Videogame News
We’re not sure if there was ever really a realistic chance that the E3 would move out of Los Angeles in the near future, but today, it was made official. Whether you like it or not, the E3 is sticking around the City of Angels until 2015.
Square Enix this morning announced their full lineup for the upcoming gamescom 2012 event scheduled for August 15th – 19th in Cologne, Germany. Expect plenty of Tomb Raider, Hitman: Absolution, Sleeping Dogs, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and mobile titles.
Activision announced this morning that they have secured talent from past and present Bond movies to voice a number of characters, write the scripts and compose the music. Read on for more details and a few pieces of media.
Stewie, Brian, and the rest of the Family Guy cast hit home shortly in their first current gen game for Xbox 360 and PS3. Check out some new screenshots taken from three of the stages in the upcoming game.
Nintendo this morning sent over a nice new batch of screens and art for the anticipated upcoming portable Mario sequel, New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Nintendo 3DS. There’s a little bit of everything in these screenshots as you can see within.
As just announced this morning, sign-ups for the open beta for the 2012 Xbox Live Update are now available. If you would like to test out some of the new features of the upcoming update, including Internet Explorer, and new dashboard functionality, here’s your chance.
We have both Month of Mario deals kicking off and the continuation of the 8-Bit Summer, so for retro gamers, there’s a few things to check out. For those looking for new stuff, there’s Planet Crashers and Mole Mania.
With Dishonored scheduled for an October 9th release, we still have a while to wait before we get to creatively and stylishly assassinate some bad guys. Sooo… here’s a new gameplay trailer to hopefully keep the hype going.
Ubisoft will be present at gamescom 2012 in a huge way. The Euro gaming event, which takes place in Cologne, Germany beginning on August 16th, sounds as if it’ll be easily as large as the E3 this year. See what Ubi will be showing off.
A quick unveiling of the new character Swarm for Skylanders Giants. This giant bee towers over the original Skylanders, both in plastic form, and in the game.
Rico Rodriguez and Just Cause 2 get a little love in Sleeping Dogs, in the form of an unlockable outfit if you’ve got a Just Cause 2 save file on hand. Check out the new duds and the official press release behind the cut.
Some horrific new screen shots from EA and Visceral Games’ Dead Space 3. Check out the horror contained behind the link.
Death really does come for us all, as this new Darksiders II trailer strives to point out. Check out all the new gameplay footage behind the link.
Activision this morning sent over a fresh new trailer and a large batch of screens showing off the multiplayer functionality in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.
Death is approaching, and Darksiders II is finally coming soon. And to celebrate this event, THQ sent over a number of new screens showing off various aspects of the game. Take a look.
Summer of Arcade continues with the somewhat fun looking, Kinect-enabled Wreckateer, so hopefully you’re up for some Ballista tossing, motion controlled, castle-wrecking action.
Something for pretty much every member of the PlayStation famil this week with a number of PSN games for the PS3 and Vita, some full PS3 titles, and several new PS minis. Take a look.
