UK charts: Mass Effect 2 maintains number one spot

Despite a 65 percent drop in sales, Mass Effect 2 has maintained its number one spot in the UK charts.The BioWare RPG held off Ubisoft’s Just Dance into second and Modern Warfare 2 at third.Dante’s Inferno dropped in and took the number four spot.... more.

Aliens vs. Predator will feature seven unique competitive game types, ranging from various "deathmatch" modes, to the propagatory "Infestation" mode, to the "Survivor" mode.There's also "Domination," which Modern Warfare veterans should be familiar with, and "Predator Hunt".... more.

Microsoft has announced  that it will release a standalone 250GB hard drive in Japan later this year. The drive which carries a price tag of ¥15,540  or $170  is set to be released on March 11. On the same day, the company will also be releasing the Wireless Controller Game Pack and the Xbox 360 Wireless N adapter.This will be the first time that Microsoft has released the 250GB hard dri... more.

BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 has overtaken the crown from Just Dance in last week’s UK sales charts. The sci-fi epic was released on Friday, meaning it managed to topple the dance-o-rama title with just two days worth of sales.Modern Warfare 2 saw a 3 percent drop in sales and dropped to third place while the second newcomer for the week, MAG, debuts at number four.1. MASS EFFECT 2 2. JU... more.

The first Modern Warfare 2 downloadable content will be exclusive to the Xbox 360 for 30 days, Microsoft has clarified. “We have a 30-day timed exclusive on the Modern Warfare content packs,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Eurogamer. “So it will be available on other platforms, but you get to try and play on Xbox 360 first.”... more.

Hackers have allegedly found a way to vhange the amount of experience rewarded for killing them. Instead of the usual 50- or 100-points we usually see, these  players can punish their killers with negative five million points, dropping their rank back to level 1. ... more.

Modern Warfare 2 has brought in $1 billion since its launch in November, according to Activision’s internal estimates, and, according to CEO Bobby Kotick, “has exceeded our expectations”. As reported last year, the game raked in more than half of that sum, $550 million, in its first five days alone.Following nine weeks of chart topping, the game’s also been announced as 2009’s ... more.

The  video shows the super sprint, which is 4x the normal sprint speed and no friction glitch aka ice skating.... more.

DICE is definitely setting themselves up to play with the big boys with Battlefield: Bad Company 2. First they were looking to take on Modern Warfare 2, and now they’re aiming forUncharted 2: Among Thieves.According to producer Gordon Van Dyke though, no game can claim to have reached the graphical prowess that Uncharted 2 delivers but he explains why he compares Bad Company 2 to Unchart... more.

According to destructoid industry sources, Infinity Ward's new game will be an MMO. We've gotten word that IW is hiring people from Sony Online Entertainment, one of which may be the lead designer of EverQuest II, and that a member of Blizzard employees may also be involved to help Infinity Ward get this new title off the ground. Our Intel seems to indicate that Call of Duty will continue as a... more.