Despite the silly name, Panzers looks mighty impressive. This media that we received in a press release today shows of the weather effects and explains how they’ll affect gameplay. Read more…

Black Lion, a new German-based game developer, has just announced the existence of their new tactical action game, Shadow Harvest. Read more…

EA have today announced FaceBreaker, a brand new franchise being produced by EA Canada. Due for all current generation systems sometime this year, the arcade style boxing game will offer players “irreverent fun, immersive gameplay and eye-popping stylized graphics”. Read more…

Play.com Live have it covered this year for all you Brits. They will now let the general public get their hands on some of 2008’s games and entertainment, long before they arrive in the Play.com warehouse for sale. Read more…

I doubt Jamie Oliver had anything to do with this.

For me, PE at School meant Dodgeball, Tennis, Football, and Rugby. Things have changed. The UK Government has formally endorsed the use of Nintendo’s Wii in Physical Education lessons. Read more…

It may be cold outside, but there’s no excuse for not turning on your PS3 and downloading some digital goodness. Europe gets a Devil May Cry 4 demo, the US gets a Conflict: Denied Ops demo and we all live happily ever after. Read more…

If you were on the fence about picking up the latest installment of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series, maybe a little road soda and flesh-on-pole action will help. Read more…

Tom and Eli anxiously await the almighty EA Super Bowl prediction

We received a press release today from Electronic Arts, announcing their official prediction for this years Super Bowl, featuring the 18-0 New England Patriots and the New York Football Giants. Read more…

No rumour, this one’s straight from the horse’s mouth. Valve has confirmed that there will be a sequel to Portal.

Valve’s marketing director Doug Lombardi assured gamers that a sequel will make an appearance, but true to form there’s no timescale on it whatsoever. Read more…

The release date rumors regarding Final Fantasy XIII received an official response from Square Enix via the press section of their North American website. The full statement can be found below. Read more…

Today we can present to you the top-selling UK games of 2007. Football and sequels rule, originality falls. Read more…

Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, the man behind the popular Brain Age games for the DS, is a pretty strange dude. He refuses to accept any of the $11 million in royalties he’s entitled from his involvement in the games, and he doesn’t even really like videogames in the first place. All he wants to do in life is work. What a nutjob! Read more…

Planet Battlefield has posted the first screenshots of Battlefield Heroes, which is due out this Summer. Read more…

After nearly four years together, Marvel Comics will no longer be producing games under the EA Games label.

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Tecmo announced last year that the next Fatal Frame would be coming to the Wii. No other console version was mentioned, even though the series had previously appeared on the Playstation 2 and Xbox.

Many hoped that Fatal Frame 4 would make its way to one of these systems as well. These hopes have now been dashed. Read more…

In yet another attempt to bring together the worlds of Mountain Dew and videogames, PepsiCo created the DEWmocracy. This Massively-Multiplayer Online game casts players as “an anonymous hero that rebels against the the forces of uniformity and seeks a new world, and a new elixir, that will change everything”. That must be pretty interesting because hundreds of thousands of gamers have already begun doing the Dew. Read more…

While the above image might be a tad bit of an exaggeration, it certainly feels accurate. Despite Spore’s new expected release date of March/April 2008, Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey thinks that the game will likely be delayed again - this time until the latter half of 2008. Read more…

According to the folks over at the Angry Pixel, their source at Microsoft informs them that the upcoming Halo RTS, Halo Wars, will make its way to PC as well as Xbox 360 and feature cross-platform play via Microsoft’s Games for Windows - LIVE. Read more…

If you think back to 2002, when Steam first launched, I specifically remember Computer Gaming World handing out the not-so-coveted award of ‘Coaster of the Year’ to Valve and their Steam delivery platform.

Needless to say, Valve have turned that around to the point where most gamers would much rather purchase games from Steam instead of the brick and mortar store down the street. And now they’re once again pushing forward the industry that we care so much about with Steamworks.
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The Killzone forums have awakened and a Guerrilla developer answers questions where he can. Killzone 2 should get very close to their target movie and in some ways will exceed it. Read more…