EA has said that the issues with the Army of Two 2: The 40th Day DLC Chapters of Deceit will be fixed soon. Speaking with Eurogamer,  EA has said that it’s looking into a fix for the faulty Achievements and Trophies. “There is a known issue affecting Achievements in an Army of Two DLC pack. We are looking into a solution and hope to provide an update soon,” said the rep.... more.

Ubisoft has laid out their downloadable content strategy for Splinter Cell: Conviction today. DLC is to be made available every Thursday, for free, it will be content ranging from the aesthetic to practical. Players can expect additional weapons, skins, as well as a new Deniable Ops maps. First DLC will be a new weapon, the MP7A1 machine pistol which can be found through the game’s ‘Extras... more.

Ex Infinity Ward bosses Jason and Zampella  has announced the formation of Respawn Entertainment, a new studio set on duplicating the successes of Infinity Ward. As I'm sure you know by now Activision fired both West & Zampella a month ago, accusing them of violating their contracts. West & Zampella deemed this unjust and has sued Activision. EA is said to get exclusive distribut... more.

Activision is counter-suing ex Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella. A month after the fired men filed their lawsuit for wrongful dismissal, unpaid royalties and the right to control “Modern Warfare-branded games”, the publishing giant has struck back with a counter-suit. According to Activision, “West and Zampella morphed from valued, responsible executives into insubor... more.

Following the developers 50% buy-out by Reliance Big Entertainment, CEO Rod Cousens has announced the company’s new direction. Speaking to MCV, Cousens said, “A traditional games publisher with a distribution infrastructure is no longer the model. It is the model of the dinosaurs.” “We have positioned ourselves well for the future. We’ve focused on franchises that are proven. We h... more.

Modern Warfare 2’s Stimulus Package has had an incredibly successful launch on Xbox Live, destroying previous day one records.  Todd Greenwald of Signal Hill predicts this in not the last we will hear of it. “This is an overwhelming response to an offering of 5 new multi-player map packs. By comparison, very few developers have been able to sell even 1 million downloads of DLC.” “T... more.

Rockstar Games has unveiled one of Red Dead Redemption's multiplayer modes. Just like in Grand Theft Auto IV, "Multiplayer Free Roam" lets players explore the full single-player gameworld in an online, multiplayer environment. In Free Roam, players can explore on their own or band together to form "posses" of up to 8 players. While in posses, players can take on other posses, hunt down criminals... more.

As the latest system update for the Ps3 (3.21) axed the ability to install another operating system on it.  The person who in January claimed to have "hacked the PS3."  Now claims to have created a custom firmware update that  reintroduces the Other OS feature to original PS3 units and potentially enables the feature on the Slim systems as well. Geohot writes on his blog that this can be in... more.

Talking  about the PlayStation 3 version, Michael Glück, lead programmer says the upcoming shooter is looking to surpass the visual fidelity of “all PS3 games”. “With each generation of game titles on PS3, usually every 2 years, the games improve significantly in its quality, mostly showing off in graphics,” he told Play Magazine. “I think with Crysis 2 you will see the quality ba... more.

Reggie Fils-Aime thinks that not only will the DS family continue to dominate the handheld market, but that the iPad isn’t even a “viable profit platform.” Apple “is not having an impact on Nintendo when you look at our business, our volume, our hardware, our software,” he said. “I’ve seen data that suggestions that while consumers are constantly downloading Apps, they play ... more.