Activision Announces Walking Dead FPS

If TellTale Games’ action-adventure title, The Walking Dead, wasn’t enough for you, Activision is about to release one of their own on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2013. Based on AMC’s Emmy-Award winning TV series, the do-whatever-you-need-to-survive first-person action game will allow players to assume the role of the mysterious, crossbow-wielding survivor Daryl Dixon, … Read more

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Revealed for 007 Legends

The second of six Bond movie-inspired missions to be featured in this year’s upcoming 007 Legends video game has been revealed as On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. A first-of-its-kind Bond video game, 007 Legends features an original, overarching storyline tying together five classic Bond movie-inspired missions plus a sixth mission based on this year’s highly-anticipated … Read more

Activision Lays Off Prototype 2 Developers

The developer of Prototype 1 and 2, as well as past games like Scarface and entries in the Crash Bandicoot series, has drastically downsized. Radical Entertainment, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, has been in the business for over twenty years. The layoffs will affect about 90 employees. Original reports suggested that the studio was going … Read more

Guild Wars 2 Gets August Street Date

NCsoft today announced the much-anticipated release date for Guild Wars 2. The company’s new MMO will launch in both Europe and North America on August 28, 2012. Building on sales of more than seven million units of the original game, Guild Wars 2 redefines massively multiplayer online roleplaying games with visceral, action-oriented combat. “We’re offering … Read more

Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad Launches on PSN and Xbox Live

2XL Games announced today that Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad is now available for both Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad tosses out the needless, most tedious aspects of racing games in favor of a game that is truly fun. Chock-full of features such as multiplayer, vehicle upgrades, 60 frames per second and a … Read more

Microsoft Rewards Will Soon Give Out Microsoft Points For Achievements

In a recent tweet from Microsoft’s Xbox Live Rewards account, it was announced that gamers will be able to “earn rewards based on achievements” this fall. Unfortunately, anything past this information is all just speculation, but as the resident “achievement whore” of the site, any sort of news on this topic is joyous to me. … Read more

Pokemon Black and White 2: CoroCoro Reveals New Details, Version-Exclusive Pokemon

CoroCoro Magazine confirmed some new details about Pokemon Black 2 and White 2, the upcoming Nintendo DS sequels of the original “fifth generation” versions, Black and White. First, there were exclusive Pokemon: Black 2 players will find Magby and Buneary, while White 2 owners can catch Elekid and Skitty. It is doubtful that these will … Read more

Watch the Assassin’s Creed III E3 Walkthrough

Following the showing at E3 2012, Assassin’s Creed III takes to the frontier in a video walkthrough of one of the demos shown at the conference last week. Commentated by creative director, Alex Hutchinson, the walkthrough of the frontier demo exemplifies the key pillars of the Assassin’s Creed franchise against the wild frontier setting demonstrating … Read more

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection Released for Vita

Konami today announced that Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is now available for the PlayStation Vita. Hideo Kojima’s classic Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater titles feature vast upgrades, including remastered graphics from the original releases on the PlayStation 2, and optimized controls designed to take full … Read more