Brace yourself: Overlord wasn’t a great game. It was a good game—and it had a good idea—but style choices and control options and myriad technical flaws kept it from being the best evil experience ever.
There’s no dearth of content coming to the Team Fortress 2 Scout update. Expect new weapons, new maps, the game’s first energy drink, and, oh yeah, new maps! That includes one Egyptian-themed “Capture” gameplay addition.
Sales of consoles and portable hardware in Japan saw healthier sales this week, most likely due to strong sales of games like Street Fighter IV and Mario & Luigi RPG3!!!.
Millions of people picked up a video game controller for the first time because of Nintendo’s Wii. Can the Japanese game developer now conquer the pockets of those same freshly minted gamers with its latest portable console?
J. Paul Raines bravely faced a roomful of video game developers at this year’s DICE Summit, letting them know that the used game sales that butter the retailers bread do not hurt new game sales.
EA has released the first video teaser for the multi-platform Mass Effect 2 from BioWare. No need to grab some popcorn, you’ll be in and out of the Mass Effect hype machine shortly.
When we got our first look at God Of War III last week, Sony said it would wait until E3 to announce the game’s release date, which now appears to be sometime in 2009.
NCsoft West takes us on a video tour of the expansive Altgard zone from their upcoming massively multiplayer online game Aion: The Tower of Eternity.
Payback, the top-down, open-world crime sprawler on the iPhone, just got an “experimental” price drop to US$5.
Hip-hop sensibilities and anime style clash in Afro Samurai, a hack and slash brawler based on the cult-hit animated television series.
