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Article | 18/08/2009 Study: Adult Video Gamers Fatter, More Depressed
A new study from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention working with Emory and Andrews Universities suggests the average US adult gamer is chub...
Article | 12/08/2009 Sony's PS4 coming before Microsoft's Xbox Next?
John Carmack thinks Sony's next-gen console--call it the PlayStation 4 if you will--seems likely to be first to market in the inevitable next generati...
Article | 11/08/2009 New World of Warcraft, 'Cataclysm' expansion leaked?
Werewolves and goblins and cats-out-of-the-bag oh my, a World of Warcraft fansite is dishing rumours on Blizzard's next expansion to its massively suc...
Article | 6/08/2009 Games for Windows Live 3.0 debuts
Surprise, Microsoft's quietly updated Games For Windows Live to version 3.0 and added scads of new features to tickle your facet-fetish.
Article | 24/07/2009 Mass Effect 2 Q&A
BioWare's interactive space opera Mass Effect 2 is still half a year away for PC and Xbox 360 owners, but for lead producer Casey Hudson it's happenin...
Article | 25/07/2009 Microsoft's next big Xbox LIVE update
Microsoft's next bonanza Xbox LIVE update (or NBXLU, pronounced 'nuh-bex-loo') won't wink onto your dashboards until August 11th, but since I'm so con...
Article | 16/07/2009 Aliens invade Fallout 3 in Mothership Zeta expansion
It looks like Xbox 360 and Windows gamers will finally get to tango with the ephemerally transient, aka the extra-terrestrial, aka Mothership Zeta, th...
Article | 15/07/2009 BioShock 2 slips to 2010 to 'improve quality'
"Bummer," that about sums up the communal groan twittered round the Internet last night when Take-Two let slip it was delaying BioShock 2 until 2010. ...
Article | 10/07/2009 Worst idea ever: another Mortal Kombat movie
They're apparently making a third reports UK game biz news site MCV. Chris Casamassa, who played Scorpion in the 1995 original film, told the San Gabr...
Article | 7/07/2009 Nielsen: Gaming and used sales boom during recession
Time spent playing games and used game purchases are up, and in fact way up over the past several months, says the Nielsen Company. Citing a new study...
Article | 3/07/2009 Why animated Xbox 360 dashboard ads are a bad thing
What's worse than paying US$50 a year more than Games For Windows Live gamers, just to play Xbox 360 games online? How about paying that same fifty bu...
Article | 2/07/2009 Is it all or nothing for game releases in 2009?
Eidos life president Ian Livingstone has declared it's "all or nothing for new releases in 2009," painting either a blithely Machiavellian or cynicall...
Article | 26/06/2009 iPhone 3GS chews through PS, Game Boy games
Just what your brand new iPhone 3GS needs--Cloud Strife's super-deformed spike-do bristling at hundreds of frames per second. PlayStation emulation am...
Article | 3/06/2009 Confirmed: PSP Go, Final Fantasy XIV, Motion-Control Wand
Leave it to Sony to prove that sometimes the best really does come last. Striding onstage only to be dwarfed by a titanic 40-by-80-foot screen, Sony P...
Article | 2/06/2009 Metal Gear Solid revealed for Xbox 360
Microsoft's E3 2009 press conference is all-systems-go, so what did Redmond, Washington have up its sleeve? Some pretty amazing stuff, actually. Metal...

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