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Starcraft II Sold 721,000 units in the States in the first 48 hours of its release

Starcraft II Sold 721,000 units in the States in the first 48 hours of its release

After selling 1.5 million units in 48 hours next weak, Starcraft II officially became the fastest selling RTS of all time. Today, along with the July NPD Figures, the NPD Group also announced that aro... Read More

NPD July Figures Out, Xbox 360 Tops US Charts

NPD July Figures Out, Xbox 360 Tops US Charts

The NPD figures for July '10 are out, and this month seems to have been really good for the developers and publishers. With the combined US sales of non-PC game software, hardware, and accessories dec... Read More

Namco Bandai Announces Their Gamescom 2010 Line-up

Namco Bandai Announces Their Gamescom 2010 Line-up

Namco Bandai just announced the games that will make it to their Gamescom showfloor. Unfortunately, Test Drive Unlimited 2 will not show up, but here is the list of all the games that will: Ens... Read More

QuakeCon Pack On Steam Offers 27 Games For $69.99

QuakeCon Pack On Steam Offers 27 Games For $69.99

Steam had some pretty neat deals up until now, and now Steam is offering perhaps one of the best deals on the market now, 27 id and Bethesda games for a total of $69.99, each title breaks down to abou... Read More

Call of Duty: Black Ops Special Editions Revealed, Prestige Comes With Working RC Surveillance Car

Call of Duty: Black Ops Special Editions Revealed, Prestige Comes With Working RC Surveillance Car

There is of course the standard edition of the Call of Duty: Black Ops game coming out on November 9th and that will run you the standard $59.99.  Just recently though, the Hardened and Prestige Edit... Read More

Ubisoft Drops Controversial DRM For RUSE

Ubisoft Drops Controversial DRM For RUSE

Ubisoft's new DRM system for PC games has been quite controversial, for several reasons- it requires the player to stay connected to the net all the time if he or she is to play the game; it saves the... Read More

Lionhead: Fable 3 Was Inspired By Uncharted

Lionhead: Fable 3 Was Inspired By Uncharted

Boy, Molyneux sure loves Uncharted, huh? In an attempt to perhaps subtly hype up his upcoming RPG, the third game in the bestselling Fable series, Fable III, famed designer Peter Molyneux's Lionhea... Read More

Sony: Playstation Move Is Better Than Mouse and Keyboard

Sony: Playstation Move Is Better Than Mouse and Keyboard

Humility knows no bounds. It also doesn't know Sony, who are as arrogant as ever. Dr. Richard Marks, the man behind the Eyetoy, and now the upcoming Playstation Move, who has gone on record to stat... Read More

Metroid: Other M Made Its Creator Cry

Metroid: Other M Made Its Creator Cry

Are you apprehensive of the upcoming story based Metroid title, the oddly named Metroid: Other M? Are you afraid that the game might sacrfice detail and atmosphere for a narrative that may be cheesy a... Read More

RUMOUR ALERT: PSP 2 Inbound, And It’s An Android Based Mobile Phone

RUMOUR ALERT: PSP 2 Inbound, And It’s An Android Based Mobile Phone

Remember how right before E3, we had the rumour mill working overtime to bring us the insanest possible rumours on the then still unannounced 3DS, most of which turned out to be true? Yeah well, we'... Read More

NARUTO Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 gets release date

NARUTO Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 gets release date

The storm is rising in the east with confirmation today from NAMCO BANDAI of the European Collector's Edition of NARUTO Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The spec... Read More

Secrets Are Revealed In All-New Season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Secrets Are Revealed In All-New Season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Building on the huge ratings win from last spring’s second season finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Cartoon Network announced today it will premiere 22 all-new episodes for season three of the c... Read More

Castlevania: Lord of Shadows Special Edition Revealed

Castlevania: Lord of Shadows Special Edition Revealed

Game Planet, a Mexican retailer, just revealed the special edition of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. The Collector's Edition contains and art book, a soundtrack CD from the work of Óscar Araujo, a... Read More

Big Match Striker shows off its footballing intelligence

Big Match Striker shows off its footballing intelligence

Supermassive Game today revealed the latest screenshots, introducing Big Match IQ and the game’s achievements and awards, for their soon-to-be-launched game, Big Match Striker. The free-to-downlo... Read More

Dead Rising 2 Releasing Early In Europe

Dead Rising 2 Releasing Early In Europe

So, looks like the Europeans might be getting the better deal for once after all. Dead Rising 2, the sequel to Capcom's zombie shooter hit Dead Rising, has had its release date shifted up by a week, b... Read More

RUMOUR: Duke Nukem Forever Coming Soon, Courtsey of Gearbox

RUMOUR: Duke Nukem Forever Coming Soon, Courtsey of Gearbox

Duke Nukem Forever, once the most anticpated title in all of gamingdom, has degenerated in to a sort of sad joke, thanks in no small part to its release date, which was repeatedly pushed back over the... Read More

3DS Giving Gamescom A Miss

3DS Giving Gamescom A Miss

Nintendo's successor to its Nintendo DS handheld, the 3DS, got a hell of an unveiling at E3 earlier this year, with Nintendo devoting a sizeable chunk of their conference to the handheld wonder, which... Read More

Activision: Infinity Ward Will Return

Activision: Infinity Ward Will Return

That sounds ominous. Evil publisher Activision, best known for milking the crap out of any half decent money spinning game they get on their hands, and for curbing the creative process at their dev... Read More

Blizzard: PC Gaming Ain’t Going Anywhere

Blizzard: PC Gaming Ain’t Going Anywhere

The PC format, claim many sceptics, is dying out. They may have a point, as one sees increasingly late and poorly optimised ports of multiplatform games to the system, decreasing software sales, and a... Read More

Wii Sells 30 Million in US

Wii Sells 30 Million in US

Nintendo's motion sensing home console, Wii, has now sold a total of 30 million units in the United States (thanks, Nintendo Everything), in a record time of 45 months, 15 months quicker than the seco... Read More