It was no surprise the multi-million selling PGR franchise would come out with another sequel. Project Gotham Racing 4 (PGR4) will be released by the end of 2007, or in the first half of 2008, on Xbox 360. At Microsoft’s X06 event this week, PGR4 was unveiled in a teaser trailer. The latest addition to…

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was first released on PC and Xbox 360 back in March 2006. After unofficial Oblivion rumors last week, now developer Bethesda revealed Oblivion will be coming out as a PS3 launch title on November 17th 2006 in the U.S. and in March 2007 in Europe. Now the developer is adapting…

Alan Wake is a bestselling horror writer, who writes a novel about his darkest nightmares. In the Xbox 360 & PC (Windows Vista only) game by the same name, those nightmares come true… At E3 developer Remedy showed a teaser to give a feel for the game that features a massive open world for the…

The Rag Doll Kung Fu team recently formed their own studio Media Molecule. Turns out for the past six months they’ve been working on a new game exclusively for PS3, which will be published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. A quote from, creative director at Media Molecule, Mark Healey: “Working together on Rag Doll convinced…

As Altair, a medieval hitman with a mysterious past (he’s not a time traveler), you have free reign to explore vast cities and countryside. You will investigate your targets by exploring, eavesdropping and even picking pockets for clues on his whereabouts. When you have three clues (with more to discover) you can then move to…

Introversion today released their third game titled DEFCON (after Uplink in 2001 & Darwinia in 2005). Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare. You can download the PC…

Thanks to Reetesh for sending in a report from Gamespot that mentions after the original Kingdom Hearts was released in 2002, Square Enix took the liberty of releasing its English-dubbed version in Japan so that Japanese Disney fans could enjoy the game with its original American voice actors. And now Square Enix will be doing…

After about 3 million sales of Lara Croft’s Tomb Raider: Legend (or as we call it Wallet Raider) the series will be returning next-gen, as a first PS3 outing is announced today. Eidos revealed its plans to release a brand new Tomb Raider title during its 2008 financial year (July 2007 to June 2008), “including…

Thanks to Michael for sending in this Comscore Media research about the U.S. gaming audience spanning all ages and walks of life. Of course you savvy gamers already know why you buy sequels of your favorite games and that more and more people around you start playing video games, but there’s a lot more changes…

That’s right, at X06 this week Rare announced Banjo & Kazooie are making a welcome return on Microsoft’s Xbox 360. It’s not surprising considering how many fans (including myself) there were of the Nintendo 64 games Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie. I like how the pair of platform adventurers are drawn in their latest outing….

This is the eight in a series of bad video game reviews by the Angry Nintendo Nerd. “Wally Bear and the NO Gang” was made by the then bankrupt American Game Carts Inc. In 1992 AVE released the NES game and sadly couldn’t name it “Wally Bear and the Just Say No Gang” because “Just…

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl have just been released in Japan today. New information says there are a total of 114 new Pokemon in the two new games, taking the series up to a total of 500 Pokemon! So prepare to fill up those 18 boxes holding 30 Pokemon each, early in 2007 for us English…

Majornelson says these downloads are now available on the Xbox 360′s Live Marketplace. Trailers: Tony Hawk’s Project 8, Wheelman, Frontlines Fuel of War, X06 Event Game Montage, Crossfire. Demos: WWE Smackdown vs. RAW 2007. Gamer Pics and Themes: Fable 2 Theme, X06 Theme. Call me spoiled, but I was expecting something more than a Sonic…