Four guns, four characters, four ways to play.
EA has finally released a trailer for Insomniac’s Fuse, a four-player co-op shooter which marries Gears-style combat to fancy off-world guns. I was in Los Angeles playing it last week – read about my tria…
Gamestation ethos to continue in a different guise.
All 122 Gamestation stores in the UK are to become GAME outlets, as part of the debt-stricken retailer’s slow return to health.Click here to read the full article
Think before you use up your Golden Keys.
Did you preorder Borderlands 2? Have you been extra, extra nice to Gearbox lately? Then chances are you’re the recipient of one of the coveted Golden Keys, gateways to a veritable banquet – nay, festival of hi…
Another trilogy to follow the Reclaimer Trilogy?.
What will the world be like when Halo 9 hits shelves? Chances are, we’ll have actually met the Covenant by then and be too busy kicking their filthy unshaven keisters to spend time on videogames.Click …
Stealth games are really about a guy trapped in a temporal loop, forced to repeat his actions until he can shake off the mysterious clumsiness that has overridden years of tip-toeing experience. “Why would I just roll into that spotlight like an idiot…
Pick Log’s brains on Gearbox’s latest.
Our Borderlands 2 review goes live next week, care of Log with a little help from Matt on the co-op front. Here’s a sneak preview based on what I can see of his screen from my desk: lots of colourful noises happe…
How do we get out of this chicken-s**t outfit?.
Buy the Aliens: Colonial Marines Limited Edition and you’ll get access to four playable characters from the original Aliens film – Private Hudson, Corporal Hicks, Private Drake and Sergeant Apone. This i…
The artistic process in full.
Halo Waypoint community manager Jessica Shea has given a lengthy account of how 343 designed Halo 4′s Promethean enemies in the latest Halo bulletin. We’ve reposted the whole thing below, along with some fetching Promethe…
Pictures are worth a thousand empty words.
OK, Team Ninja – I’ll come clean. I’m a filthy liberal hand-wringer, a knee-jerk "enlightened" scold of the first order, and this has, at times, clouded my judgement. Your Dead or Alive franchise migh…
A belated trip to the nether darkness.
So we forgot to write up yesterday’s Indie Uprising recommendation. For that, we should be thrown into a tear- and blood-soaked abyss filled with giants, spiked traps and hideous, hideous minigames. A dungeon aki…
Halo Waypoint has released a new 10-minute video documenting the Prometheans, Master Chief’s menacing opponents in Halo 4.These towering tough guys have three sub-classes and work together in dynamic ways. The Knights are 12-foot-tall, sword-wielding …
Virtua Fighter’s Akira and Sarah Bryant aren’t the only two Sega stars joining Dead or Alive 5. Plucky, pig-tailed pugilist Pai Chan has also been confirmed today.Pai was rumored to be a playable character back in March, when some hackers dissected th…
Dave totally freaked out about Double Dragon Neon’s soundtrack in his review, going as far as to deem it his favorite part of the game. It’s true, the music has some real crunk beats. It’s a mega jam of 80s happening hip, and we happen to think it’s b…
A Microsoft patent application for an “immersive display experience” has been published by the USPTO. The application describes a system that would augment a “primary display” – say, a television – with a “peripheral image” projected onto the surround…
Plus the new Hunger Gauge in action.
Finally, some actual, concrete proof of Minecraft Xbox 360 update 1.8.2′s existence! I’m off for a victory lap of OXM Land, once I’m done writing this. Click here to read the full article
Video shows cel-shaded violence from Keiji Inafune.
Keiji Inafune, the former head of R&D at Capcom who created Mega Man and went on to produce Dead Rising, has revealed the new game he’s been working on since ending his 23-year stint at the compa…
Last year at E3, Insomniac revealed a brand new IP called Overstrike, complete with a slickly animated trailer featuring four elite spy types using futuristic weapons to take down a robotic bad guy. After that, we didn’t hear much about the game at al…
Insomniac’s Overstrike team-based shooter has turned into a game called Fuse, due out in the first quarter of next year on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. And the four characters in the game’s co-op team are in many ways the same four that we saw in last …
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is now PS3-only in Japan following the Xbox 360 version’s cancellation. Kojima Productions announced the news today via its website. There the company apologized for the cancellation but didn’t give any reasons for it. T…
Gamers will always "crave" the "super premium high-end" games.
Seamus Blackley is one of the bright sparks behind the original Xbox, and more recently, the founder of mobile games developer Innovative Leisure, which gives him a pretty …
Update is playable but not due for a while.
Minecraft Xbox 360 update 1.8.2′s release date is still up in the air – but 4J has heard the cries of the faithful, and elected to bestow sweet mercy in the form of some gameplay videos, due sometime between…
Mila, a diner waitress and MMA fighter, is the second new character in Dead or Alive 5′s roster (the other being Rig). Maybe it’s her enthusiasm to fight Bass Armstrong’s daughter, but Mila does a great job of concentrating on beating up Tina in this …
You guys remember in Adventure Time, when Jake the Dog takes all the good food in the world, wraps it up in a giant tortilla and makes the Everything Burrito? That’s what Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is like, and it’s delicious. Everything that’s ever been…
Capcom today detailed Resident Evil 6′s post-launch downloadable content, which includes three multiplayer game modes called Survivors, Predator, and Siege. The announcement came shortly after a UK Xbox Marketplace listing disclosed three modes as the…
"Never give up!".
Michael Hicks’ wistful adventure Sententia reads back like a rallying cry to Xbox Live Indie developers and creative sorts at large. "I am a special creature, and I have a purpose, and I’ll never give up on it!" the g…
"We have a team of buyers passionate about games".
Tesco wasted no time jumping into the void left by a collapsing GAME Group this spring, and the supermarket giant’s march on the specialist videogames sector continues apace. Speaking to CVG, …
Block-busting, side-scrolling adventure debuts early 2013.
Are you bored of clipping blocks together to make amazing things like medieval markets and giant inverted pyramids yet? Yes? Then you can get the hell off Xbox Live Arcade, young man. 505 Game…
Five teams for free.
The promised FIFA 13 demo is live on Xbox Live Marketplace. We’re not sure when it went loud, exactly, but yesterday’s no-later-than-2pm pronouncement may have been a tad optimistic.Click here to read the full article
Executive producer Casey Hudson has the final call.
EA’s Frank Gibeau (never far from a headline nowadays) has spoken out against claims that the publisher has ultimate control over BioWare’s present and future efforts. According to him, the studio wi…
Spoilt for choice? Let our flowchart decide.
Xbox 360′s somewhat over-endowed in the shooter department, but few shooters are straight-up clones of one another. There’s scope for some heavy duty head-scratching, when gauging the respective merits of g…