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Dragon Quest Compilation Confirmed For Wii In Japan

Dragon Quest Compilation Confirmed For Wii In Japan

There is no word on an English release of this, but the Japanese Dragon Quest site has confirmed the release of a Dragon Quest compilation which will feature the first three Dragon Quest titles as wel... Read More

Crush 3D for 3DS announced

Crush 3D for 3DS announced

[HTML1] SEGA have announced that a redesigned version of CRUSH will be released for Nintendo 3DS. The game, titled CRUSH 3D, will allow players to change perspectives between 2D to 3D as they so... Read More

Amazon lists potential Rayman: Origins release date

Amazon lists potential Rayman: Origins release date

Although Ubisoft hasn’t provided an official release date for Rayman: Origins, it hasn’t stopped Amazon from putting up a placeholder date of November 15 for North America. Ubisoft projec... Read More

Dark Souls, Ace Combat release dates confirmed

Dark Souls, Ace Combat release dates confirmed

Namco Bandai have announced a rough release window for hard as nails RPG follow-up, Dark Souls, which will be arriving in early October 2011. The publisher also announced that Ace Combat instal... Read More

First 3DS eShop content detailed?

First 3DS eShop content detailed?

Details of the debut 3DS firmware update and eShop content have landed for everyone's enjoyment and speculation. Set to arrive later this month, the eShop will house Virtual Console, DSiWare and... Read More

Street Fighter X Tekken Out Before April 2012?

Street Fighter X Tekken Out Before April 2012?

According to CVG, Capcom have released a document which includes the financial prediction of Street Fighter X Tekken shifting 2 million units in the fiscal year 2011, which ends on March 31, 2012. T... Read More

Disgaea Coming To Android And It Will Be Free!

Disgaea Coming To Android And It Will Be Free!

And no, it's not a port: It's a standalone app based on the franchise's 'Item World' which randomly generates a new map to fight in. Disgaea For Android, as it's known, will be released May 16th for... Read More

New Dark Souls Trailer

New Dark Souls Trailer

[HTML1] Check out the new trailer for Dark Souls, the sequel to Demon's Souls; a game which reduced grown men to tears. The clip almost acts as a catalogue of potential deaths, the game taunting it... Read More

Microsoft buys Skype

Microsoft buys Skype

Microsoft have wrapped up a deal to acquire internet phone service Skype, reportedly costing $8.5 billion (£5b). The terms of the acquisition have come as a shock to analysts, who feel the dea... Read More

New Alan Wake won’t be a direct sequel or DLC

New Alan Wake won’t be a direct sequel or DLC

Following a CV entry that recently confirmed the existence of an Alan Wake sequel Oskari Hakkinen, head of franchise development at Remedy, has confirmed there is more Alan Wake coming soon, but m... Read More

Duke Nukem lookalike promoting exclusive preorder bonuses at GAME, Oxford Street

Duke Nukem lookalike promoting exclusive preorder bonuses at GAME, Oxford Street

Tomorrow will see GAME's Oxford Street store graced by the presence of a Duke Nukem lookalike. The immortal character will be giving away free t-shirts, magazine and badges, as well as completing... Read More

Video Games Declared Art In US

Video Games Declared Art In US

Video Games are now recognized by the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts), which works with the US government, as a legitimate art form under its new grant application guidelines. The NEA esse... Read More

Diablo 3 Public Beta In Late Summer?

Diablo 3 Public Beta In Late Summer?

During a recent investors call, Blizzard have stated that they are 'targeting' a Q3 (late summer) release for a public Diablo 3 beta. As of yet there has been no confirmation of a release date f... Read More

Portion Of Leaked New Tomb Raider Script

Portion Of Leaked New Tomb Raider Script

The folks over at Siliconera managed to pick up a portion of the new Tomb Raider script via a voice acting audition. The next installment of the franchise will explore Lara's Originsand the script... Read More

Metal Gear Solid 3DS set for Novemeber release?

Metal Gear Solid 3DS set for Novemeber release?

Konami are targeting a November release date for Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D. The 3DS title doesn't currently have an official launch date, but a recent report states that the game is bein... Read More

Starhawk announcement inbound?

Starhawk announcement inbound?

Sony seem set to announce long awaited sequel Starhawk sometime soon. The news might come as the silver lining, to the the clouds that are the PSN's recent downtime. Over the weekend, Lightbox ... Read More

Shogun 2: Total War gets massive patch

Shogun 2: Total War gets massive patch

Creative Assembly are set to launch a giant Shogun 2: Total War patch later today. The developer said it'll introduce four new multiplayer maps, DirectX 11 support and an "enormous amount of fixe... Read More

Alan Wake 2 listed on CV

Alan Wake 2 listed on CV

A linkedIn CV has potentially confirmed a sequel to last year's Alan Wake. The artist's CV list "Alan Wake 2 [In-Game Cinematic]" as having been worked on just last month. Though the original ... Read More

Guess Who Won’t Be At E3 This Year… Bungie

Guess Who Won’t Be At E3 This Year… Bungie

Now I know that some people may be disappointed and some may not even care.  But the absence of Bungie at E3 does not only say that the developer is not up to anything serious but to me, it says ... Read More

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is Confirmed.. Here Are Some Details

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is Confirmed.. Here Are Some Details

Now the never ending, very well developed series of Assassin's Creed has a confirmation that the next game called Assassin's Creed: Revelations will be out in November for the PC, Playstation 3, a... Read More