Popular and world famous professional gaming organization CPL (Cyberathlete Professional League) announced that they have shut down as of Wednesday, March 13th. Following in the footsteps of the World Series of Videogames, CPL states The current fragmentation of the sport, a crowded field of competing leagues, and the current economic climate have prompted the CPL [...]

Have you been struggling between "yeah!" and "meh" when it comes to Atari’s new Alone in the Dark title? It seems the publisher releases a great bit of footage, only to follow it up with some luckluster imagery soon after. Today though… today is different. I think Alone has officially entered "hype" territory with the [...]

  After all of the secrecy, the multiplayer options to be included within Grand Theft Auto IV have been revealed, care of PSM Spain. Rockstar has been tight lipped on the game’s features until now, leading many to speculate about possible MMO functionality, or just a general online sandbox to blow shit up in, turns [...]

Episode 9 This week JVB and Finster are joined by Pallidian and Brent Cheetham from the talkingaboutgames.com forums and gaming community. They talk about the official announcement for Bioshock 2. And, some of the guys talk about their Super Smash Brothers experience on the Nintendo Wii. Find out who won the Ace Combat 6 face [...]

Recent hints that the Xbox Live versions of both Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and Bionic Commando Rearmed wouldn’t be up to par with their PlayStation Network counterpart have signaled a change. Everyone remembers last year when the locked down 50MB file size limit for XBLA games was raised to 150MB with the [...]

That is, if you happen to live in Europe. Despite the fact that we’ve seen quite a few developer diaries and hands-on previews over the past few months, information on Star Wars The Force Unleashed has been scarce. Already being delayed from its original April ship date to "Summer", European gamers are getting the short [...]

Concerned that you might not have enough online currency to flesh out your own Paradise City? Worry no more, Criterion Games loves you. On the company’s message boards, Alex Ward confirmed that all of the upcoming downloadable islands for Burnout Paradise will be free of charge-on both platforms. New rides however? Not so much, you [...]

I hope you like toys and pain, because this week’s PlayStation Store update is FULL of them. Several additional characters for the downloadable PAIN make their way to your hard drives (which are still too expensive, c’mon Sony). Toy Home gets a pricey expansion pack adding vehicles, rooms and 4-player multiplayer. Finally, Rock Band‘s weekly [...]

Sony Online Entertainment, makers of such well known online titles like Everquest and the infamous Star Wars: Galaxies, have been boosted up higher in the Sony food chain today. Currently based right here in San Diego, California, the company (part of Sony Pictures Entertainment) and its boss John Smedley will now report directly to the [...]

Oh you crazy, crazy publishers and your acquisition plans. Won’t you ever play nice? Earlier today, EA did what we all expected and pushed forward with their [attempted] hostile takeover of Take-Two Interactive, going straight to the stockholders. I’m sure that made the company execs quite happy, no? However, much like last time, Rockstar Games’ [...]