Screenshots: Strategy sequel Company of Heroes 2 gets its first collection of screenshots, showing off the all-new Essence 3.0 engine and Soviet setting.

Oh, by the way: the game looks awesome. Find out why in our Company of Heroes 2 preview.

News: Shannon Studstill, head of God of War studio Sony Santa Monica, has a bit of a girly crush on Kratos – and that’s why she and her cohorts are pouring so much love into the new game… Sony Santa Monica have one of the highest ratios of female developers of any major studio. And yet God of [...]

News: A contract drawn up for Bungie’s next game, Destiny, points to a 2013 launch for Microsoft’s Xbox 720 – but there’s a reason to exercise caution… One of the more interesting snippets of information to come out of the  Activision legal nonsense, and the ensuing mandatory leak of Bungie’s new project Destiny, is a potential launch schedule for the Xbox [...]

Rumour: Dropping very particular names, the man behind Cole Phelps in Infamous sparks speculation over Solid Snake and Nathan Drake being added to Playstation All-Stars’ roster. Despite smacking of a copycat release coming several years behind Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. franchise, Sony’s Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale has been turning heads – even if the character pool has [...]

News: French sex toy retailer Absoloo offers lonely wives and girlfriends some free ‘executive relief’ while their other halfs are stuck in Diablo III. Supressing the urge to launch into a stream of hideous double-entendres, it is my very great pleasure to confirm that perhaps the very first tie-in promotion for a video game by a [...]

News: Speculative domain acquisition by Square Enix suggests at least one more Just Cause title, if not a fourth. Despite their most recent Just Cause title only being the second main release in the series, Joystiq notes that Square Enix have already bought up domain space for Just Cause 4, just on the off-chance that a third title will [...]

News: With the worm finally turning for the beleaguered UK games industry, trade body UKIE welcomes the return of Activision as a sign of change. After the crushing closure of UK developers Bizarre Creations by Activision earlier this year, it felt as if many of the industry’s big players were packing their bags and leaving the economically infertile [...]

News: Capcom’s new RPG Dragon’s Dogma has received a fairly wide range of review scores after the press embargo lifted this morning. It’s rare in the world of videogames for a title to split critical opinion. Which is odd, really. Films do it all the time, and so does music. One reviewer’s 9 out of 10 [...]

News: French sex toy retailer Absoloo is offering free vibrators to “Diablo III widows” whose partners have failed to satisfy them because of the newly released RPG. French sex toy retailer Absoloo understands us! Gamers, that is. Sex? This week ? Sod that – there’s Diablo III to play. Absoloo are offering free vibrators to “Diablo III widows” – or [...]

News: Fed up of seeing ‘error 37′ while you’re trying to get into a game of Diablo III? One indie company has taken advantage, launching the Error 37 promotion for its game… Oooh, burn. In the wake of the already infamous Diablo III ‘error 37′, which popped up for many people trying to play the long-awaited roleplaying sequel [...]

Aliens are moving in! Destroy all the humans with your alien technology. Use your plasma gun, gravinator and more to clear out the humans in the offices. Features: 30 levels 8 bonus levels Physics-based, puzzle and action gameplay Fun and easy to play 3 alien weapons – plasma, vapouriser and a gravity gun! Screenshots: [...]

News: Diablo III director Jay Wilson says he was “surprised” how long it took for Blizzard to reach the high quality required of their long-awaited RPG sequel. Diablo III , as we all know, took precisely eight billion years to make. So it’s perhaps no surprise that the game’s director, Jay Wilson , didn’t expect the quality bar to take quite [...]

News: Hit TV series Sons Of Anarchy may be making the jump to consoles, as the series’ writer hints. Despite perhaps not quite being sold on Sons Of Anarchy , described as ‘Hamlet with bikers’, at first, the TV series for FX, starring Charie Hunnam and Ron Perlman, has won a strong following for its drive and hard-nosed [...]

News: A coalition of veteran developers from two major studios come together to form Eerie Canal – and announce their flagship project. ‘I’ve been working on AAA titles in the games industry for over 10 years now,’ explains Irrational Games’ Brynn Bennet, regarding the formation of Eerie Canal, to GamesIndustry ‘and I love being able to work [...]

News: Well, this is rather unexpected. Of all the places for a Halo 4-related leak to come from, a toy box isn’t what you’d expect. If Bungie didn’t have enough embarassing leaks via AllGamesBeta, we can now add the spoiled big reveal of at least two new enemies to the list, as a watchful fan snapped this picture [...]

News: With the UK high court forcing internet providers such as Virgin and Talk Talk to block The Pirate Bay, Pirate Pay has been working on something quite different abroad. As much as the notion of internet censorship troubles many internet users, the recent attempts by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), haven’t really been the broadside [...]

Site Stuff: We hoped our Max Payne 3 review would hit the site today, but it hasn’t. Here’s why… Sorry, sorry, sorry. Only a few hours after we told you our Diablo III review wouldn’t see the light of day until later in the week, I’m now here to tell you the same is true of Max Payne [...]

News: On the eve of Diablo III’s release, developers Blizzard say they’ll never make an RPG along the lines of Bethesda’s Skyrim. Why? Game director Jay Wilson explains… Blizzard have made a range of games. From real-time strategy to action-RPG to, y’know, the biggest MMO in the world – they’ve had their fingers in quite a few [...]