The finalists from XNA’s Dream-Build-Play contest are featuring their games at PAX this weekend. Dream-Build-Play is a competition for independent game developers to create games for the Xbox 360 using the XNA Game Studio software. This year there were 350 entries from more than 100 countries. First place wins $40,000 while second place gets $20,000. [...]

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 [...]

If you happen to know anyone who looks like an incredibly hot, leggy bespectacled babe with extremely long brown hair, then give SEGA and Maxim a call since they may have a job for her. Or you can wake up from your daydream and continue reading this article. Anyway, the two companies are searching for [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to GameOnn’s new monthly column featuring my personal pick on the best indie game developer. As August is coming to an end I thought it would be nice to give credit to the fine guys at Twisted Pixel for making  games that are built upon such a simple concept, yet deliver on so many [...]

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 [...]

Early this morning Amazon posted one of its famous gold box deals that’s sure to please many a game owner. From now until supplies last, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be sold for the bargain price of $9.99 for the Xbox 360. This could be a move to attempt to move stock in preparation [...]

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 [...]