List with a Twist: Everyone and their executive producer is bringing back old franchises as sequels or reboots. James Haresign wonders why nobody’s revisiting the time in Hollywood history when guns were king: the ’80s. Invasion USA Russians invade the US via Cuba and no one notices until it’s too late. Except Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris! In a [...]

343 Studios have come out and offered an explanation of exactly why Master Chief has taken on a new look, and he’s put on a bit of weight too. When the announcement trailer for Halo 4 was revealed last year one question rose high from the Halo fans. What’s with the new armour? Well 343 Studios have given [...]

EA Sports have announced that the SSX demo will be out 21st February on Xbox 360 and a day later on PS3. Revealed by Todd Batty, creative director of SSX, on The Ubercast the SSX demo will be landing on Xbox 360 on Tuesday 21st February and Wednesday on PS3. The demo has two tutorials, four events [...]

There’s a chance you can get your hands on an early copy of Mass Effect 3. All you have to do is catch it as it falls from orbit. EA have revealed that they are sending Mass Effect 3 into space. Quite literally.  According to an article in USA Today the publisher is launching a series of weather balloons [...]

Tim Schafer has given the first update on Kickstarter Double Fine Adventure. It’s now coming to multiple platforms in various languages. Tim Schafer just can’t stay out of the news at the minute. Following Double Fine Adventure’s incredible opening day on Kickstarter and climb to 1.8 million dollars in funding Schafer has given revealed what all this extra cash has [...]

Ninja Theory have revealed plans were underway to bring multiplayer to Enslaved, but sales put an end to them. Every console generation seems to manage to have a few critical darlings that the buying public just seem to ignore. Like Psychonauts, but we’re not meant to be talking about that anymore. Recently Enslaved joined this unfortunate list. Its creators,  Ninja [...]

Arc System Works Europe have revealed a ‘Premium Edition’ of BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend, and it will be extremely limited. It seems every game these days gets a special edition for those that pre-order it. It even became a game here at BeefJack as to what each one would feature. One thing about these editions was [...]

Writer for Bioware, Drew Karpyshyn, responsible for Mass Effect 1 and a host of their titles is announced he is leaving games to follow other projects. Today, via his website , Drew Karpyshyn has announced he’s retiring from Bioware and games in general. “As of last week, I have officially retired from BioWare. (I’ll give all you gamers a second to [...]

Godhand, Maximo and more finally coming to the PSN Store today. The US may started seeing classic PS2 games arriving on PSN last October but here in Europe we’re only just starting to see them appear with today’s latest update. Capcom have announced that it will be their titles heading for sale. Those available will be insane brawler Godhand, the hack [...]

EA have announced a new deal on Origin. Pre-order Mass Effect 3 and get Battlefield 3 totally for free. EDIT: Seems SavvyGamer is all over the initial tweet that spurned this story. The offer is only for the N7 Special Edition of the game, and might just be available to the US. In case you still haven’t made up [...]

Deep Silver have announced a 27th April release date for Back to the Future. Super cheap sale on iOS We’re still three years away from flying cars and a 3D Jaws movie, but Marty McFly is hitting store shelves in the UK on 27th April.  Back to the Future: The Game will be available on  Wii, PS3 and PC. Meanwhile, over [...]

EA have announced a 1st March release date for Star Wars: The Old Republic in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. A galaxy far, far away is finally going down under on 1st March. Officially that is. Despite US and Europe getting Star Wars: The Old Republic in December last year,  EA are only just now getting [...]

Konami have announced that the multiplayer Metal Gear is switching off its servers on 12th June. Metal Gear Online , the multiplayer  spin-off that arrived with Metal Gear Solid 4 , shuts down on 12th June, Konami have stated. It’s not all going to disappear at once though. First the Metal Gear Online Shop will be shuttering its windows on 21st [...]

Blog: This weekend welcomes the return of an old favourite, GAMES FOR A HANGOVER . This week, James Haresign explains the virtues of saddling your horse in RED DEAD REDEMPTION when last night might have gotten a little heavy. Open-world games are just what the doctor ordered for the morning after. So much to do, so much to see, and [...]

Blog: Gamers are used to being mistreated with Hollywood adaptations of their favourite franchises, yet uproar has risen over Mass Effect’s latest spin-off novel, Deception. James Haresign looks at what makes this book so ‘special’. A lot of fuss has been made this week over the release of Mass Effect: Deception , it’s plethora of mistakes , and  BioWare and Del [...]

Namco Bandai have announced that they are to publish Digital Extremes’ Star Trek game set between the two movies in 2013. The game was first revealed at E3 last year, but things have been quite silent since then. Now Paramount have announced that they have come to a deal with Namco Bandai to publish the game [...]

EA have announced the voice cast for Syndicate, and it stars actors from Sin City and Bourne Identity. Starbreeze’s upcoming sci-fi shooter has quite a talented voice cast. Rosario Dawson (Sin City) and Brian Cox (Bourne Identity, Manhunter) both feature in Syndicate as EuroCorp executives. Scottish born Cox voices Jack Denham, while Michael Wincott (The Crow) will be Jules [...]

David Jaffe has revealed that there is no DLC planned for Twisted Metal on PS3, but is giving you the chance to blow Sweet Tooth’s ice cream truck up. In what is quite a different stance from most companies these days, David Jaffe has stated in an interview with Game Informer that there isn’t currently any plans to [...]