Just as we were trying desperately to finish HeartGold this weekend – but Red’s level 88 Pikachu is a bitch – the first screens for the just announced fifth generation of Pokemon games leaked on the internet. The images seem to originate from CoroCoro, a manga publication in Japan that routinely gets huge Poke reveals, including announcing the name Black and White and... more.

While we were all hoping that the recently announced Pokémon Black and White would have an appropriate film noir aesthetic and monochromatic color palette, a few vividly colorful glimpses of the game have appeared in CoroCoro magazine (via Serebii.net). While it certainly looks a heck of a lot like previous DS-based iterations of the franchise, a few of the screens seem to change up the se... more.

In addition to the fresh screenshots and art posted a bit earlier, the graphical masterminds at Crytek are also treating us to an extended version of the Crysis 2 trailer shown at NYC a few days ago. The rather haunting nature of the clip certainly signals of the more story-based approach the company’s taking with the shooter sequel, penned by Altered Carbon and Broken Angels novelist Richa... more.

The first details regarding Ghost Recon: Future Soldier are beginning to emerge, and they are painting a picture of a game markedly different from its predecessors. Future Soldier takes the action out of Mexico and makes it a globetrotting adventure with more emphasis than ever before on its futuristic toys. Official Xbox Maga... more.

Note to self: if I ever find myself in a situation where I try a hand at home invasion, I should make sure to not be breaking into the house of a superspy like Sam Fisher. Within the first hour of Splinter Cell Conviction, there's a flashback to Sam tucking his five-year-old daughter Sara into bed. This sequence in itself is a pr... more.

Kotaku writes: "With the PlayStation Move looking, well, similar to Nintendo's Wii Remote, you may have wondered how long it would take until it was announced a Wii game was being ported to the PS3. The answer? How about, oh, a few hours. Warner Bros let us know today that The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest, a game previously headed for the Wii (and DS), will now also be making an ap... more.

Everyone’s favourite videogame heroine, Lara Croft, is set to return, though the game will not feature the Tomb Raider name, instead being titled: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. The first major change differencing this from Tomb Raider titles is the isometric view. Where previous outings with Ms. Croft had the camera positioned behind her back, in standard third-person fashion, this game... more.

It seems like an age since we first got our hands on infectiously joyful Joe Danger. When we previewed it in November it was already enough to put a big, stupid grin on our faces. Indeed, all it really lacked was a platform. Well, now it’s got one: PlayStation 3. “We’ve been having the most insanely awesome 2010 so far,” said Hello Games’ Sean Murray on the PlayStation B... more.

The StarCraft II beta is currently underway and already has us pining for the full release. As for exactly when that will happen, all we've known is that Blizzard plans to release the game in the first half of 2010. According to the latest BlizzCast, that's still the plan. During the podcast, production director Chris Sigaty stated that the beta should last "three to five months" and added that B... more.

When it comes to big titles, nothing from publisher Codemasters exactly springs to mind right away. Sure, Dirt 2 and Operation Flashpoint are great games, but they’re far from the best selling titles of the year. For that reason, it seemed believable when the company was rumored to have laid off marketing staff a few days back. Turns out that isn’t strictly true. Six people are sadly... more.