Microsoft has yanked the 250GB Xbox 360/Kinect bundle out of rumorville; the $399 Special Edition SKU is now official and will be available as Kinect launches in North America on November 4th, the platform holder’s announced today. A European release hasn’t been confirmed just yet. Like with the previously announced stand-alone $149 Kinect and $299 4GB console bundle, the package also... more.

Konami announced today that the eighth installment of their long-running franchise, Silent Hill 8 (working title), will be making its way to PS3 and Xbox 360 sometime next year. Having just announced the title, not many details concerning gameplay were spilled, as Konami plainly said that the game will be a “third person horror experience” with a “thought provoking storylineR... more.

Ubisoft has formally announced the download-only Outland it teased earlier in the week. As seen from the shots below, the side-scroller features quite the eye-catching visual style and makes the game’s on-the-brink-of-destruction world look rather inviting. Other than that though, and that it’s being developed by Housemarque of Super Stardust HD fame, details are slim. It’s expe... more.

2K Games today formally announced a Game of the Year edition of Gearbox Software’s Borderlands. Borderlands Game of the Year edition is exactly what GameStop said it was with a little bit of a twist. The new collection bundles the award-winning action role-playing game with every piece of already available downloadable content as well as a token to download the newly announced Claptrap̵... more.

Though North America's still a few weeks away from getting its collective hands on Phantasy Star Portable 2, Sega's Satoshi Sakai announced to Famitsu that a fancy, extended version of the game will be released in Japan this year. Subtitled Infinity, the expansion will feature new visual lobbies in online multiplayer modes (similar to the original Phantasy Star Online), a respeccing tool for lowe... more.

Piranha Bytes’ 2009 RPG Risen is getting a follow-up. Revealed at publisher Deep Silver’s Gamescom press conference this week, Risen 2 was announced with 2011-2012 release window and for both PC/consoles, plural (the first game only saw an Xbox 360 release). The details are still under wraps, though it was mentioned that better animations and artificial intelligence could be expected;... more.

Today at Comic-Con, Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono announced a love letter of sorts to Street Fighter fans as he revealed plans for Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition, saying that he and his team “haven’t forgotten about Street Fighter III“. The game’s re-release wouldn’t be the first time 3rd Strike saw the online frontier, though, as the Xbox v... more.

Capcom producer, Yoshinori Ono, announced today at Comic-Con’s “Street Fighter Mania!: SSFIV and Beyond!” panel that our previous suspicions are in good company; Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter (or rather, Street Fighter Cross Tekken and vice versa) are official. Find the first trailer above and 20 screenshots in the gallery. The descriptions Ono spilled abou... more.

During the Super Street Fighter 4 panel at Comic-Con today, producer Yoshinori Ono announced Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition, promising he hasn't forgotten about the Street Fighter III series and intends to bring it back to fans. What he didn't bring, unfortunately, was much in the way of any details. We're presum... more.

Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki’s new project won’t be seeing release for at least another year and a half. That’s according to publisher THQ who during an investor conference call last week revealed that it plans to release  Devil’s Third, along with Darksiders 2 and Warhammer 40,000 Dark Millennium Online, in calendar year 2012. The PS3/360 game... more.