2008 is just not a year that’s being kind to C|Net and Gamespot. Hell, who are we kidding, 2007 wasn’t a great year for them either. It was revealed yesterday that after the copious amounts of employee departures, effective immediately C|Net media is forcibly cutting over 120 jobs, nearly 10% of its total [...]

Epic Games must be ecstatic these days, what with the tons of money they’re raking in with all these developers jumping on the Unreal Engine 3 bandwagon. NCSoft seems to think the tools will make for a good foundation in their upcoming MMO’s, and now another company has decided that too. Bluehole Studio Inc. announced [...]

For the love of…really Ubisoft, figure this out already, it’s not funny anymore. Just yesterday we were treated to confirmation that Free Radical and Ubisoft’s often talked about, never delivering FPS Haze was finally going to grace our PlayStation 3′s on May 22nd, and now the publisher has backpeddled, again. According to an updated release [...]

Unless this is another cruel, misleading bit of media, Microsoft does actually intend to release a playable demo for Team Ninja’s Ninja Gaiden II, next month. Revealed through the game’s official website, April 15th will see the stealthy release more game content, with sometime in May giving us a slice of Ryu Hayabusa’s latest adventure, [...]

1Up and Sony have been all "buddy buddy" over the recent trickle of information on SOCOM: Confrontation, the first downloadable, non-Zipper developed installment of the series. Today it was announced that long time SOCOM fans will finally be able to enter the next generation with their military tactics on September 16th. As well, a nifty [...]

To paraphrase Sesame Street, Super Smash Bros Brawl was brought to you by the number 287.  That’s the number of songs in Brawl’s soundtrack, and a perfect example of the gargantuan beast that the latest incarnation of the Smash Bros. series.  Whereas any other game would have somewhere between 30 and 50 songs, Smash Bros. [...]

Poor Atari, you just can’t catch a break. Not long after Phil Harrison’s appointment as President of their parent organization, the company receives another negative blow. Announced today was the news that Nasdaq sent the company a Staff Determination Letter, effectively removing them from the stock exchange listings. Reasons for the move include the fact [...]

Developer Free Radical hasn’t had the best luck with winning over the gaming press with its upcoming PS3 shooter Haze, and after the numerous delays and shoddy showings, it’s somewhat easy to see why. Hopefully, gamers will think differently. Word is coming in that the game is now officially done, and set to release onto [...]

It’s gameplay in its smallest form, but it’s gameplay nonetheless. Some development footage of Resident Evil 5 from Famitsu’s latest behind the scenes disc has been uploaded to GameVideos, and damn if that’s not one the best looking games I’ve ever seen. And it’s not even anywhere near done yet.  You can see Capcom devs [...]

Last year, Microsoft updated the official Xbox website to be more "hip" and "with it", and now each gamers’ personal section has been updated just a tad. Logging into the site, the "My Xbox" portion has been visually overhauled, looking more like a social networking site. The verticality of the old version is now gone, [...]