An ultimately useless (but sort of interesting) statistic was uncovered by intrepid boffins at Scientific American, once they put down their damn game controllers: in total, U.S. videogame consoles consume as much electricity annually as the entire ...
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Its one-man-vs-entire-alien-race formula may have been done to death, but plot originality isn't why people wish to play Crysis 2, damn it: it is, of course, all about teh GR4PH1C5!!!
This latest Crysis 2 trailer, titled 'Be the ...
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I'm not normally a fan of hyperbolic headlines, but this latest trailer from Rockstar's L.A. Noire really is something else; I've yet to see any game with facial animations that come close to Noire's spooky uncanny valley ...
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The latest patch for Call of Duty: Black Ops seems to have made the game less playable, with many PlayStation 3 owners reporting far more serious connection issues.
In a thread on the game's official forums, scores of ...
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Yeah, sorry Jim, but if you're going to play Uncharted 3 right in front of my very eyes a year before I can hope to touch the game, that's how these things work.
Naughty Dog developers Evan Wells ...
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Say hello to my PlayStation Move's little friend. This is the PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter, an official Sony product that will be competing against the likes of the PlayStation Move ray gun when it's released in February.
At ...
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Sony has confirmed that Uncharted 3 is on, and will ship with high-resolution stereoscopic 3D. If ever a game series was made for 3D, it's surely Uncharted.
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception sees the return of Everyman fortune hunter ...
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A 17-year-old kid from Manchester in the United Kingdom single-handedly brought down the online mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops, one of the world's most popular games. It's sort of like a modern David vs. Goliath ...
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Gran Turismo 5 just got a little less "boring and sterile" with the arrival of a new patch for car damage.
1UP reports that the free downloadable update introduces three levels of car damage in the game, though ...
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Reboots of stale old franchises are wildly popular nowadays, and Tomb Raider is next in line for the treatment. Like many of us, Tomb Raider sagged badly during its midlife period (2000 - 2003), but the last ...
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Sony and Microsoft just released sales figures for PlayStation Move and Kinect within 24 hours of one another, giving us the chance to compare, sort of scientifically, how each of the new devices is faring.
Sony has revealed ...
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Fancy a cheap game to go with the turkey sandwiches you'll be eating for the next eight weeks? We have you covered! If you've change left over from Black Friday, you may want to consider some of ...
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As a huuuuge Portal fanboy, just looking at this amazing replica of the game's famous portal gun is exciting.
However, turns out I can also buy it. Alas, there's only one of these, and if you want to ...
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Even though it's only just crept out after a development period spanning back to Jesus times, Gran Turismo 5 is already getting a rough ride. Not from the critics, however - it's averaging a respectable 87% right ...
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I know this isn't very original and many other 30-year-olds would make the same choice, but the Back to the Future trilogy was the film series that defined my childhood. Yeah, even the slightly average third one.
Hence, ...
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The head of Xbox Live's moderation team has warned that users who use a swastika symbol in online multiplayer games of Call of Duty: Black Ops can expect to be banned.
Black Ops allows players to design their ...
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A former president of Sony Computer Entertainment has predicted that a future with a single videogame platform is "between 10 and 15 years away." Furthermore, David Reeves estimated that companies such as Microsoft and Sony may join ...
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Portal 2, 2011's Game of the Year as decided by me and no I'm not being premature, has been delayed by two months.
The great news about this: that's a RECORD SHORTEST DELAY for a Valve game. Don't ...
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Game Informer has an ace preview of Rockstar and Team Bondi's stunning L.A. Noire, the first trailer of which was released last week - if you haven't seen it, it's pants-creamingly excellent.
The game has already attracted garlands ...
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Fresh from its success with the excellent Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar is moving forwards in time again to the 1940s to bring us L.A. Noire.
If this first trailer (built using in-game visuals only) of the detective thriller ...
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Remember this lucky/awesome knife throw from Modern Warfare 2? Well here's another freakish kill from its follow-up, Call of Duty: Black Ops. Except ... I'm pretty sure this is all luck.
We've all done it in these games: ...
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Sony's PlayStation 3 console is now a mere 3 million units behind Microsoft's Xbox 360 in the pathetically named Console War™. According to newly released data from each platform holder, PS3 has sold 41.6 million units worldwide, ...
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