Lest we forget, Battlefield 3 is the latest iteration of a more than decade-long stories series, a franchise that did much to change the way we played shooters. This excellent video from GamerSpawn takes us from that first Battlefield, Battlefield 1942, in 2002, to this month’s release of Battlefield 3 Sit back and enjoy this…
Valve Presents: The Sacrifice And Other Steam-Powered Stories goes on sale later this month. The 208-page hardcover book will cost you $25 Presented below is a short excerpt from the book which collects Left 4 Dead: the Sacrifice, Team Fortress 2: War!, Mac, Loose Canon, Bidwell’s Big Plan, Meet the Director and associated materials; and…
Later this month Sony will begin limiting the number of PS3s and PSPs that can share a game purchased through the Playstation Network, the UK and U.S. Playstation blogs said this morning. This appears to impact all regions. Starting with game content purchased after Nov. 18 a new policy will apply that limits the number…
Infinity Blade –Did you know that there was an Infinity Blade 2 coming? Did you know that there was an Infinity Blade book and iPhone case and t-shirt? I love the game, but man that’s a lot for two iPhone games to support. How to Buy a Copy of Modern Warfare 3 Today Last night…
While other shooters are pursuing more weapons, more maps, higher polygon counts, higher body counts; Tom Clancy’s latest Rainbow Six game is pushing the envelop on morality. In unveiling Rainbow 6: Patriots this week, developer and publisher Ubisoft says that the game “adds an unprecedented level of humanity that will make (it) an extremely tense…
Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception all made the cut for the annual Video Game Awards’ game of the year shortlist. But you may be surprised what didn’t. The SpikeTV Video Game Awards show airs on December 10 this year on MTV2, SpikeTV and Spike.com. While the awards are…
Last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops and 2009’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 both remained the most played video games on Xbox Live the week Battlefield 3 hit stores, according to Microsoft stats. It’s worth noting that Battlefield 3 wasn’t released until Tuesday, Oct. 25 and that these numbers include Monday’s players. So…
Last night we posted an image of a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 that a reader had purchased in a Tampa, Florida Kmart. Then it started popping up on eBay and Craigslist. Then videos from the game starting popping up. How was everyone getting copies of a game that wasn’t supposed to…
Modern Warfare 3 –A reader writes in to tell us that the Kmart in Tampa, Florida sold him a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for the PS3 early. Is it real? Only Ryfael knows. If it is, Ryfael, let us know how the game is. 😀 Grand Theft Auto V’s First Official…
Earlier this year we heard about the Angry Birds’ board game from Mattel. Then we had a chance to see the game in action at CES. Now we’ve noticed that it’s for sale over on Amazon for $20. And there are PICTURES!
Here it is: The official Grand Theft Auto V trailer. Was it worth the wait? The minute, 24 second trailer shows a game set in a Rockstar take on Los Angeles and perhaps other parts of California. The video has a narrator who talks about moving to the city to retire and being a father.…
Only 12,632 people died in a spectacular hail of gunfire like Nathan Drake in Uncharted 3 in a year. Only 1,981 were dispatched like a guard in Assassin’s Creed. Just 7,032 people shuffled off their mortal coil like Slippy Toad. Chances are when you eat it, it will be at the hand of a stroke,…
Don’t forget, Rockstar said today’s the day they plan to reveal the official Grand Theft Auto V trailer. Will it give us a glimpse of the game’s stars? What city the game is set in? Why the V in the logo looks like money? Were our sources right about the game? We’ll know soon enough.…
Don’t you go forgetting that Valve Presents: The Sacrifice And Other Steam-Powered Stories goes on sale later this month. The book collects Left 4 Dead: the Sacrifice, Team Fortress 2: War!, Mac, Loose Canon, Bidwell’s Big Plan, Meet the Director and associated materials; and Portal: Lab Rat into one easy to grasp collection with a…
Uncharted 3 –There’s nothing really happening here, but that’s what’s so great about Uncharted 3; There doesn’t have to be something happening all of the time for it to be memorable. Quiver at the Sight of Lord of the Rings: War in the North‘s Collector’s Edition I arrived home after a weekend away to find…
Massive layoffs hit Too Human and X-Men: Destiny developer Silicon Knights last week, cutting the Canadian developer nearly in half after an unnamed publisher pulled out on a project the team was working on, the company told Kotaku That unnamed project is still under development, the developer said. “Last week Silicon Knights experienced layoffs due…
Space combat, twin-stick shooter Fusion: Genesis hits the Xbox 360 on Nov. 9 for 800 points ($10). You can see the game in action here. The developers will also be releasing Fusion: Sentient for Windows Mobile 7 on the same day for $3. You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at [email protected].…
Jimmy Kimmel went full video game for the Halloween airing of Jimmy Kimmel Live. The late night host dressed up as Donkey Kong, at one point tossing a barrel into the bandstand. Other show members dressed up as a variety of video game characters including Frogger, Pac-Man, Pikachu and a ill-formed clutch of Tetris pieces.…
Dutch porn star Kim Holland was invited and then quickly uninvited from a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 VIP party in Amsterdam later this month after the game’s publisher discovered what she did for a living, Eigenwereld reports. The last-minute uninvitation has Holland questioning Activision’s seemingly hypocritical take on sex versus violence. Holland, an…
The Horde Command Pack release for Gears of War 3 scheduled to hit today is temporarily delayed due to unspecified technical issue, according to the Epic Games forums. “We apologize to those of you who are anxiously awaiting to play. We know this is disappointing news as we’ve seen a lot of posts today showing…
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