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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Diablo III confirmed for Gamescom

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Diablo III confirmed for Gamescom

Blizzard has confirmed on their Battle.net blog that StarCraft II: Hearts of the Swarm and Diablo III will be present at Gamescom next month. Hearts of the Swarm's appearance will be “the first t... Read More

Torchlight crosses 1 million sales

Torchlight crosses 1 million sales

The Diablo inspired, Ruinic Games developed Torchlight has crossed sales figures of 1 million units across PCs, Macs and Xbox Live. The games looks a lot like Warcraft, and plays like Diablo- an ... Read More

Mass Effect: The Movie Annnounced For ComicCon

Mass Effect: The Movie Annnounced For ComicCon

A year ago, EA and Legendary Pictures (the people behind megatons like Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and a truckload of other movies), announced a deal that they would together be releasing a Mass ... Read More

Gears of War 3 Xbox 360 Bundle Now Available For Pre-Order at GAME

Gears of War 3 Xbox 360 Bundle Now Available For Pre-Order at GAME

UK game retailer store GAME has opened pre-orders for a Gears of War 3 Xbox 360 bundle at £270, and it will be delivered to you by this autumn. The bundle will include a 320GB Xbox 360 with G... Read More

Nintendo Talks About Wii U’s Online

Nintendo Talks About Wii U’s Online

Details on Wii U's online have been a bit sketchy since the system's announcement at this year's E3. Although we have repeatedly been assured that the online on this system will be a step up from th... Read More

Microsoft: Kinect Failed in Japan

Microsoft: Kinect Failed in Japan

Microsoft's Kinect, the motion sensing add on peripheral to its successful Xbox 360 c0nsole, may go down in history as the highest selling video game peripheral of all time, but for Microsoft Japa... Read More

Nintendo Confirms the Wii U is 3D Capable

Nintendo Confirms the Wii U is 3D Capable

In spite of Nintendo's repeated assertions to the contrary, head honcho Satoru Iwata has confirmed to Mercury News that the Wii U, its upcoming console, and successor to the Wii, will in fact be 3D ... Read More

Sony Confirms PSN Pass Program

Sony Confirms PSN Pass Program

This one time online pass thing is really becoming a widespread epidemic. After EA's Online Pass strategy to combat lost revenue from second hand sales, other publishers have also fallen suit. The m... Read More

Nintendo: We Will Not Make Games For the iPhone

Nintendo: We Will Not Make Games For the iPhone

If today's announcement of the impending release of a Pokemon app for the iPhone and Android had you all excited that you'd soon be able to play some more Nintendo games on your smartphones, well ... Read More

Japanese Sales Charts: 3DS Outsells PSP, Tales of the Abyss Tops Software Charts

Japanese Sales Charts: 3DS Outsells PSP, Tales of the Abyss Tops Software Charts

The 3DS has had it rough, and that's no secret. After a record setting launch, it has struggled in all regions, consistently being outsold by the PSP, and sometimes even the DS, everywhere. Thankful... Read More

Six PS3 Exclusives To Play In The Next Six Months

Six PS3 Exclusives To Play In The Next Six Months

Time travels really fast these days. Half of 2011 is done and dusted with and there have been some great games for all the gaming systems out there in the market.  The PS3 specifically has had an awe... Read More

Xbox Live down, Microsoft working to “resolve the issue”

Xbox Live down, Microsoft working to “resolve the issue”

Xbox Live is down. What the hell? The online service is "experiencing technical difficulties" but Microsoft is aware of the situation and is working to "resolve the issue." Microsoft released a st... Read More

FIFA 12 – How Player Vision Attributes Will Affect Gameplay

FIFA 12 – How Player Vision Attributes Will Affect Gameplay

[HTML1] FIFA 12 Gameplay Producer Santiago Jaramillo  guides us through the vision aspect of 'Pro Player Intelligence' in the aforementioned football game. Take it away Santiago...Read More

Rocksteady On Robin’s Characterisation

Rocksteady On Robin’s Characterisation

As we all know, Robin will have a major role in Arkham City. Rocksteady define their new character as "introverted", "troubled" and "dangerous and aggressive if provoked." "We wanted to create ... Read More

Two New Soul Calibur V Characters Teased

Two New Soul Calibur V Characters Teased

  “Show anymore & I'm in trouble,” tweeted Soul Calibur mastermind Daishi Odashima earlier today. The characters, outlined above, shall be announced at ComicCon in two weeks time. ... Read More

Arkham City Developer: Villains Can’t ‘Just Develop Superhuman Strength Because It Makes Gameplay Sense’

Arkham City Developer: Villains Can’t ‘Just Develop Superhuman Strength Because It Makes Gameplay Sense’

Back in 2009, and probably still now, a lot of folks though Arkham Asylum was good. Game of the year good. One minor complaint amongst all of the games high points though, were the bossfights. We go... Read More

Gears Of War Developer ‘Dying To Be Part Of Kinect’

Gears Of War Developer ‘Dying To Be Part Of Kinect’

It seems suddenly everyone wants be part of the Kinect family. Epic Games' Mark Rein recently spoke out, in an interview with OXM, about how he hopes to make the marriage of the Unreal Engine 3 and ... Read More

Pokemon Coming To Smartphones?

Pokemon Coming To Smartphones?

Despite Nintendo's famous misgivings about smartphones, it seems that a Pokemon app called Pokemon Iie Tap (roughly Pokemon: Say Tap?) will be foraging its way to iOS and Android. It seems to be a rhy... Read More

Final Fantasy Type-0 80% complete, may get delayed

Final Fantasy Type-0 80% complete, may get delayed

North American RPG fans- rejoice! Square Enix has announced that their upcoming PSP title, Final Fantasy Type-0 might just get a North American release date. Nothing has been confirmed yet, but it... Read More

Duke Nukem Forever sales disappointing, says analyst

Duke Nukem Forever sales disappointing, says analyst

Duke Nukem Forever's sales may be half as low as they were initially expected to be, says Wedbush Morgan, analyst.  "We had previously expected Duke to be one of the year's top sellers due to a ... Read More