We recently posted a story about a new website called Gamecrush, that is essentially the gaming equivalent of a chick hotline for lonely gamers. Not only is it the saddest thing I have ever heard of, it’s also one of those ideas that you wish you came up with first, because you already know that it’s going to do incredibly …

Images of the much rumoured Xbox 360 Slim have been leaked and are making their way around the Internet at the speed of light. As you can see above the new Xbox 360 Lite is around about half the size of the current Xbox 360 and has no place for the standard HDD or USB ports but hey at least …

With Red Dead Redemption coming out in the not to distant future now it looks like Rockstar are hard at working finalising the important aspects of their upcoming Western… the achievements. Red Dead Redemption will include 48 Achievements (Trophies) with 13 of them being secret and the other 35 listed below. As always these give us a little insight into …

Update 3: The matchmaking seems to be working decently again. There are also reports that a good chunk of the glitches have been sorted out as well. Update 2: The title update is working, and now the matchmaking is broken: @thevowel Yes, matchmaking is in a bad state on Xbox LIVE right now. We’re working on it and will resolve …

Hey, videogames can actually have beneficial effects! Take that, Jack Thompson and Fox News! Researchers at Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry, under the leadership of Dr Emily Holmes have discovered that the infamous, and much loved Russian puzzler can help prevent the onset of Post Traumatic Stress. They undertook a study in which 40 healthy subjects were shown disturbing and traumatic …

Splinter Cell: Conviction’s launch is now just days away and to get us all hyped up for the title Ubisoft has released a pretty awesome launch trailer. It’s got some awesome music, great cut scenes and some solid in game action. It also clearly communicates exactly why Sam is going on a rampage, this game really does look awesome. Last …

If ever there was an argument for 3rd party exclusives being stupid, this is it. Ninja Theory, the fellows behind PS3 exclusive action game Heavenly Sword have revealed that despite selling over one and a half million copies of the lauded title they’ve yet to break even. "It’s difficult. Heavenly Sword came out pretty early on the PS3, and we …

Mark Carson, head motion capture specialist at CaptiveMotion – the company responsible for Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake’s Motion capture – has said the Quantic Dream PS3 exclusive was technically incredible but flawed. “It’s beautiful and brilliant but visually uneven at points, which unfortunately is the nature of the industry because of the scope, budgets and time-frames required,” he said, …