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Article | 14/01/2011 December game sales rankings: Black Ops nukes competition

As expected, Call of Duty: Black Ops continued its sales dominance during the final month of sales in 2010. Read on to see how other Black Friday bloc...

Article | 7/01/2011 Dead Rising 2: Case West

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero was one of 2010's unlikeliest success stories. What many originally perceived to be nothing more than a glorified demo ended ...

Article | 7/01/2011 Back to the Future: It's About Time

When games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, GoldenEye 007, and Batman: Arkham Asylum come out to great critical acclaim, I'm almost always...

Article | 17/12/2010 Super Mario All-Stars

The original Super Mario Bros. came out just over 25 years ago on the Nintendo Entertainment System. While many believe that that game and many of its...

Article | 24/08/2010 20% of the US plays social games

The NPD has released the results of a recent study, revealing that 20 percent of the respondents had played a social network-based game at least once ...

Article | 14/08/2010 Fable III to release alongside controller-tattoo bundle

As per tradition, Microsoft is celebrating the launch of a new iteration of one of its biggest Xbox franchises by introducing a limited edition contro...

Article | 12/08/2010 Sony to create a smartphone with PSP Go-like features?

The company's PSP Go hardware iteration may not have won many fans over, but Sony's Ericsson division is reportedly creating a cell phone that will ut...

Article | 6/08/2010 Activision Blizzard exceeds quarterly earnings expectations

Activision Blizzard reported its financial results for the quarter-year ending on June 30, noting that it has exceeded its earnings expectations, and ...

Article | 29/07/2010 Fairytale Fights creator Playlogic files for bankruptcy

Playlogic, a development and publishing company that released its largest scale game this year in the form of Fairytale Fights, has filed 'surseance v...

Article | 29/07/2010 Uncharted 2 & BioShock 2 get multiplayer patches

With the bountiful slate of holiday shooters about to be unloaded on the gaming public, two older but still popular games are sprucing up their multip...

Article | 27/07/2010 Capcom, Namco Bandai developing Street Fighter-Tekken games

At Comic-Con, Capcom and Namco Bandai announced their next major fighting games, as the former company will be creating Street Figher X Tekken while t...

Article | 20/07/2010 Plants vs. Zombies infecting Xbox 360 in September

After spreading from computers to Apple's portable devices, Plants vs. Zombies is shambling to the Xbox 360 this September with new modes and a unique...

Article | 20/07/2010 New video game endurance record set

Did you play a lot of games this past weekend? Odds are, a group of six Dutch game enthusiasts have you beat, as the team broke the previously-set 40-...

Article | 16/07/2010 Dead Rising 2 movie, collector's edition coming next month

Capcom is doing its best to get gamers excited about the September due Dead Rising 2, announcing the debut of the full-length feature film Zombrex Dea...

Article | 13/07/2010 This just in: violent video games are actually good for you

Texas A&M International University recently conducted a study in which volunteers were subjected to stress, with some subjects being allowed to play v...