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Scrap Metal Review

17 March 2010 |This top-down racer offers both thrills and frills, but it gets some of the basics wrong.

$300 Halo 3: ODST/Forza 3 Xbox 360 Elite bundle now shipping

17 March 2010 |GameStop to begin selling upper-end model of Microsoft's console bundled with two top-rated games--and the Halo: Reach MP beta access--tomorrow.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Screens

17 March 2010 |3 new shots posted.

Scrap Metal - Fast Laps, Small Track Gameplay Movie

17 March 2010 |A player screams around a track in a Formula One car.

Scrap Metal - Rally Race Gameplay Movie

17 March 2010 |Cars fire weapons and compete for first.

Scrap Metal - Staying Alive Gameplay Movie

17 March 2010 |An 18-wheeler is chased by cars.

Dead to Rights: Retribution Updated Hands-On

17 March 2010 |Bloody action and sneaky stealth are two highlights in our latest look at the upcoming action game reboot.

Dead to Rights: Retribution Screens

17 March 2010 |30 new shots posted.

News Update: Tuesday, March 16, 2010

17 March 2010 |Tor makes sense of when Microsoft is getting content, when people think Microsoft might get content, and how much content will cost.

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction Screens

17 March 2010 |5 new shots posted.

DICE Talks the Past and Future of Bad Company

17 March 2010 |Multiplayer stats, plans for downloadable content, and more.

Metro 2033 Gameplay Videos

17 March 2010 |Join the war against the mutants of the underground.

Metro 2033 Gameplay Videos

17 March 2010 |Join the war against the mutants of the underground.

Dante’s Inferno: Trials of St Lucia Screens

17 March 2010 |It's time to fight like an angel.

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Dead to Rights: Retribution Trailer

17 March 2010 |The city is in chaos and Jack Slate and his trusted canine ally shadow must save the day.

Custom Xbox 360 Coffin

17 March 2010 |Got the three red lights? Send your bricked Xbox 360 off in style.

Rumor: Gears Of War 3 Releasing April 2011

17 March 2010 |Source says teaser trailer coming soon. Full reveal at E3.

Batman: Arkham Asylum (Game of the Year Edition) Media

17 March 2010 |Did you miss your first chance to visit Arkham Asylum?

Batman: Arkham Asylum Going 3D

17 March 2010 |New Game of the Year edition contains extra challenge maps.

New Sonic the Hedgehog Game in 2010

16 March 2010 |Sega announces plans to release a 2-D Sonic game with high definition graphics.

Modern Warfare 2 Special Edition Xbox 360

16 March 2010 |New Xbox 360 features snazzy Modern Warfare 2 artwork and 250GB hard drive.

Halo 3: ODST Soundtrack Available on AOL Radio

16 March 2010 |Listen to the latest Halo music for free, courtesy of AOL's Radio channel.

Police Blame Video Games for Teen Shooting

16 March 2010 |Tragedy strikes when a teen shoots his own brother, possibly re-enacting a scene from a video game.

Flight of the Conchords Rocking Rock Band?

16 March 2010 |The two-man group recently announced that three of their songs will appear in the popular music series.

GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Trailer #4

16 March 2010 |GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony video introduces gamers to Yusuf Amir.

Super Street Fighter IV Coming to Xbox 360 and PS3

16 March 2010 |T. Hawk and other warriors join the impressive 25-person roster.

Madden NFL Arcade Coming to Xbox Live/PSN

16 March 2010 |Electronic Arts hopes to re-energize football with its faster paced, arcade style sports game.

IGN Lays Off Staff In ‘Every Part Of The Company’

17 March 2010 |Online entertainment media giant IGN laid off staffers across all its divisions today, as the company is "still feeling the effects of the economy," according to an internal staff memo obtained by media outlets. The memo from the ...

Best of FingerGaming: From Street Fighter IV to The Graveyard

17 March 2010 |[Every week, Gamasutra sums up sister iPhone site FingerGaming's top news and reviews for Apple's nascent -- and increasingly exciting -- portable games platform, as written by editor in chief Danny Cowan and authors Mathew Kumar ...

Top-Grossing iPhone Apps: Street Fighter IV, Where’s Waldo? Lead Rankings

17 March 2010 |Every week, sister iPhone site FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day in the iTunes App Store, and this chart is now available on Gamasutra. This week's U.S. iPhone revenue ...

