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You're browsing in compact mode. Expand all stories Survey suggests Evan Longoria will be MLB 2K10 coverboy 23 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 11 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 115 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) 50 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 18 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 7 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... Netflix Instant Watch coming to PS3 in November 81 Color this PS3 owner surprised: after more than 11 months of Xbox 360 exclusivity, Netflix will be making its way to the PlayStation 3 next month. We’ve heard this rumor many times before, ... Super Street Fighter IV in arcades? Don't rule it out yet 14 Hey, remember when Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono informed gamers that there won’t be an arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV? Well, there may still be some hope for arcade f... I played the Queen and Beatles RB DLC, and it was great 16 In case you weren’t aware, this is, unequivocally, the greatest week in the nearly two-year history of Rock Band downloadable content. Yes, I said it, and here’s why. Available today ... MLB The Show dev painstakingly recreates in-game stadiums 5 The New York Yankees eliminated the Minnesota Twins in Game 3 of their 2009 American League Division Series matchup last week, and that baseball game is the last one that will ever be played in M... Preview: LEGO Rock Band 32 When Harmonix and Traveller’s Tales announced LEGO Rock Band back in April, the Internet went a bit crazy, charging that Harmonix had finally joined Activision among the ranks of the money-... Family-friendly Rock Band DLC playable in LEGO Rock Band 10 You know what’s awesome about Harmonix? They’re truly committed to the idea of Rock Band as a music platform. (Of course, that doesn’t include The Beatles: Rock Band, but I thin... LEGO Rock Band export won't be as cheap as RB1 (Update) 19 As we reported earlier, owners of the PS3 or 360 versions of LEGO Rock Band will be able to export most all of the game’s forty-plus songs to their hard drives so the tracks can be played i... LEGO Rock Band 100% exportable, track list exposed 22 LEGO Rock Band (check out our comprehensive preview), due out this holiday season, will offer over 40 songs. In keeping with Harmonix’s music platform ethos (and confirming an earlier rumor... PS3/360 Grand Slam Tennis delayed for motion control 8 When EA Sports president Peter Moore first told the world of EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis more than a year ago, he noted that the Wii version would support Wii MotionPlus, and that it would launch... Stealth PS3 firmware v3.01 update is live (Update) 17 It's only been two weeks since Sony updated the PlayStation 3's system software to v3.00 -- with a few hitches. Tonight, they threw up a surreptitious update under cover of darkness, bringing the... Review: NHL 10 27 EA Sports’ NHL franchise has a distinguished pedigree -- the past two games in the series have earned 19 “sports game of the year” awards from various videogame publications and... PS3 firmware v3.00 now available 63 The clock has struck midnight here on the East Coast, which means that it’s September 1st (holy crap, how the time files). That means that the new PlayStation 3, known colloquially as the &... Rockin' with Sony & some bands at Virgin Mobile FreeFest 7 I love to get down with great music and videogames, so when Sony offered me (and three Dtoiders) the opportunity to head down to Columbia, MD, and play some PS3 games while taking in some live mu... Preview: Rock Band Network 26 Last month, Harmonix unveiled Rock Band Network, an upcoming service that will allow musicians to get their songs into Rock Band and actually make cold, hard cash by doing so. It’s a ground... Preview: The Beatles: Rock Band 40 The dog days of summer have arrived, which means that the September 9th release of The Beatles: Rock Band draws ever closer. Information about the game has been coming from a variety of sources; ... Preview: Guitar Hero 5: GHStudio 2.0 18 With Guitar Hero World Tour, Neversoft attempted to shut up all of the “go play a real guitar” folks by introducing “GHStudio,” a suite of tools that allowed Guitar Hero p... Play as the Man in Black ... in Guitar Hero 5 37 Yes, this is my fourth Guitar Hero 5-related