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Total War: Shogun 2 DX11 patch due “first week of May”

Total War: Shogun 2 DX11 patch due “first week of May”

In a recent post on the forum, community manager Craig Laycock announced: “We’re planning to roll out some fairly substantial fixes in the coming weeks and months. The first stage of this is Pa... Read More

OnLive gets new social features

OnLive gets new social features

[HTML1] OnLive, the cloud gaming service, is set to get a new suite of social features "OnLive just got even more social with new Friend Finder features, improved messaging systems and easier w... Read More

New Spongebob Squarepants game for uDraw

New Spongebob Squarepants game for uDraw

THQ's uDraw tablet for Wii gets a new title today in the form of yet another Spongebob Squarepants game. Spongebob Squigglepants will supposedly deliver over 100 family friendly nano-games usin... Read More

Fantastic Pets offers first augmented reality experience for Kinect

Fantastic Pets offers first augmented reality experience for Kinect

THQ's pet simulator, Fantastic Pets, offers Kinect users their first legitimate augmented reality title. “Fantastic Pets is an amazing game that lets kids play with their virtual pets in a whol... Read More

Armada 2526: Supernova launch trailer

Armada 2526: Supernova launch trailer

[HTML1] Celebrating the release of the Supernova expansion for their space RTS, Armada 2526, Iceberg Interactive and Shining Pixel Studios have graced us with a launch trailer for the game. The ... Read More

Siegfried Will Not Be The Main Character In The Next SoulCalibur Game

Siegfried Will Not Be The Main Character In The Next SoulCalibur Game

Daishi Odashima, Director of the Soul Calibur games, started tweeting about past Soul Calibur titles recently, including one little question: “Who does everyone think is SC’s main character? I thi... Read More

Portal 2 PS3 Will Have No Mouse/Keyboard Support

Portal 2 PS3 Will Have No Mouse/Keyboard Support

Anyone who fancied playing the PS3 release of Portal like a PC game will be disappointed to hear that a mouse and keyboard will not be supported on it: "No, unfortunately we don't do that. The whol... Read More

Resident Evil ‘Kill Leon’ Raccoon City Trailer

Resident Evil ‘Kill Leon’ Raccoon City Trailer

[HTML1] Ever wondered what the teaser for a time paradox would look like? Revel in canon destroying glory at the new Resident Evil: Raccoon City trailer, which focuses on the much hyped ability to ... Read More

Pre-order Twisted Metal For ‘Axel’ Early Access

Pre-order Twisted Metal For ‘Axel’ Early Access

The 'Axel' character in the new Twisted Metal game is locked from the beginning but if you pre-order the game he come ready to use from day one.  This would be the character riding in between two... Read More

Call of Duty: Black Ops Getting a Mod Tool Set

Call of Duty: Black Ops Getting a Mod Tool Set

Treyarch is aiming to bring a set of mod tools to create your own maps and more soon.  This will obviously only be for the PC version of the and is most likely in response to the fact the Modern ... Read More

Control Netflix With Xbox 360 Kinect Now

Control Netflix With Xbox 360 Kinect Now

Finally, you can now control Netflix, the streaming movie program using your Kinect sensor for the Xbox 360.  But if you read the fine print, it seems that you can only wave you hand and activate m... Read More

Alan Titchmarsh no longer burning gamers at the stake?

Alan Titchmarsh no longer burning gamers at the stake?

[HTML1] For those of you who've had the misfortune of seeing the Alan Titchmarch show on ITV, you'll notice how anytime videogames are brought up the whole show turns into a witch hunt. A recent... Read More

New study says gamers are less likely to go to university

New study says gamers are less likely to go to university

Do you like the usually negative stereotypes that are attributed to gamers? Well you'll be glad to know that Oxford university have conducted a study perpetuating gamers as lazy and uneducated lay... Read More

Anonymous to continue Sony protests

Anonymous to continue Sony protests

[HTML1] Despite the court case between Geohot and Sony reaching a conclusion with an out of court settlement, hacker group anonymous are not satisfied with the outcome. The above video has been ... Read More

Wii 2 announcement for E3?

Wii 2 announcement for E3?

Following the rumours of Nintendo dropping a price cut for the Wii, analysts have speculated that Nintendo are paving the way for an even bigger announcement for E3 in June. Gee, I wonder what that ... Read More

New ‘Doctor Lautrec And The Forgotten Knights’ Trailer

New ‘Doctor Lautrec And The Forgotten Knights’ Trailer

[HTML1] Check out the trailer for Konami's upcoming Parisian set, though filled with British accents, 3DS action-RPG/Professor Layton clone. Although the trailer doesn't show it, Doctor Lautrec is ... Read More

Final Fantasy VI Coming To PSN

Final Fantasy VI Coming To PSN

The Final Fantasy re-releases keep on coming and frankly, I'm not complaining. If you have not played the much lauded Final Fantasy VI yet, and if so - shame on you, then fret not misguided gamer ... Read More

New Kirby DS Title Announced

New Kirby DS Title Announced

The DS is not dead and Kirby intends to prove it in sweet two dimensional glory! A surprise announcement in Japan's sagacious Famitsu magazine unveiled 'Atsumete! Kirby' which translates, roughly, as ... Read More

Valve details Steam support for PS3

Valve details Steam support for PS3

Valve have detailed how Steam will complement the release of Portal 2 on PS3 next week. The first title to support Steam on a console, Portal 2 offers cross-platform matchmaking, gameplay, frie... Read More

No more DLC for Marvel vs Capcom 3

No more DLC for Marvel vs Capcom 3

Fans of incredible cross-over fighter MVC3 will be dissapointed to here that the game will recieve no more downloadable content. Following a few extra modes, characters and costumes since the gam... Read More