In one week time the PS3 has more than doubled the Folding@Home combined PC & Mac distributed computing capacity from 281 to 613 teraflops! That’s to say, before March 23 2007, there was no Folding@Home available for PS3. Now a week later nearly 60,000 (58,746 to be exact) PS3 owners have signed up for Folding@Home…

Epic VP and co-founder Mark Rein has announced on their gearsforums that: “The next [free] title update for Gears of War is currently going through the certification process. We’ll have more detail about the update next week but I can tell you that in addition to fixing a whole bunch of glitches, and providing 720p…

No Civilization V yet, but 2K Games has announced the second expansion for Sid Meier’s Civilization IV PC & Mac game titled Beyond the Sword. The expansion pack will be released by the end of July 2007 and focus on the late-game time period after gunpowder. Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword features 16 new leaders,…

Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie today revealed the last two Halo 2 maps – Tombstone and Desolation. They’re remakes of Halo: Combat Evolved’s multiplayer maps Hang ‘Em High and Derelict. The maps will be available as premium downloadable content at a price of $4 for Xbox and Xbox 360 on April 17, 2007. Both of…

In an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine, the PlayStation 3’s visual designer -Teiyu Goto– revealed the story behind the prototype boomerang controller design shown at E3 in May of 2005 that press and gamers complained to no end about, because it looked like Batman’s batarang. Until at the Sony pre-E3 conference in May of 2006,…

The cat was out of the bag earlier, but now the first details and screenshots have shown up. NiGHTS 2 (also known as NiGHTS Wii) will be under the direction of Sonic Team‘s Takashi Iizuka, who worked on the original NiGHTS for Sega as well as titles like Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedgehog….

You might vaguely remember last month we mentioned Activision said they expect to have 60 individual products, not all full games, which would: “aggressively target the Nintendo platforms consistent with our multi-platform strategy and Nintendo’s expected growth. In 2008, we will double our offerings on the DS and the Wii, including Guitar Hero.” Now Ngamer…

Microsoft Game Studios and Epic Games announced the Gears of War 2007 Global Xbox LIVE Tournament, presented by the World Cyber Games, offering gamers the opportunity to curb-stomp and chainsaw their way to the Grand Final in Prague, Czech Republic. Registration for the GOW tournament is from March 29 through April 29, while official play…

Sony’s PlayStation 3 launch title, Resistance: Fall Of Man, has now sold over a million copies worldwide in just four months and is the best selling PS3 title to date. VGcharts numbers show that out of the 600,000 new PS3 owners in Europe plus 20,000 new ones in Australia, now 220,000 owners bought a copy…

This action-packed, arcade-style third-person shooter equips players with an extensive arsenal of diverse weapons, pilotable vehicles and loyal teammates in order to defeat a wide variety of attackers ranging from gigantic ants and spiders to robots and monsters standing more than 20 stories tall. Earth Defense Force 2017 lands players on the front lines of…

Could the videogame based movie Mortal Kombat 3 still be happening or is it lost in development hell forever? It turns out that much like the next Mortal Kombat 8 game, the third movie will get a fresh start as well. “The movie is not going to be a prequel, sequel, or in any form…

Nintendo and Sega made a huge announcement earlier this week by revealing the first game to STAR both of the companies mascot characters. But the type of game revealed definitely came as a surprise. An Olympic game? But when you really think about it it actually makes some sense. I mean both Mario and Sonic…

A Piñata is a straw object, traditionally a donkey, which is hung from a tree filled with goodies. Mexican children wear blindfolds and hit it with a stick until it releases its joyous sugary bounty. In Viva Pinata‘s world, this role is taken by the famous, handsome and smart Hudson Horstachio. Except, he’d rather not…