The Gaming Vault

The Dragon Ball franchise have always been synonymous with money in the bank for Atari, but it seems those days are over.
Namco Bandai has recently announced that it has secured exclusive North American rights to publish all future Dragon Ball titles across all major consoles and handhelds. This exclusivity last for the next five years.
The [...]

A pretty hefty update for the European PlayStation Store this week, including the full version of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, lots of Tiger Woods stuff, the Sacktue of Liberty, and more downloadable full games than you can sack a sackboy at!
Playable Content

James Pond 2: Codename Robocod PS1 game (£3.99)
Numblast full game (£3.99)
Punisher: No Mercy full [...]

Expect to see these a lot more often, as we provide you with a list of the latest upcoming music from titles like Rock Band, Guitar Hero, SingStar and Lips.
Harmonix and MTV Games has announced that three exclusive tracks from Green Day, as well as songs from artists performing at the RockStar Energy Drink Mayhem [...]

During our interview with Square Enix and Double Helix at this years E3, we pushed them for lots of gameplay details. Here’s a few choice cuts from the interview, of what we can expect from the gameplay when it hits 360, PS3 and PC in 2010.

That god amongst men, Suda51, has told Edge Online that No More Heroes really needs to move past the Wii in order for it to flourish as a franchise.
“I really want to make NMH a big franchise,” he told the website, “and with this second episode have bigger success. I’m putting a lot of care [...]

Chatting to Famitsu recently, Kojima explained his “support” role in the involvement of the new next-gen Castlevania, and discusses the reasons for some of the decisions behind the game’s design process.
“Kojima Productions is playing more of a support role,” Kojima told to Famitsu. “Castlevania is one of Konami’s most important brands, one that’s seen [...]

Many people have been (understandably) apprehensive about Square Enix’s decision to make the latest instalment of the Front Mission franchise a third person action game, instead of following the title’s tradition strategy roots. Square Enix though, are very confident that they have chosen the right developer for the job with Double Helix.

I remember quite vividly when Guitar Hero first burst onto the scenes here in the UK. I’d never seen it before, and it was launching here sometime after it had already become hugely popular in the US – so I’d heard all about it on gaming message boards, with the US hardcore raving about the [...]

When The Gaming Vault had an opportunity to speak with Square Enix and Double Helix at this year’s E3, Double Helix development director Jeremy Lee discussed the reasons behind Front Mission Evolved’s shift from a turn-based strategy game to a real-time action title.

Talking to Gamasutra recently, EA Games president Frank Gibeau stated that the company still has solid plans to promote new franchise every year, with as many as 3 new franchises being launched every 12 months.
“It’s hard to forecast, but I think we’re probably looking at two to three new IPs a year,” he said, a [...]

We’re here to experience what it’s really like to be a Ghostbuster, and that’s something that this game pulls off beautifully.

While all three kinds of motion controls were lauded by most fans and critics alike, it does raise one question: are montion controls really a good thing? Sure it can help with immersion in certain types of games, I for one felt Twilight Princess was even more fun to play with a Wiimote, but what about games that actually require buttons and analogue sticks?

2K Marin has released some lovely concept art of Bioshock 2’s Big Daddy prototype, a.k.a the protagonist.
The concept art shows how the prototype Big Daddy progressed into the lovable brute he is in the final version of the game. Though we’ll probably never see what he really looks like when we play the game.

The official Tekken Twitter feed, also known as “tekkenbob”, dropped some rumours regarding Namco Bandai’s upcoming fighter. Along with a tweet mentioning a “sneak peek”, as a picture of a rather odd, but familiar looking, character.
This is still a rumour and needs to be confirmed, but doesn’t that look a lot like the Cardboard Tube [...]

A sequel to Street Fighter IV has been “practically confirmed” according to Capcom’s Japanese Q&A blog. In the blog post Capcom was dropping hints of a SF4 sequel, even going as far as to refer it to as “SF 4 DASH”.
This might not be surprising for those who know their Street Fighter History, with new [...]

Brutal Legend boss Tim Schafer believes that more games with humour at their focus could bring a wider audience of people into enjoying video games. This is one gamer who would have to agree.
“I think it’s a subject matter barrier,” the developer told GI on reasons people are put off gaming, “Not everybody wants to [...]

Modern Warfare 2 is shaping up to be both bigger and longer than its predecessor, Call of Duty 4. Though all Infinity Ward cares about is making the game the best game ever.
“It’s really hard to say, because it’s not done yet, it’s not balanced yet,” Infinity Ward’s Mark Rubin said at E3.
“We don’t go [...]

EA’s Patrick Söderlund said during E3 that a small development team over at DICE in Sweden is currently working on the sequel to their parkour action platformer; Mirror’s Edge 2. Söderlund said he was “excited” over the plans for the sequel.
“Mirror’s Edge was a risky move. It was a bold move, a very innovative and [...]

Talking to CNBC recently, Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot said that he believes big action games will continue to be played on traditional controllers. Why? Because gamers don’t like to move around, basically.
“The current pad for gamers is giving them a lot,” he said regarding whether or not games like Assassin’s Creed or Splinter Cell could [...]

According to Kotaku, Konami, masters of announcing announcements, have done it again. They say they’re going to be announcing things for MGS4 all week.
They also say that the announcements will be exciting and involve ‘game updates and other highly anticipated announcements’.
I can almost see my reflection looking back at me from some trophies. That could [...]