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Square Enix: “Focusing on graphics only would be a huge mistake”

Square Enix: “Focusing on graphics only would be a huge mistake”

Square Enix's worldwide technology director Julien Merceron has revealed that animation will play a huge role next-gen, and neglecting that would be a "huge mistake". He mentioned something about an... Read More

Resident Evil 6 Allows Players to Replay Crossplay Battles

Resident Evil 6 Allows Players to Replay Crossplay Battles

Capcom's next premier survival horror Resident Evil 6 is upon us. The game has been touting it's co-op gameplay for a while now, players can sync their co-op games together during boss fights to aid... Read More

Michael Pachter blames the lack of new IPs for decline in software sales

Michael Pachter blames the lack of new IPs for decline in software sales

Michael Pachter has blamed the lack of new innovative intellectual properties for a decline in software sales in the US, and predicts that the industry will not bounce back in the month of June 2012... Read More

Phantasy Star Online 2 Trailer Announces Western Release

Phantasy Star Online 2 Trailer Announces Western Release

Sega has finally announced that Phantasy Star Online 2 will be coming to North America and EU in early 2013 for PC. They've released a trailer to that effect recently, which can be viewed above. As... Read More

QuakeCon and AT&T unite again for the greater gaming good

QuakeCon and AT&T unite again for the greater gaming good

id Software and Bethesda have today announced that for the second year in a row, AT&T are returning for as an official sponsor of QuakeCon 2012. QuakeCon is North America’s largest bring-your-ow... Read More

Resident Evil 6 will contain 4+ hours of cutscenes

Resident Evil 6 will contain 4+ hours of cutscenes

According to the fun kids at the British Board of Film Classification, or my BBFCs as I like to call them, have confirmed not only the classification of Capcom's upcoming Resident Evil 6, but also det... Read More

Ones of the biggest game collections ever sells for a staggering amount

Ones of the biggest game collections ever sells for a staggering amount

I bet you thought you had a fairly impressive games collection, didn't you? I mean, mine's certainly not going to break any records but it's probably a fair bit about average, as I imagine is yours. ... Read More

343 Industries: “We leveraged the alien fiction in Halo and pushed it in the multiplayer”

343 Industries: “We leveraged the alien fiction in Halo and pushed it in the multiplayer”

343 Industries, the studio that is developing Halo 4, is pretty confident about the game. They have found a way to use the newly revealed enemies and weapons in the game into the multiplayer to enha... Read More

Dead Space 3 First Official Gameplay Trailer Thrills and Chills

Dead Space 3 First Official Gameplay Trailer Thrills and Chills

EA and Visceral have just released a 20 minute trailer detailing the first gameplay details for the eagerly awaited Dead Space 3. And honestly, it looks fantastic. The setting is obviously the firs... Read More

Origin Games to distribute Addidas MiCoach and City Interactive games

Origin Games to distribute Addidas MiCoach and City Interactive games

It's been a good week for Origin Games - an Indian distributor, as they have announced that they will be distributing City Interactive games and also a fitness game/equipment called Adidas MiCoa... Read More

Borderlands 2 introduces Vault Veteran Rewards

Borderlands 2 introduces Vault Veteran Rewards

Being one of the few titles of note to be released before October, it looks like Borderlands 2 might have a fairly clean run in to its 21 September release date. Now Gearbox announced on their blog... Read More

Doom 4 reveal hinted by Tim Willits

Doom 4 reveal hinted by Tim Willits

Doom 4 seems to have come down with a case of the Duke Nukems, a we're almost certain has been im development for ages but every year, it never seems to come. However, with the Doom 3 BFG edition l... Read More

GAME announced as Eurogamer Expo retail sponsor

GAME announced as Eurogamer Expo retail sponsor

Today Eurogamer have also announced that GAME will be this year's retail sponsor. Eurogamer have already announced a smorgasbord of delicious new games to play, ranging from Resident Evil 6, Assass... Read More

Splinter Cell: Blacklist scheduled for March 2013 release

Splinter Cell: Blacklist scheduled for March 2013 release

We may finally have the release date for Splinter Cell: Blacklist, which is scheduled for a March 2013 release window. The release date is March 29 2013 to be specific and has been revealed by onli... Read More

Assassin’s Creed Movie announced, Fassbender in the lead

Assassin’s Creed Movie announced, Fassbender in the lead

Michael Fassbender will be the lead and co-producer of the new Assassin's Creed movie which will be released sometime later next year. Assassin's Creed is Ubisoft's big selling video game IP, and wh... Read More

UK Charts: Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes takes pole position again

UK Charts: Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes takes pole position again

It's been a good week for Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes which has topped the UK Charts for this week again, this makes it the game to top the charts for three weeks in a row. London 2012: The Off... Read More

Sega: Phantasy Star Online 2 heading to Europe and NA in early 2013

Sega: Phantasy Star Online 2 heading to Europe and NA in early 2013

Sega has announced that Phantasy Star Online 2 will be heading to Europe and NA early next year. The game is a free-to-play multiplayer action RPG, and the F2P elements are the first for the serie... Read More

Evo 2012: Here’s your Street Fighter 4 World Champion and other results

Evo 2012: Here’s your Street Fighter 4 World Champion and other results

Evo 2012 held in Las Vegas, United States, was pretty memorable and incredibly competitive. New champions were crowned while some retained their last year's honour, so here are the full results from... Read More

Resident Evil 6 Japanese TV Spot

Resident Evil 6 Japanese TV Spot

Capcom has aggressively started promoting Resident Evil 6 in Japan, and we have the first TV spot of the game which was aired recently in the country. There aren't any spoilers if you have played the ... Read More

PS All-Stars Battle Royale release date and pre-order bonuses outed

PS All-Stars Battle Royale release date and pre-order bonuses outed

Sony has revealed the release date for PS All-Stars Battle Royale and it comes out on different dates for various regions: October 23 and 24 in the US and Europe respectively. They will also r... Read More