Tweet Jeff Strain, a man with an amazing MMO pedigree, has opened a new studio in Seattle dedicated to creating the ultimate zombie console MMO. After spending the last few years working with NCSoft on the Guild Wars franchise Strain felt it was time for a change. Last summer he left NCSoft to begin laying...

Tweet Rob Pardo has been speaking about the prospects of Blizzard’s much talked about RPG Diablo III hitting the shelves in the next 12 months. The answer seems to be an emphatic no. Speaking to Techland recently, Blizzard’s Executive VP of Game Design ruled out the possibility of Diablo III...

Tweet A wee while back, a relatively unknown developer released a new game on the Xbox 360.  It came out in the dead time of  Q1 and nobody expected just how good it would be. That game was Crackdown and the developer was Realtime Worlds. Crackdown rocked everyone’s world and showed a lot of gamers...

Tweet In case you may not have noticed, games have slowly been moving towards being services rather than stand alone products. New releases, from the biggest blockbuster to the lowliest PSN of Xbox Live Arcade game, are now frowned upon if they don’t include some sort of internet-based shenanigans either...

Tweet Game: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Developer: Vicarious Visions Genre: Hack ‘n’ Slash Verdict: More of the same with an HD veneer. Pros: Cool team combo moves. Now you can team up with you favorite villains as well. Cons: Bland graphics and no real update to the gameplay other than the...

Tweet Capcom have announced a special treat for those dedicated European gamers who pre-order Lost Planet 2. A special skin pack will be dished out with all the pre-ordered copies of Lost Planet 2 that will allow players to drop in and take out some snow pirates disguised as Resident Evil’s Wesker,...

Tweet Capcom have release yet more teasing screens of their sumptuous update to Street Fighter IV. Super Street Fighter IV will feature a whole bunch of cool stuff that was missing from SFIV first time around. this includes three new playable characters, T-Hawk, DeeJay and Juri, a completely new character...

Tweet The countdown has started to the launch of Project Natal. Microsoft has let slip some details of Natal’s launch including the date, price and amount of units available during a tour of developers to drum up more support for the peripheral. Here’s the key points: Natal will launch worldwide...

Tweet It appears from the industry jungle drums that Bully 2 is on the cards. Composer Shawn Lee, who worked on The Getaway and the first Bully game let slip the news in an interview with The Gaming Liberty saying, “It looks like I will be doing the soundtrack for Bully 2 in the not so distant...

Tweet NCSoft have announced a whopping 630% growth in profits for this quarter on the same period  last year. This massive hike in profits is mainly down to their new epic MMORPG Aion along with steady sales of Lineage 2. The awesomely successful launch of Aion in the US and Europe has shows that NCSoft...