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LOVEFilm coming to the Playstation 3

LOVEFilm coming to the Playstation 3

The movie rental service LOVEFilm is making its way to the PS3. The decision was announced by a video on Youtube on the official PS3 channel, but it has since been removed. The service that ... Read More

Heroes on the Move gets a rebranding

Heroes on the Move gets a rebranding

The cautiously titled Heroes on the Move has been rebranded as Playstation Move Heroes. The mysterious game will contain many familiar faces from the Playstation universe, including Ratchet &am... Read More

Gaming budgets will continue to rise, say Guerilla Games

Gaming budgets will continue to rise, say Guerilla Games

Guerrilla Games’ lead producer Steven Ter Heide does not believe that the current upwards trend of video game budgets is going to stop any time soon. Speaking to GI; “I don’t know wher... Read More

Yuji Naka has “no intention to go back to Sega or be involved with Sega projects in the future”

Yuji Naka has “no intention to go back to Sega or be involved with Sega projects in the future”

Yuji Naka, father of Sonic, ex-Sega member, has cut all ties with Sega and his blue hedgehog creation, Sonic. Recently, while speaking to CVG, he said he has "no intention to go back to Sega or be i... Read More

“Really expensive” THQ Move and Kinect coming by “the end of March”

“Really expensive” THQ Move and Kinect coming by “the end of March”

Danny Bilson, THQ core head, has revealed his studio is working on a "really expensive" title for Move and Kinect. He said it will be "coming out sooner then later" and also mention an end of March ... Read More

3DS will require “more frequent recharging than Nintendo DS”

3DS will require “more frequent recharging than Nintendo DS”

The Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo's (duh) upcoming 3D handheld (duh), the successor to the DS (duh), will have shorter battery life than its predecessor. "As for the battery, it is inevitable that Nintendo... Read More

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Multiplayer Beta Available to US PS Plus Members

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Multiplayer Beta Available to US PS Plus Members

Ubisoft has announced that the multiplayer beta for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is now available to all US PlayStation Network Plus members. We recently got our hands on the beta ourselves, and p... Read More

StarCraft II Expansion Not Until 2012?

StarCraft II Expansion Not Until 2012?

Greg Canessa, project director of Battle.net has hinted that Heart of Swarm, the first expansion of Blizzard's extremely successful RTS, StarCraft II, may not release until 2012. Discussing fut... Read More

Cuts for western release of Yakuza 4 “nothing like Yakuza 3”

Cuts for western release of Yakuza 4 “nothing like Yakuza 3”

Sega of America says only minimal cuts will be made for the Western release of Yakuza 4, unlike Yakuza 3, which lacked a lot of features in the Europe and US versions of the games that were there in... Read More

The 3DS is “below our minimum specifications,” says Epic

The 3DS is “below our minimum specifications,” says Epic

Mark Rein of Epic Games believes Nintendo's upcoming handheld system, the 3DS, is below their "minimum specifications" for the Unreal Engine and that visuals as good as seen in the iPhone's Epic Cit... Read More

CONFIMRED: Joseph Capelli Protagonist in Resistance 3

CONFIMRED: Joseph Capelli Protagonist in Resistance 3

Remember sometime ago we reported that Joseph Capelli might be the protagonist of Resistance 3? Well, it has been confirmed- he is the protagonist of Resistance 3, not Nathan Hale, who was the hero ... Read More

Sony Readying Itself For PSP2?

Sony Readying Itself For PSP2?

According to reports at PSPGen.com (via CVG), Sony has informed all developers that development kits for the PSP will be no longer provided. Sony says the said development kits will no longer be ava... Read More

Ninja Theory were asked to ‘go crazy’ with Dante

Ninja Theory were asked to ‘go crazy’ with Dante

Ninja Theory says the studio was asked to 'go crazy' with Dante for his new look in the recently announced DmC, reboot of the popular action franchise, Devil May Cry. "The concepts for Dante we... Read More

Military Ban On Medal of Honor Remains Unchanged

Military Ban On Medal of Honor Remains Unchanged

EA recently decided to chop off the Taliban reference in the multiplayer mode. The enemy forces, instead of being called Taliban, are now called the Opposing Forces. Bruce Casella, however, says hi... Read More

Halo: Reach First Update Released

Halo: Reach First Update Released

Bungie have confirmed the release of the first of the many updates for their megaton First Person Shooter title, Halo: Reach. This new update will "addresses a variety of issues in addition to twe... Read More

PSP2 Coming Late 2011

PSP2 Coming Late 2011

Reports say Sony has informed developers and publishers that their next generation handheld, the PSP2 will be out by the end of 2011. "We've been told it's coming in late 2011," an anonymous British... Read More

Xbox 360 Cannot Handle inFamous 2, Sucker Punch Thinks

Xbox 360 Cannot Handle inFamous 2, Sucker Punch Thinks

Sucker Punch game designer Darren Bridges thinks inFamous 2 cannot be done on the Xbox 360. He says the PS3's Cell processor gives PS3 unmatchable power, and that it will be tough to replicate inFam... Read More

Bungie Wrongfully Resetting Players Halo Reach Credits

Bungie Wrongfully Resetting Players Halo Reach Credits

Bungie had been resetting players credits in Halo Reach for using an exploit/bug that give you a lot of cR quickly.  Unfortunately some players have just been credit reset for not doing anything wron... Read More

Gears of War 3 Release Date Delayed Until Late 2011

Gears of War 3 Release Date Delayed Until Late 2011

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="471" caption="Why?"][/caption] As though we would have had to wait all the way until April 2011 to play Gear of War 3 originally, now it's even worse.  Th... Read More

Iwata Wanted 3DS To Release This Year

Iwata Wanted 3DS To Release This Year

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo boss, wanted the 3DS to release this Holidays, but production worries forced him to delay the launch, MF Global FXA Securities analyst Jay Defibaugh says. Speaking after the ... Read More