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Holy (foot)balls: FIFA 10 has racked up 9.7 million sales While it's true that about 100 million people watch the Super Bowl every year, soccer is easily the world's most beloved and most watched sport. Madden might be tops in America, but EA Sport...
EA fiscal report points to NCAA Basketball cancellation Man, I feel terrible for Blake Griffin. First, he gets drafted by the perennially hapless, possibly cursed Los Angeles Clippers. Then, before he even plays a single NBA game, the Clippers reveal ...
Just Cause 2 gives you the freedom to cause chaos What, you don’t believe me? Watch the newest trailer for Avalanche Studios’ Just Cause 2 above. Like last month’s multi-path trailer, this video shows off the wide variety of h...
Ruin a career by choosing the Madden NFL 11 cover athlete Last year saw a first for the Madden NFL franchise: two cover athletes sharing the spotlight (Madden NFL 10 featured Larry Fitzgerald and Troy Polamalu). This year, EA is breaking the mold again ...
Quick Hit Football adds NFL pros, Mega Bowl challenge If you didn’t give Quick Hit Football a try when I previewed its open beta a month ago, this news might get you to go for it. Earlier this week, the game added more than 30 former NFL playe...
Pre-order Madden NFL 11 at Wal-Mart, get a $20 gift card (Seriously, if you’ve never been to peopleofwalmart.com, I highly recommend it. It is a fascinating slice of Americana, a rabbit hole from which it is difficult to escape.) Wal-Mart may no...
'Violin Hero' string metal music video blows minds Let me answer your first question: “string metal,” also known as “cello rock” or “cello metal,” is a sub-genre of music that is exactly what you probably thin...
NBA 2K10 sells 2 million, brings back Mike Wang for 2K11 2K Sports has retained its place atop the basketball simulation throne, and it looks like they’ll stay there for a while. The publisher proclaimed in a press release today that it has sold ...
GTA: Episodes From Liberty City hitting PS3, PC in March Rockstar has announced that the two Grand Theft Auto IV episodes, billed together as Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City, will finally be released for the PlayStation 3 and PC on March 3...
Buy the Kratos Fury Slurpee at 7-11, get free GoW III DLC If you like videogames, you probably visit 7-11 fairly often -- or so Sony and 7-11 hope, anyway. Ad Age reports that the companies have joined with Mountain Dew, the nectar of the gods as far as...
Explore the death-dealing weapons of Red Dead Redemption In screenshots and videos, Red Dead Redemption has never looked anything but impressive, so here's another gameplay video to whet your appetite for the game's April 27th (as far as we know, anyw...
Take a tour through baseball in this MLB 2K10 trailer I guess this isn't technically gameplay footage of Major League Baseball 2K10, but it's the first time we've seen video of the game in action, so check it out! Sure, it's easy to make a game loo...
MLB 10 The Show classic stadiums are pre-order bonus DLC In my December preview of MLB 10 The Show, I mentioned that the game will include a number of classic stadiums that are new to the MLB The Show franchise, such as the Polo Grounds and Forbes Fiel...
New Orleans Saints' Tracy Porter has Pac-Man on the brain If you were one of the 57.9 million Americans who watched Sunday evening’s NFC Championship Game between the Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints, you might have caught the above sh...
PSN 10 for '10 half-off sale: Critter Crunch, Braid, more Sony is celebrating a great 2009 by starting off 2010 right: as a “thank you” to all the folks who bought PS3s and PSPs for the holiday season, they’ve slashed the prices of 10 ...
Rockstar teases L.A. Noire reveal in February Remember L.A. Noire, Rockstar’s 1940s-themed PS3 exclusive? You know, the game that we’ve pretty much seen nothing of, except for two trailers that were released in late 2006? (The v...
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 single-player looks bad-ass (No pun intended.) Last night, the single-player campaign of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 premiered on GameTrailers TV, and boy, does it look awesome. The trailer above (NSFW language) shows off ...
New Super Mario Bros. Wii stomps on Mario Galaxy's sales Super Mario Galaxy is one of the most beloved Mario games of all time -- it came in at number 9 on our Top 50 Videogames of the Decade list -- but don’t tell that to New Super Mario Bros. W...
GameTrailers TV premieres Battlefield: BC 2 single-player Season three of GameTrailers TV kicks off on Spike TV this Thursday night at 12:30 AM EST (technically, that’s Friday morning, if you’re confused), and it’s going to provide an...
