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Mark Hamill bids farewell to The Joker

Mark Hamill bids farewell to The Joker

Batman: Arkham City is now out all over the world for the Xbox 360 and PS3, and it's been met with phenomenal reception from all over, including us. One of the finest highlights of the game, and of ... Read More

DICE responds to Battlefield 3 console and PC settings comparisons

DICE responds to Battlefield 3 console and PC settings comparisons

A few days ago, we reported that DICE had announced similarities between low settings for Battlefield 3 on PC and console versions, saying that both looked the same. Now, DICE have clarified this st... Read More

Carmack blames Sony for inferior multiplatform title versions, says he prefers Xbox 360

Carmack blames Sony for inferior multiplatform title versions, says he prefers Xbox 360

John Carmack, whose new game Rage got recently received and got great scores on us on both the Xbox 360 and PS3, says he prefers Microsoft's console over Sony's. He says that both of them are pretty... Read More

Vita games to get simultaneous retail and downloadable releases- Sony

Vita games to get simultaneous retail and downloadable releases- Sony

All games releasing on Sony's upcoming PSP successor, PS Vita, will get simultaneous retail and downloadable releases, Sony has confirmed. PlayStation Network will also be supported from day 1. "Yo... Read More

Xbox Next-Gen spotted in Microsoft employee’s CV

Xbox Next-Gen spotted in Microsoft employee’s CV

Rumours about a next generation Xbox have been heavy these days. A CV on LinkedIn has now outed the possibility of the Xbox 720 (again). Microsoft employee Jeff Faulkner is currently working as "... Read More

UK PC CHARTS: Rage leads, FIFA 12 drops to No. 3

UK PC CHARTS: Rage leads, FIFA 12 drops to No. 3

Rage, which debuted strongly on the all-formats, Xbox 360 and PS3 charts, has topped the PC charts. Last week's leader FIFA 12 dropped down to the No.3 position. The Sims dominated the list heavily... Read More

UK PS3 CHARTS: FIFA 12 still at top, Rage and Dark Souls round off top 3

UK PS3 CHARTS: FIFA 12 still at top, Rage and Dark Souls round off top 3

FIFA 12 has topped the PS3 charts for the second consecutive week, just as it has the all-formats charts and Xbox 360 charts. It has held off thew debutants Rage and Dark Souls, which made a strong ... Read More

UK XBOX 360 CHARTS: FIFA still at top, Rage and Dark Souls debut impressively

UK XBOX 360 CHARTS: FIFA still at top, Rage and Dark Souls debut impressively

FIFA 12 has, just as it did in the all-formats charts, has topped the Xbox 360 sales charts in UK for the week ending October 8, holding off newcomers Rage and Dark Souls. Both of them debuted stron... Read More

UK CHARTS: FIFA 12 holds off Rage and Dark Souls

UK CHARTS: FIFA 12 holds off Rage and Dark Souls

EA Sports' FIFA 12, which topped all charts last week and became the third biggest launch in UK< has topped the all-formats chart this week too, holding off the newcomers Rage and Dark Souls, who... Read More

DICE reaffirms future Battlefield: Bad Company plans

DICE reaffirms future Battlefield: Bad Company plans

DICE producer Patrick Liu said sometime ago that the studio would definitely like to return to the Bad Company sub-series, and that "we'll probably see" a Bad Company 3. Now, in an interview with ... Read More

JAPAN CHARTS: 3DS still leading in Japan, Dark Souls sees massive sales drop

JAPAN CHARTS: 3DS still leading in Japan, Dark Souls sees massive sales drop

The 3DS, which has been leading the hardware charts of Japan for so long now, has topped the charts again. And despite a drop of about 20,000 units from last week, the 3DS still sold twice as much a... Read More

PC games have “great value for money”- Gabe Newell

PC games have “great value for money”- Gabe Newell

Speaking in the latest issue of gaming mag PC Gamer UK, Valve boss Gabe Newell said he believes PC gaming is still important, and that PC games have "great value for money."  "People like their PC... Read More

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Officially Announced

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Officially Announced

The sequel that everyone has been hoping for has been announced. The successor to War for Cybertron is coming entitled, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. More info will be in the upcoming Game Info... Read More

EA sues EA

EA sues EA

Florida based fitness supply firm Energy Armor (EA) has been sued by the gaming publishing giant Electronic Arts (EA). EA says Energy Armor is using the former's successful brand name for business.... Read More

Naughty Dog: There are still “more places we can go with the PlayStation 3”

Naughty Dog: There are still “more places we can go with the PlayStation 3”

Naughty Dog’s lead game designer Richard Lemarchand said that even after Uncharted 2 and now Uncharted 3, both of which look stunning, the development team hasn't tapped out all of the PS3's poten... Read More

Gears of War might hit CoD and Halo numbers in the future- Belszinski

Gears of War might hit CoD and Halo numbers in the future- Belszinski

Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski says that he believes Gears of War will soon hit Call of Duty and Halo sales numbers. He says that the Gears franchise has only had three games yet, but h... Read More

Activision Holding Independent Games Competition – $250,000 Reward

Activision Holding Independent Games Competition – $250,000 Reward

Activision may be one of the biggest game publishers out there will some of the top selling games under their belt especially if you include their partnership with Blizzard.  However they still c... Read More

Assassin’s Creed will see the last of Desmond before December next year

Assassin’s Creed will see the last of Desmond before December next year

Alexandre Amacio, Assassin's Creed: Revelations' creative boss, says that Desmond Miles' story will be wrapped up with the next Assassin's Creed installment, and that Ubisoft plans on doing it befor... Read More

First Video Walkthrough for Aliens: Colonial Marines – MUST WATCH

First Video Walkthrough for Aliens: Colonial Marines – MUST WATCH

[HTML1] Here is the first video walkthrough for a game people have been waiting so long for, hell I forgot about it...  Aliens: Colonial Marines.  This INCREDIBLE video is a demo of footage from th... Read More

Batman Arkham series will go on “as long as we’ve got stories to tell”- Rocksteady

Batman Arkham series will go on “as long as we’ve got stories to tell”- Rocksteady

Rocksteady has a good thing going with the Batman Arkham series, with 2009's hit title, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and the shortly upcoming, Batman: Arkham City, which is already getting strong praise f... Read More