News: The FPS reboot of XCOM has been delayed yet again, and won’t see release until Q1 2013 at the very earliest. The last time the XCOM release date was delayed, the latest it was going to come out was the beginning of 2013 . Now, that point in time is the earliest it will be seen, as 2K [...]

News: It looks like PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will be coming to Vita, as it’s been listed on a Sony employee’s CV. PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale may be bringing its generic phrase-laden name ( Sony really need some serious help in the naming department ) to Vita. The news isn’t all that surprising – it’s a game perfectly suited [...]

News: Sony have announced Bullet Run, a F2P shooter coming to PC at the end of this summer. Bullet Run . Really, Sony marketing team? That’s the name you’re going with? You’d have to physically try to make that any more generic, which is a shame, as the actual game looks pretty interesting. It’s a F2P shooter being developed [...]

News: It’s a sad day of layoffs, as employees of both BioWare Austin and 38 Studios are facing job losses. I’m combining news about two unrelated studios into one post for one reason: it was just too depressing to have to write two stories about people losing their jobs on the same day. Let’s go through the [...]

News: A Game of Thrones Ascent is the latest game to spawn from the fantasy world, and will be a social affair on Facebook. Just as I was telling you about how Randy Pitchford isn’t just milking the franchise with Aliens: Colonial Marines , I stumbled across a different franchise that most definitely is being milked. A Game of Thrones [...]

News: According to Gearbox Software boss Randy Pitchford, a lot of licensed games become “work-for-hire projects” that end up “just milking a franchise”, but that won’t be happening with Aliens: Colonial Marines. Gearbox Software boss Randy Pitchford knows that Duke Nukem Forever was a flop. He must do. Only the most willfully ignorant of men could deny that fact. In his defense, [...]

News: EA Sports have unveiled a new trailer for NHL 13, and the game will be launching on the 14th of September. EA Sports have revealed a new NHL 13 trailer, and I’ve got say I’m slightly disappointed with what’s on show. There’s no flying Vs, no training montages involving frivolous child abuse and careless food wastage, and not [...]

News: According to Just Add Water boss Stewart Gilray, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath Vita should be ready for release by June. Do you know what handheld console owners love more than anything? A rushed port. It’s true. The idea that Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath will be coming to PlayStation Vita in June, and work on the port started just [...]

News: Overkill and Valve are working on a Payday: The Heist and Left 4 Dead collaboration because it’s not like Valve have any important sequels to be working on. Valve‘s Left 4 Dead is a fantastic four player co-op game in which you butcher hordes of zombies as you fight for survival. Payday: The Heist is an average-at-best [...]

News: Max Payne 3 has beaten Diablo III to this week’s UK Chart crown, winning by just 8, 000 units. Two threes. One one. Seven. 8, 000. Numbers which written like that, mean absolutely nothing, but when written in a coherent sentence, mean a celebration for Rockstar and a shrug from Blizzard that can only be interpreted as “when [...]

News: A 007 Legends trailer has been released, showing off the Moonraker mission and featuring James Bond. Worried that nobody would find out about 007 Legends – the Bond videogame that’s out October 16th (incidentally, that’s my birthday for anybody who wants to buy me a present) – Activision has tacked a trailer onto the end of a [...]

News: Head of Quantic Dream David Cage thinks that the videogame industry is too focused on violence, and has said for the hundredth time that he wants to offer diversity in the medium. For those of you who are familiar with Quantic Dream head David Cage , and the studio’s last offering Heavy Rain , you’ll know it was [...]

News: Capcom’s upcoming RPG Dragon’s Dogma will have over 300 hours of questing content, according to the game’s producer Hiroyuki Koybayashi. Dragon’s Dogma is due out at the end of May, and marks Capcom‘s first foray into the open-world WRPG genre. Lewis Denby is tepidly excited for it , noting that while the scale of its action is impressive, it could [...]

News: The latest Hitman: Absolution trailer once again emphasises player choice, highlighting that Agent 47 kills gruesomely and intimately. The latest Hitman: Absolution trailer is all about The Art of the Kill, and starts by distancing itself from recent action-laden footage of the game . See, Agent 47 is supposed to be a methodical killer, sticking to the shadows and the [...]

News: Rockstar have revealed plans for at least seven packs of Max Payne 3 DLC this year, with the first arriving in June. People aren’t too keen on DLC that’s scheduled before a game’s even released, perceiving it as a callous cash-milking process. Rockstar have done the most sensible thing possible with that bit of information, and announced [...]

News: Blizzard have released a guide for the Diablo III Auction House, detailing everything from how the search feature works, to what transaction fees you’ll have to pay on each item sold. On the 15th of May, Evil is Back. At least, that’s what the latest Diablo III TV trailer told us, and Blizzard have now let loose [...]

News: Angry Birds Space has been downloaded 50 million times since it released onto mobile platforms 35 days ago. Rovio must be running out of ways to spend their money. People just don’t get fed up of Angry Birds , and no matter what form they take, or where their tiny wings fly them to, they’ll forever be downloaded. [...]

News: God of War: Ascension will feature multiplayer and a revamped combat system. Following months of begging and campaigning from players, Sony have finally agreed to shoehorn a multiplayer mode into the recently announced God of War: Ascension for PlayStation 3. Ok, so maybe there wasn’t any begging, or campaigning, or even faint whispers that this would be a [...]

News: The original Max Payne will be hitting PSN this week as part of Sony’s PlayStation 2 classics range. Max Payne . The very name makes you think of bullet-time, a face only a mother could love, and maximum pain. Max Payne 3 is leaving Rockstar‘s embrace and entering the wild next month, so it seems like the perfect time [...]