Stardock’s Wardell Details Impulse Reactor Specifics

17 March 2010 |As developers look for cost-effective ways to give PC games value-added features like achievements and social integration, as well as combat piracy, the main contenders have been Valve's Steamworks suite and Microsoft's Xbox ...

Microsoft, Nintendo Successfully Defend Controller Patent Allegations

17 March 2010 |Microsoft and Nintendo have received favorable rulings in a Washington court of appeal, confirming that the companies did not violate a patent related to video game controller power conversions. The two console manufacturers were ...

Sony Regrets Not Publishing Demon’s Souls In North America

17 March 2010 |From Software's notoriously punishing action-RPG Demon's Souls was published by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan, but Sony's North American and European counterparts turned it down -- and now the company admits that was the ...

New ‘British Inspiration Awards’ Will Include Video Games

17 March 2010 |UK politicians announced cross-party support for the UK government's new "British Inspiration Awards," which will include categories for varying creative cultural sectors, including video games. Prime Minister Gordon Brown MP, ...

GDC Gallery: IGF Awards, Pavilion, Indie Games Summit, More…

17 March 2010 |Organizers of this year's Game Developers Conference and Independent Games Festival have been documenting the March 9th-13th San Francisco event in visual form, with the independent game-specific content at last week's show first ...

Sony: ‘A Lot’ Of SCE Studios Working On Stereoscopic PS3 Games

17 March 2010 |Technology that portrays 2D images as 3D has been around since 1832 in some shape or form. Today, 3D appears to be back on the upswing in film and games, thanks to new technologies. Sony is the game console maker putting the most ...

Gamebryo Adds LiveMove 2 To Support PlayStation Move

17 March 2010 |Emergent Technologies said its Gamebryo LightSpeed development system will add AiLive's motion control solution LiveMove 2, which will support Sony's upcoming PlayStation Move motion controller. Developers using both Gamebryo ...

News: OnLive business model a “shot in the arm” for Gaikai

17 March 2010 | David Perry has pointed out the drawbacks of cloud gaming service OnLive compared to his own Gaikai service, due to launch later this year, in the wake of OnLive's pricing and strategy announcements at this year's ...

News: British Inspiration Awards to honour UK creative sectors

17 March 2010 | Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Conservative leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg are lending cross-party support to the British Inspiration Awards, a new initiative to honour the UK's creative ...

News: GAME opens Home space

17 March 2010 | UK retailer GAME is to open a space in PlayStation 3 Home this week, offering visitors access to exclusive content and competitions. The company becomes one of the first ...

News: Quest Online sacks president, admits MMO “should never have launched”

17 March 2010 | US developer Quest Online has sacked its president and co-founder Dave Allen for "insubordination" and replaced him with 3000AD president Derek Smart. Although the ...

News: GDC 2010 attracts record industry numbers

17 March 2010 | The 2010 Game Developer's Conference, which ended in San Francisco on Saturday, attracted a record industry turn out of over 18,000, the show's organisers have confirmed. ...

Interview: LucasArts’ Darrell Rodriguez

17 March 2010 | Read more...

News: Bethesda to publish new title from inXile Entertainment

16 March 2010 | Fallout publisher Bethesda has picked up inXile's latest dungeon romp, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, for release on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The title is being overseen by ...

News: Registration opens for Develop 2010

16 March 2010 | Registration is now open for Develop in Brighton, taking place July 13-15, 2010, with a number of early bird discounts on offer until June 7. One, two or three day ...

News: PlayStation Home audience hits 12 million

16 March 2010 | The worldwide userbase for the PlayStation Home virtual world now stands at 12 million users, according to comments made by Sony's Jack Buser. Speaking at the recently ...

News: Microsoft patents online upselling

16 March 2010 | Microsoft has patented a new system of purchasing downloadable content via an automatic prompt, which attempts to ensure all players in the game have the same updates. ...

Facebook Boots Grow Up Australia Group

17 March 2010 |Citing a violation of its terms of use, social website Facebook has removed the group page of the pro R18+ organization Grow Up Australia.A message from Facebook, while not specific, offered that “groups that are hateful, ...

Lords Pass Digital Economy Bill

17 March 2010 |The British House of Lords has pushed through the latest version of the Digital Economy Bill, which features provisions that would put the onus on ISPs to track and report illegal file sharers and copyright violators.The Bill, ...

