The Wall Street Journal reports that Activision will be introducing a subscription-based online service for their Call of Duty franchise. Pricing in less than $8/month, the service—named Call of Duty Elite—will supposedly offer subscribers exclusive extra content as well as advanced gameplay tracking tools they can’t get anywhere else. But the question is: will it [...]

As we go into E3, it seems like a good idea to us to take stock of where the games industry is. We take stock of what’s going on, and get an idea of how we’re feeling going into what could be one of the most change-filled shows in years. Use Facebook to Comment on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

eastasiasoft and SideQuest Studios, the publisher and developer of the Soldner-X games on PSN respectively, have announced a new game for PlayStation Network called Rainbow Moon. Rather than make another shooter, Rainbow Moon is instead a strategy RPG that is an interesting new project for a developer that’s known for quality shooters. Use Facebook to [...]

This was the scene at RedOctane’s funeral for the Air Guitar at the European launch of Guitar Hero II. Irony has a nasty way of coming back at you, no? With the Guitar Hero series being nixed by Activision, it seemed like a good time to look back at the various titles in the franchise [...]

This week it was revealed that Microsoft’s Kinect may be last to the game but is certainly not least among the Big Three’s motion sensing technology. Less than two weeks into its launch, the Kinect has already pushed over a million units, and with bundles selling for $250 or more, these profits are allegedly pushing [...]

Though Gamescom hasn’t been a place for many publishers to make big announcements, Sony has followed up their PS3 Slim and price drop announcements at 2009′s Gamescom Convention in Cologne, Germany with two big games announcements from Insomniac Games and some other interesting bits of news during their press conference today. Use Facebook to Comment [...]

When you think of the game BioShock, naturally many think of that underwater utopian society that tragically fell to the pressures of genetic splicing and the mind of Andrew Ryan.  While the sequel focused its sights on new characters and events, Bioshock still took place in the fallen city of Rapture, a beautifully created city [...]