Felix Hernandez and Kendry Morales face off in MLB 2K10 This is the third “Pitchers vs. Hitters” promotional video for 2K Sports’ Major League Baseball 2K10. It features Seattle Mariners starter Felix Hernandez and Los Angeles Angel...
Still-unnamed PS3 Motion Controller delayed to fall 2010 This morning, Sony announced that it has pushed back the launch of the PlayStation “Motion Controller,” originally set for this spring, to the fall of 2010. Of course, this news surpr...
Pre-order Skate 3 for Black Box Distribution Skate Park Activision’s Tony Hawk franchise was already in decline by the time the original Skate came out back in 2007, but EA Black Box’s analog stick control scheme and focus on realism acce...
Choose your own adventure in Just Cause 2 As Ben PerLee and I have told you, you can do lots of crazy sh*t in Avalanche Studios’ Just Cause 2. It’s a sandbox game that looks like it’s aiming to be a more polished, more...
Batman: Arkham Asylum apparently getting GOTY edition Rocksteady Studios is already hard at work on the sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum (I hope to hell they don’t just call it “Batman: Arkham Asylum 2”). But thanks to a listing une...
Rumor: Tecmo Bowl Throwback hitting PSN, XBLA (update) EA Sports revealed a new NBA Jam game for the Wii on Monday, and now we’ve got rumors of another “update” of a classic sports franchise. A source leaked details to Joystiq of a ...
MLB 2K10 includes new My Player mode and other features 2K Sports has posted a list of features that highlights the new stuff, and the improved stuff, that Major League Baseball 2K10 will be bringing to the table when it releases on March 2nd. Chief a...
Five things EA Canada should do with the new NBA Jam [Editor's Note: We're not just a (rad) news site -- we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware that it may not jive with the opinions of...
Committing fraud leads to a dark place in Dante's Inferno Remind me not to defraud anyone, ever, because even the slightest mendaciousness will land me straight in Malebolge, the Eighth Circle of Hell. Roughly translated from Italian, “Malebolge&...
CES 2010: Booth babe horror stories documentary Here’s a news flash for guys who attend conventions: it isn’t okay for you to treat booth babes without respect. Gizmodo posted a short (under four minutes) documentary of sorts in wh...
'He's heating up!' NBA Jam info and speculation Is that a kick-ass logo, or what? This morning, EA confirmed earlier rumors of a revival of Midway’s arcade classic, NBA Jam, exclusively for the Wii. That last part -- that the game is on...
EA Sports bringing 'an innovative and new take on Madden' In a financial call with investors and press this afternoon, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello went through a strong slate of games for the mega-publisher’s fiscal year 2011, which runs ...
Five more Alice in Chains songs coming to Rock Band See that? That's what grunge/hard rock band Alice in Chains looks like today. The group lost original vocalist Layne Staley to substance abuse in 2002, but the gang replaced him with William DuVa...
Mad Catz paid $300K to miss out on Guitar Hero's success Oh, Mad Catz. Does your ignominy know no bounds? The accessory manufacturer, whose name has long been synonymous among gamers with inferior peripherals -- sturdy FightSticks aside -- recently adm...
Free-to-play Madden Ultimate Team card game now available If you like playing Madden and fantasy football, then you’re in for something swell. Yesterday, EA Sports launched Madden Ultimate Team as a free update to Madden NFL 10 (it’s a patc...
NFL Blitz creator Mark Turmell joins EA Tiburon EA Sports announced this morning (as reported by Joystiq three days ago) that former Midway arcade sports wizard Mark Turmell has taken a position as the Senior Creative Director of EA Tiburon. T...
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 'Battlefield Moment' #3 rocks I’ve spent over 45 hours with the multiplayer portion of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, but if this kick-ass gameplay footage is any indication, EA DICE’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2...
2K Sports signs 7 ballplayers to help market MLB 2K10 If you caught the first “Pitchers vs. Hitters” vignette for 2K Sports’ Major League Baseball 2K10, you will already have seen some of the professional baseball players whom 2K ...
TuneCore charging $999 for Rock Band Network authoring As we told you shortly after Harmonix announced Rock Band Network last July, a few companies have sprung up in the Rock Band community, offering to put people’s songs on RBN for a fee or a ...
Joe Mauer cover for MLB 10 The Show unveiled, out March 2 Sony has released the final box art for MLB 10 The Show, and it’s ... very blue. You can check out the full cover image, featuring AL MVP Joe Mauer, in the gallery below. While it’s n...
New Backbreaker trailer brings the pain Details on NaturalMotion’s Backbreaker have been scarce since I played the game back at E3, but once the game found a publisher in 505 Games last month, I figured we’d be seeing some...
