A demo for Electronic Art’s Skate 2 is up now on Xbox Live Arcade for your downloading pleasure if you are an Xbox Live Gold subscriber. No word on whether the demo will also be hitting the PlayStation Network, as the will be available for both Xbox 360 and PS3 with a release date of…

StarCraft 2 is the highly anticipated real-time strategy follow-up from Blizzard Entertainment. As you likely already know if you’ve been following the title(s), the game has been split into three parts; One for each of the game’s three factions: Terran, Zerg and Protoss with each game having it’s own subtitle: Wings of Liberty, Heart of…

Electronic Arts announced today that the third iteration of the Command & Conquer franchise’s beloved Red Alert series is returning with Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising exclusively for the PC. An epic single-player campaign expansion, the standalone title catapults players deeper into the Red Alert universe, giving them more of the action-packed gameplay…

With Ubisoft publishing the Broken Sword Director’s Cut (Wii, DS) that’s in development at Cynamite, series creator Revolution Software are free to focus on Broken Sword 5. Since the 2006 release of the adventure Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death (PC), Revolution have been working on an as yet unannounced game. Said game is…

This week on Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee gives out his game awards for 2008. No, not the “best of” but rather the “worst of”. As always coarse language ahead.

The original King of the Iron Fist Tournament fighter will make it’s next-gen debut on the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 this year with Tekken 6. The game will include the largest cast of Tekken characters yet with over 43 characters returning (including the entire cast of Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection outside Jinpachi Mishima)…

UGO Entertainment and parent company Hearst Corporation have acquired 1-Up and all its associated sites including GameVideos, MyCheats.com and GameTab from Ziff Davis who will also be shutting down EGM Magazine. They will print their last issue this month. Ziff Davis has long been in financial trouble so it was only a matter of time…

Electronic Arts has announced two new MySims games for Wii and DS: MySims Party and MySims Racing. Although the games are about as predictable as they come (one is a mini-game collection the other is a cart racer) the game’s still look like they will be fun and “quality” product for what they are going…

The Level-5 PlayStation 3 exclusive RPG White Knight Chronicles has finally been confirmed for release in North America by CEO Akihiro Hino, although a specific date and other details have yet to be revealed. But at least RPG fans can breath a sigh of release that the outstanding looking game will indeed be localized and…

King of Fighters XII still does not have a specific release date outside of Japan but it will be published in Western territories by Ignition Entertainment. The game will be released in Japan in April for the arcades, Xbox 360 and PS3. The game is 100% hand-drawn and features brand new sprites for the first…

Fragile is an upcoming Wii role-playing game being developed by tri-Crescendo and a Namco team that was responsible for two Japanese PS2 RPGs, Seven: Molmorth no Kiheitai and Venus & Braves. The game is being published in Japan by Namco Bandai Games with a release set for January 22nd but does not yet have an…

Q-Games, the maker of the PixelJunk series (which include PixelJunk Racers, PixelJunk Monsters and PixelJunk Eden) has revealed that several more PixelJunk titles are coming to the PlayStation 3 in 2009 to satisfy those gamers who just love their downloadable titles. Although the specific games haven’t been revealed yet, we do already know of the…