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Omerta: City of Gangsters gets an Xbox 360 version

Omerta: City of Gangsters gets an Xbox 360 version

Kalypso Media has announced that Omerta: City of Gangsters will be available on the Xbox 360 as well. The game is developed by Haemimont Games, creators of classic strategy titles including the most ... Read More

Cities in Motion Paris release trailer is here

Cities in Motion Paris release trailer is here

Featuring a new campaign with three scenarios, four new vehicles available to use in any city, Cities in Motion: Paris offers the ultimate urban-planning challenge. Create waterbus routes on the pictu... Read More

The Walking Dead- Episode 1 hits 1 million downloads, accolades trailer also released

The Walking Dead- Episode 1 hits 1 million downloads, accolades trailer also released

Telltale's recently released first episode in their The Walking Dead series has hit 1 million downloads across PC, Mac, Xbox Live and PSN. According to Telltale, TWD has been the bestselling Xbox L... Read More

Fable devs working on ‘MMO like title’ for Xbox 720

Fable devs working on ‘MMO like title’ for Xbox 720

Lionhead, developers of the Fable franchise, are looking to hire people to work on an "AAA MMO like title for next generation consoles." It's not Fable though-it's a "major brand new IP". "Opportu... Read More

Tribes: Ascend downloaded 1.2 million times in a month

Tribes: Ascend downloaded 1.2 million times in a month

Hi-Rez Studio's recently released free-to-play online shooter has been downloaded 1.2 million times, just a month after its release on April 12. We're thrilled that over 1 million gamers have disco... Read More

Activision planned fake fire drill to hack Infinity Ward computers

Activision planned fake fire drill to hack Infinity Ward computers

In what is slowly descending into farce, court documents today revealed that Activision CEO Bobby Kotick ordered the hacking of Jason West and Jason Zampella's computers. West and Zampella are for... Read More

First Unreal Engine 4 Screenshots and details revealed

First Unreal Engine 4 Screenshots and details revealed

Unreal Engine 4 looks great in these screenshots that were revealed today by Epic Games. Wired has an exclusive feature (?) which has a lot of details on the engine, which you can check out here. E... Read More

Criterion hiring for PS Vita game, most likely Most Wanted 2

Criterion hiring for PS Vita game, most likely Most Wanted 2

According to a new job ad by Criterion spotted by Superannuation, Criterion, developers of the excellent Burnout franchise and 2010's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, is hiring people to work on "optimi... Read More

Media Create sales- Software sales and hardware sales plummet, Vita hits an all time low

Media Create sales- Software sales and hardware sales plummet, Vita hits an all time low

The Media Create sales charts for this week are out, and it seems like people in Japan haven't been big on gaming at all this week, with the hardware and software sales, both taking a huge hit. The... Read More

Forza Horizon box art and first screenshot revealed

Forza Horizon box art and first screenshot revealed

Microsoft has released the box art and the first screenshot of Forza Horizon. In case you are late to the party, it's an open world racer and it's not like what you'd expect from normal Forza games.... Read More

Rare working on “multiple AAA” shooter and action-adventure titles for Xbox 720

Rare working on “multiple AAA” shooter and action-adventure titles for Xbox 720

According to recently posted job ads (via Superannuation), once-legendary developer Rare is looking to hire people to work on multiple AAA shooter and/or action-adventure titles for the Xbox 720, s... Read More

Sony registers a domain for a game called “Forsaken Souls”

Sony registers a domain for a game called “Forsaken Souls”

Sony has registered a domain for a game called 'Forsaken Souls'. The domain www.forsakensoulsthegame.com was registered by SCEA on May 11. The domain info page was linked in a Tweet, which was furt... Read More

EA Sports: FIFA isn’t a “gimmick, marketing-lead video game” anymore

EA Sports: FIFA isn’t a “gimmick, marketing-lead video game” anymore

Executive producer of the FIFA series, David Rutter, believes the FIFA series has grown from being a "gimmick, marketing-lead video game" to a " true, gameplay-oriented video game where there's thi... Read More

Borderlands 2 box art and collector’s edition revealed

Borderlands 2 box art and collector’s edition revealed

Gearbox has announced the collector's edition for Borderlands 2 along with the box art - which you can see above. Actually, there are two editions for the game and we have the complete details for t... Read More

FIFA producer: “We’re still worried about what Konami is going to do with Pro Evolution Soccer”

FIFA producer: “We’re still worried about what Konami is going to do with Pro Evolution Soccer”

FIFA has eclipsed the PES brand - be it in popularity or in sales, but FIFA producer David Rutter has mentioned that their development team is not taking their competitors lightly. He also said that d... Read More

Dear Esther sells 100,000 units

Dear Esther sells 100,000 units

Dear Esther, the game from Thechineseroom sells 100,000 units. The studio announced this milestone on their website and also thanked people for supporting the game. The game is 50% off on Steam until ... Read More

First Trailer for E.X Troopers released by Capcom

First Trailer for E.X Troopers released by Capcom

Capcom has released a new trailer for E.X Troopers which is a Lost Planet Spin off, and the cell shaded visual style looks great. It's for the PS3 and 3DS, which is baffling, since they have ignored t... Read More

New Black Ops 2 trailer to air during Champions League final

New Black Ops 2 trailer to air during Champions League final

As if the prospect of a fist-fight between David Luiz and Franck Ribéry, or John Terry falling flat on his arse wasn't enough, a brand-spanking new Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 trailer will air at some ... Read More

Raptr giving away 15,000 free Xbox Live codes

Raptr giving away 15,000 free Xbox Live codes

Raptr, the game-tracking social networking site, is now offering to US-based users a chance to grab one of 15,000 one month Xbox Live codes. This follows on from their Minecraft code promotion wher... Read More

Blizzard apologizes for Diablo 3 issues, “our preparations were inadequate”

Blizzard apologizes for Diablo 3 issues, “our preparations were inadequate”

Blizzard has released a statement saying that they are sorry for the issues plaguing Diablo 3's launch and they have done everything they can to rectify that. "Despite very aggressive projections, ou... Read More