May 2008 Archive
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- 100 WiiWare titles inbound, says NoA
- Graphs show Nintendo making money nine years in a row
- Call of Duty 4 Variety Map Pack hits PC next week
- Fracture webdoc shows new in-game footage
- First proper Golden Axe Beast Rider trailer released
- Read Edge's 8/10 MGS4 review online
- Gears of War redux officially announced
- New Resident Evil 5 trailer released - "wow"
- Street Fighter IV gets screenshot overload
- Sony confirms 80Gb Motorstorm PS3 SKU discontinued
- Telegraph story claiming SITE was "red-faced" after Fallout 3 al-Qaeda gaff vanishes following "legal wrangling"
- Rumour: Sony tested "PS3mote" earlier this year
- Gamespy gives Bourne 4/5 in first review
- Ninja Gaiden II demo "next week"
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- Daily Mail out-idiots itself with "al-Queda" Fallout 3 art
- MGS4 reviewers told to not mention install size and cut-scene times, says MTV
- In-game XMB - videos (maybe)
- First Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia trailer released
- Baja has stupid-huge environments
- Get yourself in Fable 2
- GTA IV t**tted out of Euro charts by Age of Conan
- Private beta planned for 360 version of EndWar
- Ninja Gaiden II demo goes live in Japan
- Ubidays 2008: HAWX units can be voice-controlled
- Nintendo Channel launches in Europe and Australia
- Prince of Persia producer: Harrison's wrong about single-player games
- Alone in the Dark delayed on PS3 because "it's not performing as well"
- Develop scores Japanese quartet for Brighton
- Rumour: Firmware 2.40 to release in June
- Too Human co-op dev diary on Live now
- Rumour: Shenmue III for E3 (omglolwtf)
- Kojima: "Pressure makes me better"
- PS3 leading 360 by 10% in the UK this year
- Clone Wars coming to Wii and DS
- Eurogamer gives MGS4 8/10, IGN 9.9/10
- PS3 Firmware 2.40 - In-game XMB, user-music and Trophies will not work with all PS3 titles
- New characters and online play for console Street Fighter IV
- Wii Fit charts over GTA IV in Australia
- Ubidays 2008: Prince of Persia spin-off rumoured for Wii
- Second Dead Space animated comic released
- PSP still leading in Japan
- Ubidays 2008: Beyond Good & Evil 2 to be more "casual"
- EndWar PS3 to have gestures
- US PSN update, May 29
- Official PlayStation mag to publish LBP review next month?
- Steam makes it "very hard for people to pirate", says Valve
- Valve announces and details Steam Cloud
- Rockstar adds multiplayer stat tracking to Social Club
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- Rumour: PS3 Firmware 2.4 to include in-game XMB and Trophy support
- Ubidays 2008: Far Cry 2 console reveal trailer says, "buy me please"
- Gamecock partners with cdv for European distribution
- New Splatterhouse shots look jumpy, messy
- Microsoft US claims Ninja Gaiden II review code wasn't final
- Hirai: "I didn't know Phil was going to Atari"
- Nordic Game attendance up 38% in 2008
- Far Cry 2 to have 16-way online, rewards, levels, etc
- EA releases 15-minute video of Red Alert 3 gameplay
- Brother in Arms: Hell's Highway has 20% more "fidelity" than Gears of War
- Harrison has "always recognised 360's capabilities"
- Wii Fit reviewed
- Euro PSN update, May 29
- Ubidays 2008: Publisher "not ready to be more specific" on Splinter Cell
- 360 gets 47% hardware boost in run-up to GTA IV and beyond
- Ubidays 2008: No co-op in new Prince of Persia, says producer
- Saints Row 2 pushed back to work on co-op, says analyst
- Harrison won't commit to Alone in the Dark PS3 Home and Trophy support
- Sega releases Space Siege gameplay trailer
- PS3 Bioshock scans from EGM posted
- GTA IV sales hit 1.3 million in the UK
- More Lego Indiana Jones shots, release next week
- Samba gets September 19 Euro date
- Nintendo Channel launches in Europe and Australia tomorrow
- Sonic mobile game downloaded 8 million times
- Ubidays 2008: Far Cry 2 is 50 hours long, has no co-op
- Tomorrow's SingStore update contains Bucks Fizz
- Ubidays 2008: Ubi promises pre-release EndWar demo
- Bioshock PS3 for October release
- Saints Row 2 slips to October
- GameTap to lay off editorial staff
- Spore creature phase movie released
- Sega takes Japanese lead with DS baseball game
- Ubidays 2008: Everything you missed from last night's press conference
- Microsoft won't dump Silicon Knights if Too Human flops, says expert
- EA screws up Army of Two DLC roll-out
- Mass Effect PC DLC not ready for launch
- UK employees should play online at work, says PopCap
- EVE's Empyrean Age to launch on June 10
- Gears of War 2 to include photo mode
- Ubidays 2008: Videos of every game
- Ubidays 2008: All the screenshots in one place
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- New Gears of War 2 characters revealed in Japanese mag scans
- Blizzard Invitational to feature Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain
- Europe world's second largest consumer of videogames
- Ubidays 2008: Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking announced for DS
- Ubidays 2008: Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party for Wii and DS
- Ubidays 2008: Beyond Good & Evil 2 trailer posted
- Ubidays 2008: Barrage of Ubisoft impressions and interviews hit web
- Ubidays 2008: Avatar for "middle of next year"
- Ubidays 2008: Beyond Good & Evil 2 shown in trailer form
- Ubidays 2008: Shaun White Snowboarding for Wii, uses Balance Board
- Ubidays 2008: Endwar will have "the most epic battles ever seen in videogames"
- Ubidays 2008: Endwar players can be supported by units from other Clancy games
- Ubidays 2008: Over 50 million Clancy games sold worldwide
- Ubidays 2008: Elika replaces sands of time as gameplay innovation in new Prince of Persia
- Ubidays 2008: Hang glider confirmed for Far Cry 2
- Ubidays 2008: "Blasting demons with plasma rifles is over," says Far Cry 2 boss
- First PS3 Bioshock shots released
- Ubidays 2008: Press conference now live from Paris
- Ubidays 2008: First Shaun White Snowboarding video released
- Blitz-sponsored, Rare-organised Women in Games conference dated
- TGS official poster and slogan spotted
- First Bioshock PS3 details emerge
- Microsoft dates E3 conference
- Nintendo UK confirms and dates Wii Wario Land Shake and six others for Japan
- Rare on Banjo: "We're not competing with LittleBigPlanet"
- More Army of Two DLC "over the coming months"
- New Army of Two video shows free DLC
- New SFIV shots released
- GTA IV still top of Live play
- "Rock Band saved my marriage"
- Wii Wario Land Shake for Wii in Japan?