post of the day. You know you love it.This morning, Activision released a new trailer for Guitar Hero 5 featuring the one and only Johnny Cash. He&rsq... Recap: Guitar Hero 5 blowout 5 If you missed some of our comprehensive coverage of Guitar Hero 5 today, you’ve come to the right place. This is where you can get caught up on the day’s GH 5-related posts and keep t... Preview: Guitar Hero 5 (Wii) (Update) 13 In almost every case, the Wii version of a multiplatform game is somehow “gimped.” In other words, it lacks some of the features and characteristics of the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 vers... Preview: Guitar Hero 5 16 Since its inception in 2005, the Guitar Hero franchise has become one of the biggest names in videogames, in addition to cementing itself as a pop culture phenomenon. Guitar Hero and its main com... Guitar Hero's music compatibility explained 22 On Friday, Activision revealed that you’ll be able to play most Guitar Hero World Tour downloadable content, as well as some of the on-disc songs from World Tour and Guitar Hero Smash Hits,... Check out some Madden NFL 10 media 10 With the highly-anticipated launch of Madden NFL 10 only a week and a half away, it’s high time for you to familiarize yourself with the game if you haven’t done so already. To that e... NBA 2K10 Anniversary Edition comes in a big frickin' box 9 About a month ago, we told you about how 2K Sports is going above and beyond for the tenth anniversary of their NBA 2K franchise with a tricked-out Anniversary Edition of NBA 2K10. It comes with ... Madden NFL 10 looks a lot better than Madden NFL 09 16 In case you haven’t kept up, EA Tiburon has made numerous visual improvements to the Madden series with Madden NFL 10. They’re justifiably proud, so they’ve put together a bunch... EA announces downloadable Madden Arcade for holiday 2009 17 Remember 3 on 3 NHL Arcade, the $10 PSN/XBLA hockey game that hearkened back to arcade sports classics like NBA Jam and NFL Blitz? Well, it seems that NHL Arcade sold well enough for EA Sports to... Preview: A Boy and His Blob 28 By their nature, visuals are almost always the first thing that an observer notices about a game. Wii games often don’t make a great first impression, especially since many gamers have beco... Interview: Majesco's Pete Rosky talks A Boy and His Blob 9 On Wednesday, I headed into Manhattan to take a look at a preview build of WayForward’s upcoming reboot of the NES puzzle platformer A Boy and His Blob. It’s a game whose distinctive ... EA Sports inks Fedor Emelianenko, others for MMA game 25 Yesterday, EA Sports confirmed the first three fighters for its upcoming mixed martial arts videogame, tentatively titled EA Sports MMA. Headlining the game’s roster will be current WAMMA h... Madden NFL 10 developers drop knowledge on whiny receiver 28 For those who thought that Seattle Seahawks wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh was merely joking when he complained about his attributes in Madden NFL 10 and said he was boycotting the game, well,... First video, images of NBA Live 10 7 For a long time now, EA Sports’ NBA Live series has fallen short of its counterpart from 2K Sports, NBA 2K, in offering a realistic, fun, bug-free game of basketball. In fact, with almost a... Interview: Nintendo's Bill Trinen on Wii Sports Resort 7 At Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort launch event in Times Square yesterday, I was able to speak briefly with the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Nintendo of America, Bill Trinen. (You may ... Wii Sports Resort report: A beach ... in Times Square?! 12 Yesterday, Nintendo held a launch event for Wii Sports Resort in New York City’s Times Square, allowing the public to try out the game three full days before its launch on Sunday, July 26th... SDCC: New Uncharted 2 co-op mode, Gold Rush, debuts 14 Yesterday, on the first public day of Comic-Con International in San Diego, Naughty Dog introduced a brand-new co-op mode for Uncharted 2 called "Gold Rush." It's playable at kiosks in ... First screenshots, updated box art for NHL 2K10 6 I guess 2K Sports just remembered that their NBA 2K franchise isn't the only one that's celebrating its tenth anniversary, because they sent us some updated box art for NHL 2K10. As you can see i... Jack Black usurps Internet meme throne in Brutal Thoughts #5 34 Look, I like Jack Black. I’m a big fan of his band, Tenacious D, and I think he’s reasonably funny in general. Unfortunately, most of the “Brutal Thoughts” videos that he&... Seahawks receiver unhappy with Madden rating, boycotts game 32 Sure, the annual Madden ratings are a big deal to football players -- and for the particularly egotistical ones, it’s natural to feel that the game doesn’t properly assess their talen... EA Sports introduces Madden NFL Hall of Fame 7 In the 21 years since its inception, EA Sports’ Madden NFL series has grown from a mere football videogame into a true cultural phenomenon. It’s the most renowned sports franchise in ... 