Speaking to Joystiq at the Game Developers Conference, THQ's executive Vice President of Core Games, Danny Bilson, has revealed that the next Red Faction title is most likely going to be released in March 2011. It was previously scheduled for a vague "fiscal 2011", but that seems to have changed with this announcement. "The new game takes to a whole new place, it kind of goes back to the old R... more.

If you've read any reviews or comments from players of Square Enix's very recently released Final Fantasy XIII, you'd notice that a large amount of the complaints are directed at the game's hectic linearity, which is very unfortunate in a JRPG. See, people expected to be able to revel in classic, or rather expected, RPG and Final Fantasy gameplay elements, such as exploring towns, interacting with... more.

Lucas Arts stepped up at the Game Developers Conference, sending Tim Schaefer and Ron Gilbert, the originals creators of the game, to make the announcement for the Monkey Island 2 remake. They revealed that Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge will be released in summer of 2010 and is heading to iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac, PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This special edition of Monkey I... more.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 players for the Xbox will be happy to know that there will soon be a Stimulus Package available on the 30th of March. The package will include new multiplayer maps, and these will be the first new maps for the game. Following the new package will be the ability for Xbox Live Silver members to play a free multiplayer version of MW2 from 12 March to 15 March. So, if ... more.

Activision has revealed new images for Transformers: The War for Cybertron. The images come from VG247 and GDC, where they reveal everything you want to see. This means, Optimus and his buddies fighting against Megatron and his Decepticons. The third-person action game will allow you to choose from three characters where Optimus, before he was Prime, is one. Obviously. This game will have al... more.

Codemasters has just unveiled their new F1 2010 game for the PS3, 360 and PC. The release date is said to be September, and this means that the latest HD Formula One gaming is on its way. The last HD F1 game was back in 2007, and it was for the PS3. 2010's F1 game will be built around the race in Bahrain, which is this weekend, and it will include all the new tracks like the South Korean GP ... more.

Ubisoft has announced that they are opening the beta test for R.U.S.E., a one-of-a-kind real-time strategy game. The download comes through Steam. The beta will allow players to use one of six unique factions, UK, US, Ger, USSR, France and It. You will train yourself to fight against the artificial intelligence on the "Blitz" map, before you enter the multiplayer challenge. Ubisoft has added... more.

Remember Codemasters announcing that they were working on a new shooter? Turns out that, from the co-creator and designer of first person shooter, Black, Codemasters is bringing a new FPS title named "Bodycount" for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox360. This is their next shot at "genre-defining gun play", so we've got some interest invested in it. Ok, that sounded hectically business-like, my apologies!... more.

Seemingly taking a peek at Valve's rather awesome Steam-to-Mac announcement, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 developers, DICE, are saying that they are "currently investigating" bringing their latest Battlefield entry to Apple's Mac. DICE's Karl Magnus Troedsson said yesterday in a tweet: If u'r serious about using a quote I would say: "We're currently investigating the possibility of making BFBC2 avai... more.

Rebellion's Aliens VS Predator rebirth is getting its first downloadable content pack quite soon. How soon? Well, Sega announced yesterday, quite late, that this downloadable Map Pack, titled "Swarm", will be releasing on the 18th of March on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox360. It will cost 560 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live and $6.99 (R51.50) on PlayStation Network. "Featuring 4 new maps for differe... more.

Robert Bowling, community manager for Modern Warfare developers Infinity Ward, has put up a Tweet which reveals that, since the game's release in November of last year, over 25 million gamers have played Modern Warfare 2 across the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox360. The tweet reads, rather excitedly: "...annnd we JUST hit 25 MILLION unique players on Modern Warfare 2. Insanity! Also, got a lot of #... more.

The first trailer, or rather developer diary, for Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands has been released, which shows actual in-game footage for the first time since the game was announced. Quite surprisingly, I'm actually finding myself taking a liking to this game, because from what I saw, and from the developers have said, the game looks very true to its roots, that being the Sands of Time Tril... more.

Alan Wake is a very interesting title from Remedy Games, one that has gathered a lot of attention from gamers for some reason. There's a lot of hype surrounding it, despite the fact that the game has been delayed numerous times and that there isn't an enormous amount of information out on it. Naturally, we followed the direction of the hype and took an in-depth look at Remedy's Alan Wake. After th... more.

New Splinter Cell Conviction footage! That's right, Ubisoft has given us something to drool about as they reveal the co-op story and four Deniable Ops modes. The new co-op campaign will act as a prequel to the single-player storyline, and this will follow the intel from St Petersburg to the Caucasus. Four co-op battle modes will available for both online and split-screen variations, and the... more.

Ubisoft...football...right, until very recently the 2 entities have had absolutely nothing to do with each other, save for the fact that the Ubisoft logo looks very much like a soccer-ball. On Thursday 4 March however, Ubisoft Vancouver announced that it was working on a game that it described as encompassing ' the raw sensations of  the soccer field'. The premise is essentially five-a-side stree... more.