He oils himself up and slides around the stage. He grapples his opponents and forces them into awkward homoerotic position. He’s Hakan, and he’s ready to make you feel good about making someone else feel bad. On the side, it seems Dan has been upgraded to have a real, fully-functional fireball that travels the full [...]

In a tragic turn of events, it seems that a three-year-old toddler from Tennesse, Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan,  accidentally shot herself after mistaking her stepfather’s loaded pistol for a Wii gun peripheral. She was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead a short time later. Apparently her stepfather left his gun out on the living room [...]

Seven45 Studios thinks Guitar Hero is for babies, and real men play Power Gig: Rise of the SixString.  This ain’t no red-yellow-orange-green plastic-toy guitar game, Power Gig was built from the ground up to work with a legitimate six-string guitar. Coming out for PS3 and 360, it uses proprietary technology “that can distinguish and recognize [...]

An enormous 466 contestants descended on the Cresta shopping centre, Johannesburg this past Saturday to compete in the FIFA Interactive World Cup (FIWC) 2010 local qualifier.
As early as 9am, players had begun grinding through continuous elimination matches, until around 5pm, when the final seven had emerged. Amongst them was newcomer Naeem Williams who produced some [...]

Writer Josh Michaelson over at DAMNLAG recently put up a very compelling article full of reasons why he thinks SEGA should just give it up and hand Sonic over to Nintendo. The general gist of it is that SEGA keeps on reiterating the same old trash with slightly new ideas – usually copied from someone [...]

Through the grapevine come whispers that, due to the success of the first game, Lucasarts may be due to announce the release of a re-mastered Monkey Island 2 – this leak courtesy of Kotaku. Some more good news is that, if it does come, it will hit the PlayStation Network too, in addition to GFW [...]

Still alive? Good. Portal 2 is officially announced. It’ll be a retail game at a retail price, and include co-op missions. Not much else is known right now, as information is being released slowly by GameInformer. All we have right now, is the image above and the image below. Look at how overrun with plant [...]

A recent announcement by SCE Europe reveals that the anticipated God of War Collection is finally coming to Europe… which means it’s finally coming to us. It’s been available in the US for quite some time, and a few imports have found their way here, but it seems that now we’ll finally have our own [...]

Yesterday, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that they had acquired the developer Media Molecule, who are best known for their PS3-exclusive action-platform creative funbox of a game, LittleBigPlanet. SCE Worldwide Presdient, Shuhei Yoshida, then went on to praise Media Molecule for the innovative and outside-the-box approach to games development, and mentioned that acquiring Media Molecule was [...]

It was bound to happen. Someone found a way to turn Heavy Rain into Hot Coffee (Rain?). Over at Kotaku, the person who discovered how to glitch Quantic Dream’s new ultimate-quicktime-event game into having the female lead be totally nude when not behind the safety and cover of a shower door, tells us how he [...]

In a dramatic break from tradition, this news item isn’t just something I’ve sourced from the usual press outlets — it’s something I’ve actually dealt with. Just yesterday my friend in the UK got ahold of me on Yahoo and mentioned that she couldn’t play Assassin’s Creed 2 on her PS3 because of some “trophy [...]

With the Borderlands value-adding downloadable content clocking in at almost a total of 4GB for the three DLC packs released so far, it’s no surprise that Take 2 is releasing Borderlands + DLC on a retail disc. The three DLC packs to be included are:
The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned, a fun zombie-filled romp through [...]

PlayStation Homeless
According to sources, advertisers are abandoning PlayStation Home.  “The product has disappointed both users and advertisers,” says Brand Week. “In fact, Red Bull remains one of the few non-endemic advertisers to carve out space in the world.”
What’s PlayStation Home? It’s this “free” virtual world thing on the PlayStation 3 where you can roll your [...]

Normally, I’m not one for free-to-play browser-based games as I find they tend to fall somewhat short of what I look for in a game. But they’re obviously taking off, and I don’t think it will be long at all before they tie in somehow with mainstream commercial games. This will probably happen round about [...]