Next Red Faction planned for March 2011, focus on franchise’s roots

Next Red Faction planned for March 2011, focus on franchise’s roots

In an interview with Joystiq during the 2010 Game Developer’s Conference, THQ’s executive VP of Core Games Danny Bilson let a few new details slip about the upcoming sequel to the critical-smash hit Red Faction: Guerrilla. “The new game takes [Red Faction] to a whole new place, it kind of ...

Green Day: Rock Band releases June 8 worldwide

Green Day: Rock Band releases June 8 worldwide

That’s right, folks — Harmonix has just revealed that Green Day: Rock Band will be available for all come June 8 on Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Players will progress through the career of the trio, unlocking collectible images (more than 100, apparently) and some 40 minutes of “rare and ...

Hands-on: Mafia II

Hands-on: Mafia II

It seems like almost a year ago that I first saw Mafia II. That’s probably because it was almost a year ago that 2K Czech (formerly Illusion Softworks) demoed live gameplay from the title (which had been announced almost a year and a half before that.) Today, it was time ...

Final Fantasy XIII ships 5 million copies

Final Fantasy XIII ships 5 million copies

In a Japanese press release, Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XIII has shipped 5 million duplicates worldwide. Surprisingly, 3 million of those duplicates were shipped outside of Japan. Of course, Square Enix is not saying how many of those duplicates have been sold, so bear that in mind ...

Resident Evil 5 (Gold Edition) – Xbox 360 (M)

Resident Evil 5 (Gold Edition) – Xbox 360 (M)

The critically-acclaimed chapter of the Resident Evil franchise returns with more content than ever before in Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition. Included is the original best-selling game and all downloadable content, including new playable episodes that take you even deeper into Resident Evil lore. From the ashes of old conflicts, ...

Final Fantasy XIII – Xbox 360 (T)

Final Fantasy XIII – Xbox 360 (T)

The latest in cutting-edge technology has been utilized in the development of Final Fantasy XIII, thus making this newest addition to the Final Fantasy series worthy of the title “next generation.”
It’s true!: One of the huge surprises revealed at E3 2008 is that the popular Final Fantasy series, in the ...

Final Fantasy XIII launch party equips +10 awkwardness

Final Fantasy XIII launch party equips +10 awkwardness

What do Cerny Games’ Mark Cerny, Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor, Microsoft’s Corrinne Yu, and Obsidian’s Feargus Urquhart have in common, besides being game developers? Absolutely nothing. Yet, Square Enix managed to sit them down for an hour long roundtable discussion to speak about one thing: how awesome Final Fantasy ...

Impressions: Power Gig: Rise of the Sixstring

Impressions: Power Gig: Rise of the Sixstring

Can the music genre be revitalized? Can gaming newcomer Seven45 Studios — a combined publisher, developer and hardware manufacturer — sway current fans of Guitar Hero and Rock Band to try yet another music game, and one that focuses only on guitar? The odds are undoubtedly against them.
At the very ...

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is new king of UK sales charts

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is new king of UK sales charts

It’s debatable whether or not the server crashing this past week was a symptom of Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s success. What is not debatable is the game’s explosive debut on the UK’s Chart-Track all-formats chart. The multiplayer-centric shooter, which we have been thoroughly enjoying, outsold the original Bad Company’s launch ...

Amazon’s galactic deal of the day: Mass Effect 2

Amazon’s galactic deal of the day: Mass Effect 2

BioWare’s space opera epic, Mass Effect 2, is Amazon’s “Deal of the Day.” The Xbox 360 version is currently $40, which is $10 cheaper than you’d pick it up at your local Quarian pawn shop. A PC copy is 40 percent off, with a $30 price tag.
At that price, one ...

Swag Saturday: Toy Soldiers! (XBLA)

Swag Saturday: Toy Soldiers! (XBLA)

Signal Studios’ new game Toy Soldiers might sound like any other tower defense game at first glance, but it has art direction that will knock your socks off. It’s one thing to pit the Kaiser’s forces against the boys from England, but Toy Soliders turns them into tiny clockwork toys, ...

Mass Effect 2’s ‘Hammerhead’ car demoed on GameTrailers TV

Mass Effect 2’s ‘Hammerhead’ car demoed on GameTrailers TV

We know that some of you are less than excited about the return of vehicular gameplay to the Mass Effect franchise — we still have vivid nightmares about our time behind the wheel of the Mako from the original game. However, your position will probably be reversed by last night’s ...

Digital Foundry: 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII ‘adequate but a touch disappointing’

Digital Foundry: 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII ‘adequate but a touch disappointing’

So, you read our review of Final Fantasy XIII and are prepared to pick it up next week, but you are not sure which version to buy? If you are basing your decision on graphical fidelity, the A/V experts from Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry suggest you go with the PS3 version ...

No launch DLC for Blur, but there will be plenty

No launch DLC for Blur, but there will be plenty

Blur has been in development at Bizarre Creations for at least a year now, and probably even longer, but in all of that time, no one in the studio has worked on any DLC, according to lead designer Ged Talbot talking to MTV Multiplayer. While the title does have some ...

Dragon Age Origins: Awakening trailer introduces The Disciples

Dragon Age Origins: Awakening trailer introduces The Disciples

You know how in Gremlins 2, the Gremlins all break into a genetics lab, and they eat all of the weird gene goop and it gives them superpowers like bat wings or vegetable bodies? And remember how one of them drinks like a brain hormone and becomes Brain Gremlin and ...

Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance add-on coming this August

Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance add-on coming this August

If you just so happen to be the square wheel that could not get enough of Divinity II: Ego Draconis last year, you are in luck. Publisher dtp entertainment has announced that an add-on will be released later this year, adding more than 30 brand new quests and about 15 ...

First screens of Platinum’s Vanquish aren’t doing it for us

First screens of Platinum’s Vanquish aren’t doing it for us

It’s not that the first screens from Shinji MIkami and Platinum Games’ Vanquish look bad necessarily — far from it. It’s just that … well, they look a tiny common, do not they? We’ve flipped through that gallery below a few times but could not find an image that got ...