2K brings more minigame madness to Wii with Baseball Blast! 3 (The exclamation point, as you can see, is actually in the title. Believe me, I’m no more excited than you are about this.)Wii owners like minigame collections, right? I mean, Carnival Game... NHL 10 adds Be A GM mode 10 Sports simulations, ostensibly, are about recreating the on-field experience in videogame form as well as possible. But as time went on, gamers wanted more out of their sports games; they wanted ... HMX: 'Beatles: Rock Band is the Brian's Song of videogames' 14 While at MTV yesterday to see a near-final build of The Beatles: Rock Band, I asked Harmonix PR guru John Drake to elaborate on something I’d heard from community manager Sean Baptiste duri... Preview: The Beatles: Rock Band (Vocal Trainer) 25 Vocal harmonies are something that many gamers have wanted to see in Rock Band since the franchise’s inception. So what better place is there to introduce the feature than in a game with th... Harmonix reveals 15 more The Beatles: Rock Band songs 31 We’ve known for a while that The Beatles: Rock Band will feature 45 of the legendary band’s songs on the game disc, but at E3, Harmonix -- those dirty, dirty teases -- chose to only t... Madden NFL 10 demo exclusive to Xbox Live Gold for a week 15 Really, it’s okay to shed a tear or two if you’re a Madden fan who doesn’t have an Xbox 360 and an Xbox Live Gold account. I’m doing it right now, since I only own a PS3.L... Preview: Little King's Story 14 Gamers are control freaks (no pun intended). There’s something strangely alluring and satisfying about commanding a group of people who will do whatever the hell you want, whether it’... Madden NFL 10 goes gold, will have two demos 9 It’s a big day for the Madden team at EA Tiburon: today, EA Sports officially announced (see PR after the jump) that Madden NFL 10 has gone gold. In case you’re unfamiliar with gaming... Watch the NHL 10 international cover athletes do their thing 32 Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks will be on the cover of NHL 10 -- but not in all regions. EA Sports’ NHL series will, once again, feature country-specific covers for certain European... Preview: MX vs. ATV Reflex 6 Off-road racing is a potentially dangerous endeavor. Hell, we nearly lost our own Hamza Aziz to an ATV accident last year -- but, shark that he is, he merely brushed off the crash and continued o... Preview: Darksiders 31 THQ’s Darksiders is a game I’ve been keeping an eye on ever since it was announced way back at E3 2007. It’s been repeatedly delayed; the game is now set for release on January ... NHL 10 trailer discusses gameplay additions, improvements 10 EA Canada has the unenviable task of developing a follow-up to NHL 09, arguably one of the best sports games ever made, and so far, it looks like they’re up to it. We’ve heard of all ... Fight Night Round 4 DLC announced, will add button controls 13 You clamored for it, and EA listened. We previously heard that EA was considering adding to Fight Night Round 4 the face button punching controls that were present in Fight Night Round 3, and now... Preview: The Bigs 2 10 2K Sports scored a hit with its 2007 arcade baseball title, The Bigs, and after two years of lackluster baseball sims, they’re trying to recapture past glory with a sequel, The Bigs 2. I go... Play The Bigs 2 with the New York Mets 7 Are you interested in 2K Sports' The Bigs 2? Do you live in or around New York City? Do you like winning prizes? If you answered 'yes' to those three questions, then I have a proposition for you,... Madden NFL 10 dev diary explains why online franchise rocks 7 During the EA press conference at E3, Peter Moore revealed that Madden NFL 10 will have an online franchise mode, an announcement that got Madden fans everywhere pumped for the upcoming football ... 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