The closest thing gamers have to a holy pilgrimage comes in the form of the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. E3 takes over the Los Angeles Convention Center for only three days every year, but entire weeks leading up to the show are filled with hype and rumors about what games and hardware will be shown and …
Well, for once, the gap between Sony’s plans and the execution of said plans doesn’t have everyone waiting for weeks on end. Just a few days ago, the PlayStation manufacturer promised that their online store would be operational again before the end of the week and whaddya know, it’s actually up and running on this fine Thurssday …
PS3 owners have been enjoying online play again for the last sixteen days after the weeks-long shutdown necessary to overhaul the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. But a crucial part of the online offering’s been missing, as Sony’s kept the PlayStation Store offline to further bolster security in the e-commerce portion of …
What happens when one of the biggest publishers of standalone AAA video games merges with the company responsible for global phenomenon World of Warcraft? You get Activision Blizzard, currently the top dog in the video game market. But, for a while now, that’s all we’ve gotten. Industry watchers have been left to wonder when a true …
The latest trailer for Epic Games’ hotly-anticipated Gears of War 3 hit the media today and the clip promises an explosive and emotional end to the interspecies war that threatens to destroy the planet of Sera.
Epic’s already released a taste of what the multiplayer portion of Gears 3 will play like, with a month-long beta that just …
It’s been a tense, nerve-racking week in the United States and the other countries who got the PlayStation Network restored after Sony’s online service was shut down by hackers. Like anyone burned by a bad break-up, PS3 owners were tentative: “Will it stay up? Will it leave us again? How can we be sure?”
Heck, some enterprising folks …
If you’re still wondering what Activision’s version of World War 3 is going to look like after the ‘splosion-happy trailer, the publisher released a few new screens today. The scenes show off the global conflict as it’ll happen in New York and London. Based on Kotaku’s write-up, the levels portrayed here may have even been built by …
As anyone who’s ever been bombarded by others’ status updates knows, no company better represents the current shift in the gaming landscape than Zynga. The casual game revolution caught fire on social networks like Facebook and brought in millions of players who are otherwise uninterested in hardcore console and PC games. Now, rumors …
You know Minecraft. It’s got a hold on your soul. You held a party when new weather effects came to the game and doodle designs for your next creations during meetings. Your dreams? They now unfold in giant pixellated blocks. In short, Mojang‘s runaway hit owns your imagination.
But, you’ve tossed and turned at night, hoping for a way …
It’s a good thing the detective thriller from Rockstar and Team Bondi’s doing so well, because it took a helluva long time to make. Team Bondi was cooking up Cole Phelps’ story for well over five years, much of that spent on just how to structure it. Years went by figuring out whether they wanted it to be a text-based game, or …
Modern Warfare 3 leak? What Modern Warfare 3 leak? Forget about all of that. This here’s the real deal. Activision’s released a new offcial teaser for their upcoming blockbuster first-person shooter and it’s literally blowing up everything in sight.
As already reported, the threequel to the best-selling Modern Warfare games creates a …
If you’re an avid gadgethead, chances are you’ve got a few misfires in your gear bin. A point-and-shoot that you quickly upgraded past, a few extra Xbox 360 controllers that your lonely, single self doesn’t really need or maybe a first-gen Kindle, even?
Well, if you want to put those leftovers to good use, the world’s largest web …
