Hey, it's roundtable time!
New movies of Sam in action.
Droppin' science (and F bombs).
Destructible cover isn't anything new in shooters (and certainly not to DICE's Battlefield franchise), but no game I've played has ever implemented it as well as Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The result is a game where everyone except snipers is almost always moving, creating a battlefield that's constantly changing from moment to moment and giving players plenty of reasons to use destructible terrain to their advantage. Read More »
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's SVP of Worldwide Studios Michael Denny welcomed the creators of LittleBigPlanet to the PlayStation family today, announcing that SCE has acquired Media Molecule. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Denny said that the UK developer is now a wholly owned part of SCE. Read More »
Not every WoW-er is an insane basement-dweller whose aptitude outside Azeroth is on par with an eel in an automobile. But the existence of these 10 crimes against capitalism -- these terrible parasites which could only prey on an utterly insane and immobile audience -- prove that many are. Read More »
Valve's award-winning 3D puzzler Portal recently received a small update. The update added in one new achievement where players need to go back through the game and locate 26 newly energized radios. But the reason for this update seems to be causing a huge stir over on the Valve forums. There are apparently hidden meanings to the radios which now emit Morse Code hidden messages when activated. Get the rest after the break. Read More »
A new first-person shooter set against a near-future background is coming from Zombie Studios and Ignition Entertainment. It's 100 percent digital, Blacklight: Tango Down is being billed as a AAA-quality military shooter. The game is set to hit PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this summer. First shots and all the details after the jump. Read More »
We wouldn't want to walk a couple of miles in Alan Wake's shoes. This guy seems to do nothing except attract trouble. A new batch of shots released by Remedy show off some of the gun-play and excitement that you can expect to see when the game launches this May. Unless you're a PC gamer and in that case, you ain't gonna jack squat from Mr. Wake's outing. See More »
The news that we all wanted to hear is now in, and according to SCEA's Patrick Seybold, the PS3's Y2K10 bug was identified as a problem with the older PS3's internal clock date change recognizing 2010 as a leap year. It's now fixed. Read More »
Something pretty big is currently hitting the fan at Infinity Ward. The developer of the highly successful Call of Duty franchise has been the center of much speculation and confusion over the last 10 hours or so, when G4 posted a news rumor that one, possibly two, studio heads have gone walkabout. According to the piece, publisher Activision met with both Infinity Ward's Jason West and Vince Zampella early yesterday and the pair have not been seen at the offices since. More inside. Read More »
Mega Man 10 is hard. And when I say that, I mean "hard by Mega Man standards" kind of hard. It's as though some insane Capcom mastermind played through all of the old Mega Man games -- among them, some of the most difficult 2D platformers ever made -- and thought to himself, "Man, this isn't hardcore enough" before sitting down and mapping out the sadistic journey that is MM10. Read More »
Reminiscent of the baseball card rush of the 1980s, classic videogames are fast becoming highly valued collectibles. In early February, North Carolina eBay seller lace_thongs35 made headlines when her(?) copy of NES game Stadium Events sold for more than $13,000. Turns out that was just the tip of the pixelated iceberg. Last week, a Kansas man who read of the high-priced sale sold his own copy of Stadium Events for more than $41,000. Read More »
Publishing houses have long been interested in books based on videogames, evidenced most recently by Penguin's novel "Assassin's Creed Renaissance." Now it appears publishers want to flip the script and get involved with the creative side of videogame development. Read More »
Gamers singing the Foreigner power ballad "I Want to Know What Love Is" will get their answer on March 25. One-man design army Eskil Steenberg recently announced the release date for his mysterious, ambitious MMOG, Love. And to beat the music metaphors to death, money can buy you Love; contrary to hopeful speculation, the game will not be free. Hit the jump for more. Read More »
A new study published in the March issue of the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin states that violent videogames (VVGs) increase aggression, desensitize gamers to violence, and create anti-social behavior. Some claim the study is inaccurate. Read more about the debate after the jump. Read More »
The Y2K bug came 10 years and two months late for PlayStation 3 owners, as yesterday a problem with internal calendars in pre-Slim models wreaked havoc on the PlayStation Network. Via tweets and forum updates, Sony says it is continuing to restore service, but for those who don't want to wait for the patch, there is a partial DIY fix Read More »
Split/Second producer Jason Ried of Black Rock Studio recently told C&VG; that his new racer does things not traditionally seen in other racing games. In his eyes, Split/Second has more in common with the likes of Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Activision's Call of Duty franchise. Specifically, he's referring to "huge set pieces." Read More »
Citing recent defilement of his iconic text, the rotting, angry corpse of the deceased Italian poet created a hauntingly rhythmic couplet of a new kind in the form of a furious button-mashing death rattle from beyond the afterlife. Can you hear that, EA?
PS3
Heavy Rain Guide
Wii
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Guide
X360
Mass Effect 2 Guide
X360
Assassin's Creed II Guide
X360
Assassin's Creed II (The Master Assassin's Edition) Guide
PS3
White Knight Chronicles (International Edition) Guide
X360
BioShock 2 (Special Edition) Guide
X360
BioShock 2 Guide
Wii
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Guide
PS3
Darksiders Guide
Wii
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Cheats
PS3
Heavy Rain Cheats
PS2
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Cheats
PS2
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Cheats
PS3
Grand Theft Auto IV Cheats
X360
Mass Effect 2 Cheats
X360
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Cheats
PS3
Dante's Inferno (Divine Edition) Cheats
X360
Grand Theft Auto IV Cheats
PSP
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories Cheats
| 2 | Borderlands | X360 |
| 3 | Borderlands: Secret Armory | X360 |
| 4 | Zombie Island of Dr. Ned | X360 |
| 5 | Borderlands: Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot | X360 |
| 6 | Heavy Rain | PS3 |
| 7 | Mass Effect 2 (Collector's Edition) | X360 |
| 8 | GTA: San Andreas | PS2 |
| 9 | World of Warcraft | PC |
| 10 | Modern Warfare 2 | X360 |
