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First Soul Calibur V Dev Diary

First Soul Calibur V Dev Diary

[HTML1] As if Odashima 's recent character tease tweet weren't enough to get our Soul Calibur buds salivating, now a developer diary with a few scant seconds of actual game footage shows up! Hint: ... Read More

Borderlands/Duke Nukem Dev: Wii U “A Really Cool Stop-Gap”

Borderlands/Duke Nukem Dev: Wii U “A Really Cool Stop-Gap”

Gearbox Software co-founder and Chief Creative officer Brian Martel referred to the Wii U, in a recent interview with IGN AU, as a "stop gap" between consoles, but assures us he still thinks it's fa... Read More

Nintendo Sued Over 3DS Tech

Nintendo Sued Over 3DS Tech

Spec-less 3D, the kind used on the 3DS screen, was patented by Tomita Technologies back in 2003. Tomita are now attempting to sue Nintendo over the alleged breach of copyright. According to the compla... Read More

Iwata Admits Wii U & 3DS Connection Has ‘Limitiations’

Iwata Admits Wii U & 3DS Connection Has ‘Limitiations’

Satoru Iwata was recently discussing the problems of Wii U and 3DS integration, apparently using the 3DS as a controller will involve sacrificing its Internet connection: "First, I would like to answe... Read More

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair confirmed for PSN

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair confirmed for PSN

The awesome multiplayer Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is confirmed for release on PSN. Having originally been XBLA exclusive, the game will now grace Sony's home console with local multiplayer ... Read More

Final L.A. Noire DLC gets a trailer

Final L.A. Noire DLC gets a trailer

[HTML1] The final DLC pack for L.A. Noire titled "Reefer Madness", features a Vice mission, seeing Phelps and Earle in “one of the city’s biggest narcotics rings.” It costs  320 MS points/£... Read More

Namco Bandai suing CDProjekt Red for shifting publishers of Xbox 360 version of Witcher 2 to THQ

Namco Bandai suing CDProjekt Red for shifting publishers of Xbox 360 version of Witcher 2 to THQ

According to a translated report from Polish site CDAction, Namco Bandai have filed a lawsuit against The Witcher 2 developers CDProjekt Red for switching publishers for the Xbox 360 version of t... Read More

Bethesda announces first person stealth action adventure game “Dishonored”

Bethesda announces first person stealth action adventure game “Dishonored”

Bethesda has just announced an all new first person, stealth action adventure game titled "Dishonored." It will be developed by Arkane Studios, which was bought out by Bethesda's parent company Ze... Read More

Take-Two trademarks Rockstar Films

Take-Two trademarks Rockstar Films

Take-Two Interactive recently filed a trademark for the name Rockstar Films, and the trademark has been approved. GTA/Red Dead/L.A. Noire film, anyone? “Animated motion picture films featuring en... Read More

Netflix on Wii U tablet “theoretically possible”- Reggie

Netflix on Wii U tablet “theoretically possible”- Reggie

During an interview with Forbes, when Reggie Files-Aime, Nintendo of America President, was asked if Netflix streaming can be done on the Wii U controller, he said it was "theoretically possible." ... Read More

Nintendo “creating an environment where software from other companies will become hits”

Nintendo “creating an environment where software from other companies will become hits”

Unlike the Wii, and the GCN, and the N64, Nintendo is actually looking to have strong third party support for the Wii U. "We think it very important to make several hits from the third-party softwa... Read More

Bethesda: “The big thing for us- the NPCs” for Skyrim

Bethesda: “The big thing for us- the NPCs” for Skyrim

Keep everything aside- the things Bethesda is focusing the most on in Skyrim are the NPCs,  the interaction, and how they act. They want to keep the NPCs' reactions to your actions realistic, an... Read More

“We’re extremely limited” by the Xbox 360 and the PS3, says Ubisoft

“We’re extremely limited” by the Xbox 360 and the PS3, says Ubisoft

The Xbox 360 and the PS3 have "very small memories and computation times", according to Ubisoft, and so, it can be pretty hard to make games on those systems with proper AI and good sound. "Our... Read More

Microsoft and Sony “testing the water” with next-gen home consoles

Microsoft and Sony “testing the water” with next-gen home consoles

As we all have guessed by now, Microsoft and Sony are not avoiding a new home console. Rather, they're testing waters for the next generation with Move and Kinect. Or so says 2K boss Christoph Hart... Read More

EA Talks Abut Why You Can’t Buy Its Games From Steam

EA Talks Abut Why You Can’t Buy Its Games From Steam

And apparently, it has nothing to do with its own competing download service, Origins. Speaking to gamers in a blog post,  EA's SVP of global online David DeMartini wrote 'games and how they are ... Read More

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Diablo III confirmed for Gamescom

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Diablo III confirmed for Gamescom

Blizzard has confirmed on their Battle.net blog that StarCraft II: Hearts of the Swarm and Diablo III will be present at Gamescom next month. Hearts of the Swarm's appearance will be “the first t... Read More

Torchlight crosses 1 million sales

Torchlight crosses 1 million sales

The Diablo inspired, Ruinic Games developed Torchlight has crossed sales figures of 1 million units across PCs, Macs and Xbox Live. The games looks a lot like Warcraft, and plays like Diablo- an ... Read More

Mass Effect: The Movie Annnounced For ComicCon

Mass Effect: The Movie Annnounced For ComicCon

A year ago, EA and Legendary Pictures (the people behind megatons like Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and a truckload of other movies), announced a deal that they would together be releasing a Mass ... Read More

Gears of War 3 Xbox 360 Bundle Now Available For Pre-Order at GAME

Gears of War 3 Xbox 360 Bundle Now Available For Pre-Order at GAME

UK game retailer store GAME has opened pre-orders for a Gears of War 3 Xbox 360 bundle at £270, and it will be delivered to you by this autumn. The bundle will include a 320GB Xbox 360 with G... Read More

Nintendo Talks About Wii U’s Online

Nintendo Talks About Wii U’s Online

Details on Wii U's online have been a bit sketchy since the system's announcement at this year's E3. Although we have repeatedly been assured that the online on this system will be a step up from th... Read More