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Bungie to develop four “sci-fantasy action shooter games” with Activision codenamed Destiny

Bungie to develop four “sci-fantasy action shooter games” with Activision codenamed Destiny

Details of a high profile game deal between Activision and Bungie to develop an entirely new game franchise have been revealed for the first time as part of the ongoing West and Zampella v. Activision... Read More

2K celebrate Spec Ops: the Line release with free films

2K celebrate Spec Ops: the Line release with free films

2K Games, in conjunction with The Prince Charles Cinema and Digital Spy today announced free screenings of war movies to celebrate the release of Spec Ops: The Line. The films will be determined by... Read More

Aliens: Colonial Marines finally given release date

Aliens: Colonial Marines finally given release date

Gearbox have today announced a 12 February 2013 release date for Aliens: Colonial Marines. Aliens: Colonial Marines was due to be released this autumn and after having already been delayed numerous... Read More

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 premium editions announced

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 premium editions announced

City Interactive have today announced the contents of their Collector's and Limited Edition versions of Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2. Slated for a 21 August release on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC... Read More

Frostbite games ‘will require a 64-bit OS’ in 2013

Frostbite games ‘will require a 64-bit OS’ in 2013

DICE have revealed that some Frostbite engine-powered PC games will require a 64-bit operating system in 2013. Whilst 64-bit operating systems have been around since 2003, over half of PC users sti... Read More

Ghost Recon Commander hits Facebook

Ghost Recon Commander hits Facebook

Following the trend of launching hundreds of tie-ins in conjunction with the lead-game, Ubisoft have today released Ghost Recon Commander into the hostile territory of Facebook. Developed by ... Read More

Video Games Live to air on Sky Arts

Video Games Live to air on Sky Arts

Often overlooked and neglected, the soundtracks to our video games are some of the most powerful and evocative experiences we will ever have. From the ethereal wonder of Journey, to the jaunty pops o... Read More

Payday: The Heist and Left 4 Dead join forces for an in-depth collaboration

Payday: The Heist and Left 4 Dead join forces for an in-depth collaboration

Payday: The Heist developer Overkill Entertainment has announced something that most fans should be looking forward to. Yes, an in-depth collaboration with Valve. What this means is that, Payday: T... Read More

UK Charts for this week revealed: Max Payne 3 beats Diablo 3

UK Charts for this week revealed: Max Payne 3 beats Diablo 3

You know why people love Rockstar Games? Because their games sell so much d'uh. It seems that Max Payne 3 has beaten Remedy's 2003 Max Payne 2 launch by 10:1. I guess that's a pretty fantastic perform... Read More

Here’s the top selling Steam games from May 13-19

Here’s the top selling Steam games from May 13-19

It's amazing what a mod can to for the sales of a game, innit? Yeah, I'm talking about the Day-Z mod for Arma 2, which is a three year old game. Guess what? It has topped the Steam sales chart for the... Read More

Super Street Fighter II characters fighting with Portal guns video is incredible

Super Street Fighter II characters fighting with Portal guns video is incredible

We have an amazing video for you where Street Fighter II characters fight with Portal guns. I have to wonder why people didn't think of this before, because it looks awesome. And as you know, Guile... Read More

Dokuro trailer is magnificent

Dokuro trailer is magnificent

Gamearts' new PS Vita game is called Dokuro and here's the first trailer for that. Here's the story premise via Andriasang. Dokuro begins when the Princess is kidnapped by the Dark Lord, who plans ... Read More

New Akai Katana Pilot Training: Orientation video

New Akai Katana Pilot Training: Orientation video

Check out the new trailer for Akai Katana and experience sensory overload with CAVE's latest addition to the shoot-em-up arena. Set in a parallel world resembling Japan's Taisho period, the people ... Read More

Borderlands 2 will fix the problems the original game had: frame rate and inventory

Borderlands 2 will fix the problems the original game had: frame rate and inventory

Can Gearbox make Borderlands 2 one of the best sequels ever seen? You know - kinda like Uncharted 2 and Mass Effect 2? - Well, they are on the right track it seems, as they have mentioned on the US P... Read More

Pachter: Used games vital, Industry will disintegrate otherwise

Pachter: Used games vital, Industry will disintegrate otherwise

Industry analyst Michael Pachter has his own show at Gametrailers called Pach Attack, and there he speaks about vital issues that the readers ask him. One such issue popped up was about used games and... Read More

The PC version of Max Payne 3 will be on 4 DVDs

The PC version of Max Payne 3 will be on 4 DVDs

When Rockstar revealed the system requirements for the PC version of Max Payne 3, one thing that stood out was the 35 GB HDD space. I know digital distribution is the future and all that stuff, but it... Read More

This Black Ops 2 trailer was aired at the Champions league final

This Black Ops 2 trailer was aired at the Champions league final

Here's the trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 that was aired at the Champions league final. The game will come out on November 13th for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. Call of Duty: Black Ops II  pr... Read More

Epic Games wants PS4 and Xbox 720 to be a lot more powerful

Epic Games wants PS4 and Xbox 720 to be a lot more powerful

It seems that Epic Games knows what the specs of next-gen consoles of Sony and Microsoft are, otherwise why would they want them to be more powerful? Recently they have said that they are talking to S... Read More

Dragon’s Dogma dev sues Capcom for work-place bullying

Dragon’s Dogma dev sues Capcom for work-place bullying

According to the Japanese publication Minpokyo, a female Capcom employee claims she was bulled to the point of attempting suicide. The unnamed 20+ year old woman joined Capcom in 2009 and had b... Read More

Pirates games not lost sales, DRM ‘does not work’ – CD Projekt RED

Pirates games not lost sales, DRM ‘does not work’ – CD Projekt RED

Digital rights management (DRM to you and I) has always been a thorny issue for games, embodied by Diablo III's insistance of an always-on-internet connection, rending the game virtually unplayable fo... Read More