Everyone's attention over the past six months has been on the glut of big releases that gamers had to tackle in the last few months of 2008, so isn't it ironic that the most played Xbo ...
Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux recently questioned the stability of current game prices and the traditional release schedule in an end-of-year report from BBC News. "Everyone says game ...
A Reuters report (via Kotaku) claims that Sony will probably announce closures of Japanese factories and "major divisions" in early February. The original report from the Times of Lond ...
Street Fighter 4 Exclusive 'Dan vs. Dan' gameplay HD "I hope you're ready for a beating," says Dan Hibiki, the underpowered Street Fighter created by Capcom as a joke on Ryo Sakazaki, a ...
This story first appeared in the January issue of EGM. We wouldn't dare overlook cultural touchstones like the first few Superman and Batman films -- especially those of us w ...
Semnat Studios announced today that it will be releasing Eduardo the Samurai Toaster for WiiWare this winter. The old-school shooter features a colorful art style as our hero Eduardo ...
Man, it's really hard to make a good adventure game. It's so hard to make one, in fact, that even veterans of the genre -- guys who've worked on indisputable classics -- sometimes stumbl ...
It's a new year, and new years mean resolutions. But while you're trying to lose weight or go on a vacation to Mexico, Hideo Kojima is resolving to put Kojima Productions on equal foot ...
Those looking for a more action-oriented game after Merv Griffin's Crosswords finished off 2008 won't be too pleased with this week's title. Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos is a puzzl ...
It seems that there won't be any new Lego Harry Potter after all. At least, not in 2009. And that has opened the door for a whole new set of Lego-related rumors. Eurogamer is reportin ...
Just how powerful is the Wii in Japan? This powerful: The mere announcement of a streaming video channel for the ubiquitous console is already causing some Japanese television executives ...
News slipped just before the holiday break that Harmonix was readying some sort of Roy Orbison downloadable content for Rock Band, and now we have the official details. The "Roy Orbison ...
Still looking for the perfect Xbox 360 d-pad for all those Live Arcade classics? Well Ars Technica may have stumbled on the answer, although it's not the most efficient (or cheapest) s ...
Having trouble with Garden 7 in PixelJunk Eden? Apparently, you're not alone. Enough so that the good people at Q-Games are going to reexamine the difficulty. Over in the comments at ...
According to a story from the Middletown Journal (via Game Politics), during an online conversation with a Blizzard representative an Ohio teen said, "he was suicidal and that the game ...
Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA), a UK-based management consulting firm, plans to run what it terms a "Virtual Working trial in Cyberspace involving leaders from some of the leading c ...
"We have found across the board, if you look at different categories of games, they all have the ability to develop unique skills,' says David Laux, IBM's global executive in charge of ...
Demon's Souls 'Story' trailer HD As you count down the remaining hours of 2008, check out the story trailer (above) for the PlayStation 3 action RPG Demon's Souls. We've been impresse ...
Since the release of Sony's Home earlier this month, many question the reason for the "open beta" descriptor and how long it will remain. According to Jack Buser, director of Home, in ...
It takes a confirmation from Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello to ease our worries that the critically-lauded Mirror's Edge will return for a sequel, but, if a report from Gamasutra ...
5 Years: The Best of 1UP Celebrating half a decade at 1up by rounding up the best culture, retro, and humor features. By Scott Sharkey, Sam Kennedy It's crazy to think that it's been five years sin ...
Gamers take many things for granted. For instance, anyone who's used Steam to purchase a game more than once probably hasn't given a second thought to the ability to redownload any of ...
Top 5 Worst Videogame Sidekicks These people aren't helping. By Bob Mackey From Sam Gamgee to the Boy Wonder, the sidekick's always played an important role in literat ...
Virtual Worlds News reports Worlds.com filed a potentially significant patent infringement suit against NCsoft on Christmas Eve. In the Complaint Worlds.com claims NCsoft games such as C ...
After being one of the most important people involved in Sega's success (including creating such classic games as Sonic the Hedgehog and NiGHTS Into Dreams), Yuji Naka decided to leave S ...
Like all ominously powerful technology, the PlayStation 3 can be used for great good or, it seems, potentially terrible evil. According to Computer World, an international team of securi ...
With the end of the year approaching quickly, it's customary to see various sites ranking top games of the year, but Gamasutra took a different approach and ranked their top 10 of th ...
Donate at least $25 to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Socieity (LLS) through thisonline fundraiser page started by Blizzard employee Katherine Allen (via WoW Insider) and you might never aga ...
While much of the industry is enjoying a well earned holiday break, Nintendo is keeping the Wii Store spigot running. This week brings the usual slate of releases, with Maboshi's Arcad ...
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Movie Trailer February 27, 2009 is quickly approaching, and it's meaningful for only one reason: That's the day when Street Fighter: The Legend of ...
If you're anxiously awaiting the February 17 release of Killzone 2 and spending time messing around with Home you might want to check out this offer on Amazon. Preorder the game there (a ...
Sony's PlayStation Store hosted a number of stand-out titles in 2008, but its most downloaded game actually came out in 2007. Pain topped the list, no doubt buoyed both by its head st ...
If you're a big fan of Q-Games' PixelJunk series of downloadable titles, then 2009 is going to be a good year for you. In a post on the PlayStation.Blog, Q-Games president Dylan Cuthbe ...
Over the years, movies have shown a variety of insane inventions we could expect in the future -- flying cars, time machines, oppressive uniforms everyone in society would be forced to ...
Check out our Games of 2009 hub page for exclusive previews every weekday in December. Wait, what the heck is StarCraft 2 doing here? While Blizzard is still sticking to its gen ...
Animal Crossing: City Folk Afterthoughts Nintendo's resident experts tell us about all the things in City Folk that continue to make the Animal Crossing series a fan favorite. By Giancarlo Varanini ...
Tony Hawk games have been criticized lately, but the man himself says the team is working to make the next game as authentic as possible. In an interview with CNET, Hawk explained ho ...
SF4 streamed live thanks to ustream. 1UP's Game Night: Street Fighter 4 Time: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 5 p.m. PST Location: Watch the embedded video player right here in this story. Q ...
If you aren't too busy with your holiday gifts or recovering from a rowdy night of auld lang syne, Major Nelson brings word that you can now pick up the demo for The Lord of the Ring ...