Computer/Console Gaming Category - Page 12

Reading that headline shouldn’t instill any sense of wonder in you. Of course there will be Call of Duty on next-gen consoles, this is something we all know. After all, it’s one of the biggest game franchises in history and definitely the most popular console game today, so Activision, Infinity [...]

Like Mass Effect 2 before it, Mass Effect 3 is making waves within the RPG community. There are some out there that don’t like the fact that Mass Effect 3 will be sporting an all new multiplayer mode when it arrives in March – a first for the series. Others [...]

The media we’ve seen so far has a lot of longtime Max Payne fans chomping at the bit to get their hands on Max Payne 3 (that includes former Max Payne developer Remedy Entertainment, mind you), but those fans are going to have to wait just a little bit longer, [...]

The ESRB is at it again, issuing ratings for games that don’t exist yet. This time around, it’s indie game Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet from FuelCell. According to the ESRB, it’s coming to Windows-based PCs soon, and since the ESRB is rarely (if ever) wrong about these upcoming releases, we’re [...]

Being a Valve fan is a double-edged sword. On one hand, Valve is known for putting out masterpiece after masterpiece, and its games will likely go down in history as some of the best ever released. On the other hand, Valve loves keeping secrets, sometimes waiting years between installments and [...]

The 3DS may have gotten off to a slow start, but now it’s the reigning king. Not only did the 3DS sell like crazy during the holiday season, but new numbers from Media Create show that a number of 3DS titles have become some of Japan’s best-selling games of 2011. [...]

UK-based games retailer GAME may or may not have been the victim of a security breach today. Earlier, Softpedia was reporting that both GAME and Australian company Catalyst Gaming were the victims of a security breach that left user information compromised, but a GAME representative quickly took to Facebook in [...]

Even though Rockstar has had some involvement with the Max Payne franchise in the past, that involvement really only includes creating ports of the first two games in the series. Now, with Max Payne 3, Rockstar is developing a Max Payne game from the ground up for the first time, [...]

It’s quite obvious that you don’t need any more evidence of Minecraft’s stupefying popularity, but here’s some anyway: Notch has announced that Minecraft now boasts 20 million registered users worldwide. Notch points out that – assuming each of those Minecraft users weighs 70 kg (about 153 pounds for you non-Metric [...]

Likely coming as a shock to absolutely no one, BioWare has announced that all PC copies of Mass Effect 3 will require Origin, Electronic Arts’ digital distribution service. That’s right, even that physical copy you were planning on buying so you could avoid this exact situation will require an Origin [...]