EA has announced that legendary film score composer and music producer Hans Zimmer will be contributing music to Cyrsis 2. This seems like a good move for EA as Zimmer has done some excellent work in the past including the score for Inception, The Dark Knight and Gladiator as well as working on the score for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. When asked about the game Zimmer said “I was drawn... more.

Radical Entertainment has released a brand new trailer for their upcoming sandbox superhero game Prototype 2. The short trailer shows new series protagonist Sergeant James Heller using his new super powers to throw some poor guy of a roof and onto a car bonnet. Judging by this trailer it does look like the series is retaining the exaggeratedly violent gameplay that made the original game so ... more.

At the request of the power companies in Japan.  Square Enix will be shutting down their Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV and PlayOnline servers in an attempt to conserve energy due to the recent disastrous events that have plagued the country. The servers have been taken offline starting March 13th, 6am EST and will be offline for a least a week.  Square Enix will not be billing players for... more.

The Mortal Kombat series is no stranger to controversy and the latest game is looking to be no different as it has already been banned in Australia. The games wide range of overly violent fatalities and high level of graphical detail appear too much for the Australian ratings board and they have refused to give the game a MA15+ classification. As there is still no 18+ classification this effec... more.

Two new trailers for Marvel Vs Capcom 3 DLC have been released showing off two new characters. Representing Capcom we have Jill Valentine from the Resident Evil series and from Marvel we get the demonic Shuma-Gorath. Both characters were previously in MvC 2 so it is pretty great to see them back in the game. The trailers show the new characters fighting style and are definitely worth checkin... more.

Studio head Tim Schafer revealed Trenched the latest game from Double Fine studios. The game appears to be a Mech based shooter and looks like it will maintain the studios trademark humour and unique visual style with a cool 50s Sci-fi feel to it think War of the Worlds meets Mech Warrior. The announcement was accompanied by trailer showing many of the games elements including and the highly... more.

Pinball FX was a decent, if unspectacular game only hugely rewarding and satisfying for pinball devotees; all seven of them that is. With a paltry three tables and 200 achievement points, Pinball FX was simply not worth the 800 Microsoft points Zen Studios were asking. Rest assured though, as this sequel of sorts is far better value for money and realises the original game’s potential. FX 2 is... more.

Speculation about the website Findmakarov.com has been rampant since it first appeared on the internet last week. It initially seemed that it was clearly a teaser for the next Modern Warfare game, but when Activision dismissed the countdown as a hoax it became all together more complicated. Were Activision just dismissing the rumours to maintain the suspense for the announcement or was it an... more.

I have to admit that when I first heard about Bulletstorm I wasn’t sure what to think about it. There are already plenty of FPS games in the video game world. It was developed by People Can Fly & Epic Games. Epic Games is the same company that created the successful Gears of War franchise so I had really high hopes with Bulletstorm. I was wondering if there was anything that would separate... more.

Call of Duty releases over the past several years have been in a pattern, this would see the next game in the Modern Warfare line of games to be coming later this year. Rumour is that we may well see Modern Warfare 3 revealed early next week at GDC in San Francisco. This comes about after a website has been launched featuring a countdown set to end on Wednesday, March 2, at 7am PST (GDC t... more.