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Level 5 developing PS3 and Wii titles

Ah, Level 5. I like those guys. I'd like them to make more games. Less portable ones would be nice. Oh, and U.S. releases would be fantastic. You know. Just whatever. If you're listening. They ar...

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...

Schedule for Dante's Inferno DLC revealed

When it comes to downloadable content and Dante's Inferno, Visceral and Electronic Arts aren't messing around. In fact, according to a slip that shipped inside the retail game box, they've got it...

Wada's FF XIII statements confuses his own developers

A few weeks ago, we told you about how Square Enix president Yoichi Wada claimed that Final Fantasy XIII may be the "last of this type of game." We weren't entirely sure what we meant by that, an...

Borderland's General Knoxx gets his own Twitter account

Little known fact: the General Knoxx of "The Secret Armory of General Knoxx," the upcoming third Borderlands DLC expansion, is a real person. Well, real enough to have a Twitter account at least....

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...

Here is some Rocket Knight artwork for you

With all the talk about Sonic 4, it's easy to forget that Konami is gearing its own downloadable retro reboot with Rocket Knight. Of course, that's also partially thanks to the fact that Konami's...

Rebellion tells you how to play Aliens vs. Predator

This latest trailer explains the close combat in Aliens vs. Predator. Ironically, the video only tells you the Xbox 360 controls, which already has a control layout in the demo. The demo that re...

EA has two console Need for Speed titles in the works

It's already been confirmed that Burnout developer Criterion has its hands in the Need for Speed franchise. But if Burnout's fast pace and twisted steel isn't your thing, don't worry -- Electroni...

EA reveals release info for Dead Space 2, next Dragon Age, and more

If you're an avid Electronic Arts fan and just have to have everything they own, you might want to tighten your belt for the next year. There's a lot of games, and in the publisher's fiscal earni...

Win Dante's Inferno prizes by indulging in a sin!

It's a Dante's Inferno mega giveaway of extreme awesomeness this week! Thanks to AttentionUSA and Electronic Arts, we're giving away a bunch of Dante's Inferno-themed prizes this week -- 19 prize...

David Cage: Creating mature games a 'massive challenge'

When Quantic Dream CEO and co-founder David Cage watches movies or television, he dreams of the day when game designers can have the same liberties. Cage, whose mature interactive drama Heavy Rai...

Review: BioShock 2

When BioShock launched in 2007, it felt like a breath of fresh air to many gamers. A brand-new IP with a fantastic story and an interesting sandbox-style approach to combat within a linear format...

THQ reveals first UFC Undisputed 2010 details

Following the reveal that Brock Lesnar would be the cover boy for its upcoming UFC Undisputed 2010, THQ has revealed the first details for the follow-up to last year's hit title.In the gameplay d...

Dante's Inferno not coming to Middle East (legally)

Surprise surprise! Dante's Inferno, a game about a mental Christian who carves a cross into his chest and visits a Hell full of big-breasted demons, is not going to be released in the Middle East...

LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars announced

Did you think that Traveler's Tales had done all it could do with the LEGO Star Wars franchise? If so, you have no idea how the videogame industry works, my friend. LEGO Star Wars III has just be...

White PS3 controller coming soon

You may not know this, but nothing is more important than the color of your controllers. If your controllers don't match your gaming pad then you will be judged by others. Judged, I tell you! And...

PlayStation 3 sales cross 30 million worldwide

Sales for Sony's PlayStation 3 have been steadily increasing since the company found a way to remove its head from its ass by lowering the price point, and coming up with an advertising campaign ...

Alpha Protocol delayed again, this time with reasoning

At E3 2008 I saw Alpha Protocol and was pretty intrigued, figuring I'd be seeing the game in action before 2009 was up at the very latest. Then E3 2009 came along and it didn't really look like m...

BioShock 2 devs under pressure to make a compelling story

We've been chatting with 2K Marin creative director Jordan Thomas ahead of BioShock 2's release, finding out what's left to find out about the game before it releases this Tuesday. We asked Thoma...

