With Xbox Live support for original Xbox titles set to be discontinued on April 15, the online multiplayer of Bungie’s beloved Halo 2 doesn’t have much time left. On April 15, all original Xbox games will no longer be able to access Live (whether played on an original Xbox or an Xbox 360). The reasoning [...]

In what must be the greatest escalation of a silly message board meme in the history of the Internet, Grimoire Assembly Forge today officially announced they’re developing Dudebro: My S*** is F***ed Up so I Got to Shoot/Slice You II: It’s Straight-Up Dawg Time for the PC.
Just what the hell is Dudebro: My S*** is [...]

First-person shooter aficionados will soon be able to relive another classic shooter on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Mobila Interactive has announced that they will soon be bringing back the much-loved Rise of the Triad for the platform.

Originally developed using a heavily-modified Wolfenstein 3D engine, Rise of the Triad stars the High-risk United Nations [...]

Netflix is keen on supporting Nintendo’s console, and doesn’t see the lack of high-definition support as an issue. A recent TheWiire interview with Netflix VP of Corporate Communications Steve Swasey shows the company echoing many of the comments Nintendo representatives have already made about the feature disparity — and even going a little further. “The [...]

One of the remarkable stories of this generation is the rebirth of the adventure game genre. With developers like Telltale Games experiencing success on all of the major consoles, Hudson has decided to jump in with a port of their own.

The publisher announced today that they will soon be bringing Dream Chronicles to the PlayStation [...]

Microsoft dropped the next installment of their “Deal of the Week” promotion on Xbox Live this morning, and it includes discounts on not one, not two, but three Xbox Live Arcade games. Xbox Live Gold members can now download Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for 800 Microsoft points ($10) instead of 1200 ($15), as well as [...]

After ages of speculation and rumors, Nintendo has finally confirmed that they’re developing a new gaming system… sort of. During this year’s Annual Japan Media Arts Festival, beloved game designer Shigeru Miyamoto talked up the projects he’s currently working on: the next Legend of Zelda for the Wii, some kind of Motion-Plus-enabled game, and Nintendo’s [...]

After ages of speculation and rumors, Nintendo has finally confirmed that they’re developing a new gaming system… sort of. During this year’s Annual Japan Media Arts Festival, beloved game designer Shigeru Miyamoto talked up the projects he’s currently working on: the next Legend of Zelda for the Wii, some kind of Motion-Plus-enabled game, and Nintendo’s [...]

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On the next Game Night, we’re harvesting Little Sisters and fighting Big Sisters in BioShock 2.

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Shigeru Miyamoto’s hobbies are a well-guarded industry secret at this point, and for good reason: Games like Pikmin, Nintendogs, and Wii Fit all sprung from the day-to-day occurrences in the Mario creator’s personal life. But what about the inspiration for Super Mario Galaxy? Has Miyamoto developed a thing for space travel? Might we soon see [...]

If your passion for Danish building toys and space operas hasn’t been satisfied by the other Lego Star Wars titles, Traveller’s Tales is ready and more than willing to give you another. Today the company announced Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars, based on the popular Cartoon Network animated TV series. The game is [...]

If your passion for Danish building toys and space operas hasn’t been satisfied by the other Lego Star Wars titles, Traveller’s Tales is ready and more than willing to give you another. Today the company announced Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars, based on the popular Cartoon Network animated TV series. The game is [...]

BioShock 2 has a big reputation to live up to. The critically acclaimed BioShock put together a stylized, provocative world; it wasn’t a perfect game, but the story — a red-herring-filled plot mixed with existentialist (and objectivist) philosophy — turned the game into much more than a shooter; BioShock was a game that made you [...]

Today’s biggest release snuck up on us. After a quiet weekend announcement of Blaster Master: Overdrive, the game has already hit the Nintendo download service. This Sunsoft-produced sequel to the NES classic costs 1,000 points ($10), and seems to hit the right pitch of what made the original game so revered. But, a demo is [...]

Today’s biggest release snuck up on us. After a quiet weekend announcement of Blaster Master: Overdrive, the game has already hit the Nintendo download service. This Sunsoft-produced sequel to the NES classic costs 1,000 points ($10), and seems to hit the right pitch of what made the original game so revered. But, a demo is [...]

