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Why Video Games Don’t Make Good Movies

Why Video Games Don’t Make Good Movies

Why is it that Video Games never seem to have a good cinematic showing? When novels, comic books and stage plays all have the chance to become blockbusters, why do video games get relegated to the str...

Rumor: Subscription fee for Call of Duty just around the corner

Rumor: Subscription fee for Call of Duty just around the corner

A video showing what appears to be the 'membership plan' for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been leaked onto the internet. A member on 360Junkies posted the video in the site's forums, and assumi... Read More

Kojima is Making An Adventure Game

Kojima is Making An Adventure Game

After a lot of subtle, and often downright tantalising, hints as to what his next proeject may be, Kojima has finally made a clean breast of it, reports Chiyomaru Shikura, boss of Japanese media compa... Read More

Peter Molyneux: The Xbox 360’s Best Is Yet To Come

Peter Molyneux: The Xbox 360’s Best Is Yet To Come

While many are citing the lack of quality upcoming Xbox 360 titles (there's practically nothing barring Gears 3 and Halo Reach that is exclusive only to Microsoft's console) and Microsost's E3 presser... Read More

Xbox 360 Slim Was Outsold by Xbox 360 ‘Phat’: Pachter

Xbox 360 Slim Was Outsold by Xbox 360 ‘Phat’: Pachter

If you remember, the Xbox 360 was the highest selling console in the US for the month in June. It has been commonly speculated that this was thanks to the launch of the redesigned Xbox 360 'Slim,' whi... Read More

UK Sales Charts: Crackdown 2 Still At Top

UK Sales Charts: Crackdown 2 Still At Top

It may not have had the best reception from the critics, but Crackdown 2, the sequel to Microsoft's surprise 2007 open world hit Crackdown, has the first spot firmly in its grip, as far as sales in th... Read More

The Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ Enjoys An Even Bigger Launch Than The PS3 Slim

The Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ Enjoys An Even Bigger Launch Than The PS3 Slim

Looks like redesigning and rebranding a console is all the rage these days. Certainly, it seems to fuel market demand. Sony did it last year with the laucnh of the PS3 Slim, which was accompanied by a... Read More

The Last Story Is Not Sakaguchi’s Last Game, So Stop Spreading Rumours

The Last Story Is Not Sakaguchi’s Last Game, So Stop Spreading Rumours

There have been recent reports, fuelled by Sakaguchi's own statements, that his upcoming Wii exclusive RPG, The Last Story, would be his last game. The RPG legend recently blogged about how he would b... Read More

OnLive Isn’t Meant For High End Games, Says CEO

OnLive Isn’t Meant For High End Games, Says CEO

Do you remember the grand unveiling of streaming service OnLive last year? It promised people with low end rigs the ability to play titles like Crysis and Grand Theft Auto IV without having to upgrade... Read More

Plants vs Zombies (XBL) Will Get New Versus/Co-op Mode

Plants vs Zombies (XBL) Will Get New Versus/Co-op Mode

According to a recent screenshot of 2 of the new achievements for Plants vs Zombies, a new versus and co-op DLC will be available. The new co-op mode is called ZFF's 4 Evr, while the new versus... Read More

Mega Man Universe Announced

Mega Man Universe Announced

Capcom has announced the next entry to the Mega Man franchise, called Mega Man Universe. The game was announced by the Head of Research and Development Management for Capcom, Keiji Inafune. "We are ... Read More

Killzone 3 To Have Improved Controls

Killzone 3 To Have Improved Controls

Probably the biggest drawback for some of the people who played Killzone 2 were the controls. Guerrilla Games listened to these complaints, and are planning to change the controls, Guerrilla wanted... Read More

Naughty Bear Review

Naughty Bear Review

Meet naughty bear, a bear who unsurprisingly terrorises his fellow teddies and commits acts of varying naughtiness. In Naughty Bear you get to inhabit said teddy and commit a whole host of atrocities ... Read More

No loading screens for Killzone 3

No loading screens for Killzone 3

Breaking new ground, Killzone 3 will completely bypass loading screens. It's amazing what technology can do these days- 10 years ago, we expected to have to wait a few minutes before launching ... Read More

Activision would ‘love to see’ GoldenEye on the 3DS

Activision would ‘love to see’ GoldenEye on the 3DS

GoldeneEye 007's executive producer says he'd love to see a GoldenEye 007 remake on the 3DS, but he says he has no plans for it right now. "Let's put it this way I think we would all love to think ... Read More

Control games with the power of your mind

Control games with the power of your mind

The recently unveiled Natal for the Xbox 360 will let gamers control what happens on-screen just by moving their body- but one company is going one step further, allowing you to control games simply w... Read More

New Final Fantasy 14 Screens

New Final Fantasy 14 Screens

Final Fantasy 14 is looking to be an epic game from the looks of things. Here some of the latest screens of the game in action. The game comes out for the PC and PS3 this September for PC and March fo... Read More

Professor Layton and the Unwound Future Hits US Shores September 12

Professor Layton and the Unwound Future Hits US Shores September 12

The next instalment in what is arguably the best game series to have originated on the Nintendo DS has had its release date pushed up a week, for a new September 12th release date. Considering that th... Read More

Indie Developer Lashes Out At Epic, Says They Can Go ‘F**k Off’

Indie Developer Lashes Out At Epic, Says They Can Go ‘F**k Off’

Wow, looks like this is turning into a trend. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. It makes for great entertainment. After Schafer went on record to call Activision head Bobby Kotick a dick and a pr... Read More

WTF Moment of the Day: Pachter Believes Activision Must Charge Fees For Call of Duty

WTF Moment of the Day: Pachter Believes Activision Must Charge Fees For Call of Duty

Yeah, that's just what we need, Pachter. More milking of gamers by evil corporation Activision. But of course, that's what's gonna happen anyway, and it seems that by making this prediction, Patche... Read More