Tweet EA and People Can Fly (one of my favorite studio names, for the record) have dropped on us a few delicious looking screens for their upcoming shooter, Bulletstorm. Now, nobody really knows what Bulletstorm is about quite yet, but it seems that you will have a whole lot of different fighting moves and enormous [...]

Tweet Respawn Entertainment, the company started by enemies of the state Activision Vincent Zampella and Jason West continues to fill its roster with former Infinity Ward employees. This time, the four former employees who have confirmed their employment with the company through LinkedIn, which I think is like makeoutclub.com but for professionals or something, includes [...]

Tweet One of the running threads in this whole Infinity Ward versus Activision war was the Activision sympathizers going with the argument that Jason West and Vince Zampella were somehow the bad guys here and that the rest of Infinity Ward didn’t really like them anyway. Well, now 40 current and former Infinity Ward employees [...]

Tweet For the record, the alternate title for this post was going to be “Frank West: I’ll show up in all your games until you love me, papa-paparazzi!” but I make way too many Gaga references as it is. It isn’t hard to notice that, when it comes to Japan and America understanding of each [...]

Tweet We touched on this a little yesterday in our “Run the Darn Play I tell You To Run” preview of Madden NFL 11, but now you can hear the folks at EA gush about their new “GameFlow” play calling system and “Locomotion” gameplay changes first hand in the first two installments of their five part [...]

Tweet If you’ve already played through both of Epic Games’ Gears of War titles, you’re definitely going to want to watch the hilarious plot summary below written and narrated by IGN Editor Ryan Geddes. It should go without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that if you haven’t played both games this is going to [...]

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Tweet Blizzard issued an update today addressing some changes that will effect raiding in the upcoming Cataclysm expansion, and it didn’t take long for some of the hard-core 25 man raiding faithful to question the logic.

Tweet I think I’ve made it pretty clear here, on my various social networking addictions pages, on my Twitter, and on my own blog that I view professional wrestling as the single most awesome sport in existence. More specifically, I find it to be the flat out most entertaining and engaging performance art to ever [...]

Tweet A Madden 2011 “first look”, published today on ESPN, reveals one very interesting change to the play calling mechanics in store for the latest edition of the long standing EA Sports franchise. According to EA, game data collected showed average matches lasting an hour if not more, and that was something they felt the [...]

Tweet As you may already know, a big feature of Dead Rising 2 will be the ability to combine items into badass weapons of undead destruction.  What you may not know is that you’re going to be able to play the entire game with a friend!!  or a stranger . . . Read on!!

Tweet Do you have $5?  Do you like action, adventure and side scrolling? No? Well TOO BAD, because even if you hate side scrollers, TRINE is well worth your time and your $5.  Here’s why.

Hello Comrade!! Welcome to Ripten review of Metro 2033. In Soviet Russia, game plays you … but here in US of A, we play game. So here goes.

Tweet In the world of video game journalism, some things are perceived to be self evident. If a game is awful but you need to make sure the company keeps sending you stuff- you give it a 7, if you are the review that bumps a game’s Metacritic rating down a peg- be prepared for [...]

Tweet Bungie’s Marcus Lehto is very excited about Halo: Reach. So much so that the Creative Director issued the following post on the companies developer blog: “This week, we solved some big E3 plans that have been cooking for a while now … It wasn’t easy at all. I had some different ideas as to what I [...]