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Development on Fallout MMO resuming?

Development on Fallout MMO resuming?

A report stating that Bethesda, the developers behind Fallout 3, have dropped their appeal for an injuction against Interplay may result in work on a possible Fallout MMO (Project V13) continuing. ... Read More

New Halo Reach ViDoc

New Halo Reach ViDoc

A new ViDoc for Halo Reach has just been released, and it's showing off a lot of gameplay. Designers and artists at Bungie discuss their favourite weapons, their anticipations and their hopes for t... Read More

Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing releases today

Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing releases today

The first DLC for Left 4 Dead 2 has been released today. Check out the official release video and PR below. Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortres... Read More

Bungie: 3 Million people expected to play Reach beta

Bungie: 3 Million people expected to play Reach beta

Bungie community manager Brian Jarrard stated that the studio expects at least 3 million people to play the Halo: Reach Beta when it kicks off in a week-and-a-half from now. “My expectation is i... Read More

Over 320K Warcraft III and Diablo II accounts banned

Over 320K Warcraft III and Diablo II accounts banned

Blizzard has dropped the ban hammer on over 300,000 Warcraft and Diablo players for violating the terms of use. The developer behind the RTS and RPG games stated in a forum post, "If this is a firs... Read More

Mammoth update arrives today for PC version of Bad Company 2

Mammoth update arrives today for PC version of Bad Company 2

A very large update is available for download from today, fixing many of the issues that have been around since launch. Included are bug fixes, glitch fixes, crash fixes and weapon tweaks. Check ou... Read More

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Gets New Kit Upgrades & Achievements

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Gets New Kit Upgrades & Achievements

Ok, let me start off by saying that the header title might be a little misleading.  I say this because currently it only applies to the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.  Now eventuall... Read More

Splinter Cell: Conviction makes it to the top of the UK charts

Splinter Cell: Conviction makes it to the top of the UK charts

With Splinter Cell: Conviction just recently released, it already made it to the top of the UK charts! While Conviction secured 1st place, Just Dance took 2nd place,  Episodes from Liberty City in... Read More

New Marvel Vs Capcom 3 Trailer

New Marvel Vs Capcom 3 Trailer

Marvel Vs Capcom 3 was announced last week at Captivate in Hawaii, and today a guy on Youtube uploaded the announcement trailer for Marvel Vs Capcom 3: The trailer features Wolverine, Ryu, Iron Man, ... Read More

Ubisoft launches Eco-friendly packaging for games

Ubisoft launches Eco-friendly packaging for games

Today Ubisoft announced an environmental initiative to eliminate paper game manuals, replacing them with an in-game digital manual for all titles on PlayStation 3  and Xbox 360. The program, the firs... Read More

Tony Hawk’s next game is probably subtitled “Shred”

Tony Hawk’s next game is probably subtitled “Shred”

In one of his tweets earlier this evening, skateboarding pro Tony Hawk revealed the name of what we think is his next project titled, Tony Hawk: Shred. "There, I said it. Actually, I named it. Som... Read More

The Playstation Network is under attack

The Playstation Network is under attack

Numerous PSN users have been reporting that scammers have infiltrated the Playstation Network and are stealing users account details. A number of chain emails containing URL's to Playstation Networ... Read More

Activision Bigwig Promises New Call of Duty Will Broaden Audience

Activision Bigwig Promises New Call of Duty Will Broaden Audience

Activision has announced that there is a third studio working on material for the Call of Duty franchise. Here's how Thomas Tippl, COO and CFO of Activision, presented the news: “Today, we hav... Read More

Capcom Reveals More Playable Guest Characters in Lost Planet 2

Capcom Reveals More Playable Guest Characters in Lost Planet 2

Eurogamer reports that Capcom has silenced speculation over bonus player characters in Lost Planet 2 by releasing more information concerning which characters will be unlockable. As already revealed... Read More

First Halo Reach Multiplayer Beta Gameplay Emerges

First Halo Reach Multiplayer Beta Gameplay Emerges

The latest episode of GTTV shows some blood-curdling, eye-wateringly cool footage from the multiplayer beta of Halo Reach. As well as footage, Bungie answers questions on the game such as why there... Read More

U.S Dsi XL Sold 14,000 Units In Its Debut Month

U.S Dsi XL Sold 14,000 Units In Its Debut Month

According to a post-NPD report from Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, Nintendo's new upsized handheld, the Dsi XL, had very good sales debut in the U.S in March. The DSi XL didn't arrive Stateside u... Read More

Square Enix: Unannounced game will shock you

Square Enix: Unannounced game will shock you

As you might already know, Square Enix Japan's twitter talk is teasing a new unannouned game, and so is Square Enix USA. “Oh and working on stuff for an unannounced game,” Assistant Director of... Read More

Left 4 Dead 2 DLC hits next week

Left 4 Dead 2 DLC hits next week

The new DLC for L4D2 called "The Passing", will be available on next week according to the official site of L4D2 Because the Left 4 Dead team combined with the Left 4 Dead 2 team, Valve revealed th... Read More

Crytek believes that free demos should come to an end

Crytek believes that free demos should come to an end

In a recent Interview with Develop ,Crytek’s co-founder Cevat Yerli said he wasn’t sure that a demo of Crysis 2 was going to be released, but he also said that game demos are a "a luxury” that b... Read More

Crytek working very closely on Natal and Move

Crytek working very closely on Natal and Move

The firm's CEO Cevat Yeri told Develop that his studio, Crytek, is “working very closely with Sony and Microsoft in regards to motion control on both the PS3 and Xbox 360”, he then compensated his... Read More