One Solution for DRM-Free Games: Wait

17 March 2010 |As DRM technology becomes more invasive, an article on CNET takes a look at the methods used and offers some possible suggestions for DRM-free gaming.The reaction to Ubisoft’s DRM, which requires a constant Internet ...

FCC Unveils National Broadband Plan

17 March 2010 |The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released its National Broadband Plan to Congress.FCC Chair Julius Genachowski called the document an “action plan” for a “21st century roadmap to spur economic ...

Fellowship Funds Year-Long Study of Asian Game Culture

17 March 2010 |Spending a year studying the culture of gamers in East Asia sure sounds like a lot of fun even if you had to pay for it yourself, but imagine how much better it would be if the whole trip was paid for by a fellowship grant.Lawrence ...

Venezuela: Violent Games Banned, Internet Censorship Next?

16 March 2010 |As a result of a Venezuelan website falsely reporting the death of a senior government minister, the Internet has now draw the ire of the South American country’s president Hugo Chavez.The Venezuelan website NoticieroDigital ...

G4C Constitution Hinges Around “Don’t be a Dick”

16 March 2010 |As time winds down before Australia's March 20th elections, Gamers4Croydon continues to up its presence.The group issued a call to arms announcement via its Steam Community presence, in which it outlines its policies, candidates ...

AU Paper Runs Game Retailer Rating Sting

16 March 2010 |Australia’s Sun-Herald recently conducted a field test to determine local retailers adherence to videogame ratings.The sting used a 14-year old boy named Peter (pictured), who was ‘described as looking even ...

U.S. Military Eying Larger Role for Games in Troop Training

16 March 2010 |The U.S. Military, already a big practitioner of videogame-based training for its members, plans to spend even more on the technology in the future.In a bid to cut battlefield casualties the Pentagon has approved an ...

MSU-Developed Game Teaches Kids to Avoid Landmines

16 March 2010 |A game in development at Michigan State University was designed to teach Cambodian kids, and others around the world, how to avoid landmines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) that might be scattered about their ...

Dead to Rights: Retribution media terrorizes Temple Tower

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Sonic fans remix Sonic 4 intro, get way too excited

18 March 2010 | Oh, Sonic fans. Every time a new Sonic is announced, you joke about not getting fooled again and you promise that, this time, you won't be taken in. And we believe you -- why would you go back to Sonic after everything he's done ...

Women in Games conference canceled due to ‘low delegate numbers’

18 March 2010 | The Women in Games conference won't make it to its seventh consecutive year. Organizers apologize and cite "low delegate numbers" as the reason for the cancellation. The conference would have been held March 25-26 at Bradford ...

The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Gamedoctors

18 March 2010 |Being a giant, beloved video game blog has its downsides. For example, we sometimes neglect to give independent developers our coverage love (or loverage, if you will) as we get caught up in AAA, AAAA or the rare quintuple-A ...

Bungie registers Marathon and ‘Bungie Aerospace’ trademarks

17 March 2010 | Between the recent filing to trademark ... something regarding Bungie's first FPS Marathon, and a filing for the name "Bungie Aerospace," we're not exactly sure what to make of whatever it is that's going on over at the house that ...

Blizzard ponders merits of licensing Battle.net to third parties

17 March 2010 | We've spent quite a bit of time with the new and improved Battle.net, both in the StarCraft 2 beta and on its lonesome. It seems like it wouldn't be a bad platform for other, non-Blizzard games. The Escapist asked Blizzard VP Rob ...

Mega64 pokes fun at The Beatles: Rock Band with a little help from a friend

17 March 2010 | Mega64 gets back to its roots in the troupe's latest video, enlisting the aid of John and Jane Q. Public to create another minute and a half of comedy based on The Beatles: Rock Band. You're probably asking yourself how the trio ...

UFC 2010 features exclusive fights on PS3

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Molyneux says Heavy Rain offers the ‘first glimpses of the future’ of games

17 March 2010 | If only Sony had waited until after the South by Southwest festival to release Heavy Rain, the publisher could have printed several glowing quotes from a known Xbox consorter on the back of the PS3-exclusive's game box. Oh, well ...

Pac-Man Battle Royale: competitive Pac-Man for omnivores

17 March 2010 |As advertised, Namco Bandai brought a prototype of its new Pac-Man Battle Royale to the 2010 Amusement Expo. Arcade Heroes captured some off-screen footage of the multiplayer arcade title (posted after the break), revealing a cross ...

