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Bulletstorm Disc is Required For Gears of War 3 Beta

Bulletstorm Disc is Required For Gears of War 3 Beta

If you picked up Bulletstorm today and got it for the Xbox 360, you would have obtained the 'Epic Edition' which includes access to the Gear of War 3 Beta once in becomes available.  Now beta's are... Read More

Final Fantasy 3 port to hit iPhone in March

Final Fantasy 3 port to hit iPhone in March

A very unsubtle message on Square Enix's facebook page has alerted us to the impending release of Final Fantasy 3 for the iPhone sometime in march. "FINAL FANTASY III for iPhone coming next mon... Read More

Patches for Magicka on the way

Patches for Magicka on the way

In our recent interview with Arrowhead Studios' Community Manager Patrik Lasota, the game devs said that their were a lot of patches for Magicka on the way. "We continue to do our best to make sure... Read More

Being profitable more important than outselling Xbox 360- Sony

Being profitable more important than outselling Xbox 360- Sony

Sony's PlayStation brand manager, Scott McCarthy, said, while talking to IndustryGamers, that they were following the Nintendo approach to gaming, and looking to keep profitability as their highest ... Read More

Dragon Age II demo now out- clear out 1.98 GBs from your HDDs, people

Dragon Age II demo now out- clear out 1.98 GBs from your HDDs, people

BioWare announced a Dragon Age II demo for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC some time ago. That demo is now out, and it weighs in at 1.98 GB. It can be downloaded by anyone for free. Players will “learn ... Read More

Magicka DLC to be announced at GDC

Magicka DLC to be announced at GDC

We recently got the chance to ask Patrik Lasota, Community Manager at Arrowhead Game Studios some questions about their recently released Magicka. During our interview, we asked him if their's DLC o... Read More

Upcoming Bioshock 2 DLC released early for PC; doesn’t work

Upcoming Bioshock 2 DLC released early for PC; doesn’t work

The long-awaited 'Protector Trials' DLC for the PC version of BioShock 2 was made available pre-maturely via Games for Windows Live, but users who downloaded the pack soon found the content was in... Read More

CryEngine supported on NGP

CryEngine supported on NGP

Sony have officially confirmed that the CryEngine development tools from Crytek will be supported by their upcoming NGP. This was discovered when Sony announced what development tools are now availa... Read More

LittleBigPlanet 2 patched

LittleBigPlanet 2 patched

Media Molecule have released a patch for their platforming meta-game that fixes a long list of glitches and issues. The full list of changes include: * Your Craft Earth should no longer obscur... Read More

‘GAEMS’ Travel Entertainment Case For Consoles. And No, That Is Not a Misspelling

‘GAEMS’ Travel Entertainment Case For Consoles. And No, That Is Not a Misspelling

No I did not spell that wrong, that is actually the name of the company, 'GAEMS'.  There are a lot of portable entertainments systems on the market that support consoles and travel cases as well. ... Read More

Bethesda VP offers reward for any parents calling their child “dragon born”

Bethesda VP offers reward for any parents calling their child “dragon born”

The vice president of Bethesda has announced an unknown reward for parents willing to give their child a name related to their upcoming Elder Scrolls sequel, Skyrim. If you have a child that is e... Read More

DLC character, Jill Valentine, already hacked into MvC3

DLC character, Jill Valentine, already hacked into MvC3

[HTML1] Jill Valentine was announced as a forthcoming DLC character for Capcom's recent fighter Marvel vs Capcom 3. Yet it would seem that the code for an incomplete Jill is on the game disc and so... Read More

First Bulletstorm review by Empire- 4/5; “the most innovative FPS in years”

First Bulletstorm review by Empire- 4/5; “the most innovative FPS in years”

The world's first official Bulletstorm review is in, and Empire, the movie mag, hold that honour. They have awarded the game a 4/5, calling it "the most innovative first person shooter in years." T... Read More

UK Charts: PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 charts

UK Charts: PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 charts

According to the full UK charts released, Black Ops was the highest selling game in the week ending Feb 19th, earning a 192% increase in sales since last week. It was also th highest selling game on... Read More

GT5 moves 6.3 million units globally

GT5 moves 6.3 million units globally

Polyphony Digital have released a report (via VG247), saying that Gran Turismo 5 has now shipped 6.3 million units worldiwde, taking the series total to 63.15 million units. We don't know if th... Read More

UK Charts: Black Ops reclaims the #1 spot

UK Charts: Black Ops reclaims the #1 spot

The UK Charts for this week are in, and Call of Duty: Black Ops has shot up to the first spot, seeing a 192% rise in sales since last week. Marvel vs Capcom 3 followed the game, claiming the second ... Read More

Deep Silver- Dead Island movie rights not yet sold; want movie to have “quality above all else”

Deep Silver- Dead Island movie rights not yet sold; want movie to have “quality above all else”

Deep Silver recently released an amazing trailer for their upcoming game, Dead Island. Ever since the release of that trailer, rumours of a Dead Island movie have been circulating the industry. Dee... Read More

Brink Pre-Order Bonuses Looking Pretty Cool

Brink Pre-Order Bonuses Looking Pretty Cool

Once again different retailers will be offering different bonuses for Brink depending on where you pre-order it.  I think by far the best one of all of them is the Gamestop one as it is a DooM pack... Read More

XBLA releases for the coming weeks

XBLA releases for the coming weeks

A release schedule for XBLA has seen the light of day covering the next few weeks. You might want to start hoarding MS points as some pretty wild sales and release are on the cards, including the ve... Read More

New PS3 hack unbans consoles

New PS3 hack unbans consoles

Following Sony's decision to ban certain users from the PSN for jailbreaking their PS3 consoles, the modding community has snapped back with a new hack that will allow users to unban themselves. ... Read More