With the last retail installment falling short of expectations, the Call of Juarez series clearly needed a change to remain relevant and the move to a download-only game with a smaller scope has definitely helped it. Instead of an overwrought plot that isn’t very compelling, you’ve got a tongue-in-cheek storyline with Silas Greaves at a [...]

Earlier this month it was announced which of Electronic Art’s studios would begin development on new Star Wars titles. Then, just yesterday, the company appeared at the Xbox One conference to reveal a new game engine used mainly for sports games. But, what they didn’t tell us and had to wait until a day later for, is their plans for [...]

The legendary director and producer has been placed in charge of the transitioning Halo from video game to a live action television series. It was all announced during the Xbox One reveal as you can’t have Xbox without Halo. The man has three Academy Awards and Halo as a franchise has numerous Game of the [...]

Phantom Breaker was a 2D fighter that never made it out of the East. As an Xbox 360 exclusive in Japan, the manga-esque brawler from developer 5pb was supposed to land in North America last summer thanks to publisher 7Sixty, but never quite materialized. Even though it failed to reach our shores, it sure enough [...]

UFO Interactive have today announced that Scourge: Outbreak will be headed to XBLA on July 3. Utilizing the Unreal Engine 3, players take the role of Echo Squad mercenaries as they attempt to rescue a double agent behind enemy lines in the Nogari Corporation. Outbreak is a completely overhauled version of PC’s The Scourge Project: [...]

If you’ve got a nice computer setup and would rather play the Alan Wake games on it instead of the 360, then this week’s Humble Weekly Bundle is for you. It allows you to pay whatever you want for not only the game, its DLC, and the American Nightmare follow-up, but also gets you the [...]

Considering the reboot of the popular fighting game franchise launched a couple years ago, it’s a little bit of a surprise to learn that it’s still getting additional releases. Warner Bros. Interactive has announced today that 2011′s Mortal Kombat will be heading to Steam and PC retail this summer. It’s almost fitting considering it was only [...]

If you’ve yet to experience one of this generation’s best, most atmospheric…sorta action games, then the Xbox Live Marketplace sale for the franchise is for you. Alan Wake can be yours for only $5, with its American Nightmare expand-alone game only costing $4, and its Signal and Writer DLC costing $3.50 each. Anyone in the [...]

Activision lives their life a quarter mile at a time. Instead of consistently trying to wow us with impressive new IPs that will be around for the long haul, the majority of their slate are shovelware tie-ins that will be forgotten by the time the property hits Blu-ray. In the last year alone, the studio [...]

So that was a press conference, all right.  There was press there, and people talked on stage for an hour.  Lots of lights and announcements were made, and many features of a new product were explained.  And when it was over I knew that Microsoft’s vision of the purpose of a console and mine were [...]