Tweet Avatars are just like people. They have clothes, they receive awards, they have an interconnected system of veins and muscles that make up the human body shoes- but that’s not enough. No, our online representations need to be more realistic. They need sidekicks. They need pets. Or so Microsoft says.

Tweet Sega will be releasing the first four Sonic the Hedgehog games as a part of a classic collection for the Nintendo DS in the early part of 2010. The package will include a video segment offering an “in-depth look at the speedy hedgehog”  as well as an update to the games making way for [...]

Tweet A recently translated Japanese Jugem blog post, which discusses Final Fantasy XIII information found in the December 7th issue of Shounen Jump, reveals a powerful move unique to Lightning. The exact Google translation I was able to get amounts to “Lightning strongest, most powerful ability of total consumption time gauge.” Offering up a slightly [...]

Tweet We showed you the North American and European Final Fantasy XIII box art yesterday, and now we add two Japanese box art scans to the mix. The standard box art is pretty much as simple as it gets — white background with the logo front and center. The PlayStation 3 Lightning bundle box art [...]

Tweet EA announced a new “modern day” direction for their Medal of Honor franchise today. The upcoming sequel, simply titled “Modern W…whoops, Medal of Honor” will be set in a war-torn Afghanistan. In an interesting move, EA LA will focus on the single player aspect, while EA DICE will develop the multiplayer portion of the [...]

Tweet In case you missed it the first time around back in August, Final Fantasy director, Motomu Toriyama has once again commented on the approximate play time of Final Fantasy XIII. “For XIII, the size of the entire game is considerable. Just running through the main story takes experienced players over 50 hours. For the [...]

Tweet According to a tweet posted by Creative Director Mikey Neumann over at Gearbox, the makers of Borderlands (which I refuse to play because I fear it will suck me into a virtual world of RPG fun that will leave the site void of content much like the time I decided to “try” World of [...]

Tweet I took the photo above when I was at Best Buy a few days ago. At the time, I wasn’t really sure what I may use it for, but the sheer fact that the price of Mirror’s Edge had dropped so low was shocking to me. To give you some perspective, you could pick [...]

Tweet Thanks to what was no doubt some sly negotiating on the part of Sony, PlayStation 3 owners can feel the searing flames of Hell against their flesh two weeks earlier than Xbox 360 faithful. Sony will be receiving the Dante’s Inferno demo on their PlayStation Network December 10th, leaving 360 owners on the hook [...]

Tweet Square Enix showcased the final box art for the North American and European Final Fantasy XIII release today. The design is very simple and straight forward with just a hint of inner thigh that screams “Hey taxi!! Over here!” Have a look at the high res box art in our gallery below.

Tweet I became a fan of Splash Damage’s new IP “Brink” back in October when several in game screens were released, but the latest video demonstration proves that the game packs brains as well as beauty. Have a look at the S.M.A.R.T (Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain) system in the developer demonstration video, plus two [...]

Tweet Ripten has been following NaturalMotion and their puffy blue football test animations since our site launched back in 2007. At that time, I was convinced that the company’s physics based euphoria technology (showcased in the animations) was being utilized for the then yet to be released All Pro Football 2K8, however that was not [...]