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 …
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Hail to the ‘Duke Nukem Forever’ Demo and Launch Trailer, Baby
That was a cheap title. I admit it. But you’re not here to critique my primitive word-fu. You’re here to see what Duke Nukem Forever looks like. And you want that scored with Mickey Avalon’s remix of “Stroke” by Billy Squier. So without further ado, here you go (yep, definitely NSFW—you’ve been …
Microsoft: Xbox 360 Growth ‘More Than Triple’ PlayStation 3
Adding to Sony’s ongoing hack-attack tribulations, Microsoft’s taking a victory lap today, claiming its Xbox 360 games console outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 during the first four months of 2011.
Microsoft claims that, life-to-date, it’s sold 55 million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide (out of 38 countries) and that “sales are accelerating.” …
Activision Unveils ‘Call of Duty Elite,’ a Facebook for Frags
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 …
‘Gears of War 3’ Trailer Reveals Daddy Issues, September 20 Release Date
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 …
New ‘Modern Warfare 3’ Screens Take the Battle to the Streets
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 …
‘L.A. Noire’ Sequel Wouldn’t Take Five Years to Make
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 …
‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’ Trailer Outs November 8 Release Date
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 …
Microsoft: Kids, Will You Buy a Windows PC If We Give You an Xbox? Please?
It’s almost an offer worth going back to school for. Microsoft has decided that there’s a very, very good way to make Windows attractive to the kids: Bribery. That’s why they’ve announced a new deal for students that offers, basically, a free Xbox 360 for every Windows PC they buy.
Oh, okay: It’s not quite that easy. For one thing, …
New Xbox 360 DVDs May Not Work in Older Consoles [Updated]
It looks like new Xbox 360 DVDs designed to hold an extra gigabyte of data may not work with older consoles. The issue came to light after a user with a 2009 60GB Xbox 360 Pro received an unexpected email from Microsoft warning him his system wouldn’t be capable of playing upcoming retail discs.
“Following a recent update to our …
Arresting Development: ‘L.A. Noire’ Review
Rockstar Games has a reputation. People see the R* icon on a game box and expect chaos of the first degree. The Manhattan-based company’s pushed the boundaries of portraying sex, violence and postmodern attitudes in their best-known series like Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt, letting players turn whole cities into unpredictable petri …
Fauxnonymous Strikes Again? Eidos Site Hacked, User Info Snatched
It’s getting to the point where Anonymous is like the Eye of Sauron: You don’t even want them looking in your general direction. As reports of the internet bogeyman collective’s splintering eke out, people formerly affiliated with Anonymous–who may or may not be responsible for the Playstation Network outage–continue to wreak havoc …