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Xperia Play Available Through AT&T with Some Heavy Perks

Xperia Play Available Through AT&T with Some Heavy Perks

This September 18th, the popular Xperia Play (or PSP Phone) will be available through AT&T as a service provider.  Is has since only been available through Verizon, but it will still run the ... Read More

Gears of War 3 – All Weapon Skins Including 22 Weapon Skins That Must Be Purchased Over Xbox Live

Gears of War 3 – All Weapon Skins Including 22 Weapon Skins That Must Be Purchased Over Xbox Live

Here is a list of all the skins in the game pretty much, including the unlockable ones.  Not mentioned are the Liquid Metal Lancer which you get with the purchase of the Season Pass.  The bottom... Read More

Crysis on consoles a downloadable release only

Crysis on consoles a downloadable release only

Following the announcement of a release for the original Crysis on the Xbox 360 and PS3 earlier today with a trailer to go along with it, EA has now announced that the release will be download only,... Read More

Steamworks support coming to Xbox 360?

Steamworks support coming to Xbox 360?

Valve's Steamworks currently supports only the PS3 in the console market, and now, if recent reports are anything to go by, it might be making its way to the Xbox 360 too. Steam users discovered an... Read More

Original Max Payne Coming To Mobile Platforms In ‘Full HD’

Original Max Payne Coming To Mobile Platforms In ‘Full HD’

You read right Kids: Buried deep within a Max Payne 3 press release was something about taking Max Payne's original, suspiciously constipated looking, face wherever you go... in HD! No platforms have ... Read More

Team Ico Collection To Have Reversable Boxart, Last Guardian Not Coming To Tokyo Game Show

Team Ico Collection To Have Reversable Boxart, Last Guardian Not Coming To Tokyo Game Show

Most Europeans will tell you they have better taste than yourself: I, for example, do this on a regular basis. However, any fear of my continental snobbery goes straight out of the window when I compa... Read More

Dead Space 2 Is Quite Scary, According To Science

Dead Space 2 Is Quite Scary, According To Science

Usability studio 'Vertical Slice' conducted an experiment testing the reactions of players to four Xbox 360 horror titles to find out which game was "scariest," as well as the different ways in which ... Read More

Nintendo 3DS Sales Skyrocket in the US After Price Cut, Deus Ex Tops Software Charts

Nintendo 3DS Sales Skyrocket in the US After Price Cut, Deus Ex Tops Software Charts

The latest NPD numbers were just released, and they spell good news for all console manufacturers overall. Whereas the Xbox 360 predictably ended in first place by a healthy margin, Nintendo's 3DS s... Read More

REPORT- Max Payne 3 development cost $105 million; needs to sell 4M to break even

REPORT- Max Payne 3 development cost $105 million; needs to sell 4M to break even

Rockstar announced earlier today that Max Payne 3 will be released in March 2012 for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. And its development is reportedly costing Rockstar a hefty $105 million. That's... huge... Read More

GTA V won’t release before late 2012- analyst

GTA V won’t release before late 2012- analyst

Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz believes Rockstar and Take-Two won't probably release Grand Theft Auto V before late next year, because they wouldn't want to cannibalize the sales and succes... Read More

‘Consoles have hit their peak,’ says analyst

‘Consoles have hit their peak,’ says analyst

DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole believes the console market has hit its peak, and ever though he believes the next generation home consoles will sell well, he doesn't believe they will cross, s... Read More

Saints Row The Third – Heyday Sneakers Limited Quanities of 100 Soon Available

Saints Row The Third – Heyday Sneakers Limited Quanities of 100 Soon Available

The Heyday Saints Row Sneakers were first announced at E3, but now it has finally been announced on when you can get them and it won't be easy.  100 were made for North America and 100 were made fo... Read More

REPORT- Dragon Quest X has been in development for 6 years

REPORT- Dragon Quest X has been in development for 6 years

A tweet from a Square Enix ex-employee, which was promptly deleted, of course, suggest that Dragon Quest X, the upcoming Wii and Wii U MMORPG, has been in development for 6 years. Andriasang repor... Read More

REPORT- Wii U in “development hell”; controllers were “rushed” and “still don’t work properly”

REPORT- Wii U in “development hell”; controllers were “rushed” and “still don’t work properly”

A Nintendo insider has told 01net.com that Nintendo rushed the Wii U Controllers' final architecture, and that they "still don't work properly". The system, he says, is in "development hell." "Ac... Read More

Nintendo sued over Wii Remote tech

Nintendo sued over Wii Remote tech

Technology firm ThinkOptic have sued Nintendo for having knowingly infringed on one of their patents (allegedly). ThinkOptic's patent describes an "electronic equipment for handheld vision based ab... Read More

Max Payne 3 releasing in March 2012, screens and box art inside

Max Payne 3 releasing in March 2012, screens and box art inside

     Click on images to view them in full screen. Rockstar has announced that the long awaited Max Payne 3 will be releasing in Europe and North America in March 2012 for the Xbox 360, PS3 and P... Read More

Gears 3 3D “looks pretty good”, but X360 3D tech has “room for improvement”

Gears 3 3D “looks pretty good”, but X360 3D tech has “room for improvement”

Epic Games boss Mike Capps believes Gears of War 3 looks really good in 3D, despite it being a last decision to add the feature in the game, but the tech has "room for improvement" on the Xbox 360.... Read More

MotoHeroz – Launch Trailer (WiiWare)

MotoHeroz – Launch Trailer (WiiWare)

[HTML1] MotoHeroz will be available for through WiiWare on September 15th for 1500 Wii Points. The racer from RedLynx runs at 60 frames per second, includes three game modes and over 100 tracks! It i... Read More

SkyDrift Arcade Flyer Now Live on XBLA and PSN – Awesome Launch Trailer Says it All

SkyDrift Arcade Flyer Now Live on XBLA and PSN – Awesome Launch Trailer Says it All

[HTML1] SkyDrift an an Arcade Jet Flying Racer that look pretty cool, from the launch trailer above.  It is now live for the Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network on PS3.  It will run you 12... Read More

500 people working on Call of Duty, claims Activision

500 people working on Call of Duty, claims Activision

Activision claims that "four or five" developers are working on the Call of Duty franchise, adding up to around 500 people. Dave Stohl, Activision’s executive vice president told VentureBeat ... Read More