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Leaked Diablo 3 Beta Screens

Leaked Diablo 3 Beta Screens

Blizzard are currently running initial stress tests on battlenet for Diablo 3 with the friends and family Beta run: Blizzard employees, of which there are nearly 5000, invite five people to join in th... Read More

Insomniac considered bringing back Nathan Hale in Resistance 3

Insomniac considered bringing back Nathan Hale in Resistance 3

[caption id="attachment_37524" align="aligncenter" width="505" caption="It would have been good to see him again."][/caption] Insomniac may have ditched the now dead Nathan Hale for Resistance 3 and ... Read More

Modern Warfare 3 gets redesigned killstreaks, game modes, everything

Modern Warfare 3 gets redesigned killstreaks, game modes, everything

Activision has announced a shitload of new details for Modern Warfare 3, revealing new killstreaks, detailing modes, multiplayer, everything. The new killstreak system now encourages different play... Read More

Call of Duty XP Event Live Steam – Opening Briefing

Call of Duty XP Event Live Steam – Opening Briefing

[HTML1] Here is it, the Call of Duty XP Event has begun and here is a live stream of the opening briefing.  We will have plenty of more coverage of the event later on.Read More

Warhammer 40k: Space Marine Co-op Announced

Warhammer 40k: Space Marine Co-op Announced

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="505" caption="'Exterminatus' Free Co-op DLC Screen"][/caption] You know what's fun?  Co-operative play, and a free download has just been announ... Read More

Deep Silver: Dead Island influenced by The Walking Dead

Deep Silver: Dead Island influenced by The Walking Dead

We recently got a chance to sit down with Deep Silver and ask them some questions their upcoming FPS, Dead Island. We asked them if their upcoming zombie invasion game has been influenced by any pop... Read More

Playstation Vita Playable at Eurogamer Expo

Playstation Vita Playable at Eurogamer Expo

PS Vita will be playable at this year's Eurogamer Expo, it has been announced. This is the first time the console has been playable at a UK consumer event before its release in 2012. It has yet to ... Read More

Sledgehammer’s third person CoD “was pretty compelling and it looked really good”, but MW3 was an “opportunity [they] couldn’t miss”

Sledgehammer’s third person CoD “was pretty compelling and it looked really good”, but MW3 was an “opportunity [they] couldn’t miss”

Sledgehammer Games was a studio Activision had set up especially to take the Call of Duty franchise in an all new direction. Sledgehammer had been working on a "third person action adventure game" f... Read More

Pac-Man Arriving on 3DS Virtual Console

Pac-Man Arriving on 3DS Virtual Console

[HTML1] This week the Gameboy version of Pac-Man will be chasing ghosts and gobbling fruit all the way to the 3DS virtual console. The game will cost $3.99.Read More

Square Enix Respond To Racist Allegations Over Deus Ex

Square Enix Respond To Racist Allegations Over Deus Ex

[HTML1] If you've played Deus Ex: Human Revolution then you may have encountered Letitia and perhaps you found her characterisation a little... uncomfortable? Perhaps not? Time's Evan Narcisse cert... Read More

PDP Announces Modern Warfare 3 Wii Headset and Wireles PS3 Controller

PDP Announces Modern Warfare 3 Wii Headset and Wireles PS3 Controller

The Nintendo Wii Headset from PDP with it being Modern Warfare 3 Themed just looks awesome.  Obviously shown above is the Wii Headset and as of now PDP has not announces any other Modern Warfare ... Read More

Mass Effect 3, NFS: The Run, FIFA 12 part of EA-HMV Gamerbase UK tour

Mass Effect 3, NFS: The Run, FIFA 12 part of EA-HMV Gamerbase UK tour

EA has announced a tour all over UK at HMV Gamerbase, which will allow the public to go hands-on with Mass Effect 3, FIFA 12 and Need for Speed: The Run. The tour will start tonight in Glasgow and ... Read More

Australian PS3 sales surge after price cut

Australian PS3 sales surge after price cut

We knew Sony would end up selling a bit more PS3's after the price cut but according to the latest reports from Australia, it may have exceeded Sony's expectations. Sony Computer Entertainment Austr... Read More

First Persona 4 PS Vita Screens

First Persona 4 PS Vita Screens

Its not just the P4 fighter that got screens onto Famitsu.com today. Some wonderful looking screens for Persona 4: The Golden, a PS Vita enhanced port of the original Persona 4, have been posted a mer... Read More

First Persona 4 Fighter Screenshots

First Persona 4 Fighter Screenshots

As we found out yesterday, a Persona 4 fighter from the Blazblue team is in the works (the games full title is Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena). Well, Famitsu posted some screens today and ... Read More

JAPAN CHARTS: 3DS highest selling system, Monster Hunter tops software charts

JAPAN CHARTS: 3DS highest selling system, Monster Hunter tops software charts

The 3DS continues to be the highest selling gaming system in Japan, a third consecutive week. Again, Nintendo's new handheld system has topped the hardware charts for the week, selling 60,781 units... Read More

DICE: You cannot shoot civilians in Battlefield 3

DICE: You cannot shoot civilians in Battlefield 3

Speaking to RockPaperShotgun, executive producer Patrick Bach said that players will not be able to shoot civilians in Battlefield 3, because the studio wants to avoid controversies. "If you put th... Read More

Deus Ex: Human Revolution second highest selling game in August in UK

Deus Ex: Human Revolution second highest selling game in August in UK

According to UKIE Gfk Chart-Track data, Deus Ex: Human Revolution was the second highest selling game in UK for the month of August, and that is with just TWO days after it's tracking period. As e... Read More

The Usual Suspects Working On Persona 5

The Usual Suspects Working On Persona 5

Did you like the graphics engine on Catherine? Good. Psyched for its use in Persona 5? Certainly. Worried the title might fall into the wrong hands..? - I think it might be taken for granted sometimes... Read More

BlazBlue Team Working On Persona 4 Fighting Game, Persona 4 PS Vita Also On The Horizon

BlazBlue Team Working On Persona 4 Fighting Game, Persona 4 PS Vita Also On The Horizon

I'd say a new wave of Persona 4 mania is on the horizon (if it wouldn't make me sound like a sociologist trying to impress his otaku offspring). The Persona 4 anime has been drip fed to us via teasers... Read More