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Valve voice actor mentions secret ‘new game’

Valve voice actor mentions secret ‘new game’

Voice actress Ellen McLain, best known for her highly popular voice over of GlaDOS in Portal 1 and 2, will be giving voice overs for a secret 'new title' at Valve. Her husband John Lowrie, fellow ... Read More

“85 percent of the Assassin’s Creed lore mapped out”- Writer McDevitt

“85 percent of the Assassin’s Creed lore mapped out”- Writer McDevitt

While in an interview with gaming mag Xbox World 360, the writer of the Assassin's Creed franchise, Darby McDevitt said that 85% of the entire franchise's story has already been mapped out. Altair's... Read More

Namco Bandai Q1 FY2012 results out

Namco Bandai Q1 FY2012 results out

Tales of Abyss 3DS ships 150,000 units.

You Can Delete Save Files in Pac-Man 3DS

You Can Delete Save Files in Pac-Man 3DS

Contrary to early reports, Namco Bandai has announced that data can be deleted in the upcoming 3DS Pac-Man title, Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions. Just press "ABXYLR" when you begin the game, and ... Read More

Final Fantasy XIII-2 has “no connection to anything we didn’t use for FFXIII”- Square Enix

Final Fantasy XIII-2 has “no connection to anything we didn’t use for FFXIII”- Square Enix

Square Enix says that Final Fantasy XII-2 will be recycling content from Final Fantasy XIII that was cut out, rather everything related to the game has been written from scratch. "I think those c... Read More

REPORT: Borderlands 2 releasing next year

REPORT: Borderlands 2 releasing next year

Recent rumours have suggested that a Borderlands sequel is in development, and according to a report at Eurogamer, Borderlands 2 will be releasing next year for the Xbox 360, PS3 and the PC. Borde... Read More

Two More 3DS Ambassador Games Announced

Two More 3DS Ambassador Games Announced

The 3DS Ambassadors program should be familiar to anybody who has been following news of Nintendo's unprecedented massive price slash for its latest handheld, the Nintendo 3DS. As part of a strategy... Read More

Wayne Rooney and Kaka revealed as global cover athletes of FIFA 12

Wayne Rooney and Kaka revealed as global cover athletes of FIFA 12

Recently, EA Sports unveiled that Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshire will be the cover athletes of UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and Middle East versions of FIFA 12. Soon after, they commented on global cov... Read More

3DS price drop should result in “explosive sales in the year-end sales season”- Iwata

3DS price drop should result in “explosive sales in the year-end sales season”- Iwata

Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, says the firm is expecting the massive $80 price cut for their new handheld to result in a huge sales spike and they expect it will show in the end-of-year sales... Read More

Ice T Debuts Gears Of War 3 Track Tonight On G4

Ice T Debuts Gears Of War 3 Track Tonight On G4

Ice T, rapper, actor and all round great guy, will be dropping some Gears inspired 'rhymes' tonight on G4's X-play programme at 6:30pm ET through his new track "Horde 2.0: Five Against All." Epic have... Read More

Capcom Considering Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition and Street Fighter X Tekken For the 3DS

Capcom Considering Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition and Street Fighter X Tekken For the 3DS

Super Street Fighter IV was an absolute success on the 3DS, becoming the sole highlight of its anemic launch lineup, one of the 3DS's highest rated games, and also managing to sell over a million un... Read More

RUMOUR- Vita dev kits being given to indies for free

RUMOUR- Vita dev kits being given to indies for free

Indie game developer Rubicon told Develop that Sony has provided them with four early PS Vita dev kits free of charge, so that they could build an upgraded version of the iOS title "Great Little ... Read More

Metroid, Killzone Designers Working on Halo 4

Metroid, Killzone Designers Working on Halo 4

If there is anything that would make Sony and Nintendo fanboys eagerly await the upcoming Halo 4, and anything that might make Microsoft fans dread it, it's probably this piece of news that has rece... Read More

Battlefield 3 novel by Andy McNab announced

Battlefield 3 novel by Andy McNab announced

EA has announced that they will be releasing a Battlefield 3 novel, and that it will be written by  former SAS operator Andy McNab and co-author Peter Grimsdale. To be released alongside the game... Read More

US and Japanese PSOne Classics coming to Europe via PSN

US and Japanese PSOne Classics coming to Europe via PSN

Ross McGrath of the PlayStation Store team has confirmed that many Japanese and US PlayStation One classics will be making their way to European territories via the PlayStation Network, though no sp... Read More

3DS Tops Japan Charts

3DS Tops Japan Charts

The 3DS, which has been topping the Japanese hardware charts for two weeks, has topped the charts again, with the PSP also maintaining its second place. It's a surprise, really, to see the 3DS still... Read More

Gamestop officially launches in the UK

Gamestop officially launches in the UK

You can only buy things online for now.

Paid DLC coming to the 3DS and Wii U

Paid DLC coming to the 3DS and Wii U

This was revealed at a Q&A session at Nintendo's Tokyo earnings briefing.

Grandia creator Takeshi Miyaji passes away at 45

Grandia creator Takeshi Miyaji passes away at 45

Takeshi Miyaji was the creator of the famous Grandia series.

Think You’ve Seen It All – Check Out The Gears of War Board Game!

Think You’ve Seen It All – Check Out The Gears of War Board Game!

[HTML1] I thought we were forward with all the new video game technology but and I thought I had seen it all.  Gears of War action figures, mugs, hats shirts, wristbands, Cliff Blesinski Bobble head... Read More