Today Zynga announced its newest game, Mafia Wars 2, which promises
to have Facebook users committing all sorts of nefarious digital crimes
against their family and friends.
If paying a monthly subscription was the Kryptonite weakening your
interest in playing DC Universe Online, Sony Online Entertainment has
swooped in and used its super compromising powers to get you into its
MMO universe for free.
Square Enix unveiled a new PS Vita title during Sony's press
conference at TGS yesterday, which looks like a strange departure from
the company's recent track record.
Artist Steve Thomas is celebrating the early days of video game
arcades with a series of fine art prints done in the style of wartime
propaganda posters, and you can own one for a pretty penny...or pence,
as the case may be.
JRPG fans have a new reason to get excited. Hot off the Japanese release of Tales of Xillia, Namco Bandai has launched a website counting down to the reveal of another new adventure in the Tales series.
Indie devs Zen Studios and Team Meat recently traded some heated words on Twitter, only to promptly make up and agree on a potentially awesome collaboration.
Activision didn't find the modernwarfare3.com stunt very funny, and filed
a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum over the site, which
recently ruled in the publisher's favor.
Despite the constant
declarations from gamers that zombies are long past their expiration date,
developers keep putting them in games, consumers keep buying them, and I can't
stop playing them. So why are zombies so popular?
Gamers have plenty of choices when it comes to action RPGs, but how many
DS titles let you ride a super-powered robot pet into combat?
Solatorobo: Red the Hunter does.
In a recent interview, Battlefield 3 executive producer Patrick Bach
suggests that it's better to expand a game that's already on the market
than to continually pump out annual sequels like some other developers
do.
Few video game weapons are more ridiculous than Space Marine's
chainsword. Few contest prizes are more ridiculous than a life-size
replica of said chainsword. And yet that's exactly what you can win next
week thanks to a giveaway from THQ.
What happens when you take one of gaming's funniest scribes and put him
in a room (or in this case, on Sesame Street) with a cookie-obsessed
Muppet? Laughs happen, that's what.
After more than a decade since the original releases of Doom and Doom
II, id's iconic shooters will finally be available to German consumers
with fewer restrictions on how shops can sell them.
