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FF14 and Metal Gear Online shut down temporarily

FF14 and Metal Gear Online shut down temporarily

The recent natural disasters that have struck Japan have forced the servers for Final Fantasy 14 and Metal Gear Online to shut down temporarily. Square Enix has temporary halted service on Final... Read More

Beta patch released for Dragon Age 2 PC

Beta patch released for Dragon Age 2 PC

Bioware have released a beta patch for the PC version of Dragon Age 2. The beta patch version 1.1 fixes various issues involving save games, controls and a Steam-related problem where voiceovers... Read More

New gameplay details for Portal 2

New gameplay details for Portal 2

[HTML1] Valve have shown off some new Portal 2 gameplay at PAX East in Boston, USA, and have announced a new character, Cave Johnson. Johnson, who's voiced by JK Simmons, is the founder of Ape... Read More

Jagex to bring us a Transformers MMO in 2012

Jagex to bring us a Transformers MMO in 2012

Runescape dev Jagex has announced it's partnered with Hasbro to bring a Transformers MMO to PC in 2012. Hasbro, who hold the rights to the Transformers franchise, said they chose the studio bec... Read More

Hoard Release Date, Pricing Announced for Steam

Hoard Release Date, Pricing Announced for Steam

Big Sandwich Games today announced the upcoming release of the Steam version of their (reasonably) well acclaimed strategy arcade game Hoard. Hoard will release via Steam for your PC and Mac on Apr... Read More

WWE All Stars demo dated for March 22

WWE All Stars demo dated for March 22

THQ have confirmed that a WWE All Stars demo will launch in the UK on 22nd March for Xbox 360 and 23rd March for PS3. The demo will feature Rey Mysterio and The Ultimate Warrior, two characters fro... Read More

Prey 2 gets an announcement

Prey 2 gets an announcement

A sequel to the ridiculously awesome and criminally underrated FPS Prey has just been signed up by Bethesda. Set to be made by the previous game's developers, Human Head Studios, Prey 2 is sche... Read More

Incoming Demo For The New Mortal Kombat Game

Incoming Demo For The New Mortal Kombat Game

That's right the demo is actually now available for Playstation Plus users on the PS3, since March 8th actually while the rest of us can't get our hands on it until tomorrow, March 15th on the Plays... Read More

New Tribes: Ascend Trailer Brings the Franchise Back

New Tribes: Ascend Trailer Brings the Franchise Back

Straight from PAX '11 comes the new of the next Tribes game coming to Xbox Live Arcade and PC sometime this year entitled 'Tribes: Ascend'.  The original Tribes game was a sci-fi shooter that goes ... Read More

Shadow Complex 2 is Coming, We Just Don’t Know When

Shadow Complex 2 is Coming, We Just Don’t Know When

There has been some talk of Shadow Complex 2 but now we have pretty much a confirmation that it will happen. Creative director, Donald Mustard has for the most part confirmed the Xbox Live Arcade s... Read More

PS3 Import Ban Lifted In Netherlands

PS3 Import Ban Lifted In Netherlands

The ban on Sony importing PS3's into the Netherlands has been lifted. The embargo was put in place in february after electronics company LG challenged Sony on the grounds of alleged patent infringme... Read More

The Last Guardian “pushes PS3 to its limit”

The Last Guardian “pushes PS3 to its limit”

Team Ico's Fumito Ueda, speaking to EDGE magazine, discussed the challenge of making upcoming title 'The Last Guardian':"With Ico, the way the AI was implemented was a challenge, and in SOTC, the way ... Read More

Jurassic Park’s story will link with the films

Jurassic Park’s story will link with the films

Telltale have said that the events taking place in their upcoming Jurassic Park title will overlap with  the first movie and extend “beyond them, to the days and nights immediately following the... Read More

New trailer hits for Star Wars: The Old Republic

New trailer hits for Star Wars: The Old Republic

[HTML1] A new trailer has landed for the upcoming Bioware MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. The trailer recaps the tense conflict between the empire and the republic and generally looks kick-ass. W... Read More

Bulletstorm controversy boosted sales, reckons Epic

Bulletstorm controversy boosted sales, reckons Epic

Epic Games president, Mike Capps, has suggested outrageous coverage for Bulletstorm from Fox News did nothing to dissuade buyers. In fact the company reckon it boosted sales of the game. Fox new... Read More

PS2 games in the future of Android?

PS2 games in the future of Android?

Android users rejoice. The mobile platform may well see some PS2 games gracing its future. Reports state that NVidia's Tegra Zone app, which will support Sony's platform agnostic PlayStation Suite... Read More

Dead Space 3 aiming for a “broader audience”

Dead Space 3 aiming for a “broader audience”

According to EA Games president, Frank Gibeau, the Dead Space series will aim for a broader audience in the future to imitate the success of the Resident Evil series. "The Resident Evil series wa... Read More

Batman: Arkham City gets release date

Batman: Arkham City gets release date

Warner Bros. has just confirmed that Batman: Arkham City will release in the UK on October 21. That's all, no news on release dates in other regions, but they're unlikely to be far off. Still got ... Read More

Dynasty Warriors 7 DLC Details

Dynasty Warriors 7 DLC Details

Dynasty Warriors 7 is already out in Japan but North America won't get it until March 22nd for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.  If you are a fan of the franchise you will be pleased to know that th... Read More

Final Fantasy III Worldwide iPhone Release This Month

Final Fantasy III Worldwide iPhone Release This Month

Although no definitive date has been given, a worldwide release of Final Fantasy III for iOS, supporting eight different languages, has been confirmed by square for this month. The release of a Japane... Read More