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Animation For ‘Catherine’ Will Be Lip-Synced For English Localisation

Animation For ‘Catherine’ Will Be Lip-Synced For English Localisation

Anyone worried about dodgy dubbing in the NA release of Atlus' erotic/nightmare/puzzle game 'Catherine' can rest a little easier knowing that, according to Michell Ruff who is providing the English la... Read More

PS3 Hacker ‘Geohot’ Flees To South America

PS3 Hacker ‘Geohot’ Flees To South America

The bizarre story of George 'geohot' Hotz, the hacker who Sony are suing for making the PS3's security key public, has taken an even stranger twist. According to a court document filed by Sony, after ... Read More

New Resident Evil HD Compilation

New Resident Evil HD Compilation

The latest issue of Famitsu has reported a PS3/Xbox 360 title called 'Resident Evil Revival Selection' which, according to IGN, will be a compilation of Resident Evil 4 and Code Veronica Directors Cut... Read More

EA Manager: $60 Games Are Exploitative

EA Manager: $60 Games Are Exploitative

Ben Cousins, EA's Easy Studios General Manager, said in a recent interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun: “I can’t think of anything more exploitative than gating all of your content behind having to ... Read More

Final Fantasy III Released On iOS Tomorrow

Final Fantasy III Released On iOS Tomorrow

[HTML1] The iOS port of Final Fantasy III is seeing the light of day on the 24th of March, which is either today or tomorrow depending on where you live and when you read this. In fact you could re... Read More

This week’s EU Playstation store update

This week’s EU Playstation store update

New games have hit the EU Playstation store for this week including Resident Evil Director's Cut as part of the PS1 classics range and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy on PSP. The full list is as follo... Read More

Hacking the 3DS could render the system “unplayable”

Hacking the 3DS could render the system “unplayable”

Nintendo are warning against modifying or hacking 3DS systems lets the handheld become "unplayable." The warning that is printed on the back of 3DS game boxes states that "This product contains t... Read More

FEAR 3 gets UK release date

FEAR 3 gets UK release date

Warner have confirmed the UK release date for the upcoming third instalment to the long standing FPS survival horror series, FEAR. FEAR 3 is set for a may 27th launch and, with John Carpenter o... Read More

Bioware Warn Of ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ Beta Scams

Bioware Warn Of ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ Beta Scams

In a new post on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums, community manager Alison Berryman warned of scammers claiming to be selling beta-keys for the upcoming Bioware title: "It has come to our att... Read More

Final Fantasy XI And XIV Service Will Resume On March 25th

Final Fantasy XI And XIV Service Will Resume On March 25th

Fans of either of the Final Fantasy MMOs will be pleased to hear that Square Enix's online servers will be up and running again on the 25th of March, 4pm PDT. The service was temporarily shut down f... Read More

343 Industries: New Halo Games Will Be ‘Scrutinised Differently’ Without Bungie

343 Industries: New Halo Games Will Be ‘Scrutinised Differently’ Without Bungie

According to the director of Microsoft's 343 Industries, Frank O'Connor, new titles in the Halo franchise will be "scrutinised differently" by fans now that Bungie are no longer involved in thei... Read More

New Story Trailer For Ratchet And Clank: All 4 One

New Story Trailer For Ratchet And Clank: All 4 One

[HTML1] Check out the comic and cinematic new trailer for Insomniac games' upcoming co-op title 'Ratchet And Clank: All 4 One'.Read More

Eric Chahi: “The less it costs, the better it is”

Eric Chahi: “The less it costs, the better it is”

Eric Chahi, designer of 'Another World' and the upcoming 'From Dust', in a recent interview with CVG was discussing the comments Cliff Bleszinski made at GDC about modern day developers having either ... Read More

EA Will No Longer Use Paper Manuals

EA Will No Longer Use Paper Manuals

EA announced today that they will be replacing paper printed manuals with "easily-accessible" on disc manuals which will be available through the options menu, claiming "this will allow players to con... Read More

Operation Flashpoint: Red River – Achievements/Trophies Revealed

Operation Flashpoint: Red River – Achievements/Trophies Revealed

Operation Flashpoint: Red River will release on April 21 in the UK and April 26 in the US for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. Here Achievements/Trophies (Sorry no Trophy ratings): The Alamo, Va... Read More

iPad priced in the UK

iPad priced in the UK

The UK is set to get its mits on the iPad 2 this friday at 5pm and online through the Apple Store beginning at 1am GMT. The device will be available with Wi-Fi for a suggested retail price of ... Read More

‘Devious’ Chaos race revealed for Warhammer 40K: Space Marine

‘Devious’ Chaos race revealed for Warhammer 40K: Space Marine

Relic have revealed a new threat for players to go up against in their upcoming Warhammer 40K-based third-person shooter, Space Marine. Accompanying the Ork horde is The Chaos, a race of malevo... Read More

Batman: Arkham City – The Pre-Order Bonuses Start To Roll In

Batman: Arkham City – The Pre-Order Bonuses Start To Roll In

Now we have only confirmation that US pre-order bonuses are available at this time for Batman: Arkham City, but I'm sure that will change.  I'm also pretty sure we will be seeing more pre-order b... Read More

Dragon Age 2 marred by hidden DRM

Dragon Age 2 marred by hidden DRM

EA and Bioware have come under fire for including hidden DRM measures in the recent release of Dragon Age 2 for PC. According to DRM consumer watchdog Reclaim Your Game, the companies didn't not... Read More

Uncharted 3 to contain split screen co-op?

Uncharted 3 to contain split screen co-op?

[HTML1] An astute youtuber has uploaded hand recorded gameplay footage for the upcoming Uncharted 3 that teases at a potential split-screen mode. If you look at the bottom right of the screen yo... Read More