Category: "News"

Duke Nukem Predicted Blu-ray Victory (Audio)

Well it seems that Duke Nukem does all things well, and that includes predicting who would win the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD war.

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Marcus Fenix Voice Actor (John DiMaggio) Talks Gears of War 2 in IGN Interview

Voice actor John DiMaggio, the raspy voice of Gears of War lead man, Marcus Fenix, was recently interviewed by IGN. During the course of the interview, DiMaggio revealed that Gears of War 2 will feature Brumak, who first debuted as a villain in the PC version of the original Gears of War.

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Xbox Live Marketplace Update – 2/28/2008

Check out the gobs of stuff added today to the Xbox Live Marketplace. In addition to the abundance of Spiderwick Chronicles videos, there are also some free History Channel customizations, a very interesting Alone in the Dark Video, and a bunch more stuff. Full details following the breakage.

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GTA IV to Have 100 Hours of Gameplay

Best to phone home, people might start to get worried The much hyped and highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV will take the player around 100 hours to complete, excluding the Xbox 360′s exclusive content, according to the games developer Rockstar.

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Gaming Trends Part 2: The State of PC Gaming

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been noticing quite a few themes that have been making their way through the industry. Throughout last week at GDC, many of these took center stage in a variety of forms. Today, we examine the state of PC Gaming. Every year a multitude of publications come out proclaiming “PC [...]

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Europe Gets Semi-Lucky: More PS3 Bundles

Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe has confirmed that two different PS3 bundles are going to making their way into Europe. Both are going to be the 40GB SKU with a Sixaxis One. One contains Gran Turismo 5: Prologue and the other (initially only available to the French) packs 3 Blu-Rays: 300, Casino Royale, and Spiderman [...]

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Limited Edition MGS4 Playstation 3 Model in the Works?

What’s under that question mark?! Based on a few news stories that came rolling in today, it looks like we may be seeing a Limited Edition Metal Gear Solid 4 Playstation 3 pretty soon. Say that ten times fast.

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MGS4: Official Worldwide Release 06/12, Website Relaunch Tomorrow

Building off of what Geoff Haugan reported on earlier, it looks like June 12th, 2008, is in fact the official worldwide release date for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. And that’s straight from Kojima’s mouth.

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Call of Duty 5 Wish List

Activision has confirmed Treyarch is working hard at Call of Duty 5 for 2008, and once again is taking a step back and opening the once thought closed doors to World War 2. Ever since the release of Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty 4, fans have been craving nothing but “Modern Warfare” in all it’s [...]

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Dengeki PlayStation Reveals New MGS4 & MGO Info?

Scans have surfaced via a Portuguese site that reveals the Japanese magazine Dengeki PlayStation running a story on Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots in Vol. 413. Among some other information, the magazine appears to confirm that MGS4′s specific release date for Japan is 6.12.2008.

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Resistance, Uncharted, and Warhawk Playstation Home Integration Announced

Playstation Home is getting more appealing by the second and the way in which Resistance: Fall of Man, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and Warhawk will utilize it is nothing short of awesome.

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Frontlines: Fuel of War has 90 Dedicated Servers at Launch

Those worried that Frontlines’ epic 50-player online wars would wreak havoc and destruction on Xbox Live can worry no more. In celebration if its recent launch, THQ has set up 90 dedicated servers for the game’s online play.

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Home Open Beta Starts 24th March in Japan?

The stars continue to align… Following the dubious 20th March countdown on an unknown website, a somewhat reliable Japanese news source has revealed that the Home Open Beta will begin on March 24th in Japan.

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Microsoft Ordered to Pay $1.4bn to EU

Microsoft has been fined a hefty amount for violating the sanctions originally placed on them back in 2004 for anti-competitive behavior. The original violation involved Microsoft failing to share crucial information with its rival software makers. The company was originally fined a record 497 million Euros ($613m at the time) in 2004. The total fine [...]

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PC Demise? Mark Rein Calls Cliffy B An Idiot

Well, when we sat down with Mark Rein and the rest of the newly formed PC Alliance at this years GDC, we wondered if his loyalty to the PC would extend beyond the confines of the Moscone Center. However, his recent comments in response to a particular bayonet wielding designer may help to answer that [...]

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