Three sixteen-yea- old French idiots have been arrested in Japan for stealing games and consoles to the value of 1 million Yen (about R105 000) from Sofmap, a retailer in the Japan’s Akihabara region. The teens appropriated a total of 92 games and seven consoles in 18 separate capers since November of last year. Japanese people being Japanese, nobody tried …

For a limited time only, Microsoft have dropped the price of the 12 month gold subscription for Xbox Live. When people first started noticing the drop, there was speculation as to whether or not the price drop was going to be permanent, however Microsoft have confirmed that the price drop is only going to be available for a limited time …

Are you sucking at Street Fighter IV? Even on easy mode? Well, then the above video is not for you. Instead, you can go and watch the basic tips video that I have posted after the jump to learn all the basics that you didn’t even know existed. These IGN Strategize videos, hosted by the lovely Jessica Chobot are the …

I was really looking forward to seeing Yahtzes’s opinion on Killzone 2 this week and you can imagine my surprise when I wandered over to The Escapists site only to find out that he had instead reviewed Spiderman… Now I can only presume he doesn’t want to be predictable or is just trying to go against the grain but I …

Yesterday morning I posted up a feature list that had apparently been leaked by a Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare 2 playtester. Well Infinity Wards have now come out and denied that the list was put together by anyone who has had any hands on time with the game itself but has stopped short of debunking the entire list They …

We have received a press release from Megarom to let us know that the Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena demo is officially available to download on Xbox Live. There is a good reason that you have been hearing so much buzz about the upcoming title, and the reason is simply that the first game was so good that …

Pikachu, the electric yellow…thing is a favourite of Pokémon fans, and possibly the most recognised character in the titular anime, manga and videogame series. It’s a shame then that Obsidian Design have chosen to honour the character by designing a Pikachu-themed adult costume. What they’ve created is something so disturbing that my lunch is trying to escape through my ears. According …

In the days before the internet, much fabrication was proliferated in school playgrounds across the globe. Most of the information about video games and the cheats, secrets and Easter eggs contained therein was spread via print magazines and word of mouth – and kids being kids, a portion of it was outright lies – mere childhood fantasy – perpetuated through …