBA adapter, Virtua Fighter Quest video footage, and Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. Eh?
(Updated through the day.) The Settlers title officially named, Hip Europe and Mythic's E3 line-ups, TrackMania 'Power Up!' demo, Halo Editing Kit download link, The Suffering on its way to PC this month, and Painkiller and Beyond Divinity patches.
(Now updated throughout the day!) The Matrix Online beta sign-ups, The Elder Scrolls for N-Gage, PSP Racing and Playlogic at E3, new 'Deleted Scene' for Condition Zero, and Guild Wars E3 demo client released.