We still have two and a half days until the launch of Battlestar Galactica’s fourth season (two and a half long, arduous, painful days of torturous waiting) and the anticipation is killing me BSG fans across the nation.  But the makers of the Batlestar Galactica game are trying their best to throw fuel upon [...]

For some reason unbeknownst to me, Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy, a new third-person action shooter loosely based in the world of the best selling book and film franchises, has been getting quite a hype train following it as of late. It looks good, yes, though it has a certain Splinter Cell-meets- Max Payne vibe [...]

Games like Devil May Cry 4, Lost Planet, and in optional cases even Unreal Tournament 3 caused quite an uproar in the PlayStation community when unsuspecting couch potatoes looking to jump right into their new purchase got a surprise: long, mandatory installs to the PS3 hard drive. Xbox 360 games don’t have this problem with [...]

Sure they’ve been out for a long while in Japan, and sure I’ve already been enjoying the likes of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune with glorious rumble support for months, but the U.S. hasn’t…until now. Originally set to hit store shelves right in time for Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, Sony has confirmed that their new, "last-gen " [...]

Normally, it’s not typical to be saying something positive about a GameStop promotional tie-in, but as well know there are exceptions to every rule. Care of the largest videogame retailer in the U.S. we have even more unseen Grand Theft Auto IV footage via a nice "tourist" video, narrarated by Jeremy St. Ives. Go through [...]

Unfortunately, we don’t exactly know the reason for Activision and Infinity Ward delaying the new Variety Map Pack for Call of Duty 4, but they did. Is it a developer joke? The rumor hit the web late last night, originally thought to be an April Fool’s prank, but I doubt a press release would have [...]

At this time, we’re very much in the same boat as Kotaku, in that we have no idea just what the hell the deal is with this video. All we can say for sure is that reaks of awesome sauce. It appears that (in an April Fool’s joke?), Ubisoft and Kojima Productions have partnered to [...]

Episode 72 – Down In Austin We’re back with a "special Tuesday" edition of UncleGamer Radio!   This week, we’re talking about the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto IV and the hype we’re feeling for it.  We also talk about Take-Two rejecting EA’s hostile takeover bid again, cover the latest in what we’ve been [...]

In an earth-shattering, yet not-so-suprising move, Nintendo has confirmed today that the ever increasing difficulty in producing the Wii console was for a reason, the product is being phased out. Despite recent rumors that the ridiculousness that is obtaining a Wii console (which is still next to impossible after more than a year and a [...]

Last week, Take-Two Interactive announced their rejection of an Electronic Arts hostile takeover bid, but promised to work with Electronic Arts on some ‘strategic alternatives’ to tie into the launch of Grand Theft Auto IV. A press release issued by Take-Two Interactive earlier today, which we’ve included after the jump, announced the forthcoming release of [...]