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Sony Confirms PSN Pass Program

Sony Confirms PSN Pass Program

This one time online pass thing is really becoming a widespread epidemic. After EA's Online Pass strategy to combat lost revenue from second hand sales, other publishers have also fallen suit. The m... Read More

Nintendo: We Will Not Make Games For the iPhone

Nintendo: We Will Not Make Games For the iPhone

If today's announcement of the impending release of a Pokemon app for the iPhone and Android had you all excited that you'd soon be able to play some more Nintendo games on your smartphones, well ... Read More

Japanese Sales Charts: 3DS Outsells PSP, Tales of the Abyss Tops Software Charts

Japanese Sales Charts: 3DS Outsells PSP, Tales of the Abyss Tops Software Charts

The 3DS has had it rough, and that's no secret. After a record setting launch, it has struggled in all regions, consistently being outsold by the PSP, and sometimes even the DS, everywhere. Thankful... Read More

Xbox Live down, Microsoft working to “resolve the issue”

Xbox Live down, Microsoft working to “resolve the issue”

Xbox Live is down. What the hell? The online service is "experiencing technical difficulties" but Microsoft is aware of the situation and is working to "resolve the issue." Microsoft released a st... Read More

FIFA 12 – How Player Vision Attributes Will Affect Gameplay

FIFA 12 – How Player Vision Attributes Will Affect Gameplay

[HTML1] FIFA 12 Gameplay Producer Santiago Jaramillo  guides us through the vision aspect of 'Pro Player Intelligence' in the aforementioned football game. Take it away Santiago...Read More

Rocksteady On Robin’s Characterisation

Rocksteady On Robin’s Characterisation

As we all know, Robin will have a major role in Arkham City. Rocksteady define their new character as "introverted", "troubled" and "dangerous and aggressive if provoked." "We wanted to create ... Read More

Two New Soul Calibur V Characters Teased

Two New Soul Calibur V Characters Teased

  “Show anymore & I'm in trouble,” tweeted Soul Calibur mastermind Daishi Odashima earlier today. The characters, outlined above, shall be announced at ComicCon in two weeks time. ... Read More

Arkham City Developer: Villains Can’t ‘Just Develop Superhuman Strength Because It Makes Gameplay Sense’

Arkham City Developer: Villains Can’t ‘Just Develop Superhuman Strength Because It Makes Gameplay Sense’

Back in 2009, and probably still now, a lot of folks though Arkham Asylum was good. Game of the year good. One minor complaint amongst all of the games high points though, were the bossfights. We go... Read More

Gears Of War Developer ‘Dying To Be Part Of Kinect’

Gears Of War Developer ‘Dying To Be Part Of Kinect’

It seems suddenly everyone wants be part of the Kinect family. Epic Games' Mark Rein recently spoke out, in an interview with OXM, about how he hopes to make the marriage of the Unreal Engine 3 and ... Read More

Pokemon Coming To Smartphones?

Pokemon Coming To Smartphones?

Despite Nintendo's famous misgivings about smartphones, it seems that a Pokemon app called Pokemon Iie Tap (roughly Pokemon: Say Tap?) will be foraging its way to iOS and Android. It seems to be a rhy... Read More

Final Fantasy Type-0 80% complete, may get delayed

Final Fantasy Type-0 80% complete, may get delayed

North American RPG fans- rejoice! Square Enix has announced that their upcoming PSP title, Final Fantasy Type-0 might just get a North American release date. Nothing has been confirmed yet, but it... Read More

Duke Nukem Forever sales disappointing, says analyst

Duke Nukem Forever sales disappointing, says analyst

Duke Nukem Forever's sales may be half as low as they were initially expected to be, says Wedbush Morgan, analyst.  "We had previously expected Duke to be one of the year's top sellers due to a ... Read More

Square Enix sues Italian Deus Ex: Human Revolution hackers

Square Enix sues Italian Deus Ex: Human Revolution hackers

Square Enix has filed a lawsuit against some unknown Italian individuals, for hacking into Deus Ex: Human Revolution's preview only copy, to be given to select press sites/magazines, and distributin... Read More

Deus Ex: Human Revolution- 12 Minutes of Gameplay With Director Commentary

Deus Ex: Human Revolution- 12 Minutes of Gameplay With Director Commentary

[HTML1] IGN has posted an all new twelve minute long video with shows gameplay footage of an entire level halfway through Deus Ex: Human Revolution, combining stealth and combat, with director commen... Read More

Bethesda will support Wii U if it’s powerful enough

Bethesda will support Wii U if it’s powerful enough

"Our motto has always been: We want to make our games available to the widest audience possible on whatever platforms that will support the game," Pete Hines,  Bethesda's VP of PR and marketing, ... Read More

Cave Story 3DS Trailer!

Cave Story 3DS Trailer!

[HTML1] In a bid to compensate for Cave Story being pushed back to a November release, we get this trailer. It's bizarre seeing the game in motion and comparing to the original indie release. Does ... Read More

Skyrim Developer Q&A (It’s Big)

Skyrim Developer Q&A (It’s Big)

Bathesda have released an extensive Q&A on the upcoming fifth Elder Scrolls game; Skyrim. It covers everything from bar brawls to cosmetic options and the impact of dragons on the environment. He... Read More

English Language Catherine Demo Hits XBLA & PSN This Week

English Language Catherine Demo Hits XBLA & PSN This Week

Tired of trying to work though that Japanese demo you downloaded on your alternative PSN/XBLA account? Maybe you weren't that desperate? Regardless, Atlus USA will be releasing the English language Ca... Read More

Sony: Piracy Has Affected The PS3 ‘To An Extent’

Sony: Piracy Has Affected The PS3 ‘To An Extent’

Piracy has been affecting video games for a long time. It's a no brainer that piracy is more rampant in Asia compared to the West. In an interesting interview with IndianVideoGamer, Atindriya B... Read More

Battlefield 3: No Modding Tools Due To Complex Frostbite Engine

Battlefield 3: No Modding Tools Due To Complex Frostbite Engine

 [HTML1] During an interview with German gaming magazine, GameStar, EA DICE's Patrick Söderlund has confirmed that Battlfield 3 will not support modding. The game will not ship with modding tools d... Read More