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No Xbox 720 reveal this E3, confirms Microsoft

No Xbox 720 reveal this E3, confirms Microsoft

Microsoft has announced that, contrary to several rumours and speculations, the successor to the Xbox 360 won't be revealed at E3 this June, or "anytime soon". "While we appreciate all the interest... Read More

Mass Effect 3 co-op was originally a standalone spin-off online FPS

Mass Effect 3 co-op was originally a standalone spin-off online FPS

BioWare has revealed that it was originally planning to do a standalone competitive online FPS for the Mass Effect series called Mass Effect: Team Assault, but later integrated the idea into Mass Ef... Read More

Baldur’s Gate remake announced, not being developed by BioWare

Baldur’s Gate remake announced, not being developed by BioWare

After plenty of rumours and speculations, the announcement has finally been made- Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2- the classic BioWare PC RPGs- are being remade. However, they won't be developed ... Read More

Skyrim Gets Update 1.5, Adds Kill Cams, Improved Shadow Effects And Bug Fixes

Skyrim Gets Update 1.5, Adds Kill Cams, Improved Shadow Effects And Bug Fixes

[HTML1] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s 1.5 title update is now available as a Beta Update on Steam and will soon arrive on consoles. Update 1.5 features kill cameras for magic and ranged combat, ... Read More

Rising Star Games North American Office Kick Started, Phil Robinson Joins As VP Of Operations

Rising Star Games North American Office Kick Started, Phil Robinson Joins As VP Of Operations

Rising Star Games has opened up it's North American headquarters. Rising Star has appointed Phil Robinson as vice president of operations for the US office, where he will oversee all operations... Read More

Ridge Racer Vita gets a new trailer

Ridge Racer Vita gets a new trailer

Lack of content aside, Ridge Racer for the PS Vita looks fantastic. It's a great improvement over the 3DS version visually, but lacks in content  greatly. The game is available on the PSN Store fo... Read More

Solid Snake Enters Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “The Art Of Video Games”

Solid Snake Enters Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “The Art Of Video Games”

Images and video clips from Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty will be on display in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's new exhibition, "The Art of Video Games," which ope... Read More

New Max Payne 3 shows spectacular visual effects and cinematics

New Max Payne 3 shows spectacular visual effects and cinematics

We have a new trailer for you from Max Payne 3, and it looks spectacular. It showcases the visual effects and cinematics in the game, and I have to say, I'm impressed. The game will be released in ... Read More

Birds of Steel Out Now, Launch Trailer Inside

Birds of Steel Out Now, Launch Trailer Inside

[HTML1] Birds of Steel is shipping to retail stores. Developed by Gaijin Entertainment, Birds of Steel lets players take to the skies in over 100 famous fighters from the entire axis and allied fo... Read More

CBS Interactive buys Giant Bomb

CBS Interactive buys Giant Bomb

In an interesting turn of events, Giant Bomb has been bought out by CBS Interactive. Jeff Gerstmann was fired by Gamespot for his Kane and Lynch review ages ago, but now he has to go back and work... Read More

Heroes of Ruin – Customization Trailer shows a lot of possibilites

Heroes of Ruin – Customization Trailer shows a lot of possibilites

Heroes of Ruin has a lot of possibilities and this footage shows you why. The game will be released for the 3DS and looks pretty good. The game is being released by Square Enix, and we don't have the ... Read More

Journey Accolades trailer is here

Journey Accolades trailer is here

We have a new trailer for Journey which shows some of the critical acclaim the game received. I reviewed this game as well and gave it a solid score. You can check out the review here. The game is ... Read More

MoH: Warfighter “looks different from Battlefield”- Danger Close

MoH: Warfighter “looks different from Battlefield”- Danger Close

EA senior creative director Richard Farrelly says that Medal of Honor: Warfighter is much like Battlefield 3 in terms of realism, but even though the two games use the same engine- the stunning Fros... Read More

Diablo 3 release date confirmed

Diablo 3 release date confirmed

Diablo 3 has an official release date. Yes, no kidding. It really does. Blizzard has sent a PR and confirmed that the game will release on May 15th. Guess what? You can buy the game now itself, a... Read More

Pokemon Black and White 2 box arts released

Pokemon Black and White 2 box arts released

Nintendo has released the official Japanese box arts for their upcoming Pokemon Black and White 2. The boxes feature the two different forms of the new Dragon/Ice type legendary Pokemon, Kyurem. The... Read More

PS3 hacker Geohot arrested for possessing Marijuana

PS3 hacker Geohot arrested for possessing Marijuana

George Hotz aka Geohot was arrested in Texas after police found him in possession of Marijuana. He was headed to the annual SXSW conference. Now, most of you may know Geohot; he's the guy that hac... Read More

Obsidian reporting layoffs due to a next-gen Xbox project

Obsidian reporting layoffs due to a next-gen Xbox project

Obsidian, the studio behind the awesome Fallout: New Vegas and Alpha Protocol (it was awesome), are reporting some job cuts, which is extremely disappointing. It is being reported that they wer... Read More

Here’s how PSN security head is protecting the network

Here’s how PSN security head is protecting the network

Brett Wahlin was appointed as PSN's security chief after the devastating PSN hack last year, and he's someone who worked in the US military during the Cold War. Sony means business, and we pretty mu... Read More

Japanese hardware and software sales for this week revealed

Japanese hardware and software sales for this week revealed

Yes, the Vita hasn't gone below 10k units yet, in fact, it actually shows higher sales, by a whopping 18 units over last week. It sold 10, 041 units this week, and the 3DS sold 68k units and is show... Read More

Gravity Rush was inspired by Xbox 360’s Crackdown

Gravity Rush was inspired by Xbox 360’s Crackdown

This is an interesting revelation, as Gravity Rush director Keiichiro Toyama has mentioned on the US PS Blog that he was inspired by Crackdown a lot, and gave plenty of reasons to support it. ... Read More