Latest Articles (Page 2299)

Put down your iPad 2s (unless you're using one to read this) and pay attention, for the latest episode in the great Eurogamer.net podcast saga is here!

According to Microsoft, 2011 is the year Kinect goes hardcore – but we had no idea it meant this.

Call of Duty: Black Ops maker Treyarch is hiring for staff to work on a new game – and it sounds like another COD.

US publishing giant Activision angered many gamers when it closed one of the UK's most respected developers: Bizarre Creations.

Reich - the Nazi sci-fi shooter fronted by a nearly-naked lady spattered by blood and pulling her skimpy top aside - really does exist, publisher UTV Ignition has insisted.

Gamers concerned that Halo creator Bungie's 10-year publishing deal with Activision may affect its hotly anticipated new game need not – and that's because Kotick's crew are "hands-off".

A private Take-Two casting call is advertising for an actor to portray James Pedeaston - a character from Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Grand Theft Auto V may be set in Hollywood, according to an idiosyncratic report on VG247.

Imagine typing the name of a game wrong on your CV! That's what renowned stuntman Declan Mulvey claimed happened when he seemed to inadvertently leak the existence of Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V may be codenamed Rush, according to a Hollywood casting call - and these may be some of the game's star characters.

Another 100 website addresses tenuously linked to Rockstar and Grand Theft Auto V have been found.

Take-Two has announced "a new incentive compensation programme" based on profit sharing for the Rockstar Games label, and "long-term employment agreements" for key team-members including Sam and Dan Houser and GTA producer Leslie Benzies.

Games industry analyst Mike Hickey has said a Grand Theft Auto V announcement may be on the way - and that it could be made before E3 kicks off in June.

Reports indicate Apple's iPad 2 is sold out in the UK.

By now, the Need For Speed brand has come to mean little more than 'EA-published video game featuring cars'. It's an umbrella term broad enough to encompass everything from the Burnout-inspired cops-and-robbers thrills of last October's Hot Pursuit to SHIFT, a simulation racer with its eye firmly on Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport's trailblazing exhaust pipes.

Episode two of the Back to the Future series is due out on the European PlayStation Network "soon", Telltale has said.

A new job advertisement posted by Sony Santa Monica suggests a multiplayer future for the God of War series.

The lawyers representing infamous PS3 hacker George Hotz are fighting back, fiercely disputing Sony America's right to try Hotz in California - or, indeed, at all.

BioWare is thinking about how it can improve the heads up display for third-person science fiction shooter Mass Effect 3 – and Dead Space may provide some answers.

Metacritic has axed its controversial developer career scores following complaints and criticism from the game press and industry.

Don't know about you, but I'm starting to miss World War II. You'd think my gran might feel differently, yet that doesn't stop her banging on about it. To be fair, she's more concerned with the fact her nation was in mortal danger (alongside who in the village had it away with an American airman, and the banana shortage), so she's probably got justification.

Steam users get free access to a new Darkspore beta all this week, Valve has announced.

Lionhead Studios boss and newly-crowned BAFTA Fellow Peter Molyneux has said he would be happy to offer EA 24 hours of his time to consult on a new entry in the Syndicate franchise.

A new patent filing has shown off Nintendo's concept for an unreleased motion-controlled motorbike game.

Activision boss Bobby Kotick is misunderstood and doesn't deserve his industry hate figure status, so says Blizzard president Mike Morhaime.

A 21st-century take on the ancient Apple II classic Choplifter is about to touch down, courtesy of Hunted: The Demon's Forge developer inXile Entertainment.

Last Friday the improbable happened: the UK saw the launch of two new hardware units, the Nintendo 3DS and the iPad 2.

Warhawk 2 is currently in development for PlayStation 3 with a 2012 launch rumoured, according to a new report.

Industry veteran and EA founder Trip Hawkins owes the IRS $20 million in unpaid taxes, a US judge has ruled.

Side-scrolling SNES scrapper Brawl Brothers headlines this week's slim batch of Nintendo downloads.