First R.U.S.E. making-of video is shiny

I'm not super-confident that Ubisoft's upcoming real-time strategy title R.U.S.E. is going to be as different or revolutionary as they say it is. Yes, the idea of creating fake information and i...

Demon's Souls swings the way you choose for V Day

How's Demon's Souls treating you? Shoved on a shelf in aggravation, never to be opened again? Or played through so many times the disk has a hole burned through it? If you're in the former group,...

More details emerge on Fallout New Vegas

Subscribing to a magazine comes with its own perks. For one, you pay less per issue than store-buyers. For two, you get your copies a little earlier than most. Perk number two applies in this cas...

2K tells us why BioShock 2's multiplayer exists

Way back in 2007, 2K's Elizabeth Tobey stated that multiplayer in BioShock would compromise the story. We never forgot that statement, so it was strange to see BioShock 2 proudly pimping multipla...

Sony losing even less on each PlayStation 3

One of the accepted facts of the gaming industry was that you sold your gaming system at a loss and recouped the loss by selling software. It worked for years, and no one complained. Then Nintend...

BioShock 2 devs prepared for fan backlash

We've been chatting with 2K Marin ahead of BioShock 2's imminent release. With some big shoes to fill and a number of fans convinced that BioShock 2 should not have been made, we asked creative d...

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...

Rebellion apologizes for Aliens vs. Predator demo fiasco

The arrival of the Aliens vs. Predator demo this week did not bring much conversation concerning the game's quality. Unfortunately, rather than talk about the game itself, most people were talkin...

Review: Dante's Inferno

Strip away marketing and PR controversy, and forget for a moment that Dante's Inferno is a videogame interpretation of a literary classic (albeit loosely). Sure, Visceral Games -- the talented te...

Concept art from EA's canceled Road Rash and... Oliver Twist?

By all accounts, it appears that Electronic Arts had intended to bring the Road Rash franchise back from the dead. Whether or not that's still in the cards is unclear, the only true evidence we'v...

L.A. Noire no longer a PS3 exclusive, hitting 360 as well

You won't need to sit down for this one, as it should come as no surprise -- Rockstar Games' L.A. Noire is no longer a PlayStation 3 exclusive. The title, which will be revealed in full in the ne...

Get the Heavy Rain demo now because you're a cheater

Want to play the Heavy Rain demo now? Complete the mystery of Sony's Heavy Rain ARG and win a code to download it today. Or, alternately, skip the headaches, and get the answers here and right no...

Bayonetta breaks one million sales

Ladies and gentlemen, the incomprehensible has happened -- Platinum Games has released a ... a ... a popular game!  Bayonetta has sold over one million copies. 1,100,000, to be exact, o...

Just Cause 2 demo 'on its way'

Looks like we'll be getting a demo for Avalanche Studios' Just Cause 2 soon. We know this because the game's publisher, Eidos, tweeted it. "Just Cause 2 demo on its way," someone who presumably ...

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...

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 ...

A closer look at Dante's Inferno pre-order NECA figure

Electronic Arts sent over a fancy little Dante figure (seen above, absolving my cat of her sins) today, the same one you'd receive for pre-ordering Dante's Inferno at shops like GameStop. There's...

Game Informer pulls the sheet off the body of L.A. Noire

Surprise! Rockstar Games L.A. Noire actually exists! Game Informer has revealed its March issue and as some had expected, the cover features the billion-years-in-development title. The magazine's...

Wah wah wah Sonic the Hedgehog 4!

So, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 was announced at midnight. After much teasing, it was revealed that Project Needlemouse would become the official sequel to Sonic 3, continuing where the 16-bit game left...

Rock Band DLC: Megadeth's entire 'Rust in Peace' album

The blood, sweat, and tears of Harmonix's Rock Band 'Zine has hit people's email inboxes, and has revealed next week's downloadable content -- Megadeth's Rust in Peace. The entire track listing f...