Who Is Brave Enough To Squeeze Into This Vinyl Samus Zero Suit?

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Capt. Mario Answers The Call Of Duty

17 March 2010 |“Super Mario Warfare” by the talented and regularly featured Agent Scarlet, as seen at DeviantArt via GameFreaks. (Thanks, Morris!)

Well, That Didn’t Take Long; MLB 2K10 Patch Arrives

17 March 2010 |After vowing yesterday a patch fixing a bad multiplayer glitch and punching up the game’s AI had been “fast-tracked” for delivery, MLB 2K10’s team backed it up today with the arrival of the game’s ...

Remember This?

17 March 2010 |Can you guess this old game from just one screenshot? (more…)

Spider-Man’s Spectacular Game Series Soldiers On With Shattered Dimensions

17 March 2010 |The Spider-Man licence won’t go to waste at Activision just because Spider-Man 4 isn’t coming to movie theatres next year. There will be more Spider-Man games, including one known as Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. ...

Scrap Metal Micro-Review: There’s A Difference Between Mindless And Pointless

17 March 2010 |All it took was seeing one demolition derby to hook me on car combat, but in video games we haven’t seen much in the way of this for awhile. Scrap Metal’s here, and running unopposed. Is it still a winner? (more…)

Studios Dial Up Dollars From Smartphone Games

17 March 2010 | There is one bright spot in the flailing video game industry, and Hollywood already has started taking notice. (more…)

Gears Of War 3 Dated For April 2011 By Edge, Not Epic

17 March 2010 |Gears Of War developer Epic Games hasn’t dated (or even confirmed) the third game in the stop and pop shooter series, but someone else has, pegging the third entry for an April release in 2011. (more…)

Wii-Exclusive Samurai Warriors 3 Journeys To America

17 March 2010 | Tecmo Koei’s Wii-exclusive third entry in the Samurai Warriors series is coming to North America this fall, with Nintendo of America signing on to handle publishing and distribution duties. (more…)

GDC Imbues Cocksure Codemonkey With False Sense Of Coolness

17 March 2010 |It’s been two days since Jake’s plane from sunny SFO landed in flat OKC, but his friends think the real Jake is still somewhere hiding deep within the halls of the San Francisco Moscone Centre. This new Jake is new. ...

Dave Perry: OnLive Pricing In Gaikai’s Favour

17 March 2010 |David Perry has said the recent announcement of streaming service OnLive's pricing has been a "shot in the arm&quo read more

Study: New Games Harm School Work

17 March 2010 |<!--paging_filter-->A new study has been published that concludes that videogames can impact on kids' school work.According to the study, young boys who receive their first console show no signs of improvement in reading or ...

Bleszinski: Motion Control Is “Very Interesting”

17 March 2010 | Epic's Cliff Bleszinski has said he finds motion controllers "very interesting" but favours those like Natal which don't rely on any hand-held controller. read more

Sony: PS3 Shortages “Not Ideal” As God of War III Launches

17 March 2010 |Sony Computer Entertainment America is suffering from PS3 shortages at a key moment for the company. While God Of War III launched in North America today, the LA Times reports that a number of Best Buy, GameStop and Target stores ...

Lots Of Sony Studios At Work On 3D Games

17 March 2010 |“A lot” of Sony Computer Entertainment studios are working on stereoscopic 3D games for PS3. “We've been amazed by the enthusiasm from the developers," SCE UK engineer Ian Bickerstaff told Gamasutra. read more

GDC: How To Balance Halo

17 March 2010 |<!--paging_filter-->In one of the most fascinating sessions of GDC, Bungie designer Jaime Griesemer talked about the art of game balancing, illustrating his views with the apparently tiny decision to extend the rate of fire ...

Nintendo: We’re Not Good At Making Core Games

17 March 2010 |Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime says he’d like to see more core games released for Wii, but admits the company has to rely on third parties as it's not Nintendo’s specialist field. “For us, it is ...

GDC Sees Record Attendance

17 March 2010 |A record 18,250 game industry professionals attended GDC 2010 in San Francisco. Held at the Moscone Convention Center from March 9-13, the event surpassed last year's total of 17,000 visitors, according to its organisers. As well ...

