Star Wars : The Force Unleashed bagged top honours in 2009’s Writer’s Guild Awards’ videogame writing category. Winning it for Lucasarts were Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford and Cameron Suey who have written what many fans consider the best Star Wars story since the original trilogy.  The Force Unleashed managed steal the accolade from other contenders like Fallout 3, …

Eurogamer posted up a story yesterday clarifying what David Seeholzer from EA Games had said about Red Alert 3 looking better on the PS3. Apparently he had stated the day before that fans can expect “better graphics [and] improved performance” When pushed further he clarifies this by saying the PS3 version will be better is because they have a dedicated …

Major Nelson announced on his blog last night that the Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Demo has gone live on Xbox Live. So what does the demo hold in store? It’s strictly a SP demo which is unfortunate, but does feature the game’s cinematic opening (oh I’m so excited), 1 campaign mission from both the Soviet and Allied campaigns …

Here's a funny one. A whole bunch of Red Alert 3 manuals had some printing issues that cause the 20th digit or letter to not be printed in the games security key. So EA has taken the incredible approach of asking an owner to guess. They replied to his query by recommending that he "enter your existing code, and try guessing the last character". Cool, that means that he could land up having to punch the code in around 36 times as it could be anything from A - Z and then 0 - 9. Sounds like a fun mission, does it unlock any special vehicles? Then again, at least Red Alert came with it's code (Poke, poke, Microsoft).

Hiring a boat load of celebrities is cheaper than creating computer generated, StarCraft-esque cutscenes, says EA, but how do they go about choosing the actual stars? “The casting for this game and for our previous game, C&C3, was kind of a collaborative effort between certain members of the development team as well as PR and marketing.” says Ajami — who …

Red Alert 3 'Presidential Candidate' trailer You don’t need to be a Command and Conquer fan to the the jokes and his policy proposals are simultaneously sensible and necessary. After all, what would happen if armored Kodiak bears, attack blimps, and weaponized robots suddenly turned up and changed hope into a four letter word? It’s a frightening prospect. There’s another …