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Team 17 Announces Worms Ultimate Mayhem

Team 17 Announces Worms Ultimate Mayhem

Worms just can't get enough attention starting off as an old classic small but innovative game.  Now there has been updates, upgrades, expansions of the game and now the new Worms Ultimate Mayhem... Read More

Iceberg announced FPS/RTS hybrid game, Nuclear Dawn

Iceberg announced FPS/RTS hybrid game, Nuclear Dawn

Iceberg Interactive and Just A Game have  announced that they have come to an agreement to bring InterWave Studios’ Nuclear Dawn to retailers across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Scandinavia a... Read More

New Awesomenauts character revealed

New Awesomenauts character revealed

[HTML1] A new character for Awesomenauts has been revealed. He goes by the name of Sheriff Lonestar, and "fights as a mercenary in the robot wars, combining his awesome cowboy-powers with high tech... Read More

Mass Effect universe “as rich as Lord of the Rings and Star Wars”- says film screenwriter

Mass Effect universe “as rich as Lord of the Rings and Star Wars”- says film screenwriter

Mass Effect movie screenwriter Mark Protosevich said at the Mass Effect Comic-Con panel that the Mass Effect universe is as rich as Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. "I've been offered various games... Read More

Ubisoft: Wii U Controller is an ‘Improvement’

Ubisoft: Wii U Controller is an ‘Improvement’

The standout feature of Nintendo's upcoming Wii U home console is undoubtedly its tablet controller, with that gorgeous screen and the 'throw in everything and the kitchen sink too' mentality. The... Read More

EA Quarter Earnings Report: Portal 2, Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2 Hit 2 Million, Crysis 2 Hits 3 Million

EA Quarter Earnings Report: Portal 2, Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2 Hit 2 Million, Crysis 2 Hits 3 Million

EA has just revealed its financial earnings report for its latest quarter, and it seems to have been an uncharateristically bright financial quarter for them. Of all the games that EA published... Read More

Battlefield 3 Beta – Customization and Gameplay Videos (Alpha Build)

Battlefield 3 Beta – Customization and Gameplay Videos (Alpha Build)

[HTML1] Here are some videos of Battlefield 3's classes and weapon customization including a whole bunch of in game footage.  The beta will be available to play in September for anyway who purchased... Read More

Batman Arkham City Viral Promotion Begins With A Peguin and A Riddle

Batman Arkham City Viral Promotion Begins With A Peguin and A Riddle

[HTML1] It is now clear that Batman Akrham City is indeed taking part in a Viral Promotion of clues that will surely lead up to something.  Starting off was an Audio File of the Penguin and then a R... Read More

Microsoft giving away a million MSP (no, really)

Microsoft giving away a million MSP (no, really)

The first 2500 people who make an online purchase for Games for Windows between July 25th and August 1 will receive an email from Microsoft containing a code for 400 MSP- free. This, apparently, is... Read More

Epic Games president- We are “very interested in Wii U”

Epic Games president- We are “very interested in Wii U”

A handful of Epic Games executives, like Mark Rein and Cliffy B, have already expressed their interest in Nintendo's upcoming new home console, the Wii U. Now Mike Capps, president of Epic Games, ha... Read More

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations’ Collectors and Animus Editions Detailed

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations’ Collectors and Animus Editions Detailed

UK game retailer GAME has listed the Collectors and Animus Editions of Assassin's Creed: Revelations. The details are below: Collector's Edition The Collector box: break the Assassin seal to ... Read More

Didn’t Go to Comic Con? Here is What You Missed

Didn’t Go to Comic Con? Here is What You Missed

Comic-Con hosts some of the most satisfying surprises of the year for pop culture. Whether you like comic books, movies, video games or other forms of entertainment you are sure to find something you ... Read More

Xbox 720 Release Could Cause PS3 to Overtake Xbox 360

Xbox 720 Release Could Cause PS3 to Overtake Xbox 360

The analysts are at it again, and this time, they've issued a statement that might appear equal parts obvious and equal parts baffling to those unaccustomed to the mechanisms and machinations of the... Read More

Avatar Kinect – The Next Step In Social Software

Avatar Kinect – The Next Step In Social Software

[HTML1] Remember when people would go to a party and hand out play games... well WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT ANYMORE!  It's all thanks to Avatar Kinect, you see your neat little Kinect device recognize... Read More

Resistance Web Based Game Goes Live – Trailer

Resistance Web Based Game Goes Live – Trailer

[HTML1] Resistance 3: Global Resistance is a browser based game which wa announced at Comic-Con 2011 and has since gone live.  The whole thing looks pretty cool and even the graphics are not to bad.... Read More

Assassin’s Creed – Embers Trailer (CG Short Movie)

Assassin’s Creed – Embers Trailer (CG Short Movie)

[HTML1] Here is the trailer for the Assassin's Creed short computer generated film call Ember. The film will release alongside the Assassin's Creed Revelations game on November 15. Developers, UbiWor... Read More

BloodyCheckers’ price drops to 80 MSP

BloodyCheckers’ price drops to 80 MSP

Big Corporation is now dropping the price to 80 microsoft points.  The game is currently available to all Xbox 360 owners through Xbox Live Game Marketplace. The game was released only a month ago... Read More

Mass Effect 3 inspired by Halo, Gears of War, Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed and others- BioWare

Mass Effect 3 inspired by Halo, Gears of War, Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed and others- BioWare

David Silverman, marketing head of BioWare, says that while working on Mass Effect 3, the development team looked at what people liked about previous Mass Effect games, and games from other franchis... Read More

Mass Effect 3 is not the last of the series- BioWare

Mass Effect 3 is not the last of the series- BioWare

The Mass Effect Shepard trilogy might be coming to an end with Mass Effect 3, but the series is far from over. BioWare's marketing boss, David Silverman, said in an interview with CVG that Mass effe... Read More

Public to get their first Vita hands-on on TGS

Public to get their first Vita hands-on on TGS

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan boss Hiroshi Kawano said (via Adriasang) that the public will get to play the PlayStation Vita for the first time during this year's Tokyo Game Show (it takes place... Read More