Today, Rockstar Games announced a special holiday sale for Grand Theft Auto III: 10 Year Anniversary Edition, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, and Beaterator in the iTunes App Store. For Android smartphone / tablet users, only GTA III can be picked up, and only on select devices (click HERE... [more+]

Today, the first day of what could be the world's penultimate winter, Kalypso Media and bitComposer Games announced that they will be integrating Valve's Steamworks into their upcoming tactical RPG, Jagged Alliance: Back in Action. What does this mean exactly? Let me tell you. Basically,... [more+]

It's been a pretty busy day for the app team over at Microsoft.  Major Nelson reports that Xbox LIVE has just added a plethora of new apps to its lineup, including 4 on Demand in the UK, ABC iView in Australia, Dailymotion in 34 separate countries, and UFC on XBL in Canada and the US.  This... [more+]

World of Tanks is now eighteen million strong worldwide. The award-winning game developer Wargaming.net made the announcement earlier today: "We want to thank our game community for their support," Victor Kislyi, CEO, told fan. "Having so many devoted players is extremely rewarding,... [more+]

Click to Enlarge Get your blasters ready Mega Man fans. Today, Capcom announced that the new and improved version of Mega Man X is now available on the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. So what's new and improved in this version? For one, the visuals have gotten a boost with new... [more+]

Click to Enlarge On January 17, a new DLC pack will become available for Gears of War 3. The third major add-on for the game, 'Fenix Rising' will come with several new maps based off important events in the life of series protagonist Marcus Fenix, including the classic Escalation map from... [more+]

Activision and Infinity Ward confirmed that the first wave of DLC for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set for its debut on Xbox LIVE on January 24th. The PC and PS3 versions won't get the intitial add-on until an unannounced time in the future, however. The news was made semi-public through... [more+]

Fans of the Devil May Cry series are in for a treat this April, as today Capcom confirmed that the Devil May Cry HD Collection will be released in both North America and Europe on April 3, 2012. Retailing at around $39.99 USD, the collection will include the first three titles in the franchise:... [more+]

The beloved brainchild of EA, BioWare, and LucasArts has finally hit the market. After what seemed like an eternity of waiting, Star Wars: The Old Republic has finally arrived.  A game that blends the MMO genre with BioWare's storytelling prowess, SWTOR makes use of hundreds of talented... [more+]

I hope none of the Australians reading this were looking forward to Starbreeze Studios' upcoming revival of the classic Syndicate franchise. Recently, it has been revealed that the Australian Government Classification Board has refused to give the EA-published Syndicate a classification, meaning... [more+]

Uh oh. It looks like the PlayStation Vita is off to a shaky start. As reported by Famitsu and translated by Andriasang, it appears that of the rumored 700,000 Vitas that Sony shipped out to stores for its December 17 launch, only half were sold this past weekend (a total of 321,407 units).  Enthusiasm... [more+]

Welcome back to the after party! Another week, another vein of news has been found, tapped, mined, polished, stuck on a gold ring, and sold at a thousand percent markup… journalistically speaking. On with the show! Story Time  (Source: Naughty Dog) The good folks at Naughty Dog grabbed... [more+]

Good news came out of Japan's Jump Festa event this weekend, especially for Kingdom Hearts fans. At the event, Square Enix narrowed the release window for Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance in Japan from this coming spring to March of next year. In related news, Jem Alexander on the Square... [more+]

The annual Steam Holiday Sale is underway, allowing consumers to pick up a host of indidual titles as well as entire publisher packs for 50% to 90% off the normal retail price. Today's games include big discounts off Duke Nukem Forever, Dungeons of Dredmor, Red Orchestra 2, COD: Modern Warfare... [more+]

Rocksteady Studios has created a real masterpiece in Batman: Arkham City. As is the case with truly great games, the developer is being rewarded with outstanding sales worldwide. As a thank you to players for the unbridled success, the team is giving away the muscle-bound Batman Inc. skin pictured... [more+]

Got another newcomer to the digital distribution bandwagon – GameFly.  Currently the top games-through-mail rental service, GameFly now provides its members with a huge library of PC titles, as well as a hefty selection of games that they'll be able to play free of charge.  So... [more+]

That's right, folks, I said "Free" and "Jetpack Joyride" in the same title. For the last few months, Halfbrick's endless runner has been getting excellent reviews in the App Store and on various websites (including ours) for its simple but challenging gameplay.   And... [more+]