Montreal developer Ubisoft electrified a crowd of 5,000 on Friday night with its back-to-back presentations of Splinter Cell: Conviction and Assassin’s Creed II. The Sam Fisher game was first, with Creative Director Max Beland giving the presentation. He stressed that this Splinter Cell will change the way people play stealth-based games. According to Beland, typical [...]

It’s no secret the iPhone has solidified itself as being a legitimate gaming platform. Once a place where independent developers could show off their work, the App store has gotten the attention of big developers and publishers such as EA and id who release smaller games at an affordable cost. So what about mobile gaming [...]

Price drops seem to be the thing to do these days. Hot off the heels of the Sony announcement that lowered the PS3’s price to $299, Microsoft has confirmed that it will be slashing prices on its consoles as well. First we will say goodbye to the Xbox 360 Pro model as it’s no longer [...]

Yesterday we heard rumors buzzing (substantiated by a description on DirecTV’s online schedule that was quickly pulled down) that Ozzy Osbourne would be making an appearance at this year’s BlizzCon. Today Blizzard has indeed confirmed that our favorite stammering, incomprehensible rocker will not just appear at the August 21-22 event, but will headline the closing [...]

Financial conference calls may sound boring on paper but it’s amazing what kind of breaking news can come from them. Today THQ had its financial conference call and revealed a possible release date for Project Natal before Microsoft officially announces it. According to IGN, THQ CEO Brian Farrell spilled the big jar of beans.
“If you [...]

The rumors have been circling around for several weeks about a PS3 slim in development but no one has had any solid proof. The above video isn’t what we’d call proof but it’s defiantly firewood used to fuel the speculation. The video is very blurry and shaky and the gentlemen talking seem to be talking [...]

The tale of Kratos is a twisted one. He accidentally killed his family, is hunted relentlessly by his father and walks around with the heads of mythological creatures in his back pocket. Now that’s what I call a great idea for a movie! A film based on God of War has been teased around the [...]

Twitter is quickly becoming the place to go for all the latest videogame news. Fresh off Robert Bowlings Twitter page is the box art from for Modern Warfare 2. It contains the lone soldier that we’ve seen in many promotional shots, but the interesting thing about the art is the inclusion of Call of Duty [...]

During GDC 2009 OnLive was one of the talks of the show. It promised the ability to stream games at high quality with no lag over the internet without the use of consoles or high powered home PC’s. Not too long after OnLive was announced David Perry, now an executive video game industry consultant, showed [...]

If I asked you to name one professional gamer you might reply Fatal1ty, well how about someone else?  Nothing?  Me either.  Professional gaming has been around for years now, but has yet to grab the gaming public’s attention.  What seemed to be the next big thing 2 or 3 years ago has backpedaled as of late back [...]