Talking About Games would like to congratulate srmadman, the randomly picked winner in our Bejeweled 2 / Bookworm Adventures giveaway !  Their comment in our contest thread (and being the lucky winner as picked by random.org) was all it took to win both games for the PC, absolutely free!  Didn’t win this time?  Don’t sweat [...]

Were you one of the people that entered our Heavenly Sword contest before, but weren’t lucky enough to win?  And now you wander through life in a stunned daze, spending the past few weeks in sorrow as you reflect upon your loss? If so, you can hold your head high once again.   We’ve been [...]

Episode 8 This week, JVB and Finster sit down to chat with two very special guest hosts. Joining them are Staind360, and Maverick0110 from the GamerHusbands Radio podcast and Talkingaboutgames.com community.  This episode is interesting for a few reasons, but the main one being Finster’s love for burritos, with hot salsa and green bean sauce?? [...]

This is turning out to be quite a year for [attempted] studio acquistions in the games industry, is it not? We’re still in the middle of the EA/ Take-Two ordeal, and now another offer has popped up elsewhere. Infogrames, parent company of the Atari label and home to newly appointed Phil Harrision, have made an [...]

Not this again, please not this again, According to the Financial Times, the recent rumors of a Blu-ray attachment for the Xbox 360 look to have gotten a major blip on the radar today. Apparently, Sony Electronics US president Stan Glasgow said that: Sony is in talks with console rival Microsoft about offering a Blu-ray [...]

This is the second week in a row that a genuine attitude of "must download this" has passed over the PlayStation Store. Being the only major piece of DLC today is Rocketmen: Axis of Evil, which also released on Xbox Live Arcade yesterday. Guitar Hero 3 gets a "modern metal track pack", Rock Band [...]

After their less than successful launch of Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, Codemasters has already revealed a new "franchise" that they will be releasing into the gaming market. Announced today, Damnation is a third person shooter "gone vertical", set in free roaming locations inspired by various elements of American history. Codemasters says that each environment [...]

PlayStation 3 is just over a month away from seeing the release of one of gaming’s most expensive demos, in the form of Gran Turismo 5: Prologue. Sure we’ve gotten a taste of what’s to come by downloading the partial title from PSN, and through various "leaks", but everything always came up short in the [...]

Lost Odyssey is going to be one of my top five games of the year. Do I have your attention?  Great.  I don’t want you just jumping to the review score without reading the full text of this.  Because after scanning through a few of the early reviews for the game from our competitors, I [...]

Over the past 24 hours, the internet has been rife with comments – particularly wordy comments – regarding the recent release of Bully: Scholarship Edition for the Xbox 360. Being a port of an almost 2 year old title, it was natural to assume that it wouldn’t be the smoothest transition in history, especially since [...]