As if you didn’t already want a new PC and a faster video setup. Today there’s a whole new reason to make you upgrade. System requirements for Assassin’s Creed were published by Ubisoft today. Move over Crysis. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: CPU: Pentium 4 Dual core, 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ RAM: 2 GB [...]

Did EVE Online tick you off last year? If you missed the parts where their own developers were cheating in the game or the really big one where their Trinity update killed Windows XP then CCP has a deal for you. Not $20, not $10, now free! Yes free! Yeah, whether I’ve watched too many [...]

Grab 800 not-quite-free Microsoft Points from 1-800-4MY-XBOX. Microsoft started giving away Undertow downloads as a cover-their-butts freebie to make up for the holiday Xbox Live outages. It’s not exactly a blockbuster game, but it’s free to everyone and nice for those of us who never saw any outages because we’d gorged ourselves on pie and [...]

Now that the Xbox Live version of Goldeneye has been halted the first leak in the wall of secrecy is above. Maybe some developer or laid-off game tester is ticked off that their work will never go live – maybe some fanboy just wants to screw with all of us. Regardless, we’re posting the vid. [...]

The top-selling Blu-ray player by a huge margin is Sony’s PS3. That should be good news to all current owners, since the PS3 is (supposedly) the only Blu-ray player currently on the market that’s compatible with the Blu-ray 2.0 specifications. If you’re currently an owner of another Blu-ray player, suck it up, the bad news [...]

Electronic Arts has announced an online-only entry in the Battlefield series that will be completely ad-supported and will be able to run “on Grandma’s laptop.” As if I needed any more reasons not to make eye contact at family gatherings — if gramms frags me in an online game, I may have to skip the [...]

Bionic Commando is a classic 2D-scrolling shooter (and puncher, thrower, bionic armer…) from the 8-bit arcade and Nintendo consoles. Just announced by Capcom is the 3D Bionic Commando Reloaded on Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network. Still a side-scroller, the gameplay looks sweet and the 3D maps and characters are killer. Check the video [...]

Update: Thanks for putting up with any problems. You are reading this on the new server already. While we move to new digs, please excuse any downtime over the next two to three days (Jan 19th – 21st). What Happened? In our first month we’ve seen an unexpected surge in readers. Several stories have been [...]

Queue yet another PR disaster buy-off from a big corporation, to the tune of $10 per cheated customer. Walmart priced preorders for Super Smash Bros Brawl at $19.82 last week. Not long after the pricing error was all over the internet and Walmart canceled all the low-priced orders. Today Walmart announced a $10 gift card [...]

It’s always a good day to see a playable Super Mario Bros. hack, but not many days are as good as this one. James may think Halo 3 overrated but putting Halo characters in Super Mario Bros. 2/3 is ingenious. Gameplay looks smooth and the level isn’t too easy, like most hacks are. The hack [...]

The make-good for that pesky Xbox Live debacle is finally here, and it’s a fine prize, particularly for those of us who didn’t have any XBL problems. Free game for nothing? I’ll take it. Xbox Live members — gold and silver alike — will be able to download the full version of the submerged shooter [...]

I’ve been a GameFly customer ever since I bought my XBox 360, because it just isn’t convenient for me to rent games from a video store (do they even do that anymore?). If you haven’t heard of GameFly, it’s a service that allows you to rent games through the mail (think NetFlix, but for video [...]

File this under: Things to Do While Wasting Time at Work. Game Trailers is running a 13-part video retrospective on the spectacularly popular Final Fantasy series. The videos explore the central themes, characters, plot lines, and music of all of the FF releases, including the ones that never made it onto American consoles. This is [...]

The only thing I hate worse than movies based on video games, are video games based on movies. So, I was a little freaked out by how excited I was by the trailer for Jumper, the game based on the movie and the teenybopper novel by Stephen Gould. I mean… if done right this game [...]

This week Yahtzee looks at the PC game Crysis. When I say “PC,” I’m talking computers, not sociology. In fact, if Yahtzee’s opinion on CryTek games holds any weight, political correctness is the last thing Crysis players need to worry about. Warning: He actually likes the game, so it’s not quite as fun as his [...]