PS Vita Consoles Let Out Early By Amazon.ca

The PS Vita launches across North America on February 22 - for most people. It seems the exception is a number of Canadian Amazon shoppers, who started getting their Vitas from February 8 after the retailer released the ... Read >

The Last Guardian not dead, but slow-going

The Last Guardian, the latest game from the studio that brought you Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, has been in development for a long time, and yet we still don't have a release date. To make matters ... Read >

Dirt 3 getting a “Complete Edition” this March

Codemasters has announced that Dirt 3 will be getting the "Game of the Year re-release" treatment with Dirt 3 Complete Edition, due out on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this March. As you no doubt guessed from ... Read >

Unreal Engine 4 to be shown for the first time this year

So far, Epic hasn't had much to say about Unreal Engine 4, other than it's coming--but that's going to change this year, according to Epic's Mark Rein. Speaking to G4 at DICE last week, Rein confirmed that we'll ... Read >

Leaked demo play for Mass Effect 3 surfaces on the web [Video]

I am a big fan of the Mass Effect video game franchise having played both 1 and 2, so needless to say I; and a whole bunch of other people, can hardly wait for the game to ... Read >

Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, Michael Wincott lending their voices to EA’s Syndicate reboot

EA has announced that Starbreeze Studios' Syndicate reboot will enlist some Hollywood talent to voice the game's characters, including Rosario Dawson (Sin City, Men in Black II, Brian Cox (The Bourne Identity) and Michael Wincott (The Crow). Dawson ... Read >

Gabe Newell updates users on Steam hack situation

Back in November of last year, Valve's Gabe Newell sent out a notice to Steam users that the Steam database had been breached, and that some user data had possibly been taken. Details on what exactly happened ... Read >

Blizzard suing Valve over DOTA trademark

Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against Valve for their registration of the "DOTA" trademark, claiming that the DOTA name is closely associated with Blizzard's IP--in particular WarCraft III, the game that the mod was developed for. "Valve seeks ... Read >

Activision: Diablo III coming Q2 2012, new Call of Duty this year

To the surprise of absolutely no one in the universe, Activision confirmed in its quarterly financial report that a new Call of Duty title will be released at some point this year. Just what the game about ... Read >

Bethesda ‘Game Jam’ video shows us what could be coming to Skyrim

Bethesda's Todd Howard was on stage at the 2012 DICE Summit, kicking off the summit with his "Why We Play, Why We Create" keynote. Howard shared some interesting statistics throughout the keynote, including the fact that Steam ... Read >

Double Fine starts fundraiser for new game, gets funds in hours

Last night, Double Fine announced that it was looking to make an oldschool point-and-click adventure game, but it needed the help of fans in order to make it happen. The developer started a "Kickstarter" fundraiser, with the ... Read >

Crisis averted: Diablo III will have chat channels, contrary to previous statement

Earlier this month, Bashiok, Diablo III community manager, got fans up in arms when he said that public chat channels would not be in Diablo III, despite chat channels being a prominent feature in Diablo II. As it ... Read >

PlayStation Vita UMD Passport program scrapped in North America

In Japan, Sony introduced the "UMD Passport" program alongside the launch with the PlayStation Vita. The program allowed gamers to register their PSP games on PSN, and then download their games to their PS Vita for a ... Read >

Skyrim Creation Kit, High Resolution Texture Pack available now

After a couple months of waiting, modders can now finally get their hands on Skyrim's Creation Kit and get to work on making all sorts of mods. Bethesda released the modding tools earlier today, as promised, and ... Read >

Killzone PS3 port delayed indefinitely

You may recall that, back in early January, Sony confirmed that the original Killzone would be making its way to the PlayStation Network in January--January 24, to be specific. And, as you may know, that didn't happen. Two ... Read >

April 3 is the drop date for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect Star Wars bundle

Mark your calendars you Star Wars gaming fans and Xbox Jedi wannabes as we now have the date that we will finally be able to get our hands on the much touted Kinect Star Wars. April 3, 2012. That's ... Read >

Hawken gets a release date, goes free-to-play

Hawken, an Unreal Engine 3-powered, multiplayer-focused mech shooter title from indie developer Adhesive Games, is expected to release on December 12, the developer announced recently. In an exclusive with GamesBeat, Adhesive Games co-founder Khang Le revealed the date, ... Read >

BioWare: Mass Effect 3 brings back a lot of what was missing in ME2

While the Mass Effect series has always tried to have a good mix of RPG and shooter gameplay, the first two games had one extreme of one or the other. The first Mass Effect, for instance, had ... Read >

Jak and Daxter Collection coming to PlayStation Network

The Jak and Daxter Collection, a compilation of the first three Jak and Daxter games with remastered graphics, sound and stereoscopic 3D support, will be available at a retailer near you on February 7--and also on the ... Read >

Apple removes several ‘clone’ games from App Store

If you've browsed through Apple's App Store before in search for games, you're likely already aware that there's a disturbing amount of "games" in the e-store that are blatant, unapologetic rip-offs of other games on the App ... Read >

Microsoft Flight gets a release date, launch DLC

Microsoft Flight, the company's casual, free-to-play approach to the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, has finally been given a release date. Microsoft announced today that Microsoft Flight will be made available later this month on February 29. The core ... Read >

Final Fantasy X re-release isn’t a remake, Square Enix says

Back at the Tokyo Game Show this past September, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy X would be making its way to the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita at some point. Some assumed that the re-release would ... Read >