Super Bowl XLIV has come and gone, and once again the EA Sports prediction has come true. This brings the grand total of accurate predictions up to six, with 2008 remaining as the only inaccurate game called by the company’s Madden franchise simulation. As usual, however, the predicted score was much less accurate, and this [...]

There’s still very little known about Metroid: Other M, the new installment in the Metroid franchise that’s being developed in collaboration between Nintendo and Tecmo’s Team Ninja. But in the pages of the latest Famitsu (via Andriasang), Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto explained a bit of what the game’s focus will be.
“[Different] from the rest of [...]

Hey, remember Alpha Protocol? Sure you do. It’s an espionage action RPG from Obsidian Entertainment? Originally planned for release way back in February 2009 before it was delayed twice, with the last setting it for a vague spring 2010 release? Well speaking to MTV Multiplayer, Sega explained why Alpha Protocol has been pushed back so [...]

The ESRB has a lot of history leaking game announcements by giving a game a rating before it’s officially announced, but it looks like they’ve moved into the more specialized subject of leaking game content. In their expanded rating description of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, they let slip that the game evidently begins in World [...]

Prepare to see messages like “First down! Rudiger Smith completed a 15 yard pass in Madden NFL!” flooding your Facebook news feed soon: Speaking to Bloomberg Television, EA Sports president Peter Moore revealed they’re planning on making a version of Madden NFL as a Facebook app.
“We have to make Madden more accessible,” Moore began. “You’ll [...]

I could see UFC announcer Bruce Buffer beaming from his chair — at THQ’s first-look event for UFC Undisputed 2010 — as a photorealistic digital Buffer avatar performs his signature “180″ move on the big screen. “They put me in the suit, with the tennis balls and everything,” he tells the woman standing next to [...]

When Sunsoft announced their return to western development last December, they made a re-release of their original Blaster Master on the Wii’s Virtual Console their first priority. Now Blaster Master fans have a even more to be excited about: Sunsoft has announced that a brand new sequel called Blaster Master: Overdrive will be released on [...]

It’s been a couple years, but maybe you remember the ridiculous fake controversy that erupted on Fox News after the first Mass Effect was released, where they flagrantly misrepresented the game’s sex scenes as being hardcore with full-frontal nudity. Well members of BioWare’s forums remember, and one asked the developer point blank if fear of [...]

Considering UFC Undisputed 2009 sold tremendously well and had “2009″ in its title, a follow up in what is now obviously an annual series was a foregone conclusion. And after a teaser trailer being shown during the 2009 Spike TV VGAs last December, UFC president Dana White spotlighted UFC Undisputed 2010 again at a THQ [...]

Perhaps you remember this leaked video of the Road Rash reboot Electronics Art had in development? Well above you can see what some of the characters in the game might have looked like in concept art form. Superannuation picked up on the personal blog of concept artist Ross Dearsley, where he posted a number of [...]

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101 Free Games 2010
Even more of the best games money can’t buy.
By Scott Sharkey

Times are tough, sure. Nobody got a raise and ain’t nobody complaining on account of well, they still have a job and would like to keep the thing. Belts tighten and we start cutting down on luxuries. On the up side, videogaming [...]

It’s easy to reduce Halo: Combat Evolved to “dude in green power armor blows up some aliens,” but when you actually think about all the words being said in-between the firefights, there’s a lot of crazy, grand sci-fi going on. First, the Halo trilogy itself provides the widescreen sci-fi experience of Master Chief saving the [...]

As a franchise prequel, Star Ocean 4 charts mankind’s tentative first steps into space as they seek to colonize a new planet. Much like the rest of the series, it’s an unapologetically Japanese-style RPG, the main differences here being terrible pacing and refined combat.
Being a JRPG, you can assume the following: you use swords and [...]

If you’re still scratching your head at the user-made levels in Echochrome, the game’s creators are preparing to unleash a new round of puzzling challenges on you with Echoshift. Though the title still hasn’t nailed down a release date, a recent post on the PlayStation.Blog mentions that a demo is coming later this month. Demos [...]