- Street Fighter IV confirmed for PC, PS3 and 360
- Capcom issues new direct feed Resident Evil 5 screens
- Sega launches Infinite Line site
- Bionic Commando: Rearmed delayed
- Eye of Judgement tournaments announced for Europe
- Guitar Hero: On Tour video explains how to lose all self-respect
- Ubisoft confirms Shaun White Snowboarding for PC, PS3 and 360
- Hands-on with Darth Vader in Soul Calibur IV
- Pandemic's LotR Conquest detailed in interview
- GameStop details Gears of War re-issue
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- European MGS4 limited edition revealed
- New official Far Cry 2 trailer
- Sega buys Unreal Engine license for unnamed game
- 37% of 16-49 year-olds in UK are "active gamers"
- Telltale: No 360 Sam & Max in production
- Wii Fit out of stock in every major UK online retailer
- PS3 Fallout 3 has no mandatory install
- GTA IV still top in UK, Age of Conan debuts in second
- Exclusive: Ubidays 2008 will be first publisher event broadcast inside Home
- New Home movie shows media and events spaces
- New Home shots show lounge and "media stage"
- No Afrika for Europe, world ends
- New Pure shots posted
- Army of Two Veteran Map Pack this week
- New Far Cry 2 footage shows... shooting
- New Afrika shots show... animals
- Win a trip to New York with Alone in the Dark
- Lanning confirms Oddworld title
- Sierra forks out "a lot" of money on European Ghostbusters ambulance - pictures
- New Mass Effect PC movie released
- Afrika "coming soon," says SCEJ
- First MGS4 reviews point to major hit
- Photos of Korean women promoting Ninja Gaiden II
- Interview: Phil Harrison on Alone in the Dark and life after Sony
- New GTA IV wallpapers help you stay alpha
- Yoda impressions and movie from Soul Calibur IV
- First look at Sega Rally 3
- Sega shows off new Rambo game, new screens
- GTA sales prop up UK economy
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- NY Times: Miyamoto "Walt Disney of digital generation"
- Gamespot faces off PS3 and 360 graphics
- New Prince of Persia images released, video interview
- New StarCraft II screens released
- Funcom says 400,000 players have entered Age of Conan
- New Mafia 2 screens posted
- The first ten minutes of Ninja Gaiden II at 720p
- IGN gets pre-Ubidays hands-on with Prince of Persia
- Giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man appears at MCM Expo in London - picture
- Greenberg: "Sony has a history of over-promising and under-delivering"
- Greenberg: Live Marketplace is Wal-Mart, PSN is Quickie Mart
- PSN hits 1 million accounts in Japan
- First Ninja Gaiden II reviews published, gets 9-ish
- XBLA file limit increase to 350Mb will bring "better, more immersive experiences," says Greenberg
- Live downloads hit 1 million per day, says Greenberg
- Live Far Cry 2 performance confirmed for Ubidays
- US and UK Bank Holidays: we're still updating
- This week's XBLA game announced tomorrow
- Postal 2: Share the Pain released for free
- Man plays Mario for 11 minutes, we hold breath
- Resident Evil is Capcom's biggest selling franchise
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- Man too heavy to play Wii Fit
- "No news on Afrika," says SCEE, as Japanese release date is rumoured
- Gay gamer sites respond the Xbox Live bannings
- New Gears of War 2 scans hit web
- Games Up campaign launched to lobby for UK tax breaks
- Third part of Metal Gear Retrospective posted
- Tekken 6 character list gets bumped up for PS3 version
- Niko voice actor talks GTA development
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- Eidos sells "Everything Pack" on Steam
- First Dark Void gameplay footage released
- Cummer banned from Xbox Live
- Nintendo has highest Metacritic average, says chart
- Sega launches MadWorld site
- MS Points available over the phone in Japan
- Itagaki slags off Devil May Cry
- "Gears of War with Maps" listed by GameStop
- Games threaten "Hollywood hegemony," says Houser
- Encryption chip will end games piracy, says Bushnell
- Miyamoto Wii "music game" this year, says Time
- Street Fighter IV for PC, 360 and PS3 before year-end (very maybe)
- Casual gaming worth $13.5bn by 2010
- New Sam & Max season for 2009
- Fragdoll interviews Far Cry 2 producer
- Mass of Gears of War 2 multiplayer details revealed through Brit mag
- July EGM issue to feature first GoW2 multiplayer footage
- GameStop prices Guitar Hero World Tour at $190
- Soul Calibur IV gameplay movie released
- id leaves ESA
- Rumour: HMV to announce Rock Band discounts today
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- Empire: Total War dev diary shows duelling
- GamePro scotches 90-minute MGS4 cut-scene talk
- Left 4 Dead in November
- GRID gets Oxford Street launch event
- Nintendo confirms E3 conference timing
- Nintendo backs out of Games Convention 2008
- Kojima signing MGS4 London on June 2
- Alone in the Dark is 15 hours long
- Live from Alone in the Dark Harrison event in London
- Alone in the Dark London event kicks off at 1.30pm BST
- Harrison: Atari's done with one-player gaming
- BBFC: Our testers are better gamers than PEGI's
- American teen beats Guitar Hero world record score
- Eurogamer gives GRID 9/10
- MGS4 has 90-minute cut-scenes, says mag
- Wii sales weak in South Korea
- US Alone in the Dark showing brings Phil Harrison, previews, videos, music, end of days
- New Spore movies released
- Resident Evil 5 features online co-op, says site
- Maxis co-founder working on new Oddworld game
- PSP still flying in Japan
- Blizzard rumourifies StarCraft II system specs
- Force Unleashed to be shown at Gen Con
- Brash co-founder quits firm
- First pic of Kristin Kreuk As Chun-Li?
