Not much in the news today, but there is this little video we think you should see, so click the image below: “So man created the rocket jump, and it was leet.” Freddiew makes a lot of fun movies with rather good special effects. Look at the rest [here].

The creators of the Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island and Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People series of episodic games are hard at work on an episodic series of titles based on the beloved Back to the Future trilogy (they’re also working on a little something based on Jurassic Park, in case you’re interested). They’ve [...]

Batman: Arkham Asylum was one of the best games of last year. I don’t need to tell you this, you know it already, because you’ve played it. Right? Well, here are some screenshots of the sequel – Batman: Arkham City – which will apparently have multiplayer, but there’s no word on if it’ll be just a [...]

Been wondering how well StarCraft II has been selling in the month that has passed since its release? We all know that the game sold over a million copies within 24 hours of it hitting store shelves, making it the fastest-selling PC game of 2010 from day one. It then went on to hit the 1.5-million mark in its [...]

So I step into the office this morning and waiting for me in my inbox is an e-mail from Ubisoft’s marketing people. My first thought? How nice of them to send me this lovely little e-mail. Perhaps they want to see how I’m doing, find out if everything’s okay, maybe send me some free things for [...]

There’s a World of Warcraft movie in the works, with director Sam Raimi (director of the Spider-Man movie trilogy) steering the great big WoW-movie bus along – we’ve known about this for a while. A movie based on StarCraft, however, is not happening. Not unless someone like Avatar-boy James Cameron happened to come along and woo [...]

Have you gotten tired of your plain old white Wii just sitting there, looking painfully boring and boasting a distinct lack of Disney’s flagship character? Then this ought to put a smile on your face. Game-industry legend Warren Spector’s newest baby, Epic Mickey, is getting a nifty collector’s edition if this Toys ‘R Us product listing is to be believed. [...]

It’s amazing how little has really changed in 30 years, if you watch this Activision Corporate Commercial (1981). Sure, the graphics have gotten better, but the underlying thinking, the blatant corporate double-speak and PR bull-manure, is just as bad then as it still is now. Activision: We’ve taken Frogger, replaced the frog with a chicken, and [...]

Could a big-screen adaptation of Rockstar’s epic Red Dead Redemption be in the works? If the rumour mills over at ShowbizSpy are to be believed, then there is, and Brad Pitt has first refusal for the role of John Marston. ShowbizSpy’s sources apparently had this to say: “This is an exciting project with a great character [...]

What if well-known videogame characters were the opposite gender of what they are now? Aside from how uncomfortable it might make the various princesses that need saving, these images found via Examiner could make you feel funny in new and interesting places. Just go with it man, just go with it.

Air guitar in the name of XP! ArenaNet has officially unveiled Guild Wars 2′s version of the Necromancer profession. Summoning minions, inciting fear in the hearts of foes and controlling the flow of battles is the Necro’s specialty. Fueled by the dark arts, the new Necromancer has an awesome new game mechanic called Life Force, which is essentially a [...]

Hot “action-RPG on co-operative tower-defense with loot” action, in majestic FULL COLOUR. Coming to PC and Xbox LIVE Arcade. The game’s website sells it best: Dungeon Defenders is an original hybrid of two hot genres: Tower Defense and online Action-RPG! The game puts players in the role of one of four distinctive hero classes, tasked [...]

Do you still cry yourself to sleep at night over Modern Warfare 2′s lack of dedicated servers on the PC? Do you still feel like Infinity Ward should rather have shot you in the eyes with arrows than removed mod tools from their game? Do you still feel like the world hates you because you lost [...]

If you let your Steam suck your delicious bandwidth dry today, by letting it update Alien Swarm (which is free, so you should have it by now), you’re in for a treat. A wonderful, painful treat. Valve has added a new “Onslaught” mode which switches on AI Director (that thing that controls how and when [...]

Ever wondered what it would be like to play Halo on an Atari 2600? Yeah, us too. Well, now you can! Just click [here]. It has all the glory and joy of every Atari 2600 game ever, except for perhaps Yar’s Revenge. Hint: Go up one screen to get the gun.

Here we go with some more news as part of my sneaky campaign to have gaming seen a positive light. I must admit, I really don’t understand this at all, but apparently some scientists working on the Rosetta@home project decided to give gamers a chance to see if they could break down a protein strand [...]

Don’t get too excited, I think we’re still a long way away from exciting, fast-paced hovercraft races. I the meantime though, Wipeout fan Malte Jehmlich decided to create his own “real” version of the game by hooking up a camera to a remote controlled car screaming around a carboard track based on a popular Wipeout [...]

“The air was electric at the Fountain Court at Sandton City on Saturday, 7 August 2010 as the contestants arrived at the 2010 WCG National Team Trials as sponsored by SAMSUNG. The eight players who had qualified during the year through the MSSA’s Provincial LAN Championships were all chomping at the bit. It was clear [...]

I’m ready to argue that Batman: Arkham Asylum is likely the best superhero game ever made, mostly because it was a good game on every level and didn’t simply rely on the license alone. The news has slipped out along the way that the sequel will feature Mr Freeze, Two Face and Cat Woman, but [...]