Win A Limited Edition Tekken 6 Wireless Fight Stick Bundle

Just in time for the holidays, and a great reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving, we’ve got a neat giveaway for you. We’ll be giving away five sets of limited edition Tekken 6 fight sticks. That’s three for the Playstation 3 and two for the Xbox 360. Here’s the details for the contest. To enter…

Turkey Day

To: Luke From: Crecente I know the concept of roasting a mostly-flightless, absurdly fat bird and eating it to celebrate the survival of a winter in a strange land, is a foreign concept to just about anyone who isn’t from North America. But that’s how we roll. And man is it fun to do. Not…

Pokemon Sales Super Effective Against Zombies In Japan

After being kicked around by Bayonetta and a pair of soccer sims from Sega and Konami, Nintendo’s Pokemon double team of Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver return to the top of Japan’s video game charts. This week’s tally from sales tracker Media Create pushes the newest Pokemon games past the 3 million mark. Its…

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A Couple Of Games In The Giving Spirit

Reality Gap‘s got two games in the giving spirit on this Thanksgiving holiday. Log into either massively multiplayer role-playing game, Monato Esprit, or real time strategy/first person shooter hodgepodge, Battleswarm to get your goodies. In proper MMORPG form, Monato Esprit offers up clothes to today’s Turkey Day players. Users that log in before midnight on…

Seeking A Game That Can Trick Me

This is the third in a series of posts labeled “Hindsight” that discuss games you may have thought we were done writing about. Last time: X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This time: Wolfenstein. I make it hard for video games to be unpredictable. Not that I make games. I play them. And by playing them, I try…

The PlayStation 3 Buyer’s Guide

With at least one potential game of the year exclusively nesting on the Playstation 3 and a price drop under its belt, the PS3 has had a pretty darn good year. My favorite among the games listed is Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, which probably isn’t surprising. What is yours? Anything we didn’t review that you…

Prove Your Metal, Win a Kick-Ass Shirt

There are things you can debate about Brutal Legend, but one thing is an absolute fact: It’s METAL, pure METAL! But how about you gamer? Are you metal? I’m sure you say you are, but are you really metal? Like as metal as the German guy who stopped me at the train station in Cologne…

Sound Blaster Arena Surround Gaming Headset Review: Who’s That Sneaking Up On Me?

Over the years sound has increasingly taken the back seat to the other important elements of a PC gaming experience from mouse and keyboard to the graphics and light-kits. But Creative and Sound Blaster have never given up the good fight. Are their Arena Surround gaming headsets a must have for PC gamers or just…

The MMOs That Rose Or Fell During World of Warcraft’s Reign

Once World of Warcraft was king, it seemed like a contender to its throne was announced monthly. Here’s a quick look at the competitors that were born or died — or both! — during WoW’s rise. This post is part of our series this week on the fifth anniversary of the launch of World of…

Megatron Can Smell Your Xbox Live Avatar, Boy

Cover your hideous meat-face with a collection of attractive and stylish robot heads today, as Activision releases a set of Transformers gear onto the Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace. I’m not sure how I can tie this together with Thanksgiving Day, so we’ll just mutter incoherently about turkey or something and move on to the main…

The Xbox 360 Buyer’s Guide

New Halo, new downloadables for Mass Effect, Fallout 3, and Grand Theft Auto, new Forza. It was a pretty good year for Xbox 360 owners. Pick through the list to decide which games to give and get and leave a comment to point out any you would add that we didn’t review. And don’t forget,…

Happy Turkey Day!

To: Crecente From: Luke Happy thanksgiving! Not that I even really get what that means, but hey, any day where eating giant birds is a national holiday is cool with me. Here’s what you missed: Capcom Side-Scrollers Coming To Xbox Live, PSN Custom Bayonetta “Figure” Gets The Outfit Right New Afterburner Game Coming To Home…

First Look At New Professor Layton Game

In the latest issue of Famitsu, Level-5 honcho Akihiro Hino reveals the first bits of info about upcoming Professor Layton game. Titled Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, the game features an overhaul of the game system. The “miracle mask” is connected somehow to the mask worn by bad guy Death Call in Professor Layton…

It’s Christmas Time For Dawn Of War II’s Expansion

The snow is falling, the fires are crackling, we’ve got some new screenshots for the Dawn of War II expansion, Chaos Rising…Merry Christmas, Immortal Emperor!

Sony: Physical Games Not Going Anywhere

Despite the release of the digital-only PSPgo and an increasing push towards the delivery of content over the PlayStation Network, Sony would like you all to know that traditional, boxed stuff is “not going away any time soon”. “Make no mistake”, SCEE boss Andrew House told GI.biz, “when you’re looking at PS3 games and you’re…

Napoleon: Total War Edition Shouldn’t Have Invaded Russia

For PC owners at least, Napoleon: Total War is going to be a pretty big deal. And a game can’t be a pretty big deal these days without a pretty big colletor’s edition, so, yeah. Here’s Napoleon’s. The “Imperial Edition” of the game will come with a copy of Napoleon: Total War, an “illustrated wallchart…

So, When’s Modern Warfare 2’s DLC Due?

Needless to say, when a game sells as many copies as Modern Warfare 2 has, there’ll be millions of people hanging out for its first wave of its downloadable content. But, uh, when is it coming out? Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has said “DLC is planned fir the wonderfully vauge timeframe of Spring.”. Drop a…

Turn Your Car Into Pac-Man

Waze is a free app for the iPhone that works like Wikipedia for street maps. And to encourage users to help the service grow, the owners have devised a cunning plan: get you playing Pac-Man with your car. Through Waze’s “Road Goodies” program, cherries will be scattered across the map for you to find, then…

Square Enix Cuts European Jobs

‘Tis the season to be…unemployed, sadly, with Square Enix announcing today that job cuts are on the way for the company’s London studio. That’s Beautiful Game Studios, the developers of the Championship Manager series. A Square Enix statement reads “Our current business model does not allow us to compete in a fast-changing industry with any…