Though nobody expected a Cleveland Brown to win EA’s Madden NFL 12 Cover Tournament, the Cleveland Browns fanbase pulled through for running back Peyton Hillis to earn the cover of Madden NFL 12 with a huge 66% of the vote. With over one million votes being made between Philadelphia QB Michael Vick and Cleveland RB [...]

The Mortal Kombat franchise has been many things to many gamers over the years. Its legions of existing fans consider it one of the long-standing greats for its style and story, while competitive fighting gamers tend to look at it more as some nice background noise to complement the arcade atmosphere while grinding away on [...]

As one of the premier developers of shooters for the past two decades, it’s no surprise that Treasure has taken advantage of the opportunity that Xbox Live Arcade presents to offer their games to a much wider audience than ever before. Unlike Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun, Treasure has worked on sequels to Dreamcast cult hit [...]

Thanks to the overwhelming success of the Street Fighter IV series, producer Yoshinori Ono has taken his place as de facto head of fighting game development within Capcom. He’s not the only one within the company fighting for the cause, as Marvel vs Capcom 3 producer Ryota Niitsuma is also on board, but Ono-san has [...]

For those who haven’t been keeping close track, a reimagined Mortal Kombat is now less than a week away. The game has fans in a hype frenzy the likes of which has not surrounded the brand in years, and is poised to mark an absolute return to form, if not a magnum opus, for Ed [...]

At Captivate 2011, Capcom treated us to more information on a pair of highly-anticipated fighting games, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition and Street Fighter X Tekken. The wealth of solid info on these two titles stole the show for a lot of us, and basically made Captivate a winner despite the bizarre omissions of [...]

While the players and owners do as much as possible to make sure that we will have a terrible NFL season ahead of us, EA is keeping our fantasy football hopes alive with the Madden 12 Cover Vote that pits 32 potential cover athletes against each other in a March Madness-style tournament to determine who [...]

Occasionally you want to play a game to help you relax. Chime Super Deluxe is just the sort of game you’ll want to have on hand for those occasions. It’s not an immersive military shooter, it doesn’t reproduce the feeling of driving at one hundred eighty miles per hour. What it does do is provide [...]

It’s 2011, and that means the 20th anniversary of Sonic The Hedgehog is upon us. It’s really a great opportunity to celebrate one of the greatest franchises gaming has ever known, if also one of the most volatile. Sega thinks so, too, and have promised us no shortage of Sonic content in the coming months. [...]

Let’s get one thing out of the way: I am not a game developer. If I had that ability, I believe it would win out over game journalism as my industry job of choice. I have plenty of good, feasible, marketable ideas in my mind, just no way of putting them in actual coded form, [...]