Over at ScoreHero, a reader submitted an image of the long-awaited separate Rock Band microphone, which he found at his local Best Buy. Apparently, this was slipped onto shelves early, as a quick check of a few local stores yielded no microphone for me, nor an approximation of when they would be getting them.  Interestingly [...]

After nearly a year without an official Editor in Chief, GameSpot’s own Ricardo Torres has been promoted by C|Net to the postition. In his previous post, Torres was Editorial Director, and essentially the head of previews for the site, providing coverage since he joined all the way back in 2001. I guess the job is [...]

In case you missed it, Call of Duty 4 made headlines last year, and continues to be one of the top played games on the Xbox Live service even right now.    As we continue to celebrate the launch of Talking About Games, we’re sharing the love by handing out cool prizes.  So it seems [...]

Announced last year at Comic-Con to much excitment was (former) EA Chicago’s new Marvel fighting game, in the vein of Def Jam Icon. After the studio was shut down, GM Kudo Tsunoda jumped to Microsoft. Today, EA confirmed what many suspected: no one will be battling it out as Marvel characters anymore. GameTap states that [...]

Someone look outside, this is still 2008, right? I thought we had jumped into the Twilight Zone for a moment when this came to light. Kotaku’s Brian Crecente, while in an email frenzy about GTA IV’s release date, received a shocker of a notice from Mr. Thompson: he’s not entirely insane. When Brian brought up [...]

  After a few weeks of speculation, it looks like this Wednesday marks the long awaited release of Rez HD.  Priced at 800 Microsoft Points ($10), the game is developed by Q Entertainment (Lumines, Every Extend Extra) and is a weird sort of rail shooter that will appeal to some, but leave many others wondering [...]

They say that one is the loneliest number that you’ll ever know.  And if today’s Virtual Console release list is any indication, that’s very true.  After a few weeks of Two-fer’s on the Virtual Console release schedule, we’re getting a single VC game today.  That’s right, it’s all about 1080° Snowboarding from the N64 today, [...]

The floodgates are about to open on Grand Theft Auto IV media, if the past few days are an indication. Going all the way back to the days of GTA Vice City and San Andreas, various online retailers were provided with "exclusive" screenshots, trailers, etc. to entice traffic to the game’s respective portion of the [...]

After Fox News aired their " ‘Se’ Xbox" segment , where psychology "expert" Cooper Lawrence attempted to degrade the quality of Mass Effect for having graphic sexual themes, etc., things weren’t going so well. Gamers flooded Amazon, killing the ratings of her new book, The Cult of Perfection, EA and Fox are having ongoing battles [...]

What’s cooler than a PGR4 faceplate?  A free one.  And what’s cooler than a free PGR3 faceplate?  Three of them. That’s right, kids.  Talking About Games is giving away three original Project Gotham Racing 3 face plates, courtesy of our friends at Microsoft.  All you’ve got to do is post wistful, nostalgic memories about your [...]