Bungie will be celebrating Halo 2 one last time on April 14th, the day before Xbox LIVE for the original Xbox will be shutting down for good. The studio is planning a rally for fans to battle it out one last time. View full post on GamesRadar - News... more.

Final Fantasy XIII has been a huge success sales wise in Japan, although people that have played it aren’t quite as enthusiastic. The game has been criticized for being very linear compared to previous installments in the long running RPG series. Director of FFXIII Motomu Toriyama and producer Yoshinori Kitase gave an explanation as to why this Final Fantasy lacks the freedom of previous titles. “We made the map and battles function as part of the story, so that players get the same fee... more.

Movie-rental chain declares bankruptcy again, plans to immediately shutter 760 locations, including many of subsidiary Hollywood Video's sibling game outlets. Gamers who rent or shop at their local Game Crazy outlets got some bad news this week. The Movie Gallery movie-rental chain announced Wednesday that it has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will be forced to close 760 locations immediately. The closures will affect Movie Gallery, Hollywood Video, and Hollywood Video's often-i... more.

Andriasang: Xbox 360 owners get access to new scenarios before PS3 owners. View full post on GamesRadar - News... more.

Despite THQ President and CEO Brian Farrell’s repeated references to the PS3’s forthcoming motion controller as Arc, the device is still moniker-free according to Sony. Farrell dropped the name during yesterday’s investors call, setting the gaming blogosphere a twitter, but SCEA’s Patrick Seybold has been quick to confirm that ‘PlayStation Arc’ is as yet still just a “rumoured codename.” “No. We haven’t announced the name of our Motion... more.

Contrary to recent reports, there are currently no plans to release a demo for Splinter Cell: Conviction. Last December, in a video interview with the inimitable HipHopGamer, an unamed Ubisoft representative confirmed that a demo of Sam Fisher’s latest would be appearing on Xbox 360 in January. However, it’s February and it has yet to appear. Indeed, it doesn’t look like it will. Speaking to VG247 today, a Ubisoft rep said that, “There is no plan for a demo [at the mom... more.

EA Sports is letting fans decide the cover athlete of Madden NFL 11, but there's only one correct choice. Get the full article at GameSpot "Xbox 360 | Madden NFL 11: Vote for the Cover" was posted by Brian Ekberg on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:07:50 -0800 View full post on GameSpot's News... more.

You might have heard that a little band called The Who will be playing during the half-time show at the Super Bowl this weekend. You also may have picked up on the news that the band plans on performing a special, condensed medley of their greatest hits during Sunday's big game. Now developer Harmonix has announced that Rock Band owners will be able to download a previously recorded version of that performance immediately af... more.

Like a villain from some cheesy show back in the 70's, you haven't seen the last of BlazBlue. The latest issue of Famitsu (via Andriasang) confirms that BlazBlue Continuum Shift -- presumably a home console installment of the recently released arcade game of the same name in Japan -- is currently in the works. What was a one-off fighting game in the summer of 2009 has grown into a full-on franchise, with a PSP port and DSiWare spin-off already out mixing it up amongst fight fans, so the safe b... more.

This mod is now evolving to encompass quite a few faction flags hence the new name. NOTE: Nations/government faction types that were not included in the vanilla version of the game have been removed. View full post on GamesRadar - News... more.