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 [...]

Participants at this year’s PAX have the opportunity to check out a 10-minute demo of BioShock 2 and I tell ya, it doesn’t disappoint. The game takes place several years after the first BioShock. The demo starts off with you waking up and finding out that you’re a Big Daddy. Yes, you get to play [...]

The highly anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band will be getting a little help from their friends in terms of promotion. Brick-and-mortar electronics megachain Best Buy is planning a few events on September 9th, the game’s release date. Not to miss a chance for self-promotion, Best Buy will also be giving away 50 one-year memberships of [...]

As some of you may know, a second film adaptation of the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are will be coming out this October. Surprise surprise! There’s a video game tie-in. The video game version will be released on all consoles except the PSP at roughly the same time as the film. Here [...]

Yesterday’s PS3 3.00 update brought along a slew of new features that gained the praise and scorn of the PSN community. One of the most welcome changes was the ability to download dynamic themes. Dynamic themes are gorgeous animations that move in the background on the XMB. Sony put a LittleBigPlanet dynamic theme on the [...]

The PS3 doesn’t support backwards compatibility these days. The only way players can experience the classic games from the PS2 era is to either dig out the PS2 or hunt down a PS3 online that does have PS2 support. SCEA decided that no one should be left out of experiencing the God of War series [...]

If you’re one of the types of people who absolutely adore firmware updates of all kinds (even the security based ones) consider this a friendly reminder of good news. Firmware 3.0 will be available to download starting tomorrow September 1, 2009. This is said to be the last major firmware update of the year and [...]

We all know times are hard these days. A lot of people are out of work or had to serious cut back on their spending habits. We gamers are no different from anyone else when it comes to the all mighty dollar. We need every dime we can get and those dimes that we do [...]

EA has released its Achievement and Trophy List for Brütal Legend. It looks like a pretty sick list. There are 50 Achievements and 51 Trophies available for your collecting pleasure. Incidentally, the “Six Degrees of Schafer” Achievement/Trophy is earned when you play with or against Tim Schafer during multiplayer mode. Interestingly, once you play Tim [...]

Activision just announced that the late Nirvana frontman and unofficial Generation X spokesman Kurt Cobain will be making an appearance in Guitar Hero 5, making him one of five artists who will be making an in-game, digital appearance. “Kurt Cobain is one of the most recognizable frontmen in rock ‘n’ roll history and it’s an [...]