Xbox Live’s take on ESPN is getting an overhaul today that will allow viewers to see two sporting events at once, create personal channels and flip through a mini guide, among other things. Here’s a completely rundown of the updates hitting now, from Microsoft: My Sports – ESPN on Xbox LIVE now allows you to…
Twisted Metal hits on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14 2012, David Jaffe said today over on the Playstation Blog. Prepare for the heartbreak.
Kanye West isn’t the only musician performing at the first-ever Call of Duty convention, Irish-punk rockers Dropkick Murphys will be closing the first night of the show, Activision said today. The band is performing opening night at 8 p.m. on Sept. 2 at the Call of Duty XP event. Then on Sunday night Kayne West…
Lonesome Road, the fourth add-on pack for Fallout: New Vegas, will be available for download on Xbox LIVE, PlayStation Network and Steam on September 20th. (Xbox LIVE for 800 Microsoft points, PlayStation Network and Steam for $9.99), Bethesda said today. Two additional DLC packs, Courier’s Stash and Gun Runners’ Arsenal, will also be available for…
DOTA – I think that game critics should be getting preview code of DOTA 2 in the not too distant future. For now I’ll have to make do with this t-shirt and wristbands from the game’s Gamescom outing. This is Why Some People Call El Shaddai a Visual Masterpiece In a little over five minutes,…
Remember that last, great hope we have for another Wing Commander space combat game? Well it’s going to be at PAX this weekend, so you better go check it out. Seamless Entertainment tell me they will be at booth number 6026 demoing SOL: Exodus and listening to what gamers think about it. Do us all…
Age of Empires Online is a fantastically fun strategy game. I’ve been playing it off and on since before its release with my son who is entirely new to not only the series, but the genre. I figure he’s likely not the only inexperienced gamer drawn to this flashy, new (sorta free) real-time strategy game…
PAX Prime 2011 kicks off on Friday and with it comes a chance for every day gamers to check out oodles of new games, games like Skyrim and Rage Bethesda tells us that their booth (1314) will include playable Rage, Skyrim as well as hourly Prey 2 presentations. Bathesda will also be putting on a…
Prey 2 game director Chris Rhinehart walks us through all of the many things we see in that amazing Prey 2 trailer from earlier this year. The commentary comes in three parts. Below are parts one and two, in case you missed them.
First-person action game Dishonored oozes style, but I’m still not clear on whether I should be excited about this game. These new screen shots, released today, give some more glimpses of the Arkane Studios game that has you taking on the role of a supernatural assassin. That’s right… a supernatural assassin. Sounds great and terrible…
Zap – We got this blueprint in the mail from the Call of Duty: Black Ops folks today. it’s a blueprint for a gun in their new zombie Rezurrection pack. How Capcom Turned Buddhist Mythology Into A Game About Planet-Splitting Battles Asura’s Wrath is an angry game based on an angry group of Buddhist demigods.…
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be playable at this week’s Penny Arcade Expo, Valve says. The Xbox 360 version of the game will be on the floor. The Playstation 3 version will be showing up at Eurogamer Expo next month. We’ll be telling you about it soon. EXCITED! You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of…
Asura’s Wrath is an angry game based on an angry group of Buddhist demigods. In the game you play as Asura, a god stripped of all of his powers out to save his daughter from the seven gods that betrayed him. As Asura grows angrier in the game he also grows more arms. That multitude…
We’ve talked about the games, about the cosplay, the camping and the crowds. But no single story or set of photos can truly encapsulate all that is the world’s biggest video game show. Here’s a look at the show through the organizer’s own camera lens. Don’t forget to click on the bottom right of each…
COLOGNE, GERMANY – For one week a year a very different sort of campsite forms along Cologne’s pebbled shores of the Rhine river. Tucked between the fourth largest convention center in the world and the towering, majestic Cologne Cathedral, more than 3,000 people set up a small town of tents, camp chairs, bonfires and video…
Gamescom, the biggest video game show in the world, just got too big. Saturday morning the convention had to temporarily stop letting people in after the massive Cologne’s Koelnmesse, the fourth largest convention center in the world, neared the show’s 62,000 person capacity. A Gamescom official told Kotaku that the center started regulating the show’s…
Despite simplifying the heads-up and on-screen information displayed in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Ubisoft’s upcoming third-person shooter still has a lot of things to tell you on screen. Here’s a look at the subtler, slightly refined intelligence gathering of the shooter. These shots also give you a look at the game’s Zambia level You can…
They’re not sure what to call their budding creation yet, but they know what they want it to be: The love child of puzzle games Lemmings and The Lost Vikings The game, which at one point they were calling Troopies, has players taking command of five soldiers as they puzzle-solve their way through the game’s…
We published some footage of Guild Wars 2 gameplay shot off several television screens earlier this week. Wartower.de does one better, capturing a direct feed straight off a rig. In the video you see a fight against Tequatl the Sunless, a giant dragon boss of Guild Wars 2 You can contact Brian Crecente, the author…
Gamescom is held in a massive convention center that sits aside the Rhine. Inside there are towering halls of concrete and steel, each filled with massive booths, games and people. Hall 9 is dedicated almost exclusively to computer games. It’s in here that you will find the likes of Nexon, NCSoft, World of Tanks, competitive…
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