Our beloved videogames analyst, Michael Pachter reckons that Xbox Live will very likely see a new “Platinum” subscription in the not too distant future. This after correctly predicting the $10 price increase to Xbox Live Gold that was announced this week. Pachter had the following to say: “The extra $10 translates to around $100 – 150 million per year in …

The UK Playstation magazine, PS3M have just confirmed that Batman: Arkham City will be getting multiplayer. This news comes after a lot of speculation that Catwoman would indeed be the character for such a role. While it has not yet been confirmed if the multiplayer will be co-operative or versus, I see the co-op side of things working out much …

It’s been 8 years since the original Mafia was released to the world. While it was reported to not be so great on consoles, the PC version was truly magnificent. In my opinion, Mafia was grossly underrated, and flew under way too many peoples radar. It wasn’t the Grand Theft Auto clone that people thought it might be. It was, …

[Update: We are busy collecting more information regarding the news, we are already getting reports in that many of the different online stores have already bumped their prices up as a result] We have just received information from local online codes website EvoPoints.co.za Microsoft will no longer be issuing any more subscription codes until the price increase kicks in. Yes, …

Some quick news for ya’ll. The demo for the impressive looking, crazy-ass Japanese shooter is now available for download, and you best be trying it out. The action is fast, frantic and involves a lot of shooting and awesome battle suits. The demo weighs in at 467MB. Do it. Source: VGArabia Last Updated: August 31, 2010

Well here’s some bad news for any Xbox Live members in the US, UK, Canada or Mexico… or anyone using one of those countries as your illicit residence for Live purposes. Major Nelson has announced a price increase effective as of the 1st of November for each one of these areas. The worst affected for once is the US which …

Why, oh why are they not making a Halo movie again? The latest live-action short for Halo Reach’s ‘Remember Reach’ campaign has been released, and it’s utterly fantastic. The first few videos had a lot of nothingness going on, but set the tone of the story that Reach is trying to tell. This video, however, is a different story and …

That’s right you dirty underhanded sack of dirt. How dare you buy a video game second hand and deprive some poor CEO of his golden 22 inch Limousine rims? Today’s FFD takes a look at one of the hot topics from this week, second hand game sales. EA implemented the whole $10 system which forces pre-owned buyers to pay to …