Dog-owners and fans of murder alike will find their interest peaked by Dead to Rights: Retribution, an upcoming third-person shooter starring a man and his dog. Players will take control of Jack Slate, the general caricature of a tough-as-nails cop living on the edge as he tries to clean up the crime-infested Grant City streets. [...]

Look out, Assassin’s Creed, there’s another game whose character will be busting up Italy, and it’s called Venetica. Publishers DTP Entertainment and developers Deck 13 first revealed their daring action RPG back in late 2008, at which point the game seemed to be pretty far along in the development process. Now, almost a year later, [...]

Robbing banks has never looked as cool as in Hei$t, a free-roam game in which you’ll… well, pull heists! The story will follow Johnny Sutton on the day of his release from jail. His incarceration came as a result of him attempting to fill his father’s shoes as the master bank robber in the family. [...]

Developer 5th Cell’s highly anticipated title, Scribblenauts, launches tomorrow. I spoke with lead designer and 5th Cell co-founder Jeremiah Slaczka during last week’s Penny Arcade Expo about their quirky little DS game, which was a surprise hit at E3 2009 and crowd magnet at PAX. He also showed me a little demo of what can [...]

CDV’s physics puzzle game for the DS I Heart Geeks was featured at this weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo. I had the opportunity to check out the game early last year at a CDV press event and was curious to see what has changed since. The answer is: not much except for the artwork, which is [...]

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 as [...]

Microsoft has announced, coming sometime this spring (I figure really summer), they will have an online live version of the game show 1 vs 100.  It will consist of live events hosted by a live commentator and the game will be for Microsoft points and merchandise.  It will be the first time a “game” allows for thousands of people to participate in a [...]