Earlier today, the folks at Blizzard has announced that their eagerly awaited cash cow RTS, the Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty will not see the daylight in 2009. Instead, the game’s release date has been moved to “first half of 2010“.
According to the announcement, the main culprit behind the delay was the upgrade process of [...]

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Like we never mentioned it before, Ostrich Hammer FTW!Image credit: Volition, Inc.
Fancy destroying the world with a banhammer? If that’s the case, Red Faction: Guerrilla could be the game for you. The third person shooter game tells a story about one Alec Mason, a guerrilla member of Red Faction who is in battle against the [...]

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Less polygon, more water color: Master Chief in the animated Halo Legends.Image credit: Kotaku
Yesterday, we were treated to the news of Sam Raimi as the director of live-action film adaptation of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. Today, it is Microsoft turn, to unveil yet another Halo-themed work, this time in a form of animation called Halo [...]

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Ohh yess, that’s how you axed an Orc. - Sam Raimi.Image credit: Screenrant.com
Back in 2006, the California-based Legendary Pictures acquired the rights to create a live-action movie adaption of Blizzard’s Warcraft series. Since then, the production plan has shifted its focus to World of Warcraft and has recently signed on Sam Raimi as the director [...]

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While PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have been enjoying Resident Evil 5 for quite some time, Capcom has just announced that the PC edition of the game will be released on September 15 in US and September 18 in Europe.
Capcom said that the PC version will be the ultimate Resident Evil 5 package as it [...]

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Early last month, Nokia latest N-series device, the N97 was released into the market. Nokia’s gaming platform, the N-Gage was said to be supported on this new device but early N97 adopters was soon disappointed to find that the gaming app will only be available much later on through a software update.
The wait ended last [...]

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Our jaws obviously dropped when we saw the Project Natal for the first time during Microsoft E3′09 Media Briefing. Never in our mind though that it is coming to Windows PCs since you know…PC gaming is still pretty much traditional mouse and keyboard kinda thing. Oh well, Bill Gates just proved us wrong.
Speaking to CNET [...]

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The ultimate package, yes?
Just earlier today, Infinity Ward’s community manager - Robert Bowling unveiled to the world the different packages of their upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 through his Twitter. First of course the standard stand alone edition, then comes the “Hardened Edition” - which includes the game, an artbook, tin case and [...]

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If last month, Activision Blizzard’s CEO - Bobby Kotick criticized Sony PlayStation 3 and requested a price drop, this time it’s Sony’s CEO - Sir Howard Stringer turn to return the favor.
Speaking to Reuters at Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, he pretty much scrubbed off demand made by [...]

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Last week, Blizzard invited a number of Starcraft fansites to their HQ for a sneak preview of Starcraft II’s latest multiplayer build. While the overall reports stated that the game are doing great, one tiny bummer for network multiplayer folks out there - the game will have no LAN support, as stated in an interview [...]

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Sup folks. Care for a Guitar Hero jam? - Bobby Kotick of Activision Blizzard.Image credit: Forbes.com
In a recent interview with Times Online, CEO of Activision Blizzard - Bobby Kotick expressed his concerns on Sony PlayStation 3 high cost of game development and low return of investment. A direct quote from the article said:
The PlayStation 3 [...]

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Next time, you might want to think first before physically “pau”-ing / extorting in-game virtual items or currency from your brother. Due to a landmark case in China, chances are that you might be thrown into jail for it. A group of four people at Liaoning province was found guilty for forcing [...]

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Huzzah! Let the Jarate rolls.Image credit: TeamFortress.com
Hey, what do you know, after a massive updates for Spy and Sniper plus the new comical animated introduction to Spy, Valve is bringing you the Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend. Whether it’s actually a reward for Spy for killing Sniper or an honor to the latter, figure that [...]

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Around mid-2008, Universal Pictures signed a deal with Take-Two Interactive, to produce live action adaptation of BioShock, the game studio’s hit sci-fi FPS. But the Hollywood studio has now halted the production, as a result of rising budget concern.
The movie, whichto be directed by Gore Verbinski (of Pirates of The Caribbean fame) and currently in [...]

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You don’t need fingers to play the ‘tar.Image credit: Joystiq
Two Rock Band news in a day? Yeah baby, papa love ‘em plastic guitars. Looks like there will be another Rock Band to be released this year, in the name of LEGO Rock Band. Targeted to lower age and family demographics, it is the third RB [...]

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