Gears Of War 3 Releasing April 2011 – Source

17 March 2010 |<!--paging_filter-->Microsoft will launch Gears Of War 3 in early April 2011, a trusted US publishing source has told Edge.The first teaser trailer for the third person shooter is expected to debut next month on April 8, ...

Community Spotlight

17 March 2010 |Highlights from our community-written blogs, featuring PlayStation Home's potential for gaming and the emotional impact of Heavy Rain. EvilRedEye plays Sodium, an action MMOG based in PlayStation Home, and he finds what he plays ...

Break The Wall (Flash Game)

17 March 2010 |Break through the walls before the guy smack the wall with his head.

Videogame Movie Spectacular

17 March 2010 |Hollywood gets revenge for all the terrible videogame versions of movies.

If Modern Games Were Around on the Atari [CHART]

17 March 2010 |Some games just wouldn't have worked back then.

Blizzard Hopes for StarCraft 2 Mac Beta in April

17 March 2010 |The StarCraft 2 beta is on PC, but Mac users have been feeling left out in the cold. A Q&A;at the Battle.net forums gives Apple users some hope to try the game before it launches. "We are currently working on a Mac version of the ...

Bethesda Announces New RPG: Hunted - Preview Inside

17 March 2010 |RPG software giant Bethesda is bringing us a completely new RPG...

God of War III pre-orders hit half a million in the Americas

17 March 2010 |God of War III narrowly beats out Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver with 485,000 pre-orders in the Americas, both games release next week

Oddest Video Game Marketing, Don’t Drop the Soap

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Whoa ‘Mass Effect’ Girl!

17 March 2010 |Just another hot Mass Effect girl.

11 Awesome “Mario Bros” Creations (PICS)

16 March 2010 |When Mario was first introduced, he was playing second fiddle to Donkey Kong and was just called "Jumpman." Lame. Now look at him. 30 years have passed and fans are still paying tribute to the portly plumber, bringing him (and his ...

A Gorgeous Gallery of the Best Princess Zelda Cosplayer Ever

16 March 2010 |We’ve featured a lot of cosplayers on this site in the past year or so, but I’m not sure we’ve ever seen one quite like this, which is why she’s getting her own post.

Designer Builds Coffin For Xbox’s Suffering RROD

17 March 2010 |angry tapir writes "The Xbox 360 RROD coffin is created by Aussie designer Alexis Vanamois, and it does exactly what it says on the tin. It's the ultimate final resting place for 'bricked' Xbox 360 consoles that have suffered the ...

Bethesda Unveils New Co-op Dungeon Crawler

16 March 2010 |Bethesda Softworks took advantage of the recent Game Developers Conference to take the wraps off a new game called Hunted: The Demon's Forge that they're partnering with development studio inXile to create. It's planned for the PC, ...

BioShock 2’s First DLC Already On Disc

16 March 2010 |An anonymous reader writes with this quote from 1Up: "Trouble is brewing in Rapture. The recently released Sinclair Solutions multiplayer pack for BioShock 2 is facing upset players over the revelation that the content is already ...

Mario Reduced To 8x8 With Open Source and Arduino

15 March 2010 |adeelarshad82 writes "The open-source Arduino electronics platform has received a ton of attention from the hardware enthusiast community. And one more follower is joining the fray--Mario himself. The mustachioed plumber of console ...

Mario Reduced To 8x8 With Open Source and Arduino

15 March 2010 |adeelarshad82 writes "The open-source Arduino electronics platform has received a ton of attention from the hardware enthusiast community. And one more follower is joining the fray--Mario himself. The mustachioed plumber of console ...

How Sony and Microsoft Hope To Crack the Motion Control Market

15 March 2010 |An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the standard. "The cards Sony has placed ...

How Sony and Microsoft Hope To Crack the Motion Control Market

15 March 2010 |An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the standard. "The cards Sony has placed ...

Licensing an Abandonware Game?

14 March 2010 |WolverineOfLove writes "I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed further in a Slashdot journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it ...

Licensing an Abandonware Game?

14 March 2010 |WolverineOfLove writes "I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed further in a Slashdot journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it ...

University of Wyoming Studies Video Games

13 March 2010 |krou writes "The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting story about how the University of Wyoming's English Department is helping fund a collective called the Learning Games Initiative to study video games. Jason Thompson, an ...