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John Madden Football Designer Sues EA! Care Levels At All Time Low!

Have you ever wanted to sue Electronic Arts? I know I have. Many times. Some wake up with that feeling, these days. I hear there’s even a bandwagon with the [...]

UK Top 40: Crysis 2 Cockblocks NFS Shift 2 Unleashed From Number 1

Late March saw the release of both NFS Shift 2 and Crysis 2, two games published by Electronic Arts. Unfortunately though, only one of the two games can obtain the [...]

Playstation Network Website Down For ‘Maintenance’ On The Same Day Anonymous Threatens To Attack [Video]

The PlayStation Network which Sony runs for PlayStation 3 gamers to play online and download games has been going on- and offline ever since Anonymous threatened to attack because they [...]

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Hawken Developers Talk About Cockpit Views, “Real” Mech Gameplay And More

Last week we did an article on Hawken, an upcomming multiplayer Mech Combat FPS being developed by Adhesive Games. According to the developers of Hawken, cockpit view is the only [...]

Anonymous Has Targeted Sony — Operation Payback

Anonymous, the hive of the internet that no-one dares to provoke, has declared war against Sony because of their actions against PS3 hacker George Hotz. We’ve pasted what Anonymous said [...]

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Leaked Forza 4 Gameplay Video Shows Kinect Features

In all honesty we feel that this is Turn 10 sticking the middle finger up to Polyphony Digital and saying look at what we’ve got. This video has leaked out [...]

6 New Drool Inducing Skyrim Screens

Bethesda has launched six new lovely screens for us to devour. They show off an icy location, a cave and a lake surrounded by mountains, as well as a stealth [...]

Rumor: New Burnout Game In Development?

We all know how epic the Burnout series has been, and it looks like this lengendary racing series may be recieving a new addition, according to Gamerbytes. The Australian Classification [...]

Metacritic Drops Individual Developer Scores For Good

Metacritic recently launched a system whereby individual developers were rated based on the aggregated Metascore that their games picked up. The experimental system came under heavy fire from a number [...]

Hail To The King, As The Duke’s Paper Hits The Streets

Now it is well known that Indian and Jewish people like money. Making it, locking it away, counting it and yes collecting it. Now since I am seen as a [...]

THQ Confirm Lay-Offs For Kaos And Volition — Won’t Affect Games

Two of THQ’s developer companies, Kaos Studios and Volition,  have had to lay-off workers due to redundancies. According to statements, 17 workers from Kaos — the creators of Homefront — [...]

Heavy Rain Creator Says That L.A. Noire’s Facial Expressions Are An “Interesting Dead End”

L.A. Noire is set to boast some intense facial expressions which help with the game when playing. Basically, the facial expressions will help when interrogating suspects to see if they [...]

EA’s Secret MMO Could Be The Return Of Ultima Online

Out of no where Electronic Arts started caring about a previously created game called Ultima. Ultima has been revived on PC many times, and it has enjoyed numerous amount of [...]

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New Resident Evil To Have Third Person Style Control System

As you’ve no doubt found out by now, there is a new Resident Evil game slated for release. Operation Raccoon City’s control system was recently spoken of by one Masachika [...]

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Batman Arkham City – Now With 80% Street Hustling

Batman Arkham City will take place on the streets for the majority of the game, according to developer Rocksteady. Just how much counts as majority? Well marketing game manager Dax [...]

Xbox 360 Pushed Down To Third Most Sold Console Worldwide

Strategy Analytics, a data firm, has reported that the PlayStation 3 install base exceeds that of the Xbox 360 on a global count of around 500,000 units, which pushes the [...]

Ubisoft Gets The Law To Stop THQ From Stealing Assassin’s Creed Developers

THQ has been stopped by law from recruiting anymore of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed employees, after the firm hired four key parties from the series. Patrice Désilets, the former Ubisoft employee [...]

Sony Online Entertainment: Three Studios Close Down, One-Third Of The Workforce Laid Off

According to Rumours, Sony Online Entertainment, the makers of self-subscription-renewing D.C. Universe Online and Free Realms, have closed the doors on three of their studios. SOE will apparently close-down three [...]

Avalanche Studios Lanches New Franchise

The developers of one of the most fun games ever, Just Cause 2, has today announced a new franchise called Renegade Ops. Avalanche Studios will be developing it for Xbox [...]

A New Resident Evil Set To Infect Our Homes

Firstly, the Resident Evil series rocks. Period. The last installment, Resident Evil 5, might not have been the pinnacle game of the series but it was still an awesome game [...]

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EA Busy Working On Secret MMO?

Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores seems to be working on an unannounced MMO title, according to a recent job listing. The job recruitment appeared on popular industry site, Gamasutra, where [...]

Nintendo Not Looking At A 3D Console Just Yet

Nintendo’s American boss, Reggie Fils-Aime, has said that there’s a good chance that the company’s next console will not offer 3D support. According to Nintendo-research and past experience, glasses-free 3D [...]

Treyarch Looking For New Call Of Duty Staff — Has To Do With Multiplayer

Treyarch’s website reports that the company is looking for a gameplay combat designer who will fall under the “Design Director for the Call of Duty multiplayer team at Treyarch.” This [...]

Dragon Age Homosexual Dispute Rages On

Earlier this week we covered a story about a homophobic fan of Dragon Age 2 and how lead writer David Gaider spoke up against said fan, putting him in his [...]

Rumor: Modern Warfare 3 To Be Announced In Mid-April

Let’s be honest, another Call of Duty comes as no surprise anymore. That said, any news on the upcoming Modern Warfare 3 is something that no gamer can turn down, [...]

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Hiring Hackers Could Solve Piracy For Developers

How do you stop or even put a dent in a problem as global as piracy? Give the thieves jobs is what Just Cause 2 developer, Christofer Sundberg proposes. That [...]

Metacritic Now Does People Too

Sounds pretty strange but it’s true, Metacritic has boldly gone further than ever before by adding aggregated ratings for individual developers which will of course be made of the ratings [...]

How GTA, In All Its Glory, Came To Be From 16 Years Ago

Ah Grand Theft Auto, how you continue to spread both joy and controversy simultaneously in the gaming world. This violent videogame series, developed by Rockstar, has sold an excess of [...]

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Where In The World Do Video Game Villains Come From?

It’s an interesting question and probably one that seems very obvious. Usually, the villains in a game come from wherever the game happens to be set but the results of [...]

EA Sports Is Working On A Baseball Game — Guess The Platform

EA Sports, whose beloved MVP Baseball series went into exile when 2K Sports won an exclusive contract back in 2005, is working on a Major League Baseball-licensed property, according to [...]