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Paul Steed may well be an unknown name to most, but if you played Quake or Wing Commander, you've seen his work. Sadly he passed away recently. Exactly when is not clear though.

Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced the development of Street Fighter IV, the next iteration of the genre-establishing fighting game series, for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system and...

Thanks LOC for the heads up in our Gamers Hangout! Take-Two subsidiary 2K said that the sequel to 2007's hit title Bioshock, developed by 2K Boston and 2K Australia, will be arriving in fourth...

Thanks to VE3D as usual for the head's up: Expansion packs and semi-standalone sequels - the 1.5 thing - are an odd phenomenon. You don't see that in any other medium, do you? ...

The Heroic map pack contains three new maps, each presenting a totally different play style. Standoff's symmetrical valley, with its entrenched bases and fields of boulders is ideal for mid-sized objective and Slayer game types,...

It was just confirmed that the Fall Dashboard update will be released next Tuesday, December 4th. One of the new features that will be part of the release is 'Friends of Friends.' With this new...

After only two months on the market, the PSP-2000 has sold a million units in Japan as of Nov. 22, Sony announced. What makes it more impressive is it reached the milestone two weeks faster...

An insider reveals that significant progress has been made on the PC code of the game and development has finally picked up its pace over the year. The game's look is supposed to be completely...

GSC Game World is glad to announce it is now officially certified by Microsoft as an Xbox 360 developer. As part of the program, GSC Game World obtained all the necessary development tools, so as...

According to D'Astous, Eidos Montreal currently has two groups -- a Q&A group that is responsible for testing all of the developer's games from anywhere in the world, and an in-house development team that D'Astous...

In the MMOG industry, free-to-play games are deemed by many to be "second rate" titles. Whether these games are imported or made locally, the term "free-to-play" seems to run almost in conjunction with terms like...

It's an amazing feat; almost exactly a year after launch, the Nintendo Wii is still hard to find in most areas. The demand will become even greater as we near the holiday season, and games...

November 15, 2007 - Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, and the U.S. Army announced that America's Army®: True Soldiers™, exclusively for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from...

Nintendo's DS Lite redesign has proved a tremendous success, regularly topping hardware sales charts around the world since it was first released in Japan in March 2006. Despite the system's success, Pacific Crest Securities analyst...

Guess all the negative reviews didn't really put a dent in sales for Hellgate: London eh? Go on Flagship Studios! Here are the Top 10 best selling PC games for the week ending November 3rd:...

Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced its highly anticipated Assassin's Creed™ video game is now available in retail stores nationwide in North America. Easily one of the most anticipated games...

Yet another "expansion" for The Sims 2. What is this, like 35 now? Yikes: For the first time, Electronic Arts has brought The Sims™ players a stuff pack with the exclusive intent of giving their...

The Soldier of Fortune series debuts on the next-generation consoles with the release of Activision, Inc.'s Soldier of Fortune Payback, which is now available at retail stores nationwide. The game puts players into the role...

The other day it was announced that a character wipe for the Asian version of Hellgate: London (run by IAH Games) was needed, and there was no way around it. Well it seems that a...

Electronic Arts Inc. announced that Need for Speed™ ProStreet ships to retailers today in North America. The game will ship in Europe from November 22 onwards. To celebrate the launch of the game, EA is...

Electronic Arts Inc. has shipped SimCity Societies™, the newest edition of the top selling PC franchise, SimCity™, to stores across North America, Asia, Australia and Europe today. A version of the game is also available...

A day late, but important either way. Crytek's "next-gen" PC FPS masterpiece Crysis should now be in stores pretty much everywhere around the world - North America and Europe included. Here is the press release...

So, who wants to download old Xbox 1 games on their Xbox 360 for 1200 (or so) MS points? Because come December 4th you will be able to do that and more! (Don't forget the...

Well folks, today is the big day (some of) you have been waiting for. If you are a casual or die hard World of Warcraft player - then today is the day things change for...

GameSpy will be incorporating its multiplayer tech into Epic's Unreal Tournament 3 for PC and PS3. The big question sitting in gamers' minds is whether or not the deal will mean cross-platform console-to-PC fragging for...

With shooters like BioShock, Halo 3, The Orange Box and Call of Duty 4 hitting the market within close range of one another, companies have had to convince consumers to choose their game over competitors....