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Activision promises that Call of Duty will keep calling
Last month, Activision was all, "Oops, we made too many music games! We're going to cut back the oversupply that was devaluing our franchise!" And now Activision is all, "Hey, don't fret about whatever upper management mess is going on with the Modern Warfare guys! We're going to be pumping out Calls of... »
Capcom doesn’t announce release date for Dead Rising 2
So I get a press release titled "Capcom Announces Launch Dates for Spring Line-Up". Sweet! Just what I've been waiting for! Let's open it up and find out when I'll be wading through zombies in Dead Rising 2 . »
Get ready to grab your wanger in Front Mission Evolved
The Front Mission series has been a bastion of turn-based strategy games about complicated mechs, picking up where Mechwarrior left off when it became a line of action sims. For a dyed-in-the-wool Battletech fan turning to Front Mission for complex giant robot battles, the hardest part was calling mechs "wangers". »
EA to publish Dante’s Inferno book inspired by the videogame
Electronic Arts and Random House are publishing a version of Dante's Inferno to commemorate the upcoming videogame, which the press release calls "a celebration of Dante". That's the book cover up there »
Aliens vs. Predator game might help Lance Henriksen "score"
A press release from Sega announces that Lance Henriksen, recently heard as the villain in Modern Warfare 2 and seen as a creepy sheriff in a no-budget horror movie called The Seamstress (pictured), will be one of the characters in Aliens vs. Predator . »
Squirrel crossing in Trials HD downloadable content teaser
Just when you thought you were out, you get pulled back in. The insidiously simple and addictive motorcycle stunt game, Trials HD , will be getting downloadable content called the "Big Pack", offering further opportunities for you to be humiliated by your friends high scores. No word on when it will be released,... »
Medal of Honor to join 30,000 new troops in Afghanistan
When your competitor graphically presents an interactive version of the massacre at Mumbai in which the players guns down civilians, it gives you a lot more leeway to do something that might be controversial. Such as making a game about a war currently fought by 80,000 US troops with another 30,000 on the... »
Gratuitous Space Battles reveals hippies in space gone bad
One of the best kept secrets about Gratuitous Space Battles is that it's actually quite funny. From the names of some of the ships to the comments that pepper the status reports, developer Cliff Harris has stealthed a sense of humor into an otherwise deadly serious, deadly addictive strategy game about fleets of... »
Space MMO Eve Online gets flatter and squarer
Eve Online has gotten a free expansion called "Dominion". Let's take a look at what it adds to the game. DOMINION enhances the tools of communication and evolves the dynamics of war, altering the very way in which pilots interact with each other through warfare or cooperation. »
"Videogames" pwn Operation Christmas Child at Chick-Fil-A
If you walk into a couple of select Chick-Fil-A restaurants in California, you might see the following: ...four laptops are set up; three with the Charlie Church Mouse Games and one with Keys of the Kingdom. Customers are given a flyer with a coupon which offers a 20% discount when they purchase one... »