Indeed, a large portion of the internet seems to be riled and miffed at the propsect that ‘anyone posting or replying to a post on official Blizzard forums will be doing so using their Real ID’ in short, their real-life first and last name.

You’ve got to love the Valve way of doing things. Find some developers with a unique idea, hire them then implement their ideas into your games. Genius and terribly honest as well. Portal 2 is looking fantastic, which doesn’t come as a surprise… take a look for yourself.

On June 11, 2010 LedgeWizard Games, released their first game, Towers, for the Xbox (Live) Indie Games Platform. A unique and imaginative take on the Tower defence game that sets out to build a deep and rewarding experience without losing any of its vibrant personality.

E3 starts tomorrow and already news is being leaked! It has been reported that Microsoft will be renaming their Project Natal to simply Kinect. USA Today revealed this list of Kinect games: Kinectimals: A virtual ‘big cat’ trainer that lets you train and play with 20 different feline members of the animal kingdom, including tigers, [...]

Expect South Korea kids to be on the news every single night when the wave of deaths occur from gamers starving and depriving themselves after the release of Starcraft II this summer (July 27 in the US). The hype is starting to build about the game and I know from playing the beta it is [...]

Lego, the building blocks of the gods. What can’t you do with Lego? Micro Surgery? Well not yet anyway, in time my friends, in time. Anyway there’s no point sulking over what Lego can’t do (yet) when there is so much it can do. For instance; Catsy, some guy on the internet, has recreated the [...]

There has been a long war between Fifa football games and Pro Evolution Soccer games, and now the war moves across to the iPhone. Konami has announced that they will be making Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 available for the iPhone. Additionally the version that will be introduced to the App Store will be unique i.e. [...]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers will be getting their own Guitar Hero game. Spinner has reported that Activision is currently polling gamers and music fans to see if they would enjoy the game. While the Peppers have already leased the entirety of their 1991 classic Blood Sugar Sex Magikto Guitar Hero enemiesRock Band, a Guitar [...]

Gaikai is a service that allows users to play games in your browser, directly from the cloud. Gaikai runs and hosts the games, which are then streamed to the end-user with the help of Java, Flash or Silverlight. The Apple iPad’s browser doesn’t support Flash, but Gaikai will now allow you to play World of [...]

This morning we reported that the new Call of Duty game would be called Vietnam, but turns out we were actually wrong. Vietname is a setting in the game, but its been confirmed by Activision Blizzard that it will be called Call of Duty Black Ops. Call of Duty Black Ops will launch of the [...]

Activision Blizzard is just about to announce the new Call of Duty game, which is rumoured to be called Call of Duty: Vietnam. Call of Duty Vietnam is being produced by Activision Publishing’s Treyarch studio and is expected to be unveiled Friday night on Game Trailers TV with Geoff Keighley. To date, the Call of [...]

GameTrailers have reported that their will be a brand new Call of Duty game coming out this year, and the first peek will be available on tomorrow. While Activision may be embroiled in drama related to its most recent Call of Duty, that won’t stop the company from churning out annual sequels to the ultra-popular [...]

Warner Bros. has just acquired online game publisher Turbine, the creator of Lord of the Rings Online. Lord of the Rings online is a massively multiplayer game where you can parade around as an elf and kill orcs in perpetuity. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Boston Globe reports that the purchase [...]

This has to be one of the coolest Nike shoes I have ever seen. DeviantArt user deviantkrook whipped up these nut-rubbingly sick custom Insteps for a friend.

Konami has just announced that Silent Hill is in the works for the PS3 and Xbox 360. However, this new series will be developed by a completely new developer team. The franchise’s previous developers who worked on the series included Climax Group and Double Helix Games, producing the titles Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Silent [...]

So it turns out that the rumours have been true and Gears of War 3 will be released for the Xbox 360 in April 2011. The team over at Eurogamer were surfing the US Xbox Live Marketplace, as you do, when they encountered the image above on the Xbox 360 dashboard. Not long after this [...]

April 6th is a very important day for hardcore Xbox 360 gamers. Today the official USB Mass Storage support begins. This support is a new offering from Microsoft which offers up to 16GB sticks that are specially formatted for Xbox 360 use. Users can plug in 32GB sticks, however only the first 16GB will be [...]