When Criterion Games revealed last month that not only would Burnout Paradise be getting new cars and island expansions as DLC, but that said terrain would be totally free, people were ecstatic. Well, I was anyway. Deal with it. The development team is still slyly teasing us with what’s in store, today bringing word that [...]

  Not to be outdone by Call of Duty 4′s bonus XP weekend, Bungie is offering up a return of the Griffball playlist to Halo 3 this weekend.  Griffball, a Halo-y version of Soccer, was a huge smash when it was posted a month ago, and it’s making a temporary return to the matchmaking playlists [...]

The long awaited, oft-discussed, and not-quite-delayed Call Of Duty 4 map pack is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace.  Priced at 800 Microsoft Points and clocking in at just over 444MB, the Variety map pack includes four new maps your enjoyment. When you next launch Call of Duty 4 on the Xbox 360, you’ll [...]

Hooray!  After months and months of speculation and rumor, Telltale Games has confirmed to Gamespot that the first season of Sam & Max is headed to the Wii, with a target launch date set for the Fall, thanks in large part to the incredible fan response and various email campaigns in support of the project. [...]

Thursday played host to THQ’s 2008 Gamer’s Day in San Francisco, where the publisher announced the release date of GTA IV‘s biggest competition. Saint’s Row 2, the over-the-top yin to Grand Theft Auto IV‘s realistic yang is set to arrive on August 26th, with various retailers allowed to start shouting "pre-order incentives, activate!" starting today. [...]

After delaying their highly anticipated jungle-destruction game Mercenaries 2: World in Flames until "fiscal 2009", EA has finally confirmed a solid release date. The new GTA-meets-Far Cry shoot ‘em up will ship on August 31st- hmm, not long after my birthday. Thanks EA! The publisher, along with developer Pandemic Studios have released a new trailer [...]

So, are you venturing on over to the PlayStation Network this evening in search of new DLC? That’s great to hear, because you’ll find a heap of zip, a pile of nothing, and a big fat goose egg awaiting you. Doesn’t that sound good? Remember, because of the upcoming PSN revamp, Sony will be holding [...]

If you’ve been doing your civic duty and reading around the web in the past week or so, then you’ve probably run across several sites reporting this would be rumor. Apparently, someone found- on Sega’s own FTP site- images, information and video of their next-gen Sonic title, and posted them for everyone to see. Fanboys [...]

Although Metal Gear Solid 4 has been confirmed as Hideo Kojima’s final MGS game, we still don’t have any concrete information on how the story is going to wrap up.  So while it’s disheartening to hear, it should be no surprise when Kojima mentions that he might just kill off Snake at the end of [...]

Hmm, maybe my kind grovelling yesterday had something to do with this? LucasArts has officially announced that their ambitious and oft-delayed new Star Wars title, The Force Unleashed, now has a definitive set of release dates. September 16th will see the game ship to stores here in the U.S., September 17th for Southeast Asia/ Australia, [...]