Need for Speed World Dated

Massively multiplayer online game Need for Speed World will be available for digital download starting July 27. Good thing EA picked a date for the PC game that doesn’t put it up against any stiff competition.

If Wii Fit And Madden Had A Baby…

Fitness games are huge. Football games are huge. Ready for it? Football fitness game. From EA, on the Wii. The name is EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp and it has already made me sweat. I tried EA’s variation on its hit EA Sports Active virtual workout series at an EA event in New York…

The Darker, More Dramatic Side Of Spore

Here’s the reveal trailer for Darkspore, the intense, fast-paced action role-playing game set in the colorful, friendly Spore universe. I never expected to see a trailer this dramatic for a Spore game, but it makes sense. The latter portions of Spore, where you actually ventured out into space, were some of the more interesting bits.…

Get Shanked Next Month

Klei Entertainment’s side-scrolling action game Shank will hit the PlayStation Network on August 24 for $14.99, with an Xbox Live Arcade release on August 25, priced at 1200 Microsoft points. Are you ready to get Shanked?

The Sims 3 Late Night Adds Club Hopping Vampires

The Sims 3 expands this fall with The Sims 3 Late Night Expansion pack, plunging your Sim into the active downtown nightlife, or letting them explore their darkest fantasies as a Sim vampire. That’s right, Sim vampires. According to EA Play’s Rod Humble, speaking at the EA Studio Showcase today, the supernatural mods for The…

EA Sports MMA Career Mode Screens

Our First Official Look at Alice: Madness Returns

The sequel to American McGee’s Alice will take place 11 years after the events of the original game, with Alice released from an asylum but still struggling to deal with “nightmarish hallucinations,” according to the official site for the 2011 game. As nightmarish hallucinations continue to haunt her and invade her reality, she seeks to…

First Look At Darkspore, EA’s New Sci-fi, Spore-based RPG

The creators of Spore are going to the dark side with an all-new “fast-paced and intense” sci-fi action-role-playing game known as Darkspore, coming to the Mac and PC next year. In Darkspore, players must recruit creatures from across the galaxy to build an army of beasts, each with unique abilities “to wield as your living…

Osmos HD Review: 21st Century Pac-Man

There is a fish that can eat smaller fish. But this fish may be devoured in the jaws of one bigger, unless it eats many small fish, growing so it may gulp its predator. This is a game about that. Osmos HD is an iPad port of recent PC/Mac/Linux game Osmos, modified for touch-screen controls.…

Darkspore Screens

Fight Night Champion Will KO Xbox 360, PS3 Next Year

EA Sports is giving its boxing sim series Fight Night one more round in the ring, officially naming Fight Night Champion for release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2011. What’s new? “Full Spectrum Punch Control” for one. That all-new control scheme for EA’s fighter will, according to the publisher, “deliver the most…

The White Rabbit Leads Us To Alice: Madness Returns

A strangely Tweeting member of the family Leporidae teases big news about Alice: Madness Returns, the newly-named action-adventure return of American McGee’s Alice, due out next year from Spicy Horse. Thewhiterabbit Tweets, “Follow me and stay tuned for a major announcement from the mad world of Alice today!,” which leads us to believe that one…

Reckless Racing, A Modern Day RC Pro-Am Coming To iPad

One of the best games I played at a recent EA showcase of dozens of games — Bulletstorm! Dead Space 2! — was an iPad racing game. Really. The game is Reckless Racing and it will be released on iPhone and iPad from Swedish development studio Pixelbite. EA’s Partners program is backing it. And I…

Six New Games Unveiled By EA Today

Yes, it’s an announcement of not one, but six announcements. EA says the six new “products” they plan to unveil today will “range from the whimsical to strategic, athletic to horrific.” News should hit at 1 p.m. Pacific. Stay tuned.

Scott Pilgrim’s Epic Tale Comes To A Close

Will Scott defeat Ramona’s seventh evil ex-boyfriend and live happily ever after, or will he finally realize that he and Kim Pine were meant to be together? Find out today, as the final volume of Scott Pilgrim hits store shelves. It’s been a year and four months since Scott Pilgrim volume five, Scott Pilgrim vs.…

Sam & Max Return in Beyond the Alley of the Dolls

The fourth installment of the Sam & Max The Devil’s Playhouse video game saga, Beyond the Alley of the Dolls, hits today for PC, Mac, and PSN.

Summer Gaming Preview, For A Season That No Longer Stinks

Summer is a month old, but we like to think of the year’s warmest season as two-thirds incomplete. With that, plan your new game purchases with our (belated) Summer Gaming Preview. June – A Month For Shooting Summer started in June, sources say, and before America could even celebrate its independence, Activision was releasing Raven…

The Mighty Thor Faces His Deadliest Foe Yet

He’s faced off against gods, giants, and serpents so large they wrap around the entire planet, but even the mighty Thor might not be powerful enough to survive next year’s video game adaptation by Sega. Through its long-term agreement with Marvel to produce video games based off of the comic book company’s live-action films, Sega…

Red Faction: Armageddon Prepares To Kick Comic-Con Ass

The latest game in the Red Faction franchise will be taking over THQ’s booth at the San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, with bloody new screens and a suspenseful new trailer heralding the impending Martian invasion. From political intrigue to all-out war to this. You might have caught our eyes-on with Red Faction: Armageddon at E3…

Microsoft’s Take On The Cost of Motion Gaming

This look at Microsoft’s internal take on the true cost of motion gaming, obtained by Kotaku, has its charm, but isn’t completely anchored in reality. Microsoft, it seems, makes the argument that you need all of the stuff shown from Sony and Nintendo to match the motion-controlling abilities of Kinect on the PS3 and Wii.…