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Black Ops Fan Base “a smaller percentage of the broad audience who like Bond”

Black Ops Fan Base “a smaller percentage of the broad audience who like Bond”

Peter Collier, part of the development team of Blood Stone, says Blood Stone's sales will not be eaten up by Black Ops' sales this Holidays, thanks to the wider audience that James Bond has. "If I w... Read More

EA Lashes Back At MoH Critics

EA Lashes Back At MoH Critics

Medal of Honor is a game that is surrounded by controversies, regarding that players can take the role of the Taliban in the multiplayer. The game has even been banned in 49 GameStop stores in the... Read More

MS On PC: “We need to step up”

MS On PC: “We need to step up”

Microsoft has admitted that it is not supporting its PC platform very well, and that it needs to step up its game and do something about it, quick. Microsoft Games Studios' general manager Dave Lu... Read More

Bioshock Infinite will have more varied combat

Bioshock Infinite will have more varied combat

The developer of the famous Bioshock series, Irrational Games, has revealed that their upcoming title, Bioshock will have more varied kills than Bioshock players are used to. "There's a famous sayin... Read More

Hate Against New Dante Was ‘Anticipated’

Hate Against New Dante Was ‘Anticipated’

The all new teen Dante looks emo and gay, we all know that. But did Ninja Theory expect such a backlash against him? Well, they say they did. "This was not unanticipated," Alex Jones of Ninja T... Read More

EA Wants You To Cry Because Of Dead Space 2

EA Wants You To Cry Because Of Dead Space 2

EA wants to scare you so much with Dead Space 2 that you tear your hear out and lie naked on a big block of ice while crying. Ok, no, they just want you to cry. "At comic-com I heard people scream.... Read More

Bungie explains Halo: Reach ending

Bungie explains Halo: Reach ending

PLEASE BE WARNED THAT THIS NEWS ITEM CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT YET COMPLETED THE CAMPAIGN OF HALO: REACH, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. Halo: Reach had an awesome ending, on... Read More

LittleBigPlanet 2 Release Pushed Back To 2011

LittleBigPlanet 2 Release Pushed Back To 2011

Media Molecule have just confirmed that their upcoming title, LittleBigPlanet 2's release date has been delayed to January 2011. They say: "We know this will come as disappointing news for all you L... Read More

PSP2 should “emulate” 3DS, says Pachter

PSP2 should “emulate” 3DS, says Pachter

PSP2 should have a 3D screen, same as the upcoming 3DS, says industry analyst Michael Pachter. "I'm completely baffled by Sony's PSP strategy," Pachter said. "They owned the portable entertainment ... Read More

The new Dante is ‘all about cool’

The new Dante is ‘all about cool’

People have been talking about how the new Dante in the recently unveiled DmC looked like an emo teen and... gay (he does, but he's smoking cigars). Creative director Tameem Antoniades, however, t... Read More

Microsoft- “Who needs Blu-ray?”

Microsoft- “Who needs Blu-ray?”

Microsoft has predicted that Blu-ray will be all but dead before it can become the leading disc format in the video games industry. UK Xbox boss Stephen McGill says the concept will just "pass by" b... Read More

Analysts say Halo: Reach has ‘no chance’ of outselling Black Ops

Analysts say Halo: Reach has ‘no chance’ of outselling Black Ops

Industry analysts say the hugely successful, recently released Microsoft title, Halo: Reach has 'no chance' of outselling the upcoming megaton, Call of Duty: Black Ops. Microsoft made it clear that ... Read More

3DS Specs Leaked, Details Are Impressive

3DS Specs Leaked, Details Are Impressive

Nintendo's upcoming 3D handheld device, successor to the highly successful DS, 3DS has been the hot thing to discuss these days, and one of the main questions surrounding it is how powerful the syst... Read More

God of War: Ghost of Sparta Gets 18+ Rating

God of War: Ghost of Sparta Gets 18+ Rating

The British Board of Film Classification, abbreviated as BBFC, has rated the upcoming PSP action title, God of War: Ghost of Sparta as 18 +, as is the wont with the God of War franchise, saying the ... Read More

UK Xbox sales sky high as Halo: Reach releases

UK Xbox sales sky high as Halo: Reach releases

A tracker website has calculated that the release of Halo: Reach has led to a 99% boost in sales for Xbox 360 consoles. The director of Gfk-ChartTrack stated that the game had a 'marked effect'... Read More

Naughty Dog: Move in our next project is “kind of difficult”

Naughty Dog: Move in our next project is “kind of difficult”

Naughty Dog, the developer of the super-successful Uncharted series, has said that it is "too far along" into its next project for it to incorporate Move support. When asked by gaming mag GameInf... Read More

Bobby Kotick: Traditional Companies like Microsoft, Sony, EA “are going to really struggle in the future”

Bobby Kotick: Traditional Companies like Microsoft, Sony, EA “are going to really struggle in the future”

Activision boss Bobby Kotick says traditional console making companies such as Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, will face a "struggle" trying to figure out an online dominance in the future, somethin... Read More

Crysis 2 will be better than Crysis “in every way possible”

Crysis 2 will be better than Crysis “in every way possible”

NanoSmartCasual, the official Twitter account for Crytek, has recently tweeted that their upcoming First Person Shooter, Crysis 2 will be optimized for PCs and that it will be better than the first ... Read More

Mafia II- Big Daddy of F-Bombs

Mafia II- Big Daddy of F-Bombs

Mafia II, getting generally decent reviews across the board, but not by us, has been listed in the Guinness World Record as the game that has dropped the most f-bombs, i.e the game that has the most... Read More

CoD Paid Service Incoming?

CoD Paid Service Incoming?

"New service offerings" which are supposed to "enhance" online grossings from Call of Duty games are "in the pipeline," Activision has revealed. That probably means that Activision will be enhancin... Read More