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PES franchise reaches 70 million global sales

PES franchise reaches 70 million global sales

Konami has just announced that, sales for the PES franchise has reached 70 million globally. It's no doubt that it's a top-tier franchise and these impressive sales figures just prove it even more. ... Read More

SCEE Trademarks Infraworld

SCEE Trademarks Infraworld

Superannuation is at it again. This time reports surface that Quantic Dream is working on a game called Infraworld based on the trademarks registered. The trademark was dug up recently by Superannua... Read More

Black Ops gets a new DLC named Resurrection

Black Ops gets a new DLC named Resurrection

This may be the final DLC before the juggernaut Modern Warfare 3 comes out. Activision announced it at an investor call today along with rosy earnings, obviously on the back of phenomenal sales of B... Read More

Team Bondi in trouble; faces distrust

Team Bondi in trouble; faces distrust

The abusive work conditions at Team Bondi, which came to light a few months back have had some undesirable side-effects for the studio. Understandably, no one wants to work there and Team Bondi boss... Read More

New ‘AAA’ Rambo game in production

New ‘AAA’ Rambo game in production

Rambo fans, rejoice! A new Rambo game is in production which will be released in 2012. Being an one man army never sounded this exciting! Reef entertainment had acquired the rights to the Rambo IP, ... Read More

No Promises, But Blizzard Are ‘Working Hard’ To Get You Diablo 3 Before The Year’s End

No Promises, But Blizzard Are ‘Working Hard’ To Get You Diablo 3 Before The Year’s End

Yeah, yeah, yeah you say. We've heard it all before. Activision's recent Blizzard earning release features the following disheartening disclaimer: "Since Blizzard Entertainment has not confirmed a lau... Read More

Modern Warfare 3 Coming To Wii

Modern Warfare 3 Coming To Wii

Bah, prepare to laugh in the face of those who call you Wii owners casual as Modern Warfare 3 will be heading its heavily armoured way to your little white console. Despite COD: Black Ops having pre... Read More

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Has Sold 25 Million Copies, Modern Warfare 2 Has Sold 22 Million

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Has Sold 25 Million Copies, Modern Warfare 2 Has Sold 22 Million

It's pretty much all in the catchy title: An earnings call today revealed that both COD Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 have shifted a lot of units. If you can't be bothered to re-read the title, here ... Read More

Starcraft 2 gets a free starters edition

Starcraft 2 gets a free starters edition

Blizzard's Starcraft 2 gets a starter pack, which means you get a big taste of what's in the game and it's free of charge. Millions of players have experienced the intense strategic combat of Sta... Read More

Transformers Universe Exclusive New Trailer

Transformers Universe Exclusive New Trailer

[HTML1] The new Transformers Universe MMO is on its way and there will even be a big event at the Comic Con in NYC which there was one at the Sad Diego one as well.  This years NYC Comic Con is this... Read More

FIFA 12: Player Impact Engine is the next big thing for football games, says EA Sports

FIFA 12: Player Impact Engine is the next big thing for football games, says EA Sports

In an interview with us, Aaron McHardy, gameplay director of FIFA 12, said that he feels the new "Player Impact Engine" is the next big step for football games, and that it is the biggest change the... Read More

Mario Kart 7 logo and artwork revealed

Mario Kart 7 logo and artwork revealed

New artwork and a logo of Mario Kart 7 have been officially revealed. The artwork shows Mario, Luigi and Bowser riding some karts. Mario Kart 7 was (along with Super Mario 3D Land) officially named... Read More

Miyamoto Confirms Star Fox in a Do or Die Situation

Miyamoto Confirms Star Fox in a Do or Die Situation

Star Fox is probably one of Nintendo's best franchises, appealing as it does to every crowd- people who traditionally like Nintendo games, and people who don't. Also, unlike Metroid, Star Fox has ap... Read More

Nintendo will announce Wii U price and release date next year

Nintendo will announce Wii U price and release date next year

Nintendo, in a meeting with investors, said that they would reveal details on the Wii U's release date and price in 2012. President Satoru Iwata feels after the recent 3DS price cut announcement, fa... Read More

DICE on Battlefield: Annual releases “will eventually kill the franchise”

DICE on Battlefield: Annual releases “will eventually kill the franchise”

Developers DICE feel that if they release a Battlefield game every year, they will have less ideas to implement in their games each year, and that would ultimately kill the franchise. That's not the... Read More

Skyrim boss says Xbox 3 and PS4 won’t be here till 2014

Skyrim boss says Xbox 3 and PS4 won’t be here till 2014

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim director Todd Howard believes the Xbox 720/3 and the PS3 won't be here next year, neither will they be here in 2013.  In an interview with gaming mag PS3M, when he was a... Read More

Developer Straandlooper Animation announces work on ‘Senseless Acts of Justice’ is finished

Developer Straandlooper Animation announces work on ‘Senseless Acts of Justice’ is finished

Straandlooper Animation have announced that the follow up to point and click comedy adventure game ‘Hector: Badge of Carnage Episode 1 - We Negotiate with Terrorists’ has been fully developed. ... Read More

God of War: Origins releasing in October in Japan

God of War: Origins releasing in October in Japan

God of War: Origins, the HD collection for the PS3 of both the PSP God of War games, will be releasing in Japan on October 6th, reveals Japanese gaming mag Famitsu. The collection includes God of W... Read More

Battlefield 3 early beta access announced; only for those who pre-order it on Origin

Battlefield 3 early beta access announced; only for those who pre-order it on Origin

EA has announced that all those who pre-order Battlefield 3 on Origin will get early access to the multiplayer beta of the game. "Players who pre-order the game from Origin will be granted early ac... Read More

Sucker Punch reveals more details on the Sony acquisition

Sucker Punch reveals more details on the Sony acquisition

Chris Zimmerman, Sucker Punch, co-founder reveals a lot more details about the acquisition.