Quick Hit Football: A football strategy RPG According to the NFL, about 40 million Americans watch football on a regular basis; around 20 million people play some form of fantasy football, and EA Sports’ Madden NFL games sell between...
Achievement whores giving NBA Live 07 a final shot Even if you’re not an Achievement whore, you may have heard whispers of a rare online Achievement for EA Sports’ NBA Live 07. One of the game’s 15 Achievements offers a sizable ...
EA Sports stands by Tiger Woods for PGA Tour Online The Tiger Woods scandal may be the biggest off-the-field sports story of the last decade. With sponsors like AT&T and Accenture dropping Woods -- and with companies like Gatorade severely cut...
Pac-Man vs. Mario: Who wins? The age-old debate of who would win out in a fight to the death between Mario and Pac-Man has finally been settled ... by a minute-long animated short out of Russia. Yes, that’s right, fol...
Review: Madden NFL Arcade In the current economic climate, with studios suffering layoffs every other day, many publishers have stated a preference for sticking with established IPs that are almost guaranteed to sell well...
Back of MLB 10 The Show box confirms what we told you Earlier this week, I gave you a first-look, hands-on preview of MLB 10 The Show. In it, I discussed some of the improvements and additions that Sony San Diego is bringing to the game, including t...
Rumor: NHL 2K11 likely canceled, 2K Sports in trouble? 2K Sports sure seems to be struggling right now. In the wake of Thursday’s announcement that parent company Take-Two expects to post a loss of $137.9 million this year -- which is largely t...
AL MVP Joe Mauer is the MLB 10 The Show cover athlete Sony’s finally taking the MLB The Show cover out of the Northeast. Joe Mauer, the 2009 American League Most Valuable Player, will grace the cover of MLB 10 The Show, the next iteration in S...
Preview: MLB 10 The Show Thanks to two straight stellar games, the MLB The Show series has cemented itself as the best baseball simulation available by far. MLB 09 The Show managed to sell 305,000 copies in March 2009 on...
2K Sports reveals fan-chosen MLB 2K10 cover When 2K Sports announced Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria as the cover athlete for Major League Baseball 2K10, they offered up six different cover designs and let you vote on them. The...
EA Sports to announce new game in January Twitter is the place to be for breaking news, folks. Earlier this week, Alain Quinto, Community Manager at EA Canada, tweeted that EA Sports is planning to reveal a brand-new game next month. The...
Review: LEGO Rock Band A year ago, the music game genre was at its peak. Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour had recently launched to rave reviews, and looking back, it appears that the developers of those games -- ...
Steam sale, day 3: Borderlands, Ghostbusters, Trine, more Someone should charge Gabe Newell and Valve with conspiracy -- conspiracy to relieve PC gamers of their hard-earned cash, since the third day of Steam’s “Five-Day-Long, One-Day-Only&r...
Longoria confirmed for MLB 2K10 cover, you vote on design Last week, a survey leaked to Kotaku suggested that Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria would be on the cover of 2K Sports' Major League Baseball 2K10. 2K sent out a press release earlier ...
Survey suggests Evan Longoria will be MLB 2K10 coverboy The Tampa Bay Rays may have missed out on the playoffs this year, but the team’s third baseman, Evan Longoria (no relation to actress Eva Longoria) may be cashing in on his two very good ye...
New York's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launch event On the eve of the release of what is arguably the most anticipated game of 2009, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Activision joined with Microsoft and GameStop to take over New York’s Union ...
Infinity Ward pulls MW2 Hamels video after Internet furor Last night, Infinity Ward posted a short video on their YouTube account featuring an in-game version of Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels (who will be facing the New York Yankees tonight ...
Cole Hamels: 'Pussies' use random MW2 grenades (Update) For the New York Yankees’ sake, I sure hope Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels continues his sub-par playoff performance tomorrow night in Game 3 of the World Series. But as much as...
Watch things blow up in this Just Cause 2 trailer I’ve never played the original Just Cause, but I sure hope that Rico Rodriguez, the protagonist of that game and its upcoming sequel, Just Cause 2, is a tongue-in-cheek character in the ve...
LEGO Rock Band launch trailer is badical Yes, I know “badical” isn’t technically a word, but that’s the term Nick Chester used to describe the opening cinematic to LEGO Rock Band, and I couldn’t think of a... |
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iPad: Likely to change gaming, just not yours
Rev Rant: the Wrex Paradox
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Beyond Dead Space: Sledgehammer Games
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The simple math of review scores
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