While the term “menial” doesn’t necessary apply to a fireman, everything is menial when you’ve got a bionic arm. Capcom’s advertising for Bionic Commando has gone viral, by putting Nathan Spencer into multiple jobs, including fireman, middle manager, and paperboy. Of course, he and his automaton appendage find some way to mess it up each [...]

Capcom have confirmed that resident Evil 5 will be appearing on the PC “later in the year”, as well as Street Fighter IV and Bionic Commando in July. Capcom says that “all three games will be optimized for the PC platform and will have new PC-specific features added to the already great games.” Bionic commando [...]

Confession time: I’ve never seen Ghostbusters. *ducks* Still, there are a bunch of films that I haven’t seen, but after hearing the innumerable praises of the film, and liking pretty much any other film Bill Murray’s been in, it seems a bit strange that I haven’t yet seen the film. Of course, if the film [...]

Tired of the constant grey wastes in Fallout 3? Convinced that nuclear fallout wouldn’t be all bad? Maybe this mod is for you. It turns all the shrubbery in the game green, essentially removing the harshness of the climate and making the wasteland into a lush, liveable landscape. Really takes the edge off of surviving [...]

Perhaps the best way to begin this review would be to say that games based on a film license, in my mind, can be treated in two ways. The first is to compare the game to the movie — does the plot and overall quality translate into the game well? An example (perhaps the only [...]

Oh yes, you didn’t think you’d see this before the Easter weekend. Jim Henson’s Muppets are back and they’re satirizing Resident Evil 5. Original voice overs are used to go over the game’s synopsis and will make you wish for a Muppet’s shooter. Credit goes to Jim Henson, Black 20 and IGN. Enjoy!

The above slide, noticed by GameSpot, was displayed by THQ at an investor’s meeting in February. As you can see, it makes mention of sequels in plenty of franchises, notably Saints Row 3 and Red Faction 4, as well as info on the release of a Warhammer 40,000 MMO in fiscal 2012 (April 1, 2011- [...]

It’s no secret that we here at Ripten are fans of Red Faction: Guerilla. Sure, the builds we’ve seen have got a couple of bugs to sort out, but for the most part, the game’s destructive nature is just pure fun. With this in mind, you can understand why we’re happy that THQ has set [...]

Now all those Thompson supporters can be shut up about violent FPS games making players violent. Research has shown that driving and even table tennis games make players more agitated and aggressive.

The ESRB has never been an impenetrable fortress of information, and the fact that they have a search function on their website doesn’t really help them keep things secret. Destructoid pointed our earlier today that the ESRB is now listing three Max Payne games, one being the poorly-recieved Max Payne Advance, and the other two [...]

Confession time: I’ve never actually played any of the Metal Gear Solid games. Well, to completion anyway; I own a copy of MGS2: Substance for the Xbox, but I’ve never actually played it past the the first level. I got confused towards the end of it, and I just never picked it up. When Konami [...]

Naughty Dog previewed a few minutes of gameplay from the upcoming sequel to Uncharted titled “Uncharted 2: Among Thieves” at GDC, and clearly at least one thief was in attendance — the internet video leaking variety. Thank (or blame) the makers of tiny devices capable of recording video and foreign gaming sites with writers who [...]

The image you see above comes straight from the Asian Xbox Live Marketplace site, where intrepid net-surfers found a product page for the upcoming Gears of War 2 DLC, titled Dark Corners. You remember Dark Corners, right? The DLC that gives you.. stuff.. with the, uh…darker… Yeah, no, I’ve never heard of it either. According [...]

The 1490 entrants of our Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack contest that didn’t win can soon take solace in the fact that the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack (as well as the Gears of War 2 Snowblind DLC) will soon be hitting XBL. Major Nelson announced today that the Gears of War 2 DLC will [...]

Rockstar have announced today that the third instalment of their bullet-time third-person action game series will be arriving during “Winter 2009″. The game “tells the story of a retired police detective embroiled in a world of corruption, turmoil and intense violence,” Rockstar says. Max Payne 3 will include “hyper-intense action” (“that fans have come to [...]