News: Want a shot at the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta? All you have to do is fill out a survey. Last week, Valve Software started a closed beta for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive . The most active 7,000 players of CS:S and CS 1.6 were given a key and are now pwning one another. Now the next batch of keys will go [...]

Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock is the first PS Vita game to use the Unreal 3 engine. New trailer below. I don’t like Matt Smith. He’s not ‘my Doctor’. If it is possible for a Doctor to belong to me then I would prefer that Doctor to be David Tennant. But despite my dislike of this floppy [...]

News: Looking for player two? dateagamer.co.uk , the UK’s first dating site specifically geared towards gamers opens for business today. Stop living vicariously through videogamings famously loved-up couples and give dateagamer.co.uk a punt. According to last years research by Playr2.com, the average gamer spends 22 months playing games in a lifetime. Factor in sleeping (318 months), school (43 months), working (128 [...]

News: BioWare has issued a statement of support for Jennifer Hepler, a writer on Star Wars: The Old Republic and the Dragon Age games who was the victim of an intensive Internet hate campaign. When the whole of the Internet comes together to stand up for a cause, it can be quite the thing. When SOPA threatened [...]

News: IO Interactive have started an animated video series detailing the cast of Hitman: Absolution, with the first entry profiling Diana Burnwood, Agent 47′s long-time handler. The upcoming Hitman: Absolution looks set to feature a host of characters, all entangled in a vast conspiracy. IO Interactive have started an animated video series which offers profiles on the major [...]

News: Gearbox have released a new trailer for the upcoming Borderlands 2 – and it reveals the game’s release date… Borderlands 2 has just received a brand spanking new trailer – which also happens to reveal the game’s release date. Gearbox Software will be unleashing the follow-up to their popular 2009 co-op shooter on September 18th 2012 – [...]

News: The latest Title Update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is now available for download on the Xbox 360, with Patch 1.09 bringing 400 new ranks and five additional prestige levels – but PS3 players will have to wait until February 28th. Xbox 360 owners can finally join their PC counterparts in ranking up five further prestige [...]

News: The PlayStation Vita launches today in the United States, UK and Europe, but developers are already talking about what could be possible with the powerful handheld in the next few years. The PS Vita ‘s launch line-up of games may be the most technically impressive seen so far on a handheld device, but they’re nothing to what [...]

News: A patch addressing the network issues suffered by Twisted Metal PS3 players will arrive either today or Thursday, David Jaffe has revealed. If you’ve been hit with network and matchmaking issues while playing Twisted Metal , then help should soon be at hand, David Jaffe has announced. Writing on his personal blog , Jaffe revealed that a patch addressing networking [...]

News: The latest Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception patch is now available to download, Naughty Dog have announced, with 1.05 bringing fixes for matchmaking and hosting in the game’s multiplayer. Uncharted 3 Patch 1.05 is being rolled out globally right now, Naughty Dog have announced , and it contains some vital fixes for the online multiplayer – as well as [...]

News: Konami’s website has revealed that Kojima Productions will be recruiting in force at the upcoming Game Developers Conference 2012 for the “next” Metal Gear Solid title – and also unveiled possible concept art for the game. It appears all pretence has been dropped – a new Metal Gear Solid game is on the way, and Kojima Productions [...]

News: Sony’s Scott Rohde assures us that Sony has learned from the PSP, and will not have any good game “droughts” with the PS Vita. Sony VP of Worldwide Organizations Scott Rohde told Gamasutra that Sony has learned its lesson with the PSP. The company promises that the PlayStation Vita it will not have “droughts” of good games that [...]

News: Naughty Dog has revealed that it has no plans for working with the PS Vita – or any current handheld. If you’re looking forward to a PS Vita Uncharted that’s actually developed by Naughty Dog, you’ll be waiting for a while. In a post on NeoGAF, caught by GameSpot, Naughty Dog’s Studio community manager Arne Meyer has [...]

News: The PlayStation Eye may be getting a significant, Kinect-like update, according to a new patent filed by Sony. With news floating around about the “Xbox 720,” everyone’s been wondering what Sony has up its sleeve. The answer might be found in a new patent that Sony has filed. The patent is for a “User-Drive Three Dimensional Interactive [...]

News: In a recent interview, Square Enix CEO Mike Fischer discusses the differences between Eastern and Western cultures, and how developers can use the different gaming markets to their advantage. In an interview with Fast Company , Mike Fischer of Square Enix discusses the major differences between Eastern and Western audiences, and developers. “A Japanese developer might throw down a [...]