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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

New XBL MS points will be US-only (for now)

New XBL MS points will be US-only (for now)

The new XBL Microsoftpoints system that has been suggested by the users allows gamers to buy 400 points instead of 500 points (which makes sense if you only want 800 points) will be coming only to the... Read More

March NPD figures

March NPD figures

This month's NPD's are in,looks like God of War 3 has sold the most this month, while it didn't sell great, it still sold very well, and made it to the top of the software list which is pretty impress... Read More

Atomic Operations Announces Fat Princess Biggest Fan Contest

Atomic Operations Announces Fat Princess Biggest Fan Contest

According to the PR release: Are you the King or Queen of Fat Princess? Have you ruled the rankings? Have you directed some award-winning Fat Princess machinima? Do you love cake more than the Prin... Read More

‘DRM vital to our business’ says Ubisoft

‘DRM vital to our business’ says Ubisoft

Ubisofts creative director Maxime Béland has told VG247 in an interview that DRM is vital to the developer's success. He said that the heavy DRM now attached to new Ubisoft releases is helping the c... Read More