- PSP is "gateway drug" to consoles, says SCEA
- US PSN update, May 22
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- GameStop shows 151% profit increase in Q1
- Old and weak XBLA titles to be delisted
- Major new PoP4 character revealed – exclusive video
- "You will never achieve in a video game", says Olympic president
- Ubisoft FY 2008 profits hit €109.8 million, five new IPs for next year
- Ubidays to be broadcast live on Uplay.com next week
- Starcraft II system specs revealed (maybe)
- First Hei$t trailer released
- IGN review "rude", says Haze community dev
- UK mag cover confirms BioShock for PS3
- Splash Damage confirms work on Bethesda game
- Archlord hits 500,000 western players
- Darksiders: Wrath of War surfaces in developer diary
- Bleszinski confirms squad-ordering dropped from Gears of War 2
- Euro PSN update, May 22
- Samba de Amigo trailer features actual chimp
- New Infinite Undiscovery shots released
- Patch problems hit Haze co-op?
- SingStar Vol. 2 for June 19 in Australia, no date for Europe
- Japanese charts: Monster Hunter breaks 2 million
- Bleszinski: "If I had a nickel for every time I was called a fag on the internet, I could retire"
- Infinite Undiscovery set for September 2, new trailer released
- New Fable 2 screenshots released
- Guitar Hero PS3 gets God of War track
- SKATE 2 details revealed
- New Tears to Tiara video
- Kim: Final Fantasy on 360 might not be enough to win Japan
- BBFC launches voluntary online ratings
- CNET calls this generation, makes hilarious graph
- New Lego Batman trailer released
- Microsoft explains Gaywood GamerTag ban
- Castlevania movie gets deal
- First direct feed Prince of Persia shots are 100% incredible
- MGS4 gunmetal bundle appears on eBay for $10,000
- New Metal Gear screens released
- GTA IV most played game on Live again
- Riccitiello spends $1 million on EA shares
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- Cliffy B kills Cliffy B, philosophical wormhole created
- New Lego Batman shots show Mr Freeze
- Diablo 3: Nothing to announce at this time, says Blizzard
- LostWinds reviewed
- Capcom's profits up 33% for FY
- Dragon Quest IV, V and VI for Euro DS
- PS3 Friends invites on the way?
- Wii's first 18 months have seen record software and hardware sales in the US
- Eternity's Child heads to Steam
- Ninja Gaiden Sigma "no good", says Itagaki
- Guitar Hero World Tour announced, tons of details
- Videogamer.com launches online games show
- Bellic voice actor stiffed on GTA IV royalties
- Wii Fat girl appears on BBC, "mortified" mother calls for warning
- EA announces blue PSP Madden 09 bundle for US
- More than 1 million download GRID Live demo
- Buzz! Quiz TV out on July 4
- New Killzone 2 shots sneak out
- GAME unable to fulfil all Rock Band pre-orders
- I'd keep Battlefield Heroes running at no profit, says DICE producer
- Eurogamer launches Portuguese site, claims 2.1 million users
- Three new DS colours confirmed for Europe
- Bangai-O Spirits gets European release
- XNA Live closed beta opens
- Videogamer.com announces week-long Haze takeover
- Soul Calibur IV out on August 1 in Europe
- Katamari Wii canned, says Wal-Mart
- Xbox Live gay banning spreads to absurdity
- First Penny Arcade episode up on XBLA
- First Tekken movie images released
- Killzone 2 development needed more time, says Reeves, conflicts with Eagle's take
- Capcom to developers: "Whore yourself and you'll get buried"
- Kim calls time on generation "winner" talk
- Jake Gyllenhaal confirmed for Prince of Persia movie
- Ton of new SOCOM shots released
- Igarashi talks Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
- Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword dated for Europe
- More Silent Hill: Homecoming shots
- Pachter: Console price cuts this year, growth to slow after 2008
- Epic acquires Chair Entertainment
- Play.com offers gunmetal MGS4 PS3 in the UK
- Middling Haze reviews flood in
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- Guitar Hero 4: first shots
- SCEA management decision delayed Killzone 2
- New Spore movie released
- The first nine minutes of Haze - video
- Microsoft winds down Xbox 360 business in India, says report
- Microsoft extending XBLA file limit to 350Mb
- Schachter: EA likely to win Take-Two battle
- New Gothic 4 screens bring the lovely
- Ubisoft UK lifts embargo on online Haze reviews
- New Spore cell phase shots
- Battle of the Band reviews embargoed, down to ?15 pre-release
- Shots of Rambo arcade game surface
- Liv Tyler plays Brain Age 2 for DS ad
- Braben thrilled at response to WiiWare's LostWinds
- New Force Unleashed shots released
- Greenpeace maintains pressure on console manufacturers over toxic chemicals
- Yescombe reponds to IGN Haze review: "MEGAowch"
- Rock Band goes on sale in Europe (maybe)
- SCEE shows new Resistance 2 screens
- Bourne and Ghostbusters for MCM London Expo
- XNA will help Live "leapfrog" PSN and WiiWare, says Microsoft
- Online Haze reviews embargoed till May 23 in UK
- Ubisoft refuses to comment on Splinter Cell Conviction "back to drawing board" rumours
- Battlefield Heroes beta sign-up open now
- Penny Arcade Ep 1 for XBLM this Wednesday
- Ubisoft on Splinter Cell Conviction delay: If it's not from an official source, it's a "punt"
- IGN gives Haze 4.5/10
- Square Enix boss talks expansion strategy again
- WiiWare launches in Europe and Australia
- Splinter Cell Conviction "on hold"
- Nintendo whinges about EU price-fixing fine
- Sega now owns IP for Platinum games
- New Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe art released
- E3 floorplan published - it's a cracker
- Wii Fit launches in America - pictures
- Gunmetal PS3 pre-order goes hilariously wrong
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- GT5 to feature Porsche, "probably"
- MGS4 isn't last Metal Gear, says Payton
- Men use Haze to try to get multiplayer date with Fragdoll
- ESA paid $5 million to move E3 from LACC, says site
- AMD Game! Program explained
- Governor of Texas to keynote E3
- Five new Dead Space screenshots
- SKATE 2 teaser trailer released
- Jury sent home in ?700,000 PS3 theft trial
