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Battlefield 3 To Be EA Games’ Biggest Launch

Rue Liu, May 6th 2011 Discuss [18]

EA Games is really banking on their much anticipated war shooter, Battlefield 3, to make a dent on competitor Call of Duty's following. The game is slated to demo at E3 2011 in June and be released this coming fall. Continue after the cut for a 12-minute game play preview. Read The Full Story

L.A. Noire’s Rockstar Teams Up With L.A. Times For Interactive 1947 Crime Map

Rue Liu, May 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

Rockstar Games is the company behind the notorious Grand Theft Auto and last year's western shooter, Red Dead Redemption. But in less than two weeks, they will be unleashing a whole new crime solving game based in 1940s Los Angeles, called L.A. Noire. And leading up to that, they've teamed up with L.A. Times to release a interactive map of all the crimes that took place in 1947. Read The Full Story

Call Of Duty: Black Ops ‘Escalation’ Map Expansion Pack Released

Rue Liu, May 3rd 2011 Discuss [3]

Back in February, the popular first-person shooter game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, had gotten its first downloadable map expansion pack via Xbox Live. And today, a second expansion pack called "Escalation" is ready for gamers to retrieve. This latest expansion pack brings four new multiplayer maps along with a new zombies level dubbed "Call of the Dead." Read The Full Story

Mortal Kombat 9 Review Roundup

Rue Liu, May 2nd 2011 Discuss [3]

The gory classic Mortal Kombat has gotten a complete reboot and may redeem itself since the franchise seemed to have lost its way over the years. Now with new publisher Warner Bros. on board, NetherRealm Studios has gone back to its roots and reinvented the latest Mortal Kombat with a welcome 2D-format that has all the modern graphics with the unapologetic carnage-fest of over-the-top fatalities that made Mortal Kombat great. Read The Full Story

OnLive Lets You Share Games Instantly Via Links, Now Featuring Mafia II For $5

Rue Liu, Apr 22nd 2011 Discuss [3]

Back in February we talked about a smart tactic by the online game streaming company, OnLive, to increase its user base. They began offering free consoles with the pre-order of THQ's Homefront game. That deal is now over, but OnLive has a new promotion starting this weekend that makes it easy for you to share their online games via a link to promote their $5 Friday games. Read The Full Story

Portal 2: Potato Sack – Help Release It Early

Kevin Fubar, Apr 15th 2011 Discuss [5]

Portal is the best game. Released alongside Half-Life 2, it surprised the world with it's combination of black humor and innovative gameplay. With Portal 2 about to be released, the folks over at Valve are teasing us with a lot of craziness. What kind of craziness you ask? Read more to find out. GLaDOS needs your help! Read The Full Story

Minecraft Made a Cool $33 Million

Kevin Fubar, Apr 8th 2011 Discuss [1]

Minecraft was developed in 2009 by Markus “Notch” Persson, a Swedish programmer. It's a browser based 3D game with graphics on par with 1996, but that didn't stop it from becoming the underground hit throughout last year. It spread throughout the internet, garnering Persson's company around ten bucks a pop for each purchase. That's not much, but just today Minecraft's website reports 1837252 have purchased the game. Read The Full Story

Xbox Dev kits get redesigned and lower price

Shane McGlaun, Apr 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

Game developers that design games for the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console have development consoles that they use for testing the games and making sure all is well with them before they send the games to manufacturing. A new development console has landed for game developers from Microsoft that has a new design and is much cheaper than the old dev kits that were offered before. Read The Full Story

Duke Nukem Forever Gets Played At PAX East 2011

Rue Liu, Mar 16th 2011 Discuss [8]

PAX East wrapped up this past weekend and many of the gaming industries big names were there like THQ and Rockstar. But there was also an old game that is ready to make its comeback. Duke Nukem Forever was on hand for all the fan boys out there to finally get some hands-on fun after 12 years of waiting. Read The Full Story

Nintendo Unveils Two Limited Edition Pokemon DSi Bundles

Rue Liu, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

This generation of Pokemon titles kicks off with a bang as Pokemon Black and Pokemon White land in North America, Europe, and Australia in March. To coincide with the popular titles, Nintendo is bringing out two special limited edition DSi bundles for fans on March 6th. Read The Full Story

Vietnam Sets Strictest Curfew On Video Game Playing

Rue Liu, Feb 23rd 2011 Discuss [8]

Back in April, South Korea placed cutoff times for online gaming from the hours of midnight to 6 am because of worries of gaming addiction. Vietnam is following South Korea’s lead and is instituting an even stricter curfew--blocking off an extra two hours--from 10 pm to 8 am. They’re playing hardball from the get-go. The government will start the curfew on March 3rd. Read The Full Story