Square Enix has announced that the latest revival of the Front Mission series will be arriving in the West in Spring 2010. Front Mission Evolved is being produced by Western Developer Double Helix Game, and is set to arrive on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC simultaneously. Front Mission Evolved will see players hop into a Wanzer – a gigantic mech – and do battle both on and offline. Unlike [...]

Followers of Crackdown 2 have reason to be very happy, since Ruffian’s confirmed that the game is going to get a pre-release demo. This was revealed in an interview with IGN. James Cope, the game’s producer, couldn’t say when the demo would hit online services: “Ruffian is one year old almost to the day. You can definitely expect a demo to hit Live before the game is out but I [...]

Can’t get enough of Assassin’s Creed 2? Then you’re in luck, because Ezio will be returning in another game by March 2011, and this one will feature multiplayer to boot. A Ubisoft rep, has gone on record stating to CVG that “The game will take place with the same hero, which is Ezio, and will follow-up the story that took place in Assassin’s Creed II.” It will be a full priced [...]

So… the first trailer for the Tekken movie has just been released, and you know what? It doesn’t look half bad, actually. Now, bear with me a moment. This is Tekken. Anyone expecting Shakespeare is missing the point a little. But this clip does have one thing going for it that a lot of video game adaptations don’t; authenticity to the franchise. There’s no denying that the makers have gone [...]

BioWare has today removed Dragon Age: Origins DLC Return to Ostagar from Xbox Live, due to a title update creating a bug whereby specialised classes have stopped working in isolated circumstances. The reason for the DLC being removed until further notice was explained on the official BioWare forums forums: This morning a title update on the Xbox 360 for Dragon Age: Origins was made available in preparation for the release [...]

Ubisoft has revealed in a press release that Splinter Cell: Conviction has been delayed until April 2010 Citing sales targets for the third-quarter and full-year of 2009 to 2010, the press release also announced that R.U.S.E has also been pushed into 2010-11 fiscal year. An exact April release date has not been finalised. The game was originally scheduled to hit stores in February. We’ll give you an exact release date as [...]

Activision has announced that Modern Warfare 2 has grossed over $1 billion since its launch in November. That’s… a lot of money. The game grossed over $550 million in its first five days on sales, and has continued to sell like hot-cakes since then, consistently standing at the top of the charts. It finally hit the $1 billion mark recently. Press release after the cut.

A leaked video has appeared online from this year’s CES 2010 show in Las Vegas, which shows Microsoft’s president of Entertainment and Devices Division Robbie Bach discussing the soon-to-be-announced feature for the Xbox Live. ‘Xbox Game Room’ is a feature that will offer users the chance to relive old retro games from the comfort of their couches by being able to play games classics, including “Centipede,” “Asteroids Deluxe,” and “Super [...]

ELSPA presented some rather interesting software sales figures today. In 2009, the Xbox 360 overtook the (until recently) unstoppable Wii as the biggest software-shifting format in the UK. That’s a first. The Xbox 360 pulled in £459 million worth of software revenue in 2009, although the Wii sold a higher number of titles in general, shifting over 18 million games last year. PlayStation 3 finally made itself competitive in 2009, [...]

Capcom’s just confirmed the demo of upcoming Dark Void will be released tomorrow (January 6) on Xbox Live, with the PSN version to be released on Thursday. Dark Void’s story centers around a pilot named William who’s teleported into a parallel universe where humans are battling aliens called Watchers. With the help of Nikola Tesla, William acquires a jetpack for some high-flying adventures. According to the press release, the demo [...]