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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 getting free and premium DLC

What's the downloadable content situation for Battlefield: Bad Company 2? Speaking to Worthplaying, senior producer Patrick Bach gave some solid information on the matter. "We see the game as the...

Nintendo didn't have you in mind when Pikmin was created

Everyone always says gardening was Shigeru Miyamoto's inspiration for Pikmin. Yeah, we get it. His personal interests often relate to what his videogames are about. Enough already! Way more inter...

LEGO Universe beta sign-ups are now open

It's been far too long since we've talked about beta sign-ups for a big-name MMO. Sure, there's been plenty of discussion about console betas -- the kind that are essentially demos and used prima...

Fluid dynamics! Q-Games talks PixelJunk Shooter 2

Surprise! PixelJunk Shooter 2 is happening! Actually, we kind of knew about it already. Q-Games' Dylan Cuthbert has been mighty talkative lately, and he's only just beginning to discuss the seque...

Pre-order Transformers: War for Cybertron, get Shockwave

I desperately want Transformers: War for Cybertron to live up to its potential. Who doesn't? Admittedly, that might be asking too much -- there are so many ways it can go right, and even more lit...

XBLA sale: Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Turtles in Time, and more

Yesterday marked the beginning of a fighting game-themed Xbox LIVE deal of the week promo. Your months of waiting for Marvel vs. Capcom 2 to drop in price have finally paid off! It's now down ......

Finally! Plants vs. Zombies on iPhone ready for next week

It feels like the iPhone version of PopCap Games' Plants vs. Zombies is 65 million years in the making. We have known about its existence for so long that I almost don't believe PopCap when the ...

Max & the Magic Marker coming to NA WiiWare in March

Press Play's puzzle-style platformer Max & the Magic Marker has been out in Europe for weeks now, and we don't even have a release date for North America. What gives? The latest update on thi...

Here's what Need for Speed SHIFT's Ferrari DLC looks like

It wouldn't be a modern-day racing game without downloadable cars, right? Ferrari lovers will be pleased to know that Need for Speed SHIFT is about to get an all-Ferrari add-on soon. Exclusively ...

Free Mass Effect 2 DLC: Cerberus armor and a shotgun

Assuming you're still hooked into the Cerberus Network, you can look forward to some free downloadable content for Mass Effect 2 tomorrow. Both the Xbox 360 and PC versions are getting "Cerberus ...

Left 4 Dead 2 update: Special Infected bots

People sure do love to ragequit Left 4 Dead 2. I don't know how long it's been since you last played, but it's gotten pretty ridiculous. With any luck, today's patch for the PC version will help ...

Primal Carnage has team-based dinosaur vs. human fights

I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that was the greatest tech demo ever. The name of the game is Primal Carnage. Developed by indie team Lukewarm Media, it's a classic retelling of the tragic d...

Ruffian including this fan-made graffiti in Crackdown 2

Apparently, Ruffian Games held a contest where artists were asked to submit graffiti that would be used in Crackdown 2. I never got the memo, but enough people did to make the results impressive....

Aliens vs. Predator vs. a lone rookie who isn't very good

Ah yes, the Marines. The Aliens vs. Predator class that is not entirely terrible to play as, but pales in comparison to the fun times you can have controlling an Alien or a Predator. This video ...

echoshift: The time puzzle-solving brother of echochrome

Oh, echochrome. I bought you gleefully, lovingly attempted to solve your puzzles, and ended up finishing less than one-third of you. To this day, I haven't gone back; probably never will, either....

Friday Night Fights: Tracer dart edition

The accessible nature of demos makes them excellent candidates for Friday Night Fights. In that regard, this was a quality week for free multiplayer gaming. We've got Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (...

High Voltage bringing The Grinder to 360/PS3/PC next year

High Voltage Software's Wii-exclusive co-op shooter The Grinder has been set free! As revealed by president Kerry Ganofsky in an interview with IGN, the studio plans to make its newest game a mul...

Team Fortress 2 gets Highlander mode, quotes ensue

The newest mode added to Team Fortress 2 is quite possibly the most appropriately-named one yet. Highlander mode, as you're to call it, mandates the following: "there can be only one." In less re...

D3Publisher has some digital-only PSP discounts for you

What are you supposed to call downloadable games on the PlayStation Store that are for use on your PSP, but not your PlayStation 3? "PSN for PSP"? Bleh. I don't like it. At any rate, you hopefull...