- Siren: Blood Curse to get full Blu-ray release in Japan
- New Haze gameplay footage
- GTA still top of UK chart
- FF Tactics A2 for June 27 in Europe
- Buy Ninja Gaiden II at HMV, get 1,000 MS Points
- Final E3 exhibitor list announced
- Golden Joysticks 2008 voting open now
- EA comms boss slams Activision over ESA exit
- Ditching Unreal Engine has been "fantastic", says Dyack
- Bourne demo Live on EU Marketplace
- EA extends Take-Two offer to June 16, Zelnick responds
- New Crash Bandicoot: Mind over Mutant shots released
- Age of Conan sells out of 700,000 copies, collector's edition completely gone
- First Sonic Unleashed impressions published
- Rare shows "Fat Banjo" concept art
- Console versions of GRID still on track as DS SKU is delayed
- Australian PS3 outsold 360 by 45% in Q1, says Sony
- Nintendo most likely to crack console MMO space, says WAR dev
- Nelson on "leaked" Live update: "This is not the list you're looking for"
- EA likely to extend Take-Two offer deadline
- Leaving Microsoft "broke my heart," says Moore
- Bourne t-shirt competition result
- Ted Nugent confirms future Guitar hero involvement
- Haze not in HD, confirms Littlewood
- Metal Gear Retrospective on Gametrailers
- First Conduit footage shows teh real next-gen Wii shooting
- Seven new Too Human trailers to watch
- Mass Effect PC story trailer released
- Iranian site posts Mafia II screens
- New(ish) Prince of Persia scans
- First Haze reviews are mixed bag
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- New Lego Indiana Jones shots posted
- Halo Wars: new screens
- Amazing Red Alert 3 trailer released
- Prince of Persia isn't Heir Apparent, says Ubisoft
- New Dead Space hands-ons, trailer
- First Burnout Paradise Davis island screens
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- Haze has mandatory 4Gb install
- LucasArts quits ESA
- New Sonic Unleashed screens arrive
- Frank O'Connor quits Bungie for Microsoft
- Ken Levine to keynote PAX 08
- Sony's US PlayStation Day: one link to rule them all
- First Ghostbusters gameplay footage released
- E3 awards eligibility called into question after big pubs quit
- Video shows YouTube PS3 functionality
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- Weekly sales watch: Wii dominates US retailer sales charts
- YouTube integration for PS3 games
- GTA compilation album announced
- PC Mass Effect in manufacturing stage
- Alpha Protocol and Valkyria Chronicles get vague release dates
- Fatal1ty rues lack of decent FPSs
- New VF5R fighters revealed
- New Golden Axe shots posted
- Xleague.tv turns one
- SCEA announces line-up for rest of 2008 and early 2009
- April NPD: DualShock 3 sales hit $10.9 million
- European SingStore updated - get O Mundo A Meus Pés right now
- Win a Bourne Conspiracy t-shirt, impress "ladies"
- Pachter named top "Earnings Estimator in the Software industry"
- April NPD: Pachter "surprised" by low PS3 and 360 sales
- WAR to ship in Oz, NZ and Far East in line with US and Europe
- Obesity expert batters Wii Fit after child is labelled overweight
- April NPD: Greenberg says May will be better hardware indicator, GTA has new home
- GTA IV ships in India... for 360
- New Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise shot posted
- New Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts shot released
- Five new in-game Silent Hill 5 movies posted
- Konami's US 2008 showcase event: all the games, all the shots
- New Prince of Persia named Heir Apparent
- Gunmetal MGS4 PS3 on sale on May 19 in US
- Phil Harrison's replacement named at Sony
- First MadWorld trailer is very violent
- Konami announces three new DDR games
- Pachter: THQ will rebound after "miserable" FY 2008
- US PSN content update for May 15
- Konami income up 20% for FY08
- GTA IV still top of Live play
- April NPD: Sony aims at exploding PS3 and software sales
- April NPD: Microsoft focuses on 10 million US barrier, GTA IV and total spend
- April NPD: Nintendo stays stoical on giant sales
- April NPD: US market hits $1.23 billion, up 47%
- April NPD: Wii dominates hardware sales, 360 beats PS3
- April NPD: GTA IV 360 destroys PS3 SKU, both over 1 million
- Mario Kart up top in Japan
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- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesias shots and details released
- Konami announces Rock Revolution - screens and video
- Konami confirms Lost in Blue for Wii - shots
- First Soul Calibur XBLA shots released
- Rock Band 2 details surface in US surveys
- Empyerian Age trailer released for EVE Online
- First Bayonetta trailer released
- NCsoft Q1 profit up 16% YoY
- New RE5 trailer airs on May 30
- London Games Festival dated for October
- First direct-feed Bayonetta, Infinite Line and MadWorld images
- Sega press releases Platinum partnership
- 11 new Silent Hill V screens
- CBS buys Gamespot and GameFAQS
- Kid Icarus pops up on Australian retailer list
- Prince of Persia gets loose date
- Pokemon Platinum announced - first shots
- Euro PSN update, May 15
- Overlord PS3 demo releases today
- GC2008 sees "considerably more" exhibitor registration than last year
- European Crisis Core for June 20
- Beyond Good & Evil 2 in pre-production, says Ancel
- Sebastian: PS3 price cut now less likely this year
- New Banjo will shake up "stale" platform adventuring genre, says Rare
- New ArmA 2 screens released
- Microsoft explains gay gamer name ban
- Valve publishes Steam survey system data
- More PS3 "Trophies" talk emerges
- Microsoft wobbles over global figures announcement
- Kim "very happy" Microsoft never launched a handheld
- Nintendo ordered to pay Anascape $21 million
- Fracture documentary to ship with 12-rated Force Unleashed in UK
- PS3 firmware 2.35 released
- Vivendi Q1 revenue down 24%
- Real money trading for The Agency
- New Tom Clancy HAWX images released
- MySims Kingdom announced
- New 1942: Joint Strike trailer looks awesome
- First Strong Bad episode plot revealed
- Don King Presents: Prizefighter movie posted
- User-created Echochrome levels live today
- Polar bear mounts in Wrath of the Lich King?
