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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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 >
Xbox Live getting Crackle, CinemaNow apps

Xbox Live getting Crackle, CinemaNow apps

If having YouTube and the other recently-released video content apps isn't quite enough to satisfy all of your video streaming desires, Microsoft has added two more apps, Crackle and CinemaNow, to Xbox Live. Crackle, for the unitiated, is ... Read >
Sony rebranding PSN accounts as Sony Entertainment Network accounts

Sony rebranding PSN accounts as Sony Entertainment Network accounts

Sony announced today that PlayStation Network accounts will soon be changed over to "Sony Entertainment Network" accounts. It may sound like a major change, but it's not--Sony says that the switch over to "Sony Entertainment Network" is purely ... Read >
KISS Working On Their Very Own Angry Birds Game

KISS Working On Their Very Own Angry Birds Game

KISS, a rock band known around the World for their crazy style and over the top performances, are working on a deal with Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, on their very own version of the game. Gene ... Read >
Blizzard sends out 100,000 Diablo III beta invites

Blizzard sends out 100,000 Diablo III beta invites

If you have yet to get into the Diablo III beta after all of this time, you may want to check your email. Blizzard sent out a massive wave of invites, about 100,000, in North America. Even if ... Read >
Skyrim Creation Kit coming next week, Bethesda says

Skyrim Creation Kit coming next week, Bethesda says

Skyrim patch 1.4 was recently released on Steam, and with it came support for Steam Workshop--but the tool that would make use of the Steam Workshop, the Creation Kit modding utility, wasn't released along with it. According to ... Read >
For the first time ever Xbox sales top Wii and PS3 worldwide

For the first time ever Xbox sales top Wii and PS3 worldwide

This news should be causing more than a few smiles in Redmond as the news that the Xbox 360 beat out Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3 when it comes to worldwide sales for the first time ... Read >
Turn your Xbox Silver account into Gold for a month by playing Mass Effect 3 demo

Turn your Xbox Silver account into Gold for a month by playing Mass Effect 3 demo

This is an interesting way to accomplish two things: show people what they are missing by not having a Gold Xbox account and how good the next release of Mass Effect is going to be. The way it ... Read >
THQ’s Warhammer MMO isn’t dead, but needs help

THQ’s Warhammer MMO isn’t dead, but needs help

Back during all of that talk of THQ canceling its 2014 lineup--which turned out to be not true--THQ said that "no decisions" have been made regarding Warhammer: Dark Millennium Online, which suggested that the MMO may be ... Read >
You may want to hold on to your Mass Effect 3 saves

You may want to hold on to your Mass Effect 3 saves

Mass Effect 3 may wrap up the current story arc, but that doesn't mean that the series is over just yet. BioWare has strongly suggested in the past that there will be more Mass Effect, and now ... Read >
Ubisoft migrating servers, several games affected

Ubisoft migrating servers, several games affected

Ubisoft will soon be switching the hosting of a good many of its servers from a third-party provider to a new facility and, as a result, many Ubisoft games' online modes will be unavailable during that time. ... Read >
Oklahoma lawmakers wants to tax any games with an ESRB of ‘Teen’ or above

Oklahoma lawmakers wants to tax any games with an ESRB of ‘Teen’ or above

Having been in this tech industry for 20 plus years I am no longer surprised when I read about lawmakers who, with little or no knowledge of what they are seeking legislate try to control video games ... Read >
EA: Battlefield 3, FIFA 12 sell over 10 million units, SWTOR going strong

EA: Battlefield 3, FIFA 12 sell over 10 million units, SWTOR going strong

EA posted its Q3 report yesterday, and the publisher boasted impressive sales numbers for several of its titles. EA announced that Battlefield 3 and FIFA 12 both sold over 10 million units each, with Madden NFL 12 ... Read >
Syndicate to ship without an online pass, EA confirms

Syndicate to ship without an online pass, EA confirms

EA has been a very strong supporter of the Project $10 / online pass system, so you'd be forgiven if you assumed that Starbreeze's Syndicate reboot would utilize some form of an online pass. But surprisingly, it ... Read >
THQ lays off 240 people, cuts CEO pay

THQ lays off 240 people, cuts CEO pay

THQ recently announced that it was shifting its focus away from licensed games aimed at kids, instead choosing to focus on "core" mass market titles. That, coupled with the flop of uDraw, suggested that the company isn't ... Read >
First round of Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC coming next week

First round of Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC coming next week

Final Fantasy XIII-2 just came out in North America, and Europe is expected to get the game on February 3. Despite the fact that most of will have just gotten started, Square Enix announced that the first ... Read >