The Who 'Super Bowl S-mashup' hits Rock Band this Sunday

The upcoming The Who DLC for Rock Band we reported on not long ago has been revealed, and it's probably not what you were expecting. During the Super Bowl Halftime Show this Sunday, The Who is sc...

Sony Europe announces EyePet 2

EyePet isn't even out in North America yet, but that hasn't stopped Sony from announcing a sequel to its flawed-but-adorable virtual pet. A second installment of the PlayStation Eye game was reve...

Red Dead Redemption's killer moustache revealed

Last year, Rockstar Games held a moustache competition, in an effort to raise issues of men's health by way of moustaches. Or something. In any event, one winner was chosen to have his (or her?) ...

Dark Void DLC is coming ... because you needed more of it

Dark Void, the jetpack-flavored action game that I kicked the sh*t out of during our review, is priming for some downloadable content. You know, just in case there wasn't enough fantastic gamepla...

War Machine invades Sega's Iron Man 2

There's an Iron Man sequel hitting theaters soon, and that only means one thing -- another Iron Man game. While Sega's first Iron Man title didn't exactly thrill, that's not going to stop them f...

First look at Fallout: New Vegas

You wanted updated Fallout: New Vegas, and here you have it -- a whole freakin' trailer. This is an instance where the trailer -- set to the tune of "Blue Moon" -- really says it all. From the l...

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...

Aliens vs. Predator does not suck

The demo is out and the verdict is in! Having stayed up way later than I should, I downloaded and played the Aliens vs. Predator multiplayer demo that snuck onto Steam in late evening. Having sp...

BioShock 2 gets mandatory 5GB PS3 install

In what has become an all-too common story for PS3 games, BioShock 2 will require a mandatory installation on Sony's Black Box o' Blu-ray. Just be warned that you'll be hanging around for a while...

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...

NIER gets North American release date, exclusive spelling

In Japan it's called NieR. In North America, it's called NIER. Don't ask me why, it just is. Everything about this game is weird. Like the fact that we get one version of the game, but Japan gets...

Aliens vs. Predator demo tomorrow, have some shots

An Aliens vs. Predator multiplayer demo is hitting the Internet tomorrow, and here are three screenshots to herald its arrival. After months of waiting, I finally get to see if this game is any g...

Shove this BioShock 2 launch trailer into your brain

BioShock 2 releases next week, so treat yourself to this rather swanky launch trailer. It gives you pretty much everything you need to prepare yourself for the rapturous sequel. It's got Big Dad...

The Last Guardian team aims for realism

Realism? How realistic can a monstrously huge dog-bird fantasy beast be? The most real thing to come out of this upcoming game was how I teared up like a little bitch in front of my peers and fri...

Witness the birth of God of War III's Chimera

Let it be known that I traveled far and wide to find myself a God of War Slurpee. I struck out at three 7-Elevens, one of which didn't even have a Slurpee machine. Who knew that was even cosmica...

A trip to the racetracks: Days of Thunder: Arcade

When we hit the turn, at 120 miles per hour, I couldn't hold it in anymore. Rey was in the front of the race car, his camera hanging out of the window. Michelle, our PR representative, was sittin...

Darksiders might not be selling so f*ck you in advance

An analyst has recently revealed that evidence from THQ's Q3 earnings report may suggest that Darksiders sold well under the publisher's expectations. Signal Hill Capital's Todd Greenwald believe...

Sony claims the PS3 is breathing down Xbox 360's neck

We haven't had much corporate showboating for a while, so here's Sony's Peter Dille to set things right. The VP of marketing believes that his company is breathing down Microsoft's neck, and it's...

BioWare: No, Mass Effect 2 isn't coming to the PS3

Despite retail listings, rumors, and other online shenanigans, BioWare maintains that its hit title Mass Effect 2 will not be coming to the PlayStation 3. The latest rumblings came when direct re...

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Ten things I loved about Final Fantasy XIII

Rev Rant: Paragon/Renegade

Counterpoint: Mass Effect 2

The ugly truth: I may not be good at videogames

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