There is a game of considerable proportions being released this week, so much so that we are being ‘treated’ to trailers, videos, interviews and now TV specials all dedicated to Gears of War 2. I have to say this video ruined my view of Marcus Fenix, the guy seems a little arrogant for just being a voice artist or am …

This week, Valve’s Steam Cloud will become the latest addition to the company’s ever-growing list of features comprising its Steam digitial distribution service. First announced in May, the Steam Cloud stores save games and configuration options for supported games on Valve’s own servers rather than on users’ hard drives, allowing those files to be accessed from any PC. Last Updated: …

Music companies Apple Corps, Sony/ATV, and EMI — the Beatles music catalog owners — may have chosen MTV over Activision to publish its recently announced Beatles game due to the latter’s inflexibility on song royalties. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has argued in the past that record labels who are asking for increased song royalties from rhythm titles, like Activision’s …

Fallout 3 ‘Dog Meat Location’ clip So incase you didn’t know, Fable 2 is not the only game where your character can gain the aid of a faithful canine companion. Fallout 3 continues the canine love , with Dogmeat. Here’s a video on how to find the fluffy guy and how he will be able to help you, if you …

A new study in this month’s Pediatrics journal “confirms” a link between violent videogames and aggressive behavior. Various researchers from Iowa State University in Ames, the National Institute on Media and the Family in Minneapolis, and Ochanomizu University, Keio University, the University of Tsukuba, and Takasaki City University of Economics in Japan, observed hundreds of students from nine to fifteen …

This just makes me so happy, After a slow couple of news days it seems that we have a little bit of excitement coming back into the industry. Ray Maguire, from the black team, has been chatting to Videogamer.com about how he feels the PS3 now has a large enough install base for third party developers to start using it …

This is sad. A reality TV show is coming to Spike in the US and is going to be "based" on Gear of War 2. The show will have two teams going through hell and performing acts from the game as well as learning to work together as team. If you ask me, this is nothing more than a seriously lame cash-in on the franchises success as well as nothing more than a promotional tool to sell the game, as it is airing the day before Gears of War 2's release. It doesn't really look like its going to be anything like the game and I really think that Epic has sold out on this one.

There is currently a popular story doing the rounds about how Epic Games think that Microsoft is winning the online battle due to their added content. In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Epic's Mike Capps says that it's due to Microsoft's policy of adding of constantly "adding cool stuff". That's all good and well but it's the next part of the interview that got my interest. More after the jump. He goes on to say the that: "But I love the fact that you boot through the dashboard now - I understand how some gamers might not like it so much, but that's how you join into the Xbox Live experience - your dashboard comes up, you get to see what's new, hey, there's some free stuff you didn't know about - instead of just booting into your game and missing the community." It never ceases to amaze me how people can so easily soften words to try and make something hugely profitable look like it is something that has been done as a favour to us, the gamers. He speaks about missing the community and seeing that there is free stuff available, when in truth, it's actually just all about pushing as much money-making DLC down our throats as possible. This reminds me of the famous quote, "out of sight, out of mind".