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GTA 5 screenshots show Tennis, Parachuting and Dirt Biking

GTA 5 screenshots show Tennis, Parachuting and Dirt Biking

Trust Rockstar to bring the awesome and they have delivered with three new screenshots. Yes, three new screenshots. For a GTA fan, that means a lot at this point as Rockstar has started to market th... Read More

State of Decay Trailer Reveals an Open World Zombie State and Dropkicks

State of Decay Trailer Reveals an Open World Zombie State and Dropkicks

A woman just dropkicked a zombie in the head, causing it to explode. I think I'm in love with this game. That's Undead Labs' State of Decay, recently announced and on it's way to XBox Live Arcade a... Read More

Spec Ops: The Line Receives Free Cooperative Multiplayer Content

Spec Ops: The Line Receives Free Cooperative Multiplayer Content

It's back to Dubai then for Spec Ops: The Line, with some cooperative multiplayer action so a friend can enjoy the hallucinatory experience of killing innocents in the name of justice (oh, and spoil... Read More

PopCap Games to Layoff About 50 More Employees

PopCap Games to Layoff About 50 More Employees

The Plants vs Zombies developer has seen better times. In light of recent layoffs that have been quietly happening over the past few months, PopCap Interactive has announced that they'll be cutting ... Read More

Dogfight 1942 Gameplay Trailer Takes to the Skies and Goes Gunning

Dogfight 1942 Gameplay Trailer Takes to the Skies and Goes Gunning

When's the last time you went dogfighting? Truly took to the skies to destroy some one's happiness in a decisive battle of good vs. evil in the ultimate union of man and machine? Dogfight 1942 aims... Read More

NBA 2K13 Developer Insight Talks Gameplay Changes

NBA 2K13 Developer Insight Talks Gameplay Changes

You may wonder why a 2K Sports title is executively produced by Jay-Z. Perish the thought! For this new developer insight - part 1 of the series - talks about NBA 2K13's changes and how this is, as th... Read More

Studio Liverpool closed by Sony

Studio Liverpool closed by Sony

Sony has closed Studio Liverpool, one of the oldest studios in the world.  Sony has confirmed that it has closed Studio Liverpool, and has released a statement too. Very sad news for the developer... Read More

Final Fantasy XIII-3 announcement imminent – A Storm Gathers

Final Fantasy XIII-3 announcement imminent – A Storm Gathers

Final Fantasy XIII-3 could be announced on September 1, as Square Enix has opened a new site which hints at its release. Everyone and their dog knows Square Enix will release a new installment in t... Read More

Assassin’s Creed Making of “Rise” Shows Scenes Behind the Revolution

Assassin’s Creed Making of “Rise” Shows Scenes Behind the Revolution

Ubisoft caused a fair share of buzz with the Assassin's Creed 3 "Rise" live action trailer, channeling the patriotic side of the American Revolution, where the game will be set. Now they've release... Read More

Arkane: 13-year-olds are “hungry for highly interactive, non-dogmatic experiences”

Arkane: 13-year-olds are “hungry for highly interactive, non-dogmatic experiences”

Arkane Studio's Harvey Smith says that people are hungry for non-linear games, and Dishonored is something that will deliver it to them.   He mentioned on the PS Blog that younger gamers will appre... Read More

Ubisoft underestimated the popularity of Assassin’s Creed 3’s naval battles

Ubisoft underestimated the popularity of Assassin’s Creed 3’s naval battles

Creative director of Assassin's Creed 3 Alex Hutchinson has mentioned that the team underestimated the popularity of Assassin's Creed 3's naval battles. It was first shown at the Sony conference at... Read More

Iwata: We’re not going to see dedicated handheld gaming vanish

Iwata: We’re not going to see dedicated handheld gaming vanish

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata believes handheld gaming is not going to go away. Iwata is bullish on handheld gaming, after all his company produces quite a few of them--and popular ones at that... Read More

NBA 2K13 gets a developer insight video

NBA 2K13 gets a developer insight video

Check out the developer video for NBA 2013 released by 2k games. The game will also be released on the Wii U system of Nintendo which is scheduled for launch later this year. With more than 5 million... Read More

Xaitment partners with Studica and introduces new educational pricing

Xaitment partners with Studica and introduces new educational pricing

This new partnership between Xaitment and Studica makes it easy for students to learn game AI. Xaitment, the creators of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) software for video game and simulation... Read More

Miner Wars 2081 gets a new in-game editor interface

Miner Wars 2081 gets a new in-game editor interface

The creative director of Miner Wars 2081 introduces the new in-game editor interface. You can check out his letter and in-depth explanation below. Our Miner Wars Fans, So you thought you coul... Read More

Omerta – City of Gangsters gets a new trailer

Omerta – City of Gangsters gets a new trailer

Kalypso Media has released a new trailer for Omerta - City of Gangsters. In Omerta - City of Gangsters, you can build a criminal empire in Prohibition-era Atlantic City by running guns, taking over... Read More

Ubisoft announces Future Soldier Raven Strike DLC Package

Ubisoft announces Future Soldier Raven Strike DLC Package

Ubisoft has announced a new DLC package for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier called Raven Strike. Raven Strike contains larger maps, complex missions and an increased level of difficulty, according to U... Read More

Nintendo Power – Shutting Down

Nintendo Power – Shutting Down

Nintendo Power has officially reported that the publication of their magazines is about to be over. Nintendo Power has been around for 24 years, and now the time has come an end.  We do not kno... Read More

PopCap Official Blog Confirms Major Layoffs

PopCap Official Blog Confirms Major Layoffs

Today the PopCap founder John Vechey officialy stated that they have laid off many of their employees via their official blog post on their website. Here is the full blog post from the main man him... Read More

Metal Gear Solid HD remakes go digital

Metal Gear Solid HD remakes go digital

Konami has announced the imminent release of the HD editions of various Metal Gear Solid titles over August and September, across various platforms. Today saw the HD Xbox 360 releases of Metal Gear... Read More