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Project Icarus Gets A Reveal Date

Project Icarus Gets A Reveal Date

The teaser site www.whatisicarus.com has been going on for a while now, with only a black screen and a small grey circle, but now there is an actual date for the reveal of the game, and that grey circ... Read More

Valve’s New Project Called DotA

Valve’s New Project Called DotA

John St. John, the man behind the famous voice of Duke Nukem, has revealed Valve's new project, called DotA. John actually used his voice for the game, so that explains his reveal. "Had a great ... Read More

THQ: Saints Row 3 ‘matches GTA IV graphics’

THQ: Saints Row 3 ‘matches GTA IV graphics’

According to THQ, their upcoming Saints Row 3 will match the graphics of the 2008 Grand Theft Auto 4. "Quality. Look at the visual quality of Saint's Row 2. When you see Saints Row 3, it's the visu... Read More

Call of Duty Black Ops – Multiplayer Teaser

Call of Duty Black Ops – Multiplayer Teaser

Treyarch has JUST released another Black Ops Teaser! This teaser specifically focuses on the multiplayer action in Black Ops! Check it out below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwCqJe39XfcRead More

Nintendo: We Still Have A Lot of Work to do Before Games Are Socially Acceptable

Nintendo: We Still Have A Lot of Work to do Before Games Are Socially Acceptable

Nintendo obviously has a vested interest in ensuring that games gain increasing social acceptance. The firm, which is more than a hundred years old, now focusses exclusively on video games, which ther... Read More

James Bond Blood Stone Team Unconcerned by Head to Head with Goldeneye 007

James Bond Blood Stone Team Unconcerned by Head to Head with Goldeneye 007

With James Bond Blood Stone all set for a November release, there are many who have pointed out that Activision is spamming the market with their first person shooters that month. Two of those are Bon... Read More

Fable III Kinect prototypes unsatisfactory, says Molyneux

Fable III Kinect prototypes unsatisfactory, says Molyneux

Peter (Bald) Molyneux says he wasn't very satisfied with early Fable III Kinect prototypes, so it got delayed for Microsoft's upcoming motion sensing camera. Molyneux says the original Fable III Ki... Read More

Kinect will identify sign language, my middle finger is twitching real bad

Kinect will identify sign language, my middle finger is twitching real bad

Kinect will not only identify body movements, detect our faces, and identify our voices, it'll also understand sign language. It's pretty intelligent, but we may not look it when we play on it. But ma... Read More

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light dated, DLC announced

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light dated, DLC announced

The DLC campaign starts on August 18 with the release of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light as part of Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade programme on XBLA. The game is the first fully downloadable arca... Read More

Civilisation V Technical Requirements Revealed

Civilisation V Technical Requirements Revealed

So, we have the technical requirements for Civilisation V, and they're quite universal. You won't need a HAL 9000 to run the game, unlike some Sci-Fi Alien Shooters (coughcough*Crysis*coughcough). ... Read More

Homefront ‘won’t beat Call of Duty,’ says THQ

Homefront ‘won’t beat Call of Duty,’ says THQ

Jon Rooke, THQ's head of marketting, says their upcoming First Person Shooter, Homefront, will not be able to defeat Call of Duty and replace it as the genre's definitive title. He says trying to m... Read More

Kinect- 250 GB Hard Drive Bundle

Kinect- 250 GB Hard Drive Bundle

The box which will be housing the 4GB Kinect bundle in Australia has apparently revealed a 250GB Hard Drive Kinect bundle as well. The only percievable difference between the two, as of now, is that t... Read More

‘City of Football’ Trademarked by Namco Bandai

‘City of Football’ Trademarked by Namco Bandai

Following the footsteps of EA, Konami, and very recently, Ubisoft, Namco Bandai have trademarked the name 'City of Football,' indicating that they might be branching out into the soccer sim genre soon... Read More

Amazing Rickroll Crysis Mod

Amazing Rickroll Crysis Mod

For all of you who dont know what Rickrolling is, then we have got the definition for you straight from wikipedia. Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 R... Read More

Gran Turismo 5 still not complete

Gran Turismo 5 still not complete

This is becoming a bit ridiculous. Gran Turismo 5 now in to it's sixth year of development and Polyphony boss Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that the game is not done yet. He tweeted: "GT5 is getting ... Read More

Chart Track Weekly Charts: Week ending 7 August 2010

Chart Track Weekly Charts: Week ending 7 August 2010

Toy Story 3 is ruling the roost again, according to the Chart Track Weekly Charts: Week ending 7 August 2010. Surprisingly Modern Warfare 2 came a strong second. Check the entire listing below: ... Read More

Red Dead Redemption – Legends and Killers DLC Trailer

Red Dead Redemption – Legends and Killers DLC Trailer

The Legends and Killers DLC pack will be available on August 10th for 800 Microsoft points or $10.  The new trailer explains it all, with the addition of tomahawks, mulitplayer maps, challenges, Red ... Read More

Bulletstorm Developers Had To ‘fight console’s lack of memory’

Bulletstorm Developers Had To ‘fight console’s lack of memory’

The Bulletstorm developers have revealed that they had problem with the console versions of Bulletstorm, due to their lack of memory. "That's the funniest thing. It's not the console power that we'... Read More

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Will Be Released In 2010

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Will Be Released In 2010

It looks like World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will not be delayed into 2011, Activision Blizzard confirmed last night that title title will hit store shelves in 2010. "We are heading into the strength... Read More

Engineers Turn Robot Arm into F1 Ferrari Simulator

Engineers Turn Robot Arm into F1 Ferrari Simulator

Engineers are one hell of a breed. They can literally turn anything in to well...anything. The engineers at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, Germany have turned a robotic... Read More