- Too Human demo for Live "soon"
- Tell Capcom which SFIV figurines to make
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- Two new Xbox Originals Monday: Stubbs and Gauntlet
- Microsoft claims 10 million US 360 sales, 12 million Live subs
- Dyack may step down Silicon Knights boss
- Funcom gets the hump about cancelled pre-orders - beta now closed
- NCsoft announces MMO "starter packs"
- Gay gamer has GamerTag banned from Live
- MS Gamer's Day: Cliffy B brain dumps Gears 2 info in video
- MS Gamer's Day: Banjo hands-on
- MS Gamer's Day: Gears 2 will be biggest game this Christmas, says Kim
- Hi-res scans of Resi Evil 5 art, Capcom UK confirms "very near future" movie statement
- Requiem: Bloodymare open beta sign-up starts today
- Kojima announces MGS4 world promo tour
- New Resident Evil 5 trailer soon, says Famitsu
- Professor Layton developer announces odd football thing for DS
- Tales of Vesperia for PS3 (probably)
- GRID multiplayer shots and impressions
- MS Gamer's Day: All the Too Human media
- Sebastian: Expect Take-Two buyout news on Monday
- Guitar Hero IV drum kit - photo
- Nordic Game: Children badly served by games, says TT head
- Nordic Game: Lego Star Wars has sold 18 million units, says TT boss
- No Lego Indiana Jones demo for consoles
- New Resi 5 shots and art from Famitsu
- MS Gamer's Day: No unicorns came out of my ass for Gears 2, says Bleszinski
- Man compares NYC photos with GTA IV
- Sony financials: 10 million PS3 sales expected next year
- Sony financials: Lifetime PS3 sales near 13 million
- Sony financials: PS3 software sales boom, PSP static, PS2 drops
- Sony financials: PSP sales accelerate in FY 07
- Sony financials: 9.24 million PS3s sold in FY 07, PS2 business slows
- Sony financials: PlayStation division makes FY 07 loss
- MS Gamer's Day: Data will speak for itself in console race, says Kim
- Battered Sega Sammy posts FY 07 $501 million loss
- New Wrath of the Lich King shots released
- New Tomb Raider Underworld art surfaces
- Smash Bros. Brawl dated for Australia
- EA financials: Majority of revenue came from PlayStation platforms in Q4
- MS Gamer's Day: Cliffy B refuses to confirm Gears 2 four-way co-op
- MS Gamer's Day: No more Ninja Gaiden, says Itagaki
- MS Gamer's Day: Halo Wars for Leipzig in "controlled fashion", not ready for SF (update)
- MS Gamer's Day: CVG gets Kim interview
- MS Gamer's Day: "I've never heard of motion controller," says Kim
- BattleForge: First shots and video interview
- First Battleforge trailer released
- New WAR screens posted
- Four new Left 4 Dead videos posted
- EA financials: Rock Band sold 1.5 million in Q4
- EA financials: "Ship time will give before quality," says Riccitiello
- EA financials: Publisher drops quarterly guidance
- EA financials: Casual and micro-transactions is "growth sector" for PC, says Riccitiello
- EA financials: Madden 09 will have a "holographic interface", says Riccitiello
- EA financials: 15 double platinum titles for 2008
- EA financials: Full year shows revenue increase but $454 million loss
- MS Gamer's Day: Fable 2 previews
- MS Gamer's Day: Cliffy B's Gears of War 2 demo reports
- MS Gamer's Day: Too Human impressions
- EA financials: Full earnings call transcript online now
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- MS Gamer's Day: Banjo Nuts & Bolts story revealed
- MS Gamers Day: Banjo cast list revealed on top secret site
- MS Gamer's Day: Three brand new Banjo shots
- MS Gamer's Day: New Banjo trailer appears
- MS Gamers Day: Banjo - "We've got the full complement of Star Wars vehicles, all working"
- MS Gamer's Day: Actions have consequences in Fable 2
- MS Gamer's Day: Fable 2 script penned by Hollywood writers
- MS Gamer's Day: Too Human co-op scaled back to two-player, new screens
- MS Gamer's Day: New Halo Wars shots released
- MS Gamer's Day: More Fable 2 shots and art
- MS Gamer's Day: Inside Xbox Rare video interview
- MS Gamer's Day: One new Banjo shot
- MS Gamer's Day: Ninja Gaiden II launch trailer released
- MS Gamer's Day: Gears 2 is biggest 360 game of 2008, says Kim
- MS Gamer's Day: New Fable 2 movie released
- MS Gamer's Day: First Too Human co-op trailer released
- MS Gamer's Day: Ton of new Fable 2 shots
- MS Gamer's Day: Video overview, first Viva 2 footage
- MS Gamer's Day: New Banjo art released
- MS Gamer's Day: Complete Banjo in "20-30 hours," says Rare
- MS Gamer's Day: Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise video interview
- MS Gamer's Day: New Penny Arcade screens released, ep one on May 21
- MS Gamer's Day: Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts video interview
- MS Gamer's Day: Fable 2 moved to "holiday"
- MS Gamer's Day: Too Human for August 29 release
- MS Gamer's Day: New Gears of War 2 images released
- MS Gamer's Day: Microsoft announces MGS line-up for SF event
- MS Gamer's Day: First Banjo trailer released!
