When Dragon Ball Z Budokai HD Collection was announced, Namco Bandai Games said the enhanced and re-mastered HD versions included in the set would only be DBZ Budokai 1 & 3. Leaving many fans, yours truely included, to wonder: “Why is Dragon Ball Z Budokai HD Collection missing Budokai 2?” At Comic-Con 2012, during a…

We’ve been talking about Metal Gear Solid 5 for years now, mostly hearing series creator Hideo Kojima saying he won’t make another sequel (like he says every time). Luckily for us, Kojima-san has now announced he’s begun production on Metal Gear Solid 5! According to the July 2012 issue of French IG Magazine, Kojima Productions…

At Comic-Con 2012 Ubisoft sneaked in a surprise announcement for Assassin’s Creed 3, namely a new co-op multiplayer mode called Wolfpack. The new co-op mode lets between two to four players to team up online and join up in “sequence based” waves of assassination missions. The kind of wave-based gameplay that Gears of War 2…

The Super Smash Bros. Wii U & 3DS development team has been announced. Namco Bandai’s SoulCalibur & Tekken staff will be joining Super Smash Bros. series director Masahiro Sakurai, and the Nintendo staff already in place, to create the next fighting game. Project Sora’s staff of around 30, who previously worked on Super Smash Bros….

The latest issue of the official UK Nintendo magazine Nintendo Gamer AKA NGamer — the successor to my favorite gaming magazine ever N64/NGC Magazine — has an interview with Co-head of Camelot Software Planning (the other head being his brother Shugo) about their latest game Mario Tennis Open, in which they were asked about Golden…

Sony Computer Entertainment’s Japan Studio has announced Soul Sacrifice for PS Vita will be coming to America & Europe in Spring 2013! Mega Man & Dead Rising creator Keiji Inafune’s Comcept studio is heading up this adventurous action-RPG together with MarvelousAQL. With Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger/Xenogears) and Wataru Hokoyama (Afrika/Resident Evil 5) working on the…

The Nintendo Wii U games have finally been revealed! Here’s a full list of all the video games announced so far for the upcoming Wii U console. Wii U Games Wii U Retail Games Available at Launch / Holiday 2012: 1. Assassin’s Creed III (Ubisoft) 2. Batman: Arkham City – Armored Edition (Warner Bros.) 3….

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced Batman: Arkham City – Armored Edition as a Nintendo Wii U-exclusive launch game. Originally on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, the action-adventure games will soon make its way to Wii U with added Wii U GamePad control options to show a map and motion-controlled Batarang throwing. As well…

Publisher Warner Bros. and Scribblenauts series developer 5th Cell announced Scribblenauts Unlimited for Wii U and 3DS at E3 2012. They focused on the Wii U version at the show, which marks the first appearance of the imaginative Scribblenauts series on a home console. Scribblenauts Unlimited features a huge side-scrolling open world with new, high-definition…

At E3 Nintendo renamed the last year announced New Super Mario Bros. Mii into New Super Mario Bros. U! Still a Wii U exclusive, the platformer is a direct sequel to New Super Mario Bros. Wii and is set to for release alongside the Wii U console. New Super Mario Bros. U is a new…

Leading up to this week’s worldwide launch of Dragon’s Dogma, Capcom has released three developer diaries detailing all aspects of the open world hybrid action-RPG, survival-horor, hack and slash game. Developer Diary 1: Get a behind the scenes look at the making of Dragon’s Dogma! In part one, meet some of Capcom’s most elite team…

Kid Icarus: Uprising has become a big hit for the Nintendo 3DS, selling over 140,000 in its first month (March) on sale in America alone, according to the NPD, and a guesstimated 700,000+ worldwide. So naturally after a 19-year-wait for this game fans are clamoring for a sequel, but will we get Kid Icarus: Uprising…

2K Games announced today that BioShock Infinite from Irrational Games is now planned to launch worldwide on February 26th, 2013 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. That’s a four-month-delay from the original October 16th, 2012 release date. Ken Levine, Creative Director of Irrational Games, stated: “When we announced the release date of BioShock Infinite…

The June issue of Game Informer magazine features an interview with Kingdom Hearts series creator Tetsuya Nomura, where he hints at Kingdom Hearts 3 being on the way! When asked about all the games in the series, he talks about them being spread out across many platforms of late, and concludes: “I also feel that…

Here’s the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 reveal trailer! Activision will be publishing the Treyarch-developed FPS on November 13th, 2012, for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops II propels players into a near future,…