Project Natal prototype looks small, like an evil robot

Compared to older promotional images for Microsoft's motion-sensing Project Natal device, which I guess at this point could be referred to as concept shots, the real controller seems to be more c...

Xbox LIVE Arcade brought in over $100 million in 2009

According to estimates from Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE), 2009 was a damn good year for Xbox LIVE Arcade. With more Xbox 360s in players' hands and a number of stellar n...

A closer look at the Red Dead Redemption GameStop outfits

No, no -- don't be silly. Even though the Deadly Assassin outfit for Red Dead Redemption is clearly going to be the GameStop pre-order bonus, as it should, they haven't closed the polls early. W...

Bethesda dropping Fallout: New Vegas info today

It's been awfully quiet on the Fallout: New Vegas front for way too long. Last we heard, Obsidian Entertainment's not-a-sequel-to-Fallout 3 was on track for a release this year. If that's still t...

Visceral holds action higher than horror for Dead Space 2

The one thing I was most afraid would happen to Dead Space 2 is totally happening: less horror, more action. Sure, we already have an abundance of action-centric videogames, and what small amount...

THQ CEO calls Sony's motion controller 'Arc'

"Arc" has all but been confirmed to be the final name for Sony's PlayStation 3 motion controller. You've heard the believable-sounding rumors already, and according to THQ CEO Brian Farrell, we h...

PSN getting the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo tomorrow

Good news for anyone who missed out on the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta: you're getting a multiplayer demo on February 4. That's tomorrow! It's the same thing as what's currently up on Xbox LI...

Here are the runner-up Team Fortress 2 propaganda posters

After choosing the winners a while back, Valve has only now pushed through the remaining 11,000 Team Fortress 2 propaganda contest entries and come back with the results. While these runner-up po...

Kratos hungers for more RAM: The God of War case mod

I was about to declare this disturbingly accurate Kratos PC as the creepiest case mod ever, but then I realized that's really not a path any of us want to go down. If it exists, there's a case m...

Indie game Cut & Paste lets you kill a mummy with the sun

Turtle Cream's Cut & Paste is a game I've briefly mentioned before. It was a student entry for this year's Independent Games Festival, and while it did not place (see the tough competition fo...

Best Buy and GameStop doing BioShock 2 midnight launches

With BioShock 2's release imminent, it's about time we heard a thing or two about the game's midnight launch. 2K sent over a confirmation that around 2,500 GameStop and Best Buy locations will be...

I'd kill for Mass Effect 2's Blood Dragon Armor

I'd kill a baby krogan for Mass Effect 2's "Blood Dragon Armor" DLC. There. I said it. Since I'm not willing to run out and buy a new copy of Dragon Age: Origins or get a used copy of the game a...

PSN show The Tester gets a date, trailer, and Hal Sparks

The PlayStation Network-exclusive reality show The Tester is either going to be the greatest thing ever or the worst -- there's no middle ground here. To quickly catch you up to speed, 11 contest...

GNILLEY: A game about yelling like a lunatic

Yep. That's about it, really. Glen Forrester's GNILLEY is a game in which you put those vocal cords of yours to good use by screaming into a microphone. Shouting allows you to move through barri...

Get 'Splosion Man for half price this week

Twisted Pixel's 'Splosion Man is one of the better platformers in recent years. The genre isn't nearly as popular as it once was -- when a game like this comes along, you ought to support it. Tha...

Shoot 1UP deserves to be on your radar

Did that headline grab your attention? Good! Considering how many sloppy, hastily-designed games there are up on the Xbox LIVE Indie Games channel, even this far after launch, it's easy to lose f...

Metro 2033 does full Russian voice, if you want

4A Games' take on the whole post-apocalyptic setting, Metro 2033, will offer something we don't necessarily see very often: a Russian voice option, complete with subtitles for "maximum Russian-ne...

VVVV: The 4KB Java demake of VVVVVV

Admittedly, that is going to be one heck of a confusing headline for anyone not acquainted with Terry Cavanagh's ridiculously fun platformer VVVVVV. I'm perfectly fine with that, though. If you d...

Aliens vs. Predator Classic online multiplayer enabled

Multiplayer is pretty much the main -- and only, really -- reason you'd want to play Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000 in the year 2010. As of today, it is now something we can access; a patch wen...

Friday Night Fights: I'm Commander Shepard edition

"I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel." I predict that by next week, you'll be so tired of hearing that statement from overuse on the Internet, you won't play Mass ...

Blizzard shows off StarCraft II beta system requirements

We've seen quite a few system requirements for StarCraft II, many of which ended up being nothing more than baseless rumors, but these ... if these aren't legit, I'm done. Blizzard support for Eu...

