If this rundown of my most eagerly awaited games of 2011 showed anything, it's that the PS3 has a hell of a line-up. Uncharted 3, LittleBigPlanet 2, The Last Guardian, Infamous 2, and the best version of ...
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Every year, game publishing behemoth EA Sports boots up the latest entry in its Madden NFL series, and lets the computer play out the upcoming Super Bowl. EA's been carrying out this PR exercise viable scientific study ...
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L.A. Noire, the new crime epic from Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar, looks like the bee's knees, the cat's pajamas, and the kipper's knickers.
I marked it as one of my 11 titles to watch in 2011, pointing ...
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Destructoid has an eye-opening post focusing on the "scary amount" of user-created levels in LittleBigPlanet 2 based on assassinating Barack Obama. The PlayStation 3 title and its predecessor have taken user-generated content to a whole new level, ...
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Giving old games a HD makeover has become a popular tactic on the PlayStation 3.
I'd complain about the ruthless repackaging of titles we've already played, except (a) face it, slicker graphics really do make a difference and ...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is due to release in November 2011. However, it looks like Infinity Ward - or what remains of Infinity Ward after this fall-out - is struggling to finish the game in ...
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EA's recent exercise in terrifying moms with Dead Space 2 was a clever little PR move. But even more satisfying is this counter-point video of a mom who loves Dead Space 2. Er, perhaps a little too ...
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Industry analyst Michael Pachter has revealed a stat that will likely make Sony wince: during December, Microsoft Kinect bundles outsold PlayStation Move bundles by a ratio of 5:1.
And that's not all. Pachter also says motion control games ...
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For Sony, the recent hacking of the PlayStation 3 seems to go from terrible to disastrous.
While game piracy is an obvious concern for the platform holder, a new homebrew app has been released that allows users with ...
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Developer Crytek says Hollywood director and occasional grump James Cameron has seen Crysis 2's 3D visuals, and "loved what he saw."
Crytek president Cevat Yerli tells this anecdote in the latest issue of Edge magazine, before going on ...
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It's been a tough couple of weeks for the poor old PS3, what with dastardly hackers cracking the system wide open and releasing secret codes that will likely see piracy run rampant.
Having already promised network updates in ...
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It's the start of a new year, and already there are at least sixteen thousand games I want to play. So yes, this list is tinged with a touch of personal bias, but I'd like to think ...
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The folks at 2K Sports are offering an eye-watering $1 million jackpot to the first person who can throw a perfect game in their latest MLB title. If this rings any bells, it's probably because they ran ...
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Sony has a problem. Its baby, the PlayStation 3, has been hacked, and the secret codes that open the doors to modified firmware (and hence mass piracy of PS3 games) have been released. Shit's getting real, in ...
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It's finally happened: after a dozen years, world-famous philanderer and golfer Tiger Woods has shagged his way off the front cover of his own videogame. The boxart for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 was circulated by EA ...
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Time to party like it's 1996, because developer Crystal Dynamics has dripfed Game Informer the first screenshots of the new Tomb Raider. It looks ... dirty, grimy, gritty, and actually reasonably bloody, with the 21-year-old (she's younger ...
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A bunch of hackers calling themselves 'fail0verflow' claim to have unearthed the so-called 'private key' that authorizes PlayStation 3 code to run on the popular console.
fail0verflow are not the first individuals to have broken into the system, ...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops is getting its fair share of end-of-year awards, but here's one gong it probably didn't want: 2010's Most Pirated Game. After 2009, that's two in a row for the series!
While Black Ops ...
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Uncharted 3 continues to look like the hotness in these two gameplay videos. Both depict more of Nate Drake and pal Sully escaping a burning chateau (the same sequence seen recently on Jimmy Fallon's show). Luscious fire ...
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How much do you love Gran Turismo 5? Do you love it $600 much? Because that's what this new wheel and pedals set from peripheral specialists Thrustmaster will cost you.
The T500 RS racing wheel might be eye-wateringly ...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops has become the fastest videogame to reach $1 billion in sales, breaking the landmark after just 44 days on sale. $650 million of that total was made in the game's opening five ...
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Ready to download some Call of Duty: Black Ops content for your Xbox 360? Thanks to an announcement by Major Nelson's podcast it looks like your gaming console will be the first to receive a DLC, arriving ...
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