Tweet While you can’t have Michael Phelps’ eight gold medals, you can get the same VIP treatment extended to him by Activision during his visit on CBS’ Early Show yesterday. The host of the show handed Phelps what was thought to be a copy of Call of Duty: World At War on air and stated [...]

Tweet While Wade, John, and Justin are enjoying PAX in Seattle, I am stuck happy to be in Boston this weekend for a wedding. The good even better news is that, according to Joystiq, the Penny Arcade Expo will be making its way to Boston in 2010. This marks the first time in the shows [...]

Tweet Street Fighter IV’s certainly a contender for fighting game of the year, but it won’t be if it’s online play is hampered by the same kind of lag that the Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix beta has been. That game’s not pushing netcode nearly as hard as SFIV will, presumably, and it’s been [...]

Tweet Rumors sprouted earlier this week than GTA IV’s 360-exclusive downloadable content would be ready for release this November, but now the ever-churning rumor mill is telling us that it won’t be ready until January or Feburary next year. Citing a “source close to Rockstar,” VG247 is reporting that Microsoft is “wrong” to expect anything [...]

Tweet Baseball has Barry Bonds and his Giant head (and ego) under the scrutiny of the senate. Cycling has a long list of riders banned for doping. The Olympics have stripped athletes of their medals for taking steroids. Competitive gamers have bong rips before frag fests. But so far testing positive carries no negative. Hit [...]

Tweet IGN randomly decided to release the very first (as far as I know) real-time, in-game screenshots of the FF XIII series. I must say, they look stunning. Not Heavy Rain stunning, but not especially far off. Things to pay attention to, in addition to the immaculately detailed player models, are the architecture and set [...]

Tweet You didn’t think I was actually going to show a penis creature? You might have thought Will Wright might have pulled a facepalm when people started creating genitalia based creatures. Not so – he thinks they’re ace.

Tweet Do you like this man? Y/N? In honor of the recent release of Silicon Knights’ Too Human, MTV Multiplayer’s Stephen Totilo thought it’d be a good idea to interview some of the people behind the game. Most, including myself, would assuredly include the outspoken, and often controversial, Denis Dyack amongst the interviewees. Totilo specifically [...]

Tweet According to the official Gears of War website, the Microsoft booth will be hosting 5V5 Gears of War 2 multiplayer matches during this weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo.

Tweet Hey guys, guess what? What? Chuck Norris! LOL!! ROFLMAO!! You thought it was over. Well, it isn’t. Chuck Norris is descending upon geek culture once again, with fists flaming with the might of 1,000 suns, and this time it’s in mobile game form. Chuck Norris: Bring On The Pain will be an old-school side-scroller [...]

Tweet Devs have been talking a big game about destructible environments from Dig Dug to Red Faction’s “Geo-Mod” technology, but how many of them would take the mentality of blow-everythang-up this far? In Pandemic’s latest “playground of destruction,” Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, you’ll be able to blow up forestry, oil tankers, everything – even [...]

Tweet Gametrailers blogger LifeRPG has been doing some serious thinking about what would make online consoles just a little bit better, and some of these actually seem like they might work. Read on for the full list of most wanted features.

Tweet Who needs an epic mount when you can get off your ass and experience the steep hills of Azeroth on foot courtesy of a real life treadmill? I’ll tell you who, gamers who haven’t so much as walked around the block in six months, that’s who. The video below showcases a one mile race [...]

Tweet Did you think Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness was going to run away with the award for longest game title of the year? Well, there’s a new challenge to that ignoble throne. I have a lot of fun just saying the title of this game: Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars. Now [...]

Tweet In an interview with Kotaku, Assistant Producer on Metal Gear Solid 4, Ryan Payton, announced that he is leaving Kojima Productions and heading back to North America in order to be closer to his family who lives in Washington. When asked about what he will miss, Ryan said: “It’ll be hard not being involved [...]