Capybara vomiting out a Critter Crunch patch today

Writing about patches is usually something that gets reserved for big-name, attention-grabbing videogames, but I'm always willing to make an exception to the unwritten rule when we're talking abo...

Heavy Rain has gone gold, NA demo date confirmed

Heavy Rain has gone gold! This accomplishment is a thing you should be excited about for some reason, hence me shouting things! Nick tells me the build he got in the mail came on a blue-colored d...

Space Ark is probably the cutest Arkanoid-like game ever

Space Ark is a just-announced Xbox LIVE Arcade game that I can only describe as sickeningly adorable. Strawdog Studios -- who you might recognize as the team behind the PSN/XBLA game Geon -- des...

BioWare aims for 'system seller' status with every game

Now that we've all had a solid few days to dig into Mass Effect 2, it's become clear that the strong majority of us are loving this game. Critically, BioWare's sci-fi action-RPG is doing wonderfu...

Comparing Super Street Fighter IV box art by region

We recently got a good look at the North American box art for Super Street Fighter IV, and -- how can I put this kindly? -- many of us did not find it to be particularly good. More often than not...

Footage of Irrational's canned zombie apocalypse game

Last week, Irrational Games opened up their vault of secrets to show everyone Division 9, a canceled zombie shooter with heavily-borrowed elements from the SWAT series. As hilariously fun as it ...

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood confirmed for Virtual Console

Here's the news many of us North America-based, Castlevania-obsessed freaks have been desperately waiting for: Castlevania: Rondo of Blood is finally making it Stateside thanks to a Virtual Conso...

PSP version of Gravity Crash detailed and other goodies

Did we know there was a PlayStation Portable version of the download-only PS3 game Gravity Crash in the works? Well, we do now! No solid release date has been pinned down yet, but Just Add Water ...

DICE talks Battlefield: Bad Company 2 DRM

Even though any form of DRM will result in cries of agony, I find the copy protection attached to Battlefield: Bad Company 2 to be quite reasonable. You can read this official blog post on the an...

Epic 4-minute Lost Planet 2 trailer has pirate love

With such a heavy focus on co-op and the inclusion of certain characters in Lost Planet 2, I was starting to wonder if there would be any sort of serious story elements in the game, or if you'd ...

Naughty Bear's box art is pretty much amazing

The cover art for Naughty Bear is what happens when American Psycho and Child's Play have a baby. It's not exactly a sight for sore eyes, but it doesn't have to be, either. In fact, the only way ...

Fable III reveal taking place during X10 on February 11

The month in which Lionhead Studios plans to publicly show off Fable III for the first time has been known for a while now, sure, but questions of exactly when, where, and in what capacity have g...

Aksys Games' anti-piracy video will show you the light

The nature of this post will undoubtedly raise awareness of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift's existence on the torrent sites, which is a bummer, no question. But Aksys Games' anti-piracy parody video ...

Your classic XBLA games won't work with Game Room

Here's a little something that you probably figured would be the case, but didn't know for sure: Any Xbox LIVE Arcade games that are also offered through Game Room when it launches this spring wi...

Steam offering Psychonauts on the extreme cheap

On the off chance that someone didn't already inform you of today's grand news, here goes: the beloved Psychonauts can now be obtained from Steam for a measly two bucks through Thursday. I played...

Pick the Red Dead Redemption GameStop pre-order bonus

Rockstar Games and GameStop are allowing you, yes you, to decide which pre-order bonus for Red Dead Redemption will be offered at the retailer. Oh no, they aren't asking for creative input or any...

World at War: Zombies App gets a lite version

There's now a demo for Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies (quick, someone make this title stop!) up on the App Store. Excuse me, make that a "lite version" -- gotta abide by Apple's law. Essenti...

Get five dollars off Portal: Still Alive this week only

Man, Portal. That was a long time ago; probably further back than you remember. The prolonged lifespan of Team Fortress 2 has you all confused. It is now 2010, and the Internet dwellers have only...

Spike Video Game Awards' viewership continues to drop

Did you watch the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards for the actual awards themselves, the slew of announcements, or not at all? Based on some viewership data provided by The Cut Scene, that last choic...

Hailrazer's Kamikaze 64 is one sleek-looking device

When it comes to the unholy act of squishing a console into a smaller, slightly-more-portable shell, most homemade devices usually offer either style or functionality, but not both. Hailrazer's ...

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