NGP’s Near Feature Allowing Treasure Hunts and Stalking

One of the lesser features coming to the NGP has to be “Near.” A bit of software designed to highlight the locations of nearby NGP users, Near was confirmed this week to use Skyhook technology. Wi-fi NGP users will... Continue »

Havok Coming to Android Phones Starting With Xperia Play

embedded by Embedded Video Havok is one of those back-end physics engines that run a multitude of games, powerful in its own right and flexible enough to be used in a multitude of games. Not so on mobile phones,... Continue »

New Resident Evil Movie Coming in 2012

Did you hate the original Resident Evil film? Were you disgusted by Apocalypse? Horrified by Extinction? Nauseated by Afterlife? Have I got fabulous news for you! If you don’t remember, the final scene in Afterlife is a cliff-hanger, alluding... Continue »

GDC 2011: The Darkness Returns

I was surprised to find myself sitting in a darkened, candlelit room, at a bar in downtown San Francisco during GDC, about to get a first glimpse at The Darkness II. It’s not that the first Darkness was a... Continue »

Master Quest coming to Ocarina of Time 3D

Legend of Zelda fanboys can pick apart every entry of the franchise. From secret rooms in A Link to the Past to hidden Nintendo cameos in Ocarina of Time, there are a lot of little secrets for players to... Continue »

Homefront’s Multiplayer Heats Up

embedded by Embedded Video THQ’s big spring launch title this year is Homefront, a vision of the future where North Korea invades the US. Single player takes this theme about as far as it can go, but multiplayer can... Continue »

GDC 2011: Dude. Batman.

Let’s just get this out of the way. Arkham City is my personal game of the show from GDC this year. I understand this is kind of crazy for a couple of reasons. 1. I didn’t set foot on... Continue »

Respawn Offers Black Ops Double XP Weekend Advice

I hope you stocked up on Shasta and mini pretzels, because Treyarch is hosting another double XP weekend for Black Ops, running from now until 8am Monday (PST). To help you maximize your experience grabbing, the friendly folks at... Continue »

GDC 2011: Our First Look at Dead Island

Unless you’ve been residing on the Moon (or some other equally distant celestial body), you’ve seen the recently released Dead Island trailer. Probably twice. The depiction of a typical American family attempting to fend off a zombie attack in... Continue »

Gears of War 3 Beta – Open to All, Just Later

An update to the official Gears of War website answers all the open questions you guys might have about the upcoming beta. First, everyone that purchased Bulletstorm will get early access... Continue »

Dark Souls Art, Screens, Details

Enjoy this, because it might be one of the only times you can look at this game without suffering heart palpitations. Namco Bandai released loads of new screens for the Demon’s Souls, as well as a fact sheet describing... Continue »

Hands On: Earth Defense Force Insect Armageddon

Bugs. Lots of them. I went to GDC with the specific goal of playing Earth Defense Force Insect Armageddon; mission accomplished. I am a very vocal supporter of EDF 2017, which released in 2007. In that game, you played... Continue »

Mortal Kombat Challenge Tower, More Characters Revealed

Netherrealm Studios put out a new trailer showing the "Challenge Tower," a series of 300 missions you play through to unlock rewards. This new trailer also shows lots of new characters... Continue »

3D Was a Tough Sell to Nintendo

The 3D feature of the 3DS is likely the platform’s biggest selling point, but that wasn’t always the case. Continue »

Bungie’s Really Making an MMO

Now that Bungie has escaped the Halo factory, they’re free to do whatever they want, provided Activision gets to publish it. Continue »

Steam Guard Protecting Your Junk

Valve has announced a new security feature they’ll be implementing thanks to Intel’s “Sandy Bridge” generation of processors. Continue »

Homefront Delivers 200,000 Pre-orders for THQ

THQ has reported a record number of pre-orders for the company thanks to the upcoming Homefront which releases on March 15. Continue »

Guild Wars 2 Gets Thief, Guild Wars Gets Free Update

ArenaNet’s line of “it’ll be out when it’s done” makes me suspect it could be a bit before Guild Wars 2 is released. Maybe if they weren’t still updating their last game, progress on GW2 would pick up. Then... Continue »

Cliff Bleszinski: Go Big or Small or Don’t Sell

Epic Games’ outspoken Cliff Bleszinski characterized the games industry as only having room for ultra huge titles and darling indies in a talk at GDC today. “I’m going to go on the record and say that I believe the... Continue »

Infamous 2 Trailer Showcases Player-Created Missions

embedded by Embedded Video Somehow mixing the sensibilities of Little Big Planet and blowing shit up with lightning, Infamous 2 will allow players to create and distribute their own missions for the game. God bless the developers at Sucker... Continue »