- MS Gamer's Day: No Wake at SF event or in '08
- MS Gamer's Day: First Banjo construction interface images hit web
- GTA IV: PS3 beats 360 in Germany and Spain
- Lego Indiana Jones PC demo released
- Blizzard to keynote Paris GDC
- Wii passes 6 million mark in Japan
- MS Gamer's Day: Banjo Kazooie 3 - first level in one of six gaming worlds described
- More new SOCOM Confrontation shots
- MS Gamer's Day: Banjo Kazooie 3 multiplayer details revealed
- European WiiWare line-up confirmed
- MS Gamer's Day: Cluck Norriss one of over 100 creatures in Viva Pinata 2
- MS Gamer's Day: Viva Pinata 2 contains option to skip all tutorials
- Five new MGS4 trailers emerge from Japan wrap party
- MS Gamer's Day: Viva Pinata 2 offline co-op confirmed
- Age of Conan beta hits 1 million, game slips three days in Europe
- EA Games shouts about big summer line-up
- GameStop: GTA IV 360 outselling PS3 version 2:1
- MGS4 branding announced - motorbike, alarm clock, more
- LostWinds sequel confirmed
- First LostWinds review posted
- MS Gamer's Day: Viva Pinata 2 details leaked, uses camera and cards
- Guitar Hero IV to include song creation, multiple instruments
- Bay gets legal on Boll's ass over boxing taunts
- Gametrailers: GRID video blunder was a "mistake"
- Guide to how much space WiiWare games use
- MS Gamer's Day: New Banjo is called Nuts & Bolts
- MS Gamer's Day: Too Human screens leaked
- Killer Instinct 3 image from Rare barn?
- MS Gamer's Day: Three new Fable games planned
- MS Gamer's Day: Fable 2 screens emerge, new details
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- New firmware to fix GTA IV PS3 freezing?
- Watch ridiculous Rock Band drumming video
- Age of Conan feat calculator launched
- Bogart live for Burnout Paradise 360
- Tons of new LostWinds shots
- GRID PC demo released
- Tabletop heritage will affect 40K MMO, says Vigil
- GTA IV stays on top in the UK
- Eurogamer launching in Portugal next week
- MGO Beta finished
- GamesIndustry.biz launches Network
- Activision announces new Pitfall game for Wii
- Actual, proper, real hands-on with Alone in the Dark
- Blizzcon 2008 announced
- WiiWare now live in the US
- Riccitiello is "real deal," says Houser
- Ninja Gaiden II monster art attack
- Qantm open day for May 25
- EA buying Rupture, says report
- EA announces SKATE 2
- Pachter: PS3 outsold 360 in April in the US
- LostWinds out today in the US
- First MGS4 review published - it's a 10
- Sega signs Platinum trio
- Rare on Banjo: "Crown jewel gameplay mechanic" to be shown in US tomorrow
- Pachter: GTA IV sold more on 360 than PS3 in the US last month
- Pachter: 360 outsold PS3 in the US last month
- Sony Australia claims GTA IV victory
- UK MGS4 limited edition and pre-order campaign detailed
- Sony confirms November for Home open beta
- Kojima - Earlier PS3 comments misunderstood
- Nintendo Channel movies listed
- Microsoft claims 40% GTA IV attach rate for new consoles
- MS Gamer's Day - First Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise shots leaked
- MS Gamer's Day: New titles unearthed ahead of SF event
- MS Gamer's Day - Banjo image leak turns to flood
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- Rare - Viva Pinata DS done
- Skies of Arcadia 2 announced this year?
- Awesome Mirror's Edge art released
- First Banjo shots leaked
- Spore ditches 10-day authetication system
- WiiWare launches in the US tomorrow, first titles confirmed
- New Facebreaker movies show "fighting" as opposed to "boxing"
- Zune reaches 2 million sales
- First Gothic 4 shots released
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- Weekly sales watch: GTA IV 360 outsells PS3 at major US and Euro retailers
- Gametrailers gets fried over "fake" GRID comparison
- First PC Burnout Paradise movie released
- Gamecock boss takes full p**s out of ESA and E3
- More San Andreas references pop up in GTA IV
- PSP still doing it for the Japanese kids
- GTA IV leading across Europe
- BioWare backs down on heavy Mass Effect PC anti-piracy regs
- Moore: "I absolutely love the PlayStation."
