Batman: Arkham City is the sequel of Batman: Arkham Asylum, one of the most successful games of 2009. The game, currently in development at Rocksteady Studios will be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is due to be released in the fourth quarter of 2011. In the meantime a steady stream of teasing media fuels everyone’s curiosity. Today a brand new set of screenshots has been made public, and we decided to take this opportunity to help you “scratch the itch”. Below you can find all the materials on Batman: Arkham City that have been released so far. Enjoy! … More

A new trailer and a new concept art set for the upcoming Red Faction: Armageddon, game developed by Volition and published by THQ, have recently surfaced. The new installment in the Sci-Fi franchise is set to be released in May 2011 on XBOX360, PS3 and PC promises to set new standards for game defining physics-weaponry in the shooter genre. The action takes place under the surface of the Mars in ice caves and lava tubes, fifty years after the resistance originally freed the red planet. The players, walking in the shoes of Darius Mason, will fight against a new horrifying evil that threatens to extinguish all life on the planet.

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On the 18^th of January 2011 Ubisoft announced that the Animus Project Update 2.0 DLC (downloadable content) for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is now available for free for the XBOX360 on the XBOX LIVE network and for the PS3 from PSN. The update comes to enrich the Brotherhood’s multiplayer with a brand new map and a new game mode. The first DLC pack was released in December last year and it also featured a new map together with a new game mode. The original Animus Project Update was also free to download for both gaming consoles. … More

The sequel of the publicly acclaimed physiological thriller Dead Space, developed by Visceral Games, an EA studio, is now available in retail stores in the US and will be available in Europe starting with the 28th of January on PS3, XBOX360 and PC. The Dead Space 2 Limited Edition for PlayStation 3 will include Dead Space Extraction, the prequel to the entire Dead Space saga, now featuring support for the PlayStation®Move motion controller. The announcement was coupled with the release of Dead Spaces 2: Severed, a DLC pack that expands the Dead Space 2 story with two additional single player stand-alone chapters. … More

Final Fantasy is one of the oldest IPs in the industry and over the years its rich JPRG content has been constantly enhanced with each new installment. Whether it was the combat system, the way the characters developed or simply the beautiful story that held everything together in perfect harmony, a FF game always came with the underlined promise of progress, of taking the whole series one step further on the evolutionary ladder. So it comes as a surprise and not a pleasant one to see the game not following its own rules and going for a simpler and accessible approach, especially for a debut on the PS3 and Xbox360 consoles that has been anticipated by fans for so many years. … More

Do you know what happens when mix all the colors together? Basically nothing, you just get an unimpressive grayish brown that can only be used to describe dirt. And this is exactly what happened to The Saboteur, a game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by EA: they took everything good out there and threw into a blender hoping for a magical result. Unfortunately what came out was not a rainbow, but an abomination that feeds on gamers’ fears.

The first thing that drew my attention was the name.  Saboteur – a game I loved back in the days when Commodore was the tip of the technological iceberg and two-frame animations were acceptable. That game’s main character was an athletic female ninja with no notable background, so because of that name I was kind of hoping for something similar when it came to The Saboteur. … More

I wanted to tackle this subject in writing for quite a while, but I just couldn’t find the spark to trigger it. That was until Friday evening when I stumbled upon a press release about a Yoga game being launched for Wii at the end of the month. No surprise here, I’m used to seeing all sort of BS being released for Wii and called video games. But the text emphasized on how you can relax your body, calm your mind and achieve physical and inner balance right in your living room. For me that last part triggered an episode of nervous laughter, muscles spasms and the urge to smash something. First, because I was already in my living room, calm, relaxed and balanced until that piece of news came and ruined it for me. Second, because I consider that all forms of physical exercises should have nothing to do with electronics such a TVs and plastic white boxes that dare to call themselves gaming consoles … More

The game will be released simultaneously on PS3 and Xbox360, in both Europe and North America, on the 9th of March 2010. The announcement came from Square Enix Ltd. on the November 13, 2009. It was also mentioned that the multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Leona Lewis has come on board with Square Enix to provide the theme song for Final Fantasy XIII. The song is entitled “My Hands,” and is featured on her highly-anticipated second album ECHO (J Records/Syco Music) set for release on November 16th. As a side note: I listened to the song and I can honestly say I couldn’t have imagined a more common and boring succession of sounds as the one provided by this so called artist I have never heard of before. But maybe it’s just me… … More