The Need for Speed franchise is going all Triforce on the industry as EA announces that the series will be split into THREE separate entities with launches this Fall of 2009. 1. Need for Speed: Shift Need for Speed: Shift will be a “hardcore racing simulation” . . . You heard that right, and will…

Section 8 has been announced for Xbox 360 and PC from developer Timegate Studios and publisher Southpeak Interactive. The game initially appeared to be for Xbox 360, PC AND PS3 but later it was revealed that the game was in fact only for Xbox 360 and PC as the developers have dropped the PS3 version…

Sony has announced a deal with EA Casual’s PopCap Games to bring five new casual titles to the PlayStation Network including Bejeweled 2 (available now), Zuma, Heavy Weapon, Peggle and Feeding Frenzy. All the games will be released for download in North America soon with European versions to follow at a later date. As mentioned…

The depths of game failure-hell may not have completely consumed Hellgate: London after all! Gamasutra reports that the owner of the Hellgate: London intellectual property (IP), a Korean company called HanbitSoft, will maintain the servers that Namco Bandai was planning to take offline on January 31st as will allow anyone to join and play the…

Electronic Arts has announced their ensemble cast for Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising. The upcoming expansion is a downloadable-only Expansion Pack for the hit Red Alert 3 game and will be released this March for $19.99. It will not require the Red Alert 3 to play it. The all-star cast who will star…

Blood Bowl is the upcoming video game that mixes American Football and Warhammer universe that’s based off the tabletop game of the same name. The game is in development by Focus Home Interactive and Cyanide Studio for Xbox Live Arcade, PC, DS and PSP. A new trailer of the game reveals lots of gameplay footage…

Atlus has announced that they will be releasing Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon to the PS2 in North America on May 12th, 2009 The follow-up to the original Devil Summoner action RPG will include a deep and easy to use control combat system, nearly 200 demons that players can…

Here’s a list of this weeks game releases. The most popular titles are Burnout Paradise: Ultimate Box on PC, World in Conflict: Soviet Assault on Xbox 360 & PS3, and Tenchu: Shadow Assassins on Wii. On the downloadable games front we’ve got today’s Wii Shop titles Sonic Chaos, Snowboard Riot, Lonpos. No word yet on…

This rendering created by imaging company Proper Graphics is made to similar standards of the vehicles in Gran Turismo 5 (Prologue). Meaning it’s crafted within Polyphony Digital’s polygon and texture specifications. However, using advanced rendering techniques, they managed to achieve a much higher level of detail with the same number of polygons. Which is exactly…

With The Sims 3 finally released in June, in a similar fashion to the rest of the series, we should expect expansion packs in 2009 and beyond! So… What kind of The Sims 3 expansions would you like to see? Here are a few ideas the developers at Electronic Arts have been playing around with….

Today Nintendo adds new/classic games to the popular Wii Shop Channel. The games go live at 9AM Pacific time. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at stores like Amazon (see Card above). We’ve included videos…

EA’s Madden 10 Lead Designer Ian Cummings has revealed the first new feature in the new Madden game that’s said to have a release date sometime mid-August, 2009. Later confirmed as August 14th, 2009. The studio hopes that by revealing technical details to the hardcore fans early on, they’ll be able to “take feedback from…

In a case of poetic irony in its purest form, Bomberman developer Hudson has been threatened via email by a Japanese fan who wasn’t happy with the quality of their latest games. When after a few months he felt his problems hadn’t been properly addressed in the games, these events culminated into a bomb threat!!…