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Devs Talk About Bulletstorm’s Craziest Weapons

Devs Talk About Bulletstorm’s Craziest Weapons

Bulletstorm is known for being the game that rewards you for killing people in different kind of ways. And for that, obviously you need cool, innovative weapons- insane weapons. And the weapons in B... Read More

Can Halo: Reach Outsell Call of Duty: Black Ops? Microsoft Thinks So

Can Halo: Reach Outsell Call of Duty: Black Ops? Microsoft Thinks So

With two megaton First Person Shooters, Microsoft's Halo: Reach and Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops, looming large on the horizon, comparisions are bound to be drawn between them. Both of them ... Read More

NPD August figures out, Xbox 360 at the top- AGAIN

NPD August figures out, Xbox 360 at the top- AGAIN

The Xbox 360 has gained all the momentum it had lost in the past few months, and then some- actually, a lot- more. Being the second highest selling system in June, and the highest selling system in ... Read More

Quantum Theory Demo Not For XBL Until ‘Later This Month’

Quantum Theory Demo Not For XBL Until ‘Later This Month’

A demo for Tecmo Koei's upcoming Third Person Shooter, Quantum Theory, was recently released for the PlayStation Network for all PS3 players to try out. For those who are wondering whe the Gears o... Read More

“Explicit display of sexual organs” not allowed in iPod games- Apple

“Explicit display of sexual organs” not allowed in iPod games- Apple

Apple's guidelines on what an app should be like for their iPod/iPhone were pretty vague and elusive, and several people took advantage of that and made... "explicit" games for the device. Apple h... Read More

No Sequel For Medal Of Honor If It Doesn’t Sell 3 Million

No Sequel For Medal Of Honor If It Doesn’t Sell 3 Million

EA's Executive producer Greg Goodrich, while talking to New York Times, said that his studio's upcoming controversial (US Military Bans Medal of Honor) First Person Shooter will have to sell at ... Read More

Celebrate PlayStation’s 15th Birthday… Play Home

Celebrate PlayStation’s 15th Birthday… Play Home

Sony Computer Entertainment America, or SCEA for short, are celebrating the PlayStation family's 15th birthday in North America. And damn, in fifteen years, PSOne, PS2, PSP and PS3 combined have s... Read More

Red Dead Redemption Sequel Headed Our Way?

Red Dead Redemption Sequel Headed Our Way?

Red Dead Redemption has certainly changed the game for Take Two. Earning near unanimous critical acclaim, and selling in excess of seven million copies worldwide since the game's release earlier t... Read More

New content for Halo: Reach Extended Edition

New content for Halo: Reach Extended Edition

Halo: Reach, as was confirmed some time ago, will be releasing with Halo: Reach Legendary and Halo: Reach Limited Editions, following in the footsteps of the conclusion to the highly acclaim Halo ... Read More

Mafia II ‘off to a great start’

Mafia II ‘off to a great start’

Following industry analyst Michael Pachter's comments on the recently released Historic Action Adventure, Mafia II, will not be successfull, Take-Two has declared that not only do they expect Mafi... Read More

Batman Arkham City Will Be 4 Or 5 Times As Big As Arkham Asylum

Batman Arkham City Will Be 4 Or 5 Times As Big As Arkham Asylum

Rocksteady studios, developers of the highly acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum, have revealed that their upcoming game, Batman: Arkham City, will be "four or five times" as big as it's beloved, aforemen... Read More

Vavle has ‘3 big surprises coming up in the next 12 months’

Vavle has ‘3 big surprises coming up in the next 12 months’

In an interview with UK mag, PC Gamer UK, Gabe Newell, Valve boss, told all readers he has three big surprises coming up for all gamers in the next 12 months. Let's hope it's the inevitable but never-... Read More

Black Ops will be better than Modern Warfare 2, says Activision

Black Ops will be better than Modern Warfare 2, says Activision

Activision have declared that their upcoming Cold War FPS, being developed by Treyarch, will be the best Call of Duty title released till date, trumping Modern Warfare 2, their previous, hugely succes... Read More

Mikami: Motion controls ‘won’t be mainstream for 10 years’

Mikami: Motion controls ‘won’t be mainstream for 10 years’

Creator of the upcoming title, Vanquish, Shinji Mikami says he wasn't very satisfied with Microsoft's motion sensing camera, Kinect, and says motion controls aren't detailed enough yet to be called ma... Read More

No more ATI branding

No more ATI branding

AMD is thinking of dumping the ATI brand name, and are looking to opt for a more "customer-centric approach." The Register reports that AMD wants to get over processor-centric branding. The spokes... Read More

Cry, cry, Xbox Live subscription prices being hiked

Cry, cry, Xbox Live subscription prices being hiked

Microsoft aren't short on funds, yet they still greedily suck their customers of all their money, being the filthy bas*ards that they are. No, no, it's not that bad this time around, but still, I'm pi... Read More

No GTA V till 2012, says Pachter

No GTA V till 2012, says Pachter

Famous industry analyst says Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series will not be getting a mainstream canon sequel to their highly acclaimed Grand Theft Auto IV till 2012. This has come after speculations ... Read More

The Sims 4 in the works?

The Sims 4 in the works?

EA has registered a web domain for The Sims 4, the unannounced, unreleased fourth game in their hugely successful, The Sims franchise. Having recently announced The Sims: Medieval, an all new off-shoo... Read More

‘Go and have a go’ at Kinect, says Rare

‘Go and have a go’ at Kinect, says Rare

Rare Kinect development head, Nick Burton, wants core gamers to give Microsoft's new motion sensing camera a chance before dismissing it outright as casual and gimmicky. "All I can say to the core i... Read More

PSN Down On Monday

PSN Down On Monday

On Monday, that is the 30th of August, PlayStation Network will be down for 'routine maintenance,' between the hours of 08:00 and 21:00 BST, says Sony. "During this time you will not be able to ac... Read More