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Article | 14/08/2010 Yoda in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2

"That which you seek. Inside, you will find." LucasArts brings Yoda into the Force Unleashed 2 storyline, as previously hinted at by Haden Blackman in...

Article | 5/07/2010 The 12 best games for the iPhone 4

Don't waste time with games you've never heard of, make sure you make your first purchases count. The following 12 games are all classics, and represe...

Article | 15/04/2010 XCOM reborn as a first person shooter

XCOM is back, but not how you remember it. The classic sci-fi tactical strategy game, originally released by Microprose and Mythos Games, has been re-...

Article | 9/04/2010 The whole world consumed by video games. Amazing video

See New York (and eventually the whole world) overrun by Space Invaders and Tetris blocks before being eaten by Pac-Man and jumped over by Frogger. An...

Article | 25/03/2010 A glimpse at some iPad games

The iPad is just a week away, and game developers are starting to reveal what their titles will look like on the device. It's already clear that we'll...

Article | 24/03/2010 How the Nintendo 3DS 3D works

Nintendo's newly announced 3DS handheld promises 3D imagery without the need for goggles. How is this possible? If it does indeed use Sharp's "paralla...

Article | 13/03/2010 Heavy Rain: The Musical?

While speaking with David Cage at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, I asked him what he felt he had achieved with his loose t...

Article | 10/03/2010 Battlestar Galactica Online announced

At GDC 2010 today, NBC, SyFy, and developer Bigpoint announced a browser-based massively multiplayer online game based on the hit Sci-Fi Channel show ...

Article | 10/03/2010 PS3 Final Fantasy XIII includes Final Fantasy XIV goodies

In an entry posted on the official PlayStation blog, Sony's Rob Dyer revealed the following exclusive offer that will be included with the PS3 version...

Article | 10/03/2010 Accidental shooting linked to Wii controller

A three-year-old in Wilson County, TN has tragically died after shooting herself on Sunday evening. Early reports link the shooting to the child mista...

Article | 30/01/2010 Mass Effect 2 a huge hit after just four days

BioWare co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka said today that "Mass Effect 2 is poised to be one of the biggest games of 2010. We could not be more proud of the g...

Article | 4/02/2010 New Zelda to be revealed at E3?

Could Zelda's latest adventure game on the Wii be making its debut at this year's E3? While it's by no means a confirmation that the game will actuall...

Article | 29/01/2010 Flight Control confirmed for iPad

Flight Control is one of the most successful games on the App Store, having sold over 2 million copies since it was first released on March 6 last yea...

Article | 29/01/2010 What does the iPad mean for gamers?

This morning we spent some time with Apple's new iPad tablet device at the company's press conference and hands-on demonstration at Yerba Buena Center...

Article | 27/01/2010 Mass Effect 2

It took me 28 hours to beat Mass Effect 2 on my first run through, and I think it's safe to say that for more than 27 hours of that experience I was, ...