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Halo 4 ‘Going Back To What Made Halo 1 Amazing’

Halo 4 ‘Going Back To What Made Halo 1 Amazing’

Microsoft UK's Xbox entertainment director Stephen McGill, in a recent interview, shed some light on the philosophy behind 343's first Halo outing, and it seems to be about returning to roots: "... Read More

Original Crysis Coming To 360 & PS3?

Original Crysis Coming To 360 & PS3?

If you felt that console owners missed out on the fun that was the original Crysis, then you might be pleased to hear that Crytek are, belatedly, attempting to fix this. A recent ESRB rating lists Cry... Read More

New Star Ruler Demo Now Available For Download

New Star Ruler Demo Now Available For Download

A new demo is available for 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) space themed RTS; Star Ruler. The game involves you conquering star systems and allows you to play amongst as many stars as y... Read More

Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon Coming To Europe, The Middle East, Africa & Australasia

Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon Coming To Europe, The Middle East, Africa & Australasia

The Sequel to cult arcade-style shooter Earth Defence Force 2017, Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon has been announced for numerous non-American/Japanese territories (please see the title so I do... Read More

Sony To Start PS4 Production At End Of 2011, Say Taiwanese Partners

Sony To Start PS4 Production At End Of 2011, Say Taiwanese Partners

Foxconn and Pegatron Technology, the two companies who assembled the PS3, will be starting the production of the PS4 at the end of 2011, aiming for a 2012 release, or so digitimes claim. It is importa... Read More

Slam Dunk Basketball – Free Game For iOS & Android

Slam Dunk Basketball – Free Game For iOS & Android

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No8_Z7_SAxw Frustrated that you can't shoot hoops on the train, or waiting at the bus stop? Hate the idea of paying for games? The folks at Visual Dreams might have so... Read More

Adventure Classic ‘The Neverhood’ May Be Heading To Mobile Platforms

Adventure Classic ‘The Neverhood’ May Be Heading To Mobile Platforms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqf7Wh-ztbA Those of you there with a few greying locks may remember the quirky, claymation adventure classic that is 1996's Neverhood, a game with a contender for b... Read More

How To Erase Save Data From Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D

How To Erase Save Data From Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D

Perhaps the scariest thing we have heard so far about Resident Evil: The Mercenaries is that it operates on a permasave system; you cannot reset data on the cartridge. Whilst nothing can be done abo... Read More

Crytek Has ‘Fallen In Love With Kinect’

Crytek Has ‘Fallen In Love With Kinect’

Crytek were almost picked up by Microsoft as first party studio, says Microsoft Game Studios vice president Phil Spencer, but the deal never went through as Crytek's projects were a little to simila... Read More

Tales Of The Abyss Will Be Questing To Europe For November

Tales Of The Abyss Will Be Questing To Europe For November

Worried there isn't enough 3DS JRPG action for Europe? Well armchair adventurer, your prayers have been answered. The 3DS port of Tales of the Abyss has been confirmed for a European release by Namc... Read More

Epic “working closely with security teams and law enforcement to address” the Gears 3 leak

Epic “working closely with security teams and law enforcement to address” the Gears 3 leak

An early build of Gears of War 3 was recently leaked all over the internet, on torrent sites, this weekend. The leak included all of the single player campaign, and many multiplayer modes. Th... Read More

Nintendo eShop EU Update- 7th July

Nintendo eShop EU Update- 7th July

Nintendo will be updating their Europoe eShop again this Thursday, and here is what the update will include. 1991 Jaleco-developed top-down shoot 'em up Fortified Zone will cost €3 on the 3DS.... Read More

FIFA 12 Ultimate Edition Detailed

FIFA 12 Ultimate Edition Detailed

FIFA 12's Ultimate Edition is available for pre-order at GAME and Gamestation stores for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Pre-order them now to get them for the £44.99, as opposed to £54.99, and get 2... Read More

Wii Tales game not coming over to the West; We might get to see HD re-imaginings of past Tales games

Wii Tales game not coming over to the West; We might get to see HD re-imaginings of past Tales games

Namco Bandai says they will not be localizing the Wii version of Tales of Graces, since "it would be next to impossible to condense all the game’s data on a Wii disc." “We wish to deliver t... Read More

Zelda Wii U will ‘not necessarily’ look like the E3 stage demo- Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma

Zelda Wii U will ‘not necessarily’ look like the E3 stage demo- Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma

Back in 2000, when the Gamecube was revealed, Nintendo showed off a tech demo for a Zelda game, with ultra-realistic graphics, with Link dueling with Ganon in what seemed like his chambers. When the... Read More

Bobby Kotick- “Where is the market” for Vita?

Bobby Kotick- “Where is the market” for Vita?

Activision is one of the few companies that have pledged their full support for Sony's PS Vita, and now, Bobby Kotick has come out to say there's no need for a handheld with such high capabilities. ... Read More

Gears of War 2 – 21x Experience For 4th of July Weekend

Gears of War 2 – 21x Experience For 4th of July Weekend

This weekend all the way until July 5th you will have the opportunity to gain 21x the normal experience in Gears of War 2.   This is once again an obvious event where Epic is trying to tell it's... Read More

Games for Windows Merging With Xbox.com July 11th

Games for Windows Merging With Xbox.com July 11th

Games for Windows Marketplace will be integrated into Xbox.com. Microsoft states "Now you can get all of your gaming needs in one place. It’s convenient, it’s concentrated, and it’s a whole... Read More

Gears of War 3 – Early Beta Version Leaked

Gears of War 3 – Early Beta Version Leaked

Well apparently Gears of War 3 has been leaked through torrent sites and then obviously only playable on modded Xbox 360 JTAG Consoles.  It is not the complete version of the game but the whole cam... Read More

Battlefield 3 – Outselling MW3 at Gamestop Plus Latest B3 Video/News

Battlefield 3 – Outselling MW3 at Gamestop Plus Latest B3 Video/News

[HTML1] Don't let the headline mislead you, because both Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 are coming in very close when it comes to pre-order sales.  Gamestop however is a pretty big outlet for ga... Read More