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Final Fantasy 6 to hit EU Virtual Console

Final Fantasy 6 to hit EU Virtual Console

Final Fantasy 6 (or 3 as it was known during its original US launch) is set for release on the Wii's virtual console this friday. The game needs no introduction and can be yours for the paltry sum o... Read More

Earthrise gets patched

Earthrise gets patched

Masthead Studios, a leading independent developer of MMOs, announced today the first step in the implementation of its master development roadmap with the addition of exploration rewards to its MM... Read More

FF14 and Metal Gear Online shut down temporarily

FF14 and Metal Gear Online shut down temporarily

The recent natural disasters that have struck Japan have forced the servers for Final Fantasy 14 and Metal Gear Online to shut down temporarily. Square Enix has temporary halted service on Final... Read More

Beta patch released for Dragon Age 2 PC

Beta patch released for Dragon Age 2 PC

Bioware have released a beta patch for the PC version of Dragon Age 2. The beta patch version 1.1 fixes various issues involving save games, controls and a Steam-related problem where voiceovers... Read More

New gameplay details for Portal 2

New gameplay details for Portal 2

[HTML1] Valve have shown off some new Portal 2 gameplay at PAX East in Boston, USA, and have announced a new character, Cave Johnson. Johnson, who's voiced by JK Simmons, is the founder of Ape... Read More

Jagex to bring us a Transformers MMO in 2012

Jagex to bring us a Transformers MMO in 2012

Runescape dev Jagex has announced it's partnered with Hasbro to bring a Transformers MMO to PC in 2012. Hasbro, who hold the rights to the Transformers franchise, said they chose the studio bec... Read More

Hoard Release Date, Pricing Announced for Steam

Hoard Release Date, Pricing Announced for Steam

Big Sandwich Games today announced the upcoming release of the Steam version of their (reasonably) well acclaimed strategy arcade game Hoard. Hoard will release via Steam for your PC and Mac on Apr... Read More

New trailer for Operation Flashpoint: Red River

New trailer for Operation Flashpoint: Red River

[HTML1] Those kind chaps at Codemasters have graced our collective internet with another trailer for their upcoming FPS Operation Flashpoint: Red River. The trailer is held together by Sgt. Wil... Read More

WWE All Stars demo dated for March 22

WWE All Stars demo dated for March 22

THQ have confirmed that a WWE All Stars demo will launch in the UK on 22nd March for Xbox 360 and 23rd March for PS3. The demo will feature Rey Mysterio and The Ultimate Warrior, two characters fro... Read More

Prey 2 gets an announcement

Prey 2 gets an announcement

A sequel to the ridiculously awesome and criminally underrated FPS Prey has just been signed up by Bethesda. Set to be made by the previous game's developers, Human Head Studios, Prey 2 is sche... Read More

Incoming Demo For The New Mortal Kombat Game

Incoming Demo For The New Mortal Kombat Game

That's right the demo is actually now available for Playstation Plus users on the PS3, since March 8th actually while the rest of us can't get our hands on it until tomorrow, March 15th on the Plays... Read More

The New Secret World Trailer Shows Us a Different Kind of MMO

The New Secret World Trailer Shows Us a Different Kind of MMO

In case you missed it a trailer/dev diary was shown at GDC this year for The Secret World, which is an MMO that looks quite breathtaking.  The game is being developed by Funcom as well as co-publis... Read More

New Tribes: Ascend Trailer Brings the Franchise Back

New Tribes: Ascend Trailer Brings the Franchise Back

Straight from PAX '11 comes the new of the next Tribes game coming to Xbox Live Arcade and PC sometime this year entitled 'Tribes: Ascend'.  The original Tribes game was a sci-fi shooter that goes ... Read More

WTH: Homefront Ad scares Youtube Visitors

WTH: Homefront Ad scares Youtube Visitors

Talk about misleading advertisements.  Today, Australian users of Youtube saw an advertisement which was not only misleading but scary at the same time.  Apparently this advertisement showed Hilar... Read More

New Deus Ex: Human Revolution footage looks stunning

New Deus Ex: Human Revolution footage looks stunning

[HTML1] We've some brand new gameplay footage for Deus Ex: Human Revolution captured off-screen during Pax East 2011. The footage is accompanied by some nice commentary and the game's looking real... Read More

Disaster Report 4 cancelled due to Japan quake

Disaster Report 4 cancelled due to Japan quake

[HTML1] Irem has decided to can Disaster Report 4 completely in the wake of the recent earthquake and tsunami which hit Japan last week. This news comes via a tweet: Wow, Irem outright cancels D... Read More

Tsunami washes away thousands of PS3s and Xbox 360s in Japan

Tsunami washes away thousands of PS3s and Xbox 360s in Japan

Japan faced a major natural disaster a few days ago when a earthquake measuring 8.9 on the ricter scale shook the nation, followed immediately by a disastrous tsunami. The gaming industry also ... Read More

Rachet & Clank: All 4 One to support 3D

Rachet & Clank: All 4 One to support 3D

Sony's confirmed that R&C: All 4 One will come with full 3D support. Joystiq's made this discovery after viewing a CNBC interview. Rachet and Clank: All 4 One will also be supporting four ... Read More

Batman: Arkham City takes about 20-24 hours to complete

Batman: Arkham City takes about 20-24 hours to complete

Dax Ginn, has stated that Batman: Arkham City's main storyline would take about eight hours to complete while if you'll explore the entire game, completing the side-quests, etc, it'll take you aroun... Read More

Shadow Complex 2 is Coming, We Just Don’t Know When

Shadow Complex 2 is Coming, We Just Don’t Know When

There has been some talk of Shadow Complex 2 but now we have pretty much a confirmation that it will happen. Creative director, Donald Mustard has for the most part confirmed the Xbox Live Arcade s... Read More