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…

French filmmaker Mathieu Weschler has spent the last two years creating the world’s first feature-length machinima movie. Made in the world of Grand Theft Auto 4, it clocks in at 88 minutes! To quote the creator’s synopsis: “The “Trashmaster” divides his time between collecting garbage and cleaning up other forms of trash fouling up New…

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is a sandbox action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft and was first released on November 16, 2010 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 consoles, and will come out later this year for Microsoft Windows PC’s. The game is the third installment of the main Assassin’s Creed series, and the second to be set in…

Call of Duty: Black Ops is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch, published by Activision and released worldwide on November 9, 2010 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Nintendo DS (separate version developed by n-Space) consoles. Announced on April 30, 2010, the game is the seventh installment of the Call…

Medal of Honor 2010 throws you into the boots of a current day soldier, fighting the Taliban, soon after the events of September the 11th. Is this gritty take on current warfare enough to make it a first class shooter? Lets take a look shall we. System: PS3, Xbox 360, PC Genre: First-person shooter Release…

December 2010 NPD sales number for America are in and this time we have our first look at how the entire industry performed for the whole of the year. According to leading market research company, The NPD Group, total consumer spend on gaming content sits at between $15.4 to $15.6 billion, down overall from last…

Tomb Raider 2012 is getting ready to take the franchise in an all-new direction and re-invent Lara Croft in the process. The game is entirely based upon survival, and will take Lara into a deep, disturbing and realistic world where she will literally have to fight to survive. And in the process she will be…

Warface has been announced by Crytek as an upcoming Asian-market MMOFPS that will be free-to-play. The game was announced at E3 2010 by is a title that got lost in the shuffle, particularly because there is very little information on the game. So far there are no plans to release the game outside of the…

Amnesia 2 may be coming sooner than one might think, as Amnesia sales have surpassed 200,000 units. The developers at Frictional Games, an indie house whose horror game Amnesia has been a huge hit with critics, has announced that the developer will definitely be sticking with the PC platform after their little game has exceeded…

Wondering if the 3DS is region-free? Wonder no more! Sadly, it looks like the Nintendo 3DS will NOT be region-free, but instead it will be region-locked, meaning you will not be able to play games from other countries that have a different “region number” than your country does. Although this hasn’t been confirmed for 3DS…

Ever wonder how to jump over the flagpole in Super Mario Bros. 1? What about the world 1-1 flagpole? Do you think it’s impossible to do so? Well it is definitely not impossible, as this new video showcases exactly how you can, through an in-game glitch, teach yourself to sail over that mysterious flagpole! A…

A Pac-Man reality TV show is coming to a small screen near you! That’s right, Pac-Man is returning to the TV realm, but this time it is not an animated TV show starring the Pac family, but a show similar to that of ABC’s “Wipeout”. This was announced by Merv Griffin Entertainment group who is…

Spare Parts has been announced as an upcoming Battletoads-style cooperative platformer for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. The game is being developed by EA Bright Light and published by Electronic Arts and looks like it’s their take on a kind of Ratchet & Clank game. In this online action adventure, players join courageous…