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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam Expansion Launches This Winter

Battlefield: Bad Company 2's Vietnam Expansion Will Add A New Layer To The Game's Multiplayer Component. EA’s finally detailed the anticipated Vietnam expansion for DICE’s popular Battlefield: Bad Company 2 shooter. The package, which is due out this Winter, includes four new maps, six new vehicles, a 60’s soundtrack and 15 time-specific weapons. It’ll basically add...

SingStar: Dance Gets You Jiving To Ricky Martin

Dancing, Karaoke & GaGa. We're Not Sure What We Think Really. We’ve never danced to Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca” before, and we never want to. But we suppose we’re going to have to review SingStar: Dance, and that means we might actually have to. Oh motion controllers — this is the reason you’re universally hated? Seriously though, SingStar:...

TGS 10: Valkyria Chronicles III Gets Debut Trailer, Screens

Oh, Hello Young Lady. Look, we’re sorry alright. We know you wanted a PlayStation 3 game, but Valkyria Chronicles III is on the PSP. You’re going to have to get over it at some point. We know you’re mad, but you can’t keep shooting the messenger. Besides, Valkyria Chronicles II was a great PlayStation Portable game by all accounts, and we’re certain the next game will...

Sony: 30.5 Million PlayStation 3’s Are Connected To The PSN, Yearly Sales Targets On Track

Sony Claim That 80% Of PlayStation 3 Systems Are Connected To The PSN. SCE’s president Kaz Hirai has revealed that roughly 80 percent of PlayStation 3 consoles are connected to the PlayStation Network. Hirai said that of the 38.1 million consoles sold, roughly 30.48 million systems are connected to the PlayStation Network, which is a pretty impressive attach-rate. Hirai also claimed that hardware...

New images and videos for our old games

Hello! I’m currently doing some work on the screenshots for the games on this website.  A lot of them were taken years ago and are teeny-weeny (eww, see Coolspot.)   I can take much bigger screenshots, more of them, and just better quality really (well as quality as the game was, right?) It’s time to go back and look at ones I took before I used DOSBox and get them up to scratch! We...

Comic-Con 2010: DC Universe Online Hits November 2nd

DC Universe Online Is Now Mere Months Away. If you’re still getting your breath back after that incredible cinematic trailer for DC Universe Online, well, we apologise. Why? Because we’re about to send you on a hype-fit all over again. Shall we just get it over with? Ok — Sony Online Entertainment’s upcoming super-hero MMO will drop on November 2nd. That’ll be both on...

Comic-Con 2010: Screenshots Like This Get Our Pulses Racing

"I'm Head Of The G Corporation Don'tchaknow?!" As an onlooking Servbot watches Tekken’s Kazuya kick the crap out of Street Fighter’s Ryu, we can’t help but feel that the upcoming  Street Fighter X Tekken cross-over heading to the PlayStation 3 is probably the best announcement since sliced bread. Sadly, the producer of Capcom’s game, Yoshinori Ono, reckons...

Comic-Con 2010: The Street Fighter X Tekken Trailer That Will Have Your Fanboy Juices Running

Street Fighter X Tekken. It’s a God-honest video game. T’was announced yesterday. For realsies. And here’s the game’s debut trailer. It shows Street Fighter’s Ryu facing up to Tekken’s Jin Kazama. It’s all inky and blotchy. It looks amazing. Can we wait to play this? No we cannot.

There’s No Place Like Home: Photobombed In The Minis Space

If Anybody Has Any Information On This Lady (/Man?!), It Would Be Gratefully Appreciated. This week wasn’t supposed to be like this. I had a whole other series prepared for this week’s There’s No Place Like Home. I was going to do my best Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and make-over my Personal Space. But in my quest for fancy neon lamps, this happened [see photographic evidence above]....

Comic-Con 2010: Street Fighter X Tekken Hitting The PlayStation 3 From Capcom, Tekken X Street Fighter Also In Development At Namco

Capcom & Namco's Revealed Both Street Fighter X Tekken & Tekken X Street Fighter For The PlayStation 3. Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono has put an end to rumours regarding a possible Namco and Capcom cross-over; by announcing Street Fighter X Tekken (pronounced Street Fighter Cross Tekken). The game’s in development for the PlayStation 3. Joined on-stage by Tekken producer...