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Overlord II demo goes LIVE

Christian — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:47:33 GMT

Evil Doers rejoice as the demo version of Triumph Studios' Overlord II has now been made available via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. The release enables players to take control of a new Overlord who...

Konami announces Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Christian — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:11:22 GMT

Confirming previous rumors, Konami has revealed that the title in the works at Madrid-based Mercury Steam, previously known as Lords of Shadow, will indeed be a new episode in the Castlevani...

Sims 3 climbs to the top in the UK

Christian — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:01:46 GMT

Leaked online a while ago, Electronic Arts' The Sims 3 has had a great (official) debut as it entered the UK game sales chart and went straight to the top spot. Another new entry, the third game in th...

Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island coming Thursday

Christian — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:29:27 GMT

Electronic Arts-owned Criterion Games has just announced that the Big Surf Island expansion pack/DLC for Burnout Paradise will become available this Thursday for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.&n...

NecroVisioN gets a new update

Christian — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:52:06 GMT

The Farm 51's horror-themed World War I first-person shooter, NecroVisioN has now received a new update in the form of ths v1.2 patch. This release features: - dedicated server applications added...

Assassin's Creed 2 Black Edition bundle detailed

Christian — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:15:42 GMT

Like most if not all AAA titles, Ubisoft Montreal's Assassin's Creed 2 will be getting a collector's edition (named Black Edition) and it has recently started to pop up in online stores. Accordin...

Call of Duty: World at War gets its second map pack

Christian — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:26:47 GMT

Keeping gamers busy as Modern Warfare 2 closes in, Treyarch and Activision have rolled out a second map pack for the 11+ million selling Call of Duty: World at War. Available for Xbox 360 an...

Sims 3 keeps the sales crown in the UK

Christian — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:36:23 GMT

With over 1.4 million copies already sold, The Sims 3 has managed to stay atop the UK game sales chart for the second week running, and fend off newcomer Prototype which has to settle for second place...

The Conduit gone gold

Christian — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:16:02 GMT

High Voltage Software has just announced that it finished work on its Wii-exclusive first-person shooter, The Conduit, and confirmed that the game will hit North American stores as scheduled on...

Dragon Age: Origins system requirements revealed

Christian — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:16:24 GMT

With four more months to go until Dragon Age: Origins is set to ship, Bioware has detailed the system requirements of the game's PC version. According to the post made on the Bioware forum, the spirit...

TES IV: Oblivion and BioShock come together for uber-awarded bundle

Christian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:11:20 GMT

Teaming up to provide gamers an offer they can't refuse, 2K Games and Bethesda Softworks has announced the upcoming release of a game bundle containing two smashing hits of 2007 and 2006 - BioSho...

CoD: WoW Map Pack 2 tops 1 million downloads in four days

Christian — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:15:43 GMT

Introduced last week, the second map pack for the World War II-themed first-person shooter Call of Duty: World at War sold like hot cakes, with Activision bragging that over 1 million people have down...

Prototype passes Sims 3 to top UK charts

Christian — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:09:25 GMT

After two weeks of being the best selling game in the UK, EA's The Sims 3 has slipped one place to leave the top spot to another recent release, Radical Entertainment's action game Prototype. Right af...

Tekken 6 coming on October 27th

Christian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:32:59 GMT

Namco Bandai Games has finally announced a release date for the eagerly-awaited 3D fighting game Tekken 6 - October 27th, in North America, with Japan and Europe set to get it shortly after this date.

Tropico 3 announced for the Xbox 360

Christian — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:20:13 GMT

After two PC exclusives, the Tropico series is finally coming to consoles, as Kalypso Media has announced that Bulgarian developer Haemimont Games is working on both a PC and a Xbox 360 version of Tro...

ZeniMax buys id Software

Christian — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:15:43 GMT

Bethesda parent company, ZeniMax Media has dropped the latest bomb by announcing the acquisition of, yes, we can say legendary, gaming (read FPS) development studio, id Software. Responsible for class...

EA rolls out Red Alert 3 1.11 patch

Christian — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:45:25 GMT

Electronic Arts just released a new update for its year-old real-time strategy game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. The 1.11 patch comes with a heap of bug fixes, two new skirmish/online play maps...

Warner, the only bidder for Midway Games

Christian — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:16:33 GMT

Bankrupt and out of luck, Midway hasn't been able to convince anyone but Warner Bros. to submit an acquisition bid for its business. The deadline for offers was last week and although Midway was hopin...

Fight Night KO's Prototype, Sims 3 in the UK

Christian — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:09:42 GMT

Despite tough competition a new entry - Fight Night Round 4 was able to shoot straight to the top of the UK game sales charts and push Prototype and The Sims 3 to second and third, respectively. Wii F...

Doom Resurrection hits iTunes

Christian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:17:25 GMT

ZeniMax's latest purchase, id Software, has now released Doom Resurrection, a (relatively) new chapter in the well known first-person game series, for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. Available on...

Red Faction: Guerrilla getting three DLC packs this year

Christian — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:36:14 GMT

One month has passed since the launch of Red Faction: Guerrilla and publisher THQ has confirmed that no less than three DLC (downloadable content) packs are being prepared for the game's fans this yea...

Wolfenstein minimum PC requirements revealed

Christian — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:48:26 GMT

Through a post on the game's forums, id Software's Peter Sokal has provided the PC gamer community with the minimum system requirements of the upcoming Wolfenstein episode. The World War II shooter wh...

Piranha Bytes' Risen to hit stores on October 2nd

Christian — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:06:39 GMT

Publisher Deep Silver has announced that Risen, the latest game from Piranha Bytes, creators of the famed RPG series Gothic, is officially scheduled to launch for both the PC and Xbox 360 on Octo...

Fight Night Round 4 stays atop the UK game charts

Christian — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:00 GMT

For the second week running the latest Fight Night game managed to stay on its feet and maintain the lead in terms of UK sales. Following FNR4, taking the silver medal is the debuting Tiger Woods PGA...

PC version of Dirt 2 delayed but getting DirectX 11 support

Christian — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:42:59 GMT

Juggling both good and bad news Codemasters has revealed that Colin McRae: DiRT 2 for the PC has been delayed and will ship in December. The console versions of the game are still slated for...

Teaser trailers point out to MechWarrior comeback

Christian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:02:39 GMT

Hopes of a new MechWarrior game have managed to live on throughout these last few years despite no real indication of such a product being made yet apparently the faith of MW fans wasn't at all mispla...

EA LA confirms development of Command & Conquer 4

Christian — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:10:51 GMT

Coming to confirm recent rumors, Electronic Arts has now announced that its Los Angeles studio is working on the final chapter in the Command & Conquer Tiberium series. C&C 4, as that's t...

Modern Warfare 2 will use the Call of Duty brand

Christian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:31:58 GMT

As revealed by its box art - seen here, Infinity Ward's upcoming first-person shooter will indeed carry the Call of Duty brand and will be known as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Previously, all mate...

Quake Live gets its own Patch Tuesday

Christian — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:43:41 GMT

id Software has recently revealed that it has decided on making Tuesday THE day of the week for releasing updates for its free, browser-based first-person shooter Quake Live. According to the studio,&...

Tiger takes the lead in the UK

Christian — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:39:39 GMT

A little switcheroo happened at the top of the UK game sales top this past week, with Tiger Woods going from second to first place, while Fight Night Round 4 slipped one place to take the silver...