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Sony: Why you shouldn’t import your PS Vita systems

Sony: Why you shouldn’t import your PS Vita systems

It was recently announced that the PS Vita will not be region locked, meaning import happy customers will be able to import their Vita systems and games from Japan if they don't have the patience to... Read More

Crytek ‘excited’ about Wii U; ‘very happy’ with dev kits

Crytek ‘excited’ about Wii U; ‘very happy’ with dev kits

While chatting with GamesIndustry about Nintendo's upcoming console, Wii U, Crytek boss Avni Yerli said that the developers working at Crytek are "very happy" with the tests they ran on the Wii U ... Read More

Rumor: Avengers Game Pre-Alpha Footage

Rumor: Avengers Game Pre-Alpha Footage

[HTML1] THQ closed down an Australian Studio under them by the name of Brisbane.  Rumor had it that this specific studio was working on an Avengers game.  Since the studio was closed we are not sur... Read More

PS Vita is region free, Sony confirms

PS Vita is region free, Sony confirms

Many fans might be worried about PS Vita's compatibility issues, that they might go the Nintendo way and region lock it. Don't worry though- imported games will run on your PS Vitas. Sony has confir... Read More

Shadow Complex 2 nearly complete, looking for publishing partner- Cliffy B

Shadow Complex 2 nearly complete, looking for publishing partner- Cliffy B

Epic Games' Cliff Blezsinski, while talking to Gamasutra (via NeoGAF), revealed that Shadow Complex 2, sequel to the awesome 2009 Xbox Live downloadable game, is actually complete. It has been deve... Read More

Valve only interested in consoles and PC

Valve only interested in consoles and PC

Many of you might be holding hopes that Valve will announce Portal Vita or something like that one of these days. Well, you can forget all about it. Valve is not interested in making games for handh... Read More

Zelda: Four Swords DSi Will Feature Two New Locations

Zelda: Four Swords DSi Will Feature Two New Locations

The upcoming DSi port of The Legend Of Zelda: Four Swords will feature two new areas to explore: Hero's Trial; a sort of compilation level made up of parts from other levels in the game and Real Of Me... Read More

El Shaddai The Android App

El Shaddai The Android App

With visuals as pristine as El Shaddai's, what could possibly go wrong with a smartphone incarnation? To be fair, the image above gives a large degree of hope that this won't just be a quick cash in. ... Read More

Think You Have Seen It All? – Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken – Trailer/Details/Contest

Think You Have Seen It All? – Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken – Trailer/Details/Contest

[HTML1] Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken is a game that will be exclusive for the Playstation Network and is.. well.. far from average when it comes to an arcade title.  Personally I like it, with it... Read More

Razer To Design The ULTIMATE Arcade Stick For The Xbox 360 With the Community

Razer To Design The ULTIMATE Arcade Stick For The Xbox 360 With the Community

Razer has been releasing top of the line gaming peripherals that are no doubt great products and really answer the call of what gamers really want.  This is on top of them releasing some pretty u... Read More

Pre-Order Bonus Items for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Revealed

Pre-Order Bonus Items for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Revealed

EA and 38 Studios have just recently unveiled the pre-order bonus items for the award winning RPG, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. There will be The Destinies Choice Pack, The Fate-Touched Weapons Pa... Read More

Calibur 11 Life Size COG Armor Contest Including Video Sneak Peak

Calibur 11 Life Size COG Armor Contest Including Video Sneak Peak

[HTML1] If you don't know already one lucky person that pre-orders one of the Calibur11.com Gears of War 3 Vaults will get a chance to win a full set of life size Gears of War COG Armor.  We are giv... Read More

Professor Layton/ Phoenix Wright Crossover Sceens And Details!

Professor Layton/ Phoenix Wright Crossover Sceens And Details!

In what for some is considered a dream project, Phoenix Wright of Ace Attorney fame and puzzle solver Professor Layton will be meeting up in a 3DS title. The screens provided were taken from Famitsu.c... Read More

Zanda: Linked Swords, A Suspect Zelda Clone, Makes It To iOS

Zanda: Linked Swords, A Suspect Zelda Clone, Makes It To iOS

Nintendo are unlikely to port Zelda, or any of their other franchises, to iOS any time soon and Top Best Adult entertainment have recognised this and responded with Zanda: Linked Swords, a game where ... Read More

Tommy Wiseau To Present Video Game Show

Tommy Wiseau To Present Video Game Show

[HTML1] That's right ladies and gentlemen; Tommy Wiseau of 'The Room' fame will be tearing it apart on a new computer game show titled 'Tommy Wi-Show' on Machinima.com. The show "follows Wiseau as... Read More

Dead or Alive 5 – Debut Trailer

Dead or Alive 5 – Debut Trailer

[HTML1] Dead or Alive 5 was recently announced to be released at the Tokyo Game Show 2011 (TGS).  The game will be available for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.  Head of Team Ninja Yosuke Hayashi d... Read More

GTA IV ships 22 million, GTA franchise ships 114 million

GTA IV ships 22 million, GTA franchise ships 114 million

At their presentation at the ThinkEquity annual Growth conference, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick revealed that the 2008 title, Grand Theft Auto IV, has shipped over 22 million units worldwide now, t... Read More

US PS Store Update: God of War, FIFA, From Dust, PES, Bulletstorm and more

US PS Store Update: God of War, FIFA, From Dust, PES, Bulletstorm and more

Sony has released info on the next US PS Store update, and players this time will be treated with everything from God of War and Bulletstorm and FIFA to PES and From Dust and much more. The full lis... Read More

GAME & gamestation gear up for Gears of War 3 midnight launches

GAME & gamestation gear up for Gears of War 3 midnight launches

To mark one of the biggest games of the year, Gears of Wars 3, 258 GAME and 170 gamestation stores across the UK will be opening their doors on midnight on 20th September, giving Gears of War fan... Read More

RUMOUR- Sony considering Vita UMD compatibility problems

RUMOUR- Sony considering Vita UMD compatibility problems

The PlayStation Vita, as we all know, will have no UMD drive, which obviously means that those of you who have your PSP libraries optically will not be able to play those games on the Vita. However,... Read More