The PlayStation Blog has announced a cross-promotional gesture between Eidos and PlayStation Home. If you purchase Batman: Arkham Asylum (set to release August 25th), you can unlock a Batcave Outpost personal space. I’m not sure what you can do in it other than ogle the Batmobile and Batsuit, but I guess that would be fun [...]

Capcom has announced its lineup for this year’s GamesCom in Colonge. The impressive array of titles that will be featured at their booth are Lost Planet 2, Monster Hunter Tri, Dark Void, Moto GP 9/10, and Tastunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars, Resident Evil 5 (for the PC), and Spyborgs.
As a special Dark Void promotion, [...]

EA and Double Fine Productions have released the full soundtrack for the litigatious-attracting Brütal Legend, which will feature 75 metal bands including Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Rob Zombie, and Motörhead.
The game, due October 16th, revolves around roadie Eddie Rigs (voiced by Jack Black), who stumbles into the world of metal and apparently has to conjure [...]

Ah, when will the pre-order swag madness cease? GameStop is offering a special edition pre-order of Assassin’s Creed II, dubbed the Master Assassin’s Edition. This version is available for both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 and retails for $80. This special edition comes with a teeny little Ezio statue, an art book, a metal [...]

If you’ve been hankering to get your sweaty mitts on Batman: Arhkam Asylum, the folks at Eidos have granted your wish….sort of. No, they’re not releasing it earlier than its slated August 25th North America date. However, there will be a playable demo of Batman: Arkham Asylum on PSN and Xbox LIVE Marketplace on August [...]

In anticipation of the 25th anniversary of the theatrical release of the This is Spinal Tap rocku-mockumentary, the original sountrack is being released on Rock Band next week. The Spinal Tap track pack features 11 songs from the movie and six brand new songs as well. The songs have been re-imagined for Spinal Tap’s latest [...]

Remember when it was announced that there will two special editions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 that’ll include lots of cool doohickeys like a working set of night vision goggles? Well, it looks like PC gamers are getting the shaft. Big Download has reported that neither the Prestige nor the Hardened Edition will [...]

If there is one thing about the PS3 that needs to go away for good it’s the mandatory installs. Some games take over four gigabytes of hard drive space before you can play them. That doesn’t even cover the amount of space that will be required for other things such as patches and downloadable content.  [...]

Reading through a particular video game’s forums is like rubbernecking at a car accident: it’s ugly, but you cannot help looking. There are posts praising the game, posts that nitpick on certain aspects of the game; posts in which someone is asking for help, and posts that offer help. Bickering is the norm in video [...]

We are a few years into this generation of consoles and history has once again repeated itself. Much like the old NES and PS1 days, the most successful console is also the one that is less powerful and less expensive. For the first time since its jump into the videogame industry Sony is struggling to [...]