Limbo, the award-winning Indie platformer in stark black and white, has a release date of July 19th for PSN and August 2nd on Steam (worldwide). The PSN date in the United States comes almost one year after the game hit Xbox Live Arcade way back in 2010. Where it went on to earn much critical…

“Nerdy News” is a mini-news show geared towards gamers, technosexuals, and all other geeky peeps. In this twenty-second episode of Nerdy News, I’ll be reporting on: A new law that could make online game streaming a felony. Lenovo’s new “gaming console” the iSec. China’s console ban elbowing competition out of the country. How game piracy…

Who is Lucas Ordonez? He is a professional racer who started out an ordinary MBA student from Spain who loved himself some Gran Turismo 5. In 2008 he entered the unique “Gran Turismo/Nissan academy program” contest of Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, where the 20 fastest virtual racers in the game were given a chance to…

What happens when you mix Star Fox characters with live-action puppets? Hilarity? Well you can be the judge with this funny Star Fox musical called Star Fox: Space Oddity. Personally I want my three minutes back, but that may just be me. In more serious news, Star Fox 64 3D for 3DS is Nintendo’s next…

Here’s the list of this week’s game releases. Popular this quiet summer week are: NCAA Football 2012, Oblivion 5th Anniversary Edition, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. New on the downloadable games front is: On the PlayStation Store Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood becomes available as a downloadable title (updates Tuesday). While Xbox Live…

What were the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe the past week? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the games that are the hottest. Think of it as a games weather report. What follows is a listing of the Top 10 bestsellers per region, for all systems combined. North America’s Top 10…

This Dragon Age 2 Secret Messages, Enigmas of Kirkwall, Special Codexes guide will help you to earn the Archaeologist Achievement or Trophy in Dragon Age 2. There are 9 Messages to be found, as there are three per year with three years total. With 4 Enigmas of Kirkwall per year. This video focuses on the…

This new Resistance 3 behind-the-scenes video gives you the making of Resistance 3 by looking at the history of the Chimera, in a video aptly named “Creeping Death”. They talk about how the first thing they think about is what type of player experience they want from how players will battle each of the Chimera…

The PlayStation Vita will be pushing facial recognition features when the system launches sometime next year, Sony confirmed at the Game Tools and Middleware event in Tokyo, Japan. This is the same event where the PSP Engine and PlayView Update were announced. Sony showed off how you could use the facial recognition of the PSVita…

Halo Glasslands, a novel based on the Halo series by author Karen Traviss, has been announced by Tor Books Publishing. Glasslands will be released on October 25th, 2011. Glasslands is the beginning of an all-new trilogy in the science fiction series; exploring the Halo Universe anew in the wake of the events of Halo 3…

Crysis 1 may be coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3 according to ESRB ratings which have outed the title. This would make perfect sense considering that the original Crysis game was never ported to consoles, and considering the success of its sequel, Crysis 2, which WAS released on Xbox 360 and PS3 (as well…

The second annual Game Developers Choice Online Awards have been announced. The awards ceremony will take place on the evening of October 12, during the four-day Game Developers Conference 2011 in Austin, Texas. The GDC Online Awards represent the best in ONLINE gaming, honoring the accomplishments of creators and operators of online video games –…

The first official “Call of Duty Convention” called “Call of Duty XP 2011” has been announced by Activision. It will be held during Labor Day weekend on September 2nd and 3rd, 2011 at a “secure 12-acre compound in the urban confines of Los Angeles, California”. Tickets will cost $150(!) and go on sale July 19,…