After promotional details for Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag spilled all over the interwebs yesterday, Ubisoft has today confirmed that the next core entry in the Assassins Creed series will be announced on Monday March 4th at 5pm GMT. A number of journalists have already been to a Ubisoft hosted event in London to play the game. Little else is known about the game other than the fact that officially released packshots [...]

It’ll soon be time for the industry vultures to have a second go at stripping the meat off the bones of THQ, as the administrators for the company have confirmed that the former publisher will attempt to sell off all of its remaining IP at a court-supervised auction on April 1st. The IP sale has been sliced up into the six tasty morsels; Red Faction, Homeworld, MX, Darksiders, other owned [...]

It feels as if it hasn’t been very long since we had another Assassins Creed, today a screen and some promotional details have surfaced for the next iteration of one of the current generations popular franchises, titled Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag. Nicholas Gigante of examiner.com has a few details about the title. The lead character is the father of Assassins Creed 3 villain Haytham Kenway, named Edward Kenway. Kenway [...]

Remember when I said that Skylanders Giants figures were really expensive? You’re in luck! You can get Giant Skylander Swarm for only $2.99 and the first Battle Pack, which includes Series 2 Chop Chop, Shroomboom, and the Dragonfire Cannon, for only $9.99. Together, that’s nearly a $30 savings. Also, free shipping if you’ve got Amazon Prime or fill your basket with other Skylanders goodies.

Having recently passed away from a heart attack, Robin Sachs is most recently known for his work in the Mass Effect series, having portrayed mercenary hero Zaeed Massasni. In homage to the English voice actor with a substantial body of work, this weekend’s challenge for Mass Effect 3 is dubbed Operation: TRIBUTE wherein you have to acquire 50,000 points using the M-8 Avenger and 50,000 points using Inferno Grenade. Latter [...]

Let me apologize up front for the brevity of this week’s eShop update. I had some needles shoved into my back today and the less I sit at my desk, the better. Let’s get on with the info so I can get on with laying on the couch crying in pain like the little girl I am. Wii U eShop update for 2/21 F-Zero (SNES Virtual Console) – $0.30 – [...]

Episode 2 is here! You know, for all of the reader that checked out the first episode… And look! We have a fancy banner thanks to Randall Drew of Rkdia Comics! He did this week’s video image as well. Episode 2: On Location with Youth Large sees the crew recording on location at The Video Game Store in downtown Wilkes Barre, PA. Small (Tim) was working, so why not, right? [...]

Wii Street U has come to the Wii U and for a limited time it’s free. Might as well snatch it up now since I’m not sure why anyone would actually pay to have Google street view on their Wii U when they have it on their phone, computer, tablet and probably 8 other things for free. You navigate around with the game pad and it’s stylized to look kind of [...]

Guess what folks?  Its Nintendo Direct time! Or, at least, it will be tomorrow. Nintendo of America is currently down to host a 3DS and Wii U game focused Nintendo Direct broadcast tomorrow on February 14th at 6AM Pacific/9AM Eastern time.  As usual, you can catch the thing all live and stuff on the official Nintendo site. At the same time at 2PM UK time, Nintendo of Europe will be [...]

Clever fan Joffrey Babilotte went to Ubisoft Montpellier to protest Ubisoft’s decision to delay Rayman Legends from February to September. What’s even better is that there’s pictures of the development team holding them. The developers at Montpellier are pretty upset about the delay as well, posting that the decision came from the higher ups at Ubisoft. Check out the photos after the jump.