- EA shores up $1 billion in credit for T2 takeover
- EA to Skate It on Wii
- First Gears of War 2 gameplay footage released - definitely more badass
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- Tons of new SOCOM: Confrontation shots
- New Max Payne movie shots released
- Gears of War 2 footage on Xbox Live tomorrow
- PAL PSN Bourne demo May 22
- Pre-order Bourne at GAME, get a free 360 demo disc
- New Timeshift 360 DLC - free today
- Playr TV show announced for Bravo
- First Burnout Paradise PC screens released
- Activision shares leap on results news
- Gigantic amount of Wrath of the Lich King footage released
- New Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway shots released
- Pre-order Ninja Gaiden II, get a Ryu costume
- Reeves admits PSP's lacking games
- Greenberg savages Sony over delays and promises
- Battlefield: Bad Company demo for June 5
- Burnout Paradise confirmed for PC
- Five years of content factored into Warhammer Online
- Gamesindustry.biz Network to debut at Nordic Game
- Confirmed: Banjo assets due May 13, 5pm BST
- "Finishers" will appear in new Mortal Kombat
- Gran Turismo shipments hit 50 million globally
- Rumour: Niko's off to San Andreas
- Kid Icarus concept art revealed (maybe)
- Codemasters grabs F1 license, new game next year
- Daily Mail gives GTA IV top marks
- Activision financials: No more Bizarre racing until fiscal 2010
- Atari delisted from Nasdaq, trading suspended
- Skype PSP headset launches in the US
- Microsoft to show Banjo and 360 motion controller next week
- Gore Verbinski to direct Bioshock movie
- Mario Kart up top in Japan
- Activision financials: Conference call audio online now
- Activision financials: We're now the biggest in the US, says firm
- Activision financials: Guitar Hero IV to "provide significant leap forward in innovation"
- Activision financials: DS bundle for Guitar Hero: On Tour
- Activision financials: Hawk takes break till fiscal 2010
- Activision financials: New Bond game uses CoD4 engine
- Activision financials: "New theater" for six-format CoD5
- Activision financials: Revenues hit $2.9 billion for FY 08
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- Surfer Girl quits - we am cry
- US PSN update contains Bourne demo
- Haze demo - impressions
- LBP open beta isn't happening
- How to look like Niko Bellic
- Mirror's Edge PS3-exclusive? Nope, says EA
- Rockstar releases full online guide for GTA IV
- Gamecock goes digital download
- US online game subs exceed $1 billion PA
- No more PGR4 DLC, says Bizarre
- Kid Icarus is coming to Wii says Matt IGN (again)
- New Ghostbusters PS3 screens released
- PAL PSN update - No Bourne included
- Home was too ambitious, says Reeves
- Lord of the Rings: Conquest press release and first shots
- Euro PSN update brings the PS Day massive
- Lord of the Rings: Conquest: good and evil campaigns, four-player co-op, play as Sauron, much more
- PES 2008 price cut on 360 and PS2
- Fallout 3 dev talks story-telling in open games
- Top clans to fight Konami at MGO
- Leadbetter GTA IV comparison feature goes live
- Sierra announces The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
- Dutch games industry nears €1 billion
- Ninja Gaiden II: six new direct feed movies
- Pandemic reveals Lord of the Rings: Conquest
- GRID demo now on Live
- New Lost Winds footage released
- Massive Ninja Gaiden 2 screen update
- Gates: Japanese 360 breakthrough will be online
- Global shortage delays GTA IV in India
- Activision launches Bond game site
- More Ninja Gaiden II footage shows werewolves
- Ex-Nintendo chairman is Japan's richest man
- EA making Wii fitness game
- EA's Moore on Home: "Let's go already"
- More than 2.3 million played GTA IV on Live in week one
- First Gears of War 2 gameplay footage tomorrow
- GameStop ceases Wii Fit pre-orders in the US
- First next-gen Prince of Persia video is a bit... rubbish
- Hirai: We will be in leadership position at the end of cycle
- Analyst reveals giant mark-up on 360 hard drive
- Another off-screen Killzone 2 video
- "Big-ish" Fable 2 news next week
- 360 Jasper chip to launch in August?
- Killzone 2 shaky cam vids posted
- 1 million packs of gum offered to sop Boll
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- Chun-Li was main reason to write SF movie script, says author
- My SingStar Online to hit net this year
- EA E3 press conference timing confirmed
- PS3 GTA IV patch released
- Mike Tyson to appear in Fight Night Round 4
- Inon Zur doing Fallout 3 soundtrack
- DOOM 4 confirmed
- We hope LBP sales are higher than GT5: Prologue, says SCEE boss
- BBFC gives Alone in the Dark '15', details plot
- Haze demo live in the UK, US tomorrow
- Nintendo Channel launches in the US
- Up to 100,000 MGS4 bundles for Japan
- New Far Cry 2 dev trailer looks shockingly good
- "You probably will see" PS3 GTA IV DLC, says SCEE boss
- New StarCraft II interview movie
- Consumers prefer GTA IV on 360, says Microsoft
- PAL MGS4 limited edition box set confirmed
- GTA IV achieves sales of $500 million in first week
- GTA IV PS3 patch today, says site
- Proto-shock as GTA IV goes top in UK chart
- No other PS3 hard drive configurations planned for Europe, says SCEE president
- European DualShock 3 launch is "imminent", says SCEE president
- Passing Xbox 360 is important because we've been mistreated, says SCEE president
- Difference between PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii is "so little", says SCEE president
- Mass Effect PC will have bullet-proof anti-piracy measures
- Zelnick claims GTA IV is glitch-free
- Ubi announces Prot?thea for WiiWare
- EA: Take-Two deal now "50/50 at best"
- SCEE PlayStation Day: Last sets of screens from the asset disc
- SCEE PlayStation Day: Home hands-on
- EA Sports Freestyle announced, Facebreaker releasing in September
- SCEE PlayStation Day: Hands-on with Killzone 2
- New Too Human shots released
- Episodic Siren Blood Curse for summer release in Europe
- GTA IV: 926,000 copies sold in first five days
- THQ confirms new UFC brand for next year
- THQ announces new WWE brand for coming year
- THQ financials: full conference call transcript
- THQ posts $35.3 million loss for '08
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- SCEE PlayStation Day: Media wrap-up
- SCEE PlayStation Day: Kaz Hirai interview
- Hirai: "GTA has always been associated with the PlayStation platform first and foremost"
- SCEE PlayStation Day press conference - full audio
- SCEE PlayStation Day: Everything else from the press conference, audio uploading now
- SCEE PlayStation Day: Live blogging now!
