Following a premature reveal on Electronic Arts’ online store, Mass Effect 3 was officially unveiled via a brief trailer. “Two million dead in the first day, another 7 million by the end of the first week,” said the voiceover, which sounded much like British actor Sean Bean. On screen, a sole sniper is seen bearing [...]
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Call of Duty Online DDoS Cyber Attack in Multiplayer: Teen Arrested in UK
December 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
Gaining an advantage in online multiplayer games using in-game exploits is one thing (cheating, but technically legal), but going so far as to develop malicious software to attack a game’s servers is something else entirely. A teenager in Manchester has been arrested for allegedly interfering with Call of Duty: Black Ops servers, and is currently [...]
“Mass Effect 3″ Accidently Appeared on Online EA Store
December 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The online EA Store accidentally posted the store listing for Mass Effect 3 early. The game is believed to be announced tomorrow at the Spike VGA Awards, and it looks like somebody on the web staff wanted to get their work done early on a Friday night. Though the company confirmed an official release date [...]
Dead Nation New Update/Patch Coming with Online Voice Chat
December 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Housemarque CEO and co-founder Ilari Kuittinen writes on the EU PlayStation Blog that the zombie-filled, twin-stick shooter will be updated with the voice chat feature “soon,”. He said that the Online multiplayer sessions in Dead Nation’s upcoming patch that will add voice chat to the PlayStation Network game. Housemarque has released a statement that will quell [...]
Activision CEO Says CoD Multiplayer will Never be Subscription Based
November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Call of Duty multiplayer will always be free. That’s according the head of Activision Publishing, Eric Hirshberg, who refuted claims made by Michael Pachter that Activision would roll out premium subscriptions for online play. Supposedly Activision is waiting until the backlash will have less of an effect from the current sales of Black Ops. The [...]
Animus Project – First “Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood” DLC Coming Dec. 14
November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Ubisoft has announced that AC: Brotherhood will be getting the ’Animus Project Update 1.0′. This will feature the new game mode ‘Advanced Alliance’ and the ‘Mont Saint-Michel’ map for Brotherhood’s multiplayer. The DLC will also include a brand new game mode and map for the innovative, backstabbing-filled multiplayer. Included in APU1 is a “brand-new” game [...]
“Dance Central” for XBox 360 Kinect Review
November 24, 2010 By 1 Comment
Dance Central exclusively for “Kinect” for Xbox 360, is the first real dance game experience that is fun, social and for everyone! Brought to you by Harmonix, the developers who created the world-wide blockbuster Rock Band™, Dance Central is the first immersive dance video game that features and tracks full-body dance moves. Completely free from [...]
WogPad: “World Of Goo” Heads To iPad
November 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
2D Boy, makers of WiiWare/PC hit World of Goo, are bringing their game to Apple’s iPad, bringing with it support for up to 11 fingers at once. 2D Boy said that “There’s a lot of iGoo to pour in, and we don’t want to release something if it doesn’t run absolutely buttery smooth.” 2D Boy [...]
Microsoft to Shuts Down “Halo Wars” WebSite
November 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Microsoft recently announced that they plans to shut down the official website and online stat-tracking services for the Ensemble-developed RTS. Next month, Halo Wars will officially become part of the Halo Waypoint network, with all the game’s details, discussions and updates held at the Halo Waypoint website. The game’s stat tracking home, as well as [...]
“Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood” for PS3 and XBox 360 – Review
November 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is a huge game, with a robust single player campaign and an interesting new take on multiplayer. We couldn’t do it justice in the few days we had with the game, especially considering the multiplayer servers weren’t up for most of that time. The following review by Daniel Kaszor covers the majority [...]
Gran Turismo 5: Black Friday Deals
November 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Gran Turismo 5 will go on sale throughout North America on Wednesday, November 24th. With perfect physics, 100 tracks, over 1,000 cars, a full Blu-ray of content and more modes and challenges than Takeshi’s castle GT5 is not only the best Gran Turismo game to date, or even the best racing game to date — [...]
New GoldenEye 007 Wii Cheat Codes Found
November 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The first cheat codes for Activision’s GoldenEye 007 has been discovered by a crafty gamer. A reader from Kotaku found three codes hidden in the game although only two codes appear to have reaped rewards. Here are the codes which can be entered by going into the game’s Extras menu continuing to ‘Cheat Codes’. ‘NotIt!!!11′ [...]
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