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Halo 2 Maps Being Remade For Halo: Reach

Halo 2 Maps Being Remade For Halo: Reach

If you are a long term fan of the Halo franchise, you will instantly recognize 2 new maps that will make their way into Reach. These two maps are Ivory Tower and Midship, except for the fact that th... Read More

Now Create Your Own PS3 Themes

Now Create Your Own PS3 Themes

Should you set that car theme as your PlayStation 3 theme? But no, surely that anime one is better. But hey, that babe is hot! Hmm... Now take matters into your own hands (and no, this isn't an add c... Read More

EA: FIFA 11 Wii Will Not Be ‘Stripped Down,’; No Plans to Support Kinect or Move in FIFA Games Yet

EA: FIFA 11 Wii Will Not Be ‘Stripped Down,’; No Plans to Support Kinect or Move in FIFA Games Yet

Just in case you haven't checked out our exclusive interview with EA Sports about their upcoming soccer sim, FIFA 11, click here to do so now. When GB asked EA Sports' David Rutter about any plans ... Read More

UFC Undisputed Making Its Way To The PSP

UFC Undisputed Making Its Way To The PSP

THQ has just announced that UFC Undisputed will come to the PSP on September 7. "All the action, intensity and prestige of the Ultimate Fighting Championship with intelligent and intuitive combat, ... Read More

Black Ops is ‘Classic Call of Duty’ Fare

Black Ops is ‘Classic Call of Duty’ Fare

Treyarch's upcoming first person shooter, Call of Duty: Black Ops, will be a 'classic CoD' game, and will stick to the script written by Infinity Ward back in 2003, so many years ago... back when I sa... Read More

Naughty Dog Believes They Can Get More Out Of The PS3

Naughty Dog Believes They Can Get More Out Of The PS3

Even with Uncharted 2 being one of the best graphical games to date, Naughty Dog believes it can do even better with their next title. Naughty Dog have previously claimed that they pushed the PS3 t... Read More

“Best Fighting Game on the Planet”, Tekken 6 Sells 3 Million

“Best Fighting Game on the Planet”, Tekken 6 Sells 3 Million

Tekken 6 has now officially sold 3 million units world-wide, Namco Bandai confirms, taking the grand total of the Tekken franchise to a whomping (willow) 39 million units. Tekken 6 sold 1 million u... Read More

Konami Profits Boost 245%

Konami Profits Boost 245%

Konami, Japanese publishers of the world-famous franchises Metal Gear and Castlevania, have reported a profit of 245% in Q1 of  their foscal year, as compared to the same period of last year, confirm... Read More

Kaka Graces FIFA 11 Trailer and Boxart

Kaka Graces FIFA 11 Trailer and Boxart

Kaka, legendary Brazilian footballer, will be featured on the FIFA 11 boxart, just like Wayne Rooney did FIFA 10, who will be accompanying Kaka (Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite) on the latest FIFA in... Read More

Okamiden Trailer

Okamiden Trailer

Okamiden, exclusive sequel to the much acclaimed and beloved artistic masterpiece Okami will be releasing soon on the DS. However, the fact that it is is a sequel to a console game on a handheld may ... Read More

Nathan Hale and Clank Visiting Gotham

Nathan Hale and Clank Visiting Gotham

David Kaye, the voice actor of Nathan Hale in Insomniac's famous shooter series Resistance and Clank in Insomniac's famous platformer series, Ratchet and Clank, will be voicing a character in the upc... Read More

Warren Spector: Epic Mickey on the PS3 and the 360 ‘could happen’

Warren Spector: Epic Mickey on the PS3 and the 360 ‘could happen’

When asked if Epic Mickey, upcoming Disney Interactive video game exclusively for the Wii, would ever come over to the 360 and the PS3, Warren Spector, Lead Designer, in an interview with Atomicgamer ... Read More

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days – Lynch “psychopath” vignette

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days – Lynch “psychopath” vignette

Square Enix have released a new video for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days which shows Lynch bad mouthing and shooting the bad guys. Check the video below: Stay tuned with GB for the complete revi... Read More

Castlevania Harmony of Despair available from Xbox LIVE Arcade

Castlevania Harmony of Despair available from Xbox LIVE Arcade

Konami announced Castlevania Harmony of Despair is now available for download through the Xbox Summer of Arcade program exclusively for Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. Renowned gam... Read More

Conduit Developer Gets Hit By Layoffs

Conduit Developer Gets Hit By Layoffs

High Voltage Software, developer of last year's Wii exclusive shooter The Conduit, as well as the upcoming The Grinder and Conduit 2, has been hit by a spate of layoffs, it has been confirmed. Spea... Read More

Nintendo: We Are Developing Wii’s Successor and We’re Not Going To Tell You About It Because We Like to Surprise People

Nintendo: We Are Developing Wii’s Successor and We’re Not Going To Tell You About It Because We Like to Surprise People

Nintendo head honcho Saturo Iwata has gone on record to state in an investor's meeting recently that the company is currently developing the successor to its bestselling Wii console. Of course, he has... Read More

Rare: We Want To End Wii Sports’ Dominance

Rare: We Want To End Wii Sports’ Dominance

Talk about the progeny turning its back on the progenitor. Rare, Nintendo's premiere in house developer at one time and now Microsoft's not so premiere developer, has stated that it has no qualms ... Read More

Sony: Kinect is ‘Limited’; Ubisoft: Kinect is the ‘Future’

Sony: Kinect is ‘Limited’; Ubisoft: Kinect is the ‘Future’

Hey, I always wanted to do that. Two contradictory quotes in the headline FTW! Anyway, in what should come as a surprise to no one, Sony have apparently stated that Microsoft's upcoming controller-... Read More

Crytek’s Kingdoms is no Kratos rip off

Crytek’s Kingdoms is no Kratos rip off

There have been comparisons between Crytek;ss Kingdom and Kratos's Kingdome for some time now. But Crytek has dismissed all such comparisons. Crytek boss Cervat Yerli has said that the game is nothing... Read More

Kinect Lag is the fault of the game, not the hardware

Kinect Lag is the fault of the game, not the hardware

Lag in motion sensing devices has been an issue for some time now and it was a matter of time before people actually started to find lag in Kinect as well. However according to the Chief Technology Of... Read More