- SCEE PlayStation Day: Line-up revealed
- GTA IV knocks CoD4 off Live top spot
- SCEE PlayStation Day: It's so on, seats taken at 3.30pm BST
- Fumito Ueda confirmed for Nordic Game
- User-content planned for Echochrome
- Xbox 360 HD DVD drives selling for €9.99 in Ireland
- Siren New Translation renamed Blood Curse
- Wired gives Boom Blox an eight
- Codemasters to bring MMO dev in-house
- The Bourne Conspiracy demo: impressions
- SCEE PlayStation Day kicks of at 4pm BST - all the news here
- Take-Two sues Chicago Transit Authority over pulled GTA IV ads
- Siren New Translation: gameplay videos
- Lego Batman: Two Face movie and screens
- Midway shows $34 million Q1 loss
- Amazon.com already sold out of Wii Fit
- Ensemble would "love" to include user-mods in Halo Wars
- New SOCOM Confrontation screens deploy
- Secret Agent Clank dated in the US
- New World in Conflict: Soviet Assault trailer released
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- Zune XNA games beta for mid-May, eight-way Wifi play supported
- Prototype pushed into 2009
- Prostitution options cut from Oz GTA IV
- THQ sells through $1 beellion in Nickelodeon games
- OFLC warns on supplying GTA IV to NZ youngsters
- Wii and PS2 get Rock Band Track Pack
- Activision expected to post strong financials, gets upgraded
- Rein strikes red line through "40 million UTIII pirates" story
- Rockstar had to stock Amazon with 40% of soundtrack before GTA IV's launch
- New Motorstorm 2 screens and confirmation of Home presence
- Bourne Conspiracy demo goes Live in the US
- New Trauma Center 2 screens show... Trauma Center 2
- Champions Online dev diary details "Mentalists"
- EA city state approach is "great environment" for development, says BioWare's Muzyka
- New Ninja Gaiden II video unearthed
- EA top brass "laughed" at Kotick soul-sucker remark
- We're updating all through today's Bank Holiday
- Over 2 million GTA IV Achievements unlocked in first 24 hours
- Edge Prince of Persia Prodigy reveal scanned in entirety
- GRID demo this week
- New Aliens: Colonial Marines detailed released
- Angry men create YouTube page dedicated to freezes
- Sims 2 Ikea update confirmed
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- Ricky Gervais's GTA IV comedy routine - video
- New Highlander shots released
- European releases - week ending Friday, May 9
- New Resistance 2 shots and info this month
- id boss: Everyone's wrong over E3 plans
- Jeremy Clarkson: GTA didn't make me want to "chop off a prostitute's head"
- "Roughly" 1 million played GTA IV on Live on day one, says Microsoft
- Demo to feature opening level, says Haze creative lead
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- "Hot Coughing" mission found in GTA IV, say internets
- 40 million pirate attempts to access UTIII servers says Rein
- New set of StarCraft II screens released
- Chinese online gaming market up 71% YoY
- Lego Universe will use bricks as in-game currency, may come to console
- Motorstorm 2 titled Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
- New Dead Space dev diary released
- DualShock celebrates ten years in control
- Dust settles on publisher E3 attendance confusion
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- Amazon worldwide charts - Week Ending May 1
- Bourne PSN demo now May 8?
- Rock Band hits 10 million tracks downloaded
- Singstar gets another big update
- IGN clarifies how it got the exclusive GTA IV review
- Haze demo on PSN next week as part of PlayStation Day
- Activision and Vivendi depart ESA
- "F**k casual gaming," says Rockstar chief
- Super-speed GTA gamer explains completion time
- Muse to do another Guitar Hero III pack
- GTA2 countdown is nine years old
- UK Marketplace gets Michael Jackson videos
- Pre-order GRID at GameStation, maybe win a BMW
- Gamer completes GTA IV 360 in 17 mins 15 secs?
- Gamecock signs up to amBX
- Best anti-GTA rant ever - must-see
- PSP outsells DS 2:1 in Japan in April
- More UK GTA IV stock "in time for the weekend," says HMV and Toys R Us
- New playable characters shown in Lost Planet Colonies Edition - shots
- Capcom releases beautiful SFIV boss art
- PAL Virtual Console gets price hike?
- Another MGS4 bundle announced for Japan
- GTA IV drove PS3 hardware sales, says Sony, Microsoft bites back
- Sony reports 238,000 PS3 sales in Australia
- Activision backs out of E3, little alarm bells ring
- BBFC details Ninja Gaiden II plot, gives 18
- Boll claims Bay will fight, Bay PR man finds Boll "creepy"
- New Guitar Hero Aerosmith trailer doesn't give us goosebumps
- New Lego Indiana Jones trailer gives us goosebumps
- New Project Origin videos and screens released
- Valve releases SteamWorks SDK
- Guita Hero creators make Time 100
- PSP comfortably leading Japanese hardware sales
- Take-Two issues 12-step remedy to GTA IV freezes
- MCV's Iwata interview wasn't with MCV
- US PSN update: Echochrome launch was no lie
- How to run GTA IV at 1080p on a PS3
- Edge gives GTA IV 10
- Single new StarCraft II shot released
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- Bioware Sonic Chronicles dev footage released
- First proper Splatterhouse shots posted
- EA announces Tiger Woods 09 for summer release
- Obama: Videogames are raising our kids
- Zelnick "vindicated" on EA stance by GTA IV performance
- Valve hints at Wii game for kids
- Longevity of MMOs is key attraction for NASA game
- New Fable 2 shots released
- Rockstar counting down to GTA2 on XBLA and PSN?
- Everyone with GTA IV will play on Live, says Microsoft
- Iwata on price-cutting, mergers, more
- VG247 Thursdays - The extreme dental pain edition
- GTA IV: sold out, but more expected tomorrow
- Original Okami team not credited in Wii port
- Liberty City Google-mapped
- GAME chairman sells millions in stock
- Gamer TV closes down
- Euro PSN update isn't amazingly good
- Lego Indiana Jones site launches
- Stargate Worlds beta sign-up open now
- Intent launches casual gaming trade site
- FFXI 2008 Edition will release this month
- Kaz Hirai confirmed for London SCEE event next week
- Kung Fu Panda demo up on Live
- Worldwide releases: Friday, May 2
- New Valkyria Chronicles shots and movie
- PC Gamer launches sign-up for massive UK LAN event
- Economic downturn may force console price drops, says Kotick
- Infogrames buys Atari
- Blizzard buys Diablo3.com
- GTA IV may have cost $100 million to make
- Turbine takes another $40 million in VC
- Mario Kart still leading in Japan
- UK kids benefit from social gaming, says study
- Echochrome released today in the US
- IGN pulls GTA hooker video saying, "We crossed a line"
- Closed beta for LittleBigPlanet this summer