“That’s it, I quit. This is so not worth sixty bucks.” Ok, so we came across this little bit of heaven while browsing reddit.com and just had to share the find with our readers. Granted, not everyone here at ripten was completely in love with Bungie’s latest Halo release in terms of the campaign mode, [...]

“Your processor speed is killing us Sergent” The Single Player demo of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is set to hit PC’s tomorrow, October 11th. Don’t be caught with your pants around your ankles when it does. Make sure you check the specs of your PC against the official recommended and minimum specs courtesy [...]

Since the introduction of the Nintendo Wii last year, many individuals have become attuned to the capabilities of the system, allowing Nintendo to reach a market base well beyond the typical 18-to-35-year-old male, normally the primary consumer of videogame consoles. The Wii’s innovative use of the controller allows players to physically interact with games such [...]

Alas, the moment has arrived, as EA and Crytek have finally announced the minimum and recommended specs for the much anticipated PC FPS. Have at them after the jump.

Nintendo has launched three new classic games to the Wii Shop Channel this morning. Neo Geo is now the sixth platform represented in the Wii Shop Channel.

In an article on the hollywoodreporter.com, an industry source says Sony is set to release the 40-gigabyte Playstation 3 to compete with other consoles for the Christmas season. “We’re hearing Nov. 2 (for the U.S.),” said one industry source. It looks like this is the same 40-gigabyte model that will be released in Europe this [...]

Microsoft has put the rumors to bed, and as long as you remember to leave out milk and cookies, there may just be a new Xbox 360 waiting for you under the tree when you wake in the morning — at least that is what Microsoft surely hopes.

Neon soldiers have no place on the battlefield… After playing the Call of Duty 4 Beta until our fingers bled, we decided to bounce a few questions off of Infinity Ward’s Associate Producer Pete Blumel. One topic that was mentioned a lot during our time online was “spawn protection”, specifically whether or not it would [...]

Sony will start selling a new configuration of their Playstation 3 console in Europe starting October 10th of this year. The new model will have a 40-gigabyte hard drive compared to the 60-gigabyte model out right now. Sony is listing the price of the 40-gigabyte model at 399 euros ($564.17 U.S.) and will lower the [...]

Still from latest Halo live action short. Watch it after the jump. In 2005, Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox announced that they would be working with Microsoft to release a Halo film based on the success of the video game series. They named Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh as the executive producers, who both [...]

If you enjoyed Bioshock (a lot), can read dutch (a little), and want something really cool to hang your jacket on when you come home from work (you are going to need a job for this one), then maybe this giant replica of Big Daddy is for you. At 7 feet 2 inches, the statue [...]

Halo 3′s multiplayer mode, along with Microsoft’s entire strategy for domination in the console wars, can be summed up in two beautiful words: Endless replayability. This is a desert island game–assuming you had an HDTV and Internet connection on the island, and didn’t use team chat to send out an SOS. It’s a game that [...]

Halo’s storyline finally comes full circle, and not the good kind of circle I used to draw in math class with a compass — the bad kind of circle I used to draw on the asphalt when I was five! If Bungie’s mission was to make us feel like pigeons, preordering the game, waiting three [...]

It’s official. Bungie is now a privately held independent company, meaning they are no longer owned by Microsoft. Although Bungie is not owned by Microsoft anymore, Microsoft still owns a minority equity interest in Bungie.

If hospitals remind you of death, this game’s for you Ahead in the darkness you can hear the groaning of a chest maw, a zombie-like creature with a gaping mouth in the middle. You can hear your heartbeat quicken as the cockroaches buzzing around your feet take tiny bites out of your health. You rev [...]