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Morally offended by Hot Coffee? Get a settlement!

Morally offended by Hot Coffee? Get a settlement!

Take Two is now voluntarily issuing cheques to all those offended by the infamous Hot Coffee scenes found in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. [NSFW] Cheques range from $5 to $35 for anyone offende... Read More

Developing CryEngine 3 for consoles was ‘challenging’

Developing CryEngine 3 for consoles was ‘challenging’

Crytek has revealed that developing CryEngine 3 for the consoles as well as PC was not without its challenges. In an interview with GameReactor, Crytek stated they were very much in favour of devel... Read More

Attendee arrested trying to steal game from PAX East [Updates!]

Attendee arrested trying to steal game from PAX East [Updates!]

An attendee at the PAX East show attempted to steal the code for Breach, an XBLA game by Atomic Games, from the show floor. Justin D. May, 20, may well have succeeded if not for one fairly signific... Read More

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 VIP Map Pack 2 Trailer

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 VIP Map Pack 2 Trailer

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will be its second map pack tomorrow, March 30th.  This map pack for Bad Company 2 is not actually new maps, but instead you will now be able to play Arica Harbor in Conq... Read More

The Secret World Trailer Shows Some In-Game Footage

The Secret World Trailer Shows Some In-Game Footage

Here is a new trailer for The Secret World showing some in-game footage finally.  The Secret World is an MMO-RPG by game developer/publisher Funcom.  The game will have no classes to choose from and... Read More

Major Nelson’s gamertag hacked

Major Nelson’s gamertag hacked

Xbox's Larry Hyrb, aka Major Nelson has had his Xbox Live account profile hacked. VG247 states that is profile now claims that any Live account could be hacked for $100 via Paypal, and states, 'I'M... Read More

Mass Effect 3 will use Unreal 3 engine

Mass Effect 3 will use Unreal 3 engine

The last two Mass Effect games have both used the Unreal 3 engine- and according to Epic's Mark Rein, Mass Effect 3 will be no different. Speaking in an interview with Develop earlier, Rein sai... Read More

Just Cause 2 overthrows GOWIII from top spot in UK Charts

Just Cause 2 overthrows GOWIII from top spot in UK Charts

Just Cause 2 has become this week's #1 in the latest Uk charts. It has overthrown God of War III from it's throne (#1 Position) last week. Full Top 10 List below: 1 – Just Cause 2 (Avalanche/... Read More

Ex-Pandemic lot forms new studio, DownSized Games

Ex-Pandemic lot forms new studio, DownSized Games

Ex-Vets from EA Pandemic has set up a new studio with the name DownSized Games. Their first game is called BulletTrain, a title for iPhone and iPod Touch. No release date as to when it'll hit the... Read More

PS3 Firmware 3.21 to disable ability to run other Operating Systems

PS3 Firmware 3.21 to disable ability to run other Operating Systems

As you may have known, all non-slim Ps3 systems had an option to run other operating systems such as Linux, but the following PS3 firmware update (3.21) is going to disable that ability, forcing al... Read More

Jaffe’s new game will absolutely have DLC

Jaffe’s new game will absolutely have DLC

Eat, Sleep Play boss David Jaffe confirmed that his studio's new project will "absolutely" have DLC. Jaffe: "We absolutely will be doing DLC with our new game," said Jaffe on the latest Bonus Round... Read More

New Ghost Recon: Future Soldier clip will make your jaws drop

New Ghost Recon: Future Soldier clip will make your jaws drop

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is undoubtedly one of the bigger titles that will grace the gaming world this fall. As with the norm these days, developers are also putting their efforts in to making shor... Read More

Ubisoft to compensate gamers affected by DDOS attack

Ubisoft to compensate gamers affected by DDOS attack

Ubisoft's Digital Right Management system isn't exactly a hit among the gamers. As we all know in retaliation to this some naughty people were able to DDOS'd the Ubisoft servers. Now in order to pac... Read More

Capcom changes the date for Lost Planet 2, demo on the way

Capcom changes the date for Lost Planet 2, demo on the way

Lost Planet 2, which was originally slated for May 18th, will be released on May 11th for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, and in the Fall for the PC. Capcom have also announced that a new demo will... Read More

Heavy Rain might support Playstation Move

Heavy Rain might support Playstation Move

Heavy Rain, one of this years biggest exclusive PS3 titles is now rumored to feature the ability to use Playstation Move, with a few already existing games that will support Move, such as Little Big P... Read More

“First-parties to define Natal” according to Rare

“First-parties to define Natal” according to Rare

Rare thinks that Microsoft's First-party studios will be the ones that will define Natal. “I suppose at Microsoft it’s about, overall, having the right content from first-party studios to defin... Read More

Steam Mac beta begins today!

Steam Mac beta begins today!

Calling all Mac gamers- grab your Steam beta while you can! Go here to sign up. First make a Steam account, then sign up! It's all free, naturally. [caption id="attachment_7490" align="aligncent... Read More

Ubisoft taking a more “sands of time” approach in Forgotten Sands

Ubisoft taking a more “sands of time” approach in Forgotten Sands

Jan-Erik Sjovall, the animation director behind POP: The Forgotten Sands stated that Ubisoft's taking a "Sands of time" approach in The Forgotten Sands. Sjovall added that although the 2008 Prince... Read More

Mafia 2 gets official cover art

Mafia 2 gets official cover art

2K have just published Mafia 2's official box art, which in my opinion looks brilliant! Have a look at it yourselves (Xbox 360 Version): Mafia 2 is set to release on August 24th for the US and ... Read More

Fat Princess Patch 1.05

Fat Princess Patch 1.05

The hit game Fat Princess has been patched to version 1.05, and like most of its patches, it fixes some bugs and stuff here and there, but we don't really care about that, the big thing is that again ... Read More