Articles By: Chad Lakkis

G4TV’s Adam Sessler Shares His Thoughts On The Pending “Violent Video Games To Minors” Supreme Court Case

Tweet The latest edition of Sessler’s Soapbox covers the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court hearing which aims to decide the fate of violent video game sales to minors, and good ol’ Adam is more than ready to let us all know exactly how he feels about it.

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Mass Effect 2 “Equalizer Pack” DLC Available Today

Tweet Mass Effect 2 lovers are going to want to make sure their Microsoft Points supply is in good standing today. Bioware’s latest DLC for the game, titled “Equalizer Pack” is available for download right now via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for 160 MS points. What will you get for your money? New movement speed [...]

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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Hits Stores July 27, 2010

Tweet Blizzard’s long awaited (12 years to be exact) release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the sequel to 1998′s StarCraft title, is set to drop on July 27th, 2010, and like any good cigar chomping Marine you’re probably thinking to yourself … ”Hell, it’s about time.” The beta has been out for some time now, [...]

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EA Sports Marketing Machine Preps Football Fans For “Simpler, Quicker, Deeper” Madden NFL 11 “Locomotion” Experience

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 [...]

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IGN Sums Up Gears of War 1 & 2 In Five Minutes

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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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Marks The End of 25 Man Raiding?

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.

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Madden 2011 “Run The Darn Play I Tell You To Run” Preview

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 [...]

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Bungie Creative Director “Can’t Wait” to Show Halo: Reach at E3, But He Will Anyway

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 [...]

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World of Warcraft Celestial Steed Giveaway from Ripten

Tweet Just over an hour ago, Blizzard officially released a new in game account-bound mount called the Celestial Steed (pictured above). The combination land and air mount modeled after the Algalon boss in Ulduar will run you $25 dollars via the Blizzard store, but you can win one right here for free!

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Mowing Down Thousands of Crackdown 2 Thugs At Once May Bring Out The Spartan In You

Tweet Remember those amazing battle scenes from the movie 300? A small group of Spartans packed in tight preparing to take on a massive horde of Persians? Well, as amazing as that was, imagine doing the same thing without the other 299 guys, oh and instead of Persians you’re taking on a variety of angry [...]

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Bleszinski Announcing Two Games on Jimmy Fallon, Gears 3 and Bulletstorm, Both Leaked in Advance

Tweet Cliff Bleszinski’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon appearance was pushed back to this coming Monday. Regardless of the reason, the delay allowed for one of his game announcements (Gears of War 3) to be spoiled via an Xbox 360 dashboard spotlight, and now the second announcement (he recently tweeted that their would be two) [...]

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Crysis 2 Creepy New York City Debut Trailer Spreads The News, Plus GDC 2010 Tech Demo

Tweet A smoke filled New York City skyline complete with fluttering paper is not an image any of us will soon forget. That said, the first fifty seconds of Crytek’s Crysis 2 debut trailer reinforces the age old saying that art imitates life. Of course, the other minute and thirty odd seconds is chalk full [...]

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Gears of War 3 April 2011 Xbox 360 Dashboard Announcement Spoils Jimmy Fallon Late Night Reveal

Tweet Gears of War Design Director, Cliff Bleszinski was scheduled to make a new game announcement on Jimmy Fallon but that appearance got pushed to Monday. Unfortunately, it appears that the Xbox 360 follow up to the announcement was not delayed accordingly. The image above, showcasing a Gears of War 3 April 2011 release, was [...]

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Cliff Bleszinski’s Jimmy Fallon Appearance Moved, Decides to Grace New York GameStop Instead

Tweet If you live in the New York area and have any interest in meeting the man behind Gears of War and Gears of War 2, he just so happens to be stuck in New York with nothing to do. Cliff Bleszinski, Epic Games Design Director, was scheduled to be on Late Night with Jimmy [...]

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Cliff Bleszinski Touches Down in NY, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Will Reveal Epic’s New Game Next Monday

Tweet Epic Games Gears of War mastermind Cliff Bleszinski touched down in New York a few short hours ago, as he prepares to unleash a new video game on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon next Monday. The appearance was supposed to take place tomorrow night, but much like Matt Damon on the other Jimmy show, [...]

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