It had been a while since a new Super Smash Bros Brawl character was last announced, but a couple of days ago, game director Masahiro Sakurai introduced Captain Olimar to the fray via the Smash Bros Dojo blog. Olimar comes… Read More »

It’s no secret that gaming magazine sales are slumping lately. It’s also no secret that the world is primed and ready for Super Smash Bros Brawl. So if you were one of the aforementioned slumping gaming publications like, oh, Electronic… Read More »

The 2008 Tokyo Game Show has been officially penned in for October 9th-12th, according to a press release on the event’s website. The show’s organizers, CESA, have decided to push this year’s show back from its typical September timeslot, but… Read More »

This Steam news bulletin reports that Valve Corporation acquired Turtle Rock Studios today. Turtle Rock is currently working on a team-based, multiplayer zombie FPS called Left 4 Dead that’ll utilize Valve’s Source engine.  Turtle Rock is no stranger to Valve… Read More »

In this press release, UK publisher SCi Entertainment announced they’ve ceased all possible buyout talks with various companies. While we’ve known that the publisher was talking to companies about a possible sell, we didn’t know who exactly; speculation included companies… Read More »

Reuters is reporting on some strong indications and rumors that Microsoft may be eyeballing PC accessory maker Logitech for a ripe acquisition. In subsequent financial news, Logitech’s stoke rose as much as 12% based on this speculated acquisition rumblings.  Previously,… Read More »

Crysis is one behemoth of a game. By far the most spectacular looking computer game on the market–something Crytek was successful in achieving. So why has it been getting so much flak from gamers? Well because you need one behemoth… Read More »

Bill Gates knows that his 360 has had problems and promised to make his machine the most reliable game console out there in comments made to the BBC during the Consumer Electronics Show. Gates said, "Well we certainly had to… Read More »

Microsoft finally came clean with the goods and admitted to what everyone already knew–Xbox Live service broke during the holidays because of a massive flood of new users and holiday gamers jumping on the grid. Albert Penello, marketing manager at… Read More »

One of the many perks that the Xbox 360 has to offer is the ability to play games from its older self, the original Xbox. As of now Xbox 360 owners are capable of playing 465 titles from the original… Read More »