Left 4 Dead Maps Resurrected in Left 4 Dead 2 Over Forty New Final Fantasy XIII Screens Just In Time For The Weekend PlayStation Network Plans To Implement Premium Content Subscription-Based Model Microsoft Game Studios Hiring Epic Liason/Producer For Gears of War & Shadow Complex Madden NFL Arcade Game Changers Video Toys“R”Us Goes Game Stop, Geoffrey the Giraffe Now Accepting Used Console Trade-Ins

The phallic puzzler Mr. Driller is coming to Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday, April 2nd with some nifty features. Hit the jump for details. Read more…

Playstation 3 Am Cry?

One of the most wanted features missing from the Playstation 3 is the ability to use a custom soundtrack during gameplay. Movement has been made in this area with some games beginning to offer support, notably Super Stardust HD and High Velocity Bowling, but it’s yet to be offered for all games.

Though many expect the inclusion to come when Sony supports an in-game version of Playstation 3’s cross media bar, the implementation of this feature might just stay with the developers, since Microsoft owns a patent for this very functionality. Read more…

Sega have released the first trailer for The Incredible Hulk game, due for release the same time as the film in June. Although it gives away little of the plot or any other characters in the game, the trailer does give us some clear indication as to what we should expect– destruction.
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Justin Blankenship, a former FTC lawyer, expresses concern regarding the potential EA and Take-Two merger. Specifically, he believes that the merger may violate antitrust laws due to the hold the company would have on the videogame sports sector. Read more…

We just received an email from Activision’s PR department containing 9 new screenshots of their upcoming DLC map pack for the hit game, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, due to hit XBL on April 10th. The four maps included in the pack are Kill Creek, Broadcast, Chinatown, and Killhouse. Read more…

We all know that the media likes to blame video games for everything, from people shooting each other to kids stealing cars. But this reactionary approach has been used on sex, drugs and rock and roll for years. Read more…

What’s the name of this song? I like it.

Rockstar and Amazon.com have joined forces to let you buy songs from Grand Theft Auto IV through a unique in-game system. Hit the jump to read exactly how. Read more…

At the beginning of the month I was puzzled why 5pb, in bringing Cave shooters Ketsui and DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou Black Label to the Xbox 360 in Japan, would choose retail as their distribution medium when digital download seems so much more fitting. As it turns out, they were given no choice… by Microsoft. Read more…

Expect this game to put the PSP at the top next week.

Is anybody else impressed that the Wii has managed to hang with gaming’s portable darlings for so long? Neither of Nintendo’s next-generation competitors have managed to even come close. Read more…

A fourth (and fantastic looking!) GTA IV trailer is now available if you aren’t already begging for its release April 29th, and Rockstar has announced a new online social club for Xbox Live and PSN that will track all kinds of usage data surrounding the game– plus more in the future. Read more…

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is the kind of game that can only come out well into in a system’s life cycle. Like many launch titles, early Nintendo DS games were generally ugly, clunky games that featured tacked on stylus support. But, as Dragon Sword demonstrates, the difference between games like the hand-cramping Super Mario 64 DS and latter day titles can be startling. Read more…

If you felt a little cheated by the cliffhanger ending of the original Rainbow Six Vegas, you may be surprised, frustrated perhaps, to find out that Vegas 2 doesn’t pick up immediately where the previous game left off. In fact, it’s set before, during, and after the events of the first game. Read more…

He wasn’t the buyer, but I bet he wishes he was.

If you happen to be a connoisseur of RPGs, you know Chrono Trigger is widely considered to be the Pièce de résistance of the Super Nintendo era. Memorable characters, a cool time-traveling hook and a smorgasbord of endings made Chrono Trigger the pinnacle of 2D sprite RPGs. Read more…

This is it?! This is insulting.

Take-Two Interactive told stockholders at a recent meeting that the buyout offer from Electronic Arts wasn’t good enough. Not that they’re not for sale, it’s just going to cost a potential buyer a bit more than $2 billion. Read more…

Fans of Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 probably already know, but Paul Robertson’s latest animated brawler short, Kings of Power 4 Billion %, is powerhousing its way through the tubes. Read more…

The latest PS3 firmware update brings the Playstation 3 up to version 2.20, adding further functionality to the victor of the latest format war; Blu-Ray. But Sony also left out the ability to copy a SD version of a Blu-Ray movie to your PSP for portable watching. Details after the break. Read more…

You’ll be able to buy the new Warhawk Pack very soon – in April actually (adding more evidence to the leaked release schedule) and we can provide you with some nouveaux screenshots.  Sadly importers of the game will once again find it hard to buy the pack. At least there’s a free patch. Read more…

The ever valiant Joseph Kucan, the former director who portrays Kane, is back in a more central role than ever in the expansion Command and Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath. This game just dropped yesterday – but those of you that are followers are probably aware of this and are playing right now, instead of reading the news about it here, right? Read more…

Japan’s Famitsu magazine carries within it some long-awaited Resident Evil 5 info this week. Could this be the first indication of the title’s big reveal? Read more…

Far Cry 2 was on show for the select few at Play.com Live.  A full preview will be on its way, but before that the game’s narrative designer, Patrick Redding, let us know when we can get our dirty little mits on it. Read more…