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Portal 2 Will Not Have Multiplayer

Portal 2 Will Not Have Multiplayer

Portal 2 was originally supposed to have competitive multiplayer, Valve have revealed, but they recently axed the idea, since the puzzle solving was turning into "chaos" for the players. In an inte... Read More

Gran Turismo 5 isn’t even out yet, and they’re planning on a GT6

Gran Turismo 5 isn’t even out yet, and they’re planning on a GT6

Yeah, so,we've been waiting for Gran Turismo 5 for like five years, and it gets delayed every year- it's almost like an annual routine. Though the game is supposed to be out in November this year, and... Read More

Windows Phone 7 gaming will be like Xbox and Xbox Live

Windows Phone 7 gaming will be like Xbox and Xbox Live

Microsoft will soon release an Xbox Live- compatible Windows Phone 7 Operating system, which will provide a gaming experience "much more like Xbox and Xbox Live Arcade," says Microsoft exec Kevin Una... Read More

Uncharted 3 could be 3D

Uncharted 3 could be 3D

As if the Uncharted games aren't already the best looking console games till date, Naughty Dog has expressed interest in Sony's new tech, and they think 3D could raise the bar for Uncharted's graphics... Read More

Crysis 3 Will be in 3D, Says Crytek

Crysis 3 Will be in 3D, Says Crytek

Crytek has promised to all its gamers that all the future Crysis games will be playable in 3D, just as their upcoming Crysis 2 will be playable in 3D on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. In an interview with ... Read More

EA Gamescom lineup revealed

EA Gamescom lineup revealed

EA has confirmed its lineup for their upcoming GamesCom conference, which will be taking place in Cologne, Germany next week. The list is given below: At the EA Booth Crysis 2, Darkspore, Dragon A... Read More

Takashi Iizuka- Sonic Colours is ‘not for core gamers’

Takashi Iizuka- Sonic Colours is ‘not for core gamers’

The lead designer- Takashi Iizuka- for Sega's upcoming DS and Wii platformer, Sonic Colours, has admitted that his upcoming title has not been made to cater to the core gaming audiences, and Sonic 4, ... Read More

Silent Hill 2 Movie has been “stalled”

Silent Hill 2 Movie has been “stalled”

Famous horror films' producer Don Carmody recently told Fangoria that the Silent Hill 2 movie is "a bit stalled," due to the writer/director of the movie, Roger Avary having spent some quality time- ... Read More

Kevin Levine: Bioshock Infinite is not a typical sequel

Kevin Levine: Bioshock Infinite is not a typical sequel

Irrational Games' Creative Director Kevin Levine, currently working on the next Bioshock title, says his upcoming Bioshock Infinite is not merely a sequel, rather a re-imagining of the series. "In th... Read More

Starcraft II Sold 721,000 units in the States in the first 48 hours of its release

Starcraft II Sold 721,000 units in the States in the first 48 hours of its release

After selling 1.5 million units in 48 hours next weak, Starcraft II officially became the fastest selling RTS of all time. Today, along with the July NPD Figures, the NPD Group also announced that aro... Read More

NPD July Figures Out, Xbox 360 Tops US Charts

NPD July Figures Out, Xbox 360 Tops US Charts

The NPD figures for July '10 are out, and this month seems to have been really good for the developers and publishers. With the combined US sales of non-PC game software, hardware, and accessories dec... Read More

Call of Duty: Black Ops Special Editions Revealed, Prestige Comes With Working RC Surveillance Car

Call of Duty: Black Ops Special Editions Revealed, Prestige Comes With Working RC Surveillance Car

There is of course the standard edition of the Call of Duty: Black Ops game coming out on November 9th and that will run you the standard $59.99.  Just recently though, the Hardened and Prestige Edit... Read More

Lionhead: Fable 3 Was Inspired By Uncharted

Lionhead: Fable 3 Was Inspired By Uncharted

Boy, Molyneux sure loves Uncharted, huh? In an attempt to perhaps subtly hype up his upcoming RPG, the third game in the bestselling Fable series, Fable III, famed designer Peter Molyneux's Lionhea... Read More

Sony: Playstation Move Is Better Than Mouse and Keyboard

Sony: Playstation Move Is Better Than Mouse and Keyboard

Humility knows no bounds. It also doesn't know Sony, who are as arrogant as ever. Dr. Richard Marks, the man behind the Eyetoy, and now the upcoming Playstation Move, who has gone on record to stat... Read More

RUMOUR: Duke Nukem Forever Coming Soon, Courtsey of Gearbox

RUMOUR: Duke Nukem Forever Coming Soon, Courtsey of Gearbox

Duke Nukem Forever, once the most anticpated title in all of gamingdom, has degenerated in to a sort of sad joke, thanks in no small part to its release date, which was repeatedly pushed back over the... Read More

Blizzard: PC Gaming Ain’t Going Anywhere

Blizzard: PC Gaming Ain’t Going Anywhere

The PC format, claim many sceptics, is dying out. They may have a point, as one sees increasingly late and poorly optimised ports of multiplatform games to the system, decreasing software sales, and a... Read More

Wii Sells 30 Million in US

Wii Sells 30 Million in US

Nintendo's motion sensing home console, Wii, has now sold a total of 30 million units in the United States (thanks, Nintendo Everything), in a record time of 45 months, 15 months quicker than the seco... Read More

Microsoft: Nyeah nyeah, Kinect won’t understand sign language, fools

Microsoft: Nyeah nyeah, Kinect won’t understand sign language, fools

Ok, no, Microsoft didn't REALLY say that. But do you remember how we told you Kinect will understand sign language? Yeah, well, it won't. The patent which revealed the said information on Microsoft... Read More

Call of Duty 8- First Few Details

Call of Duty 8- First Few Details

Studio co-founder Glen Schofield leaked on his Twitter page that Call of Duty 8, the next CoD game, being developed by Sledgehammer and due out next year, will feature real life military situations. "... Read More

Itagaki: The Japanese Games Industry is ‘Dying’

Itagaki: The Japanese Games Industry is ‘Dying’

I'm guessing you could have figured out who said that even if I hadn;t specified in the headline. Itagaki, creator of games such as Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive, and currently working on his upco... Read More