Lo and behold, your newly-furbished Rock Band 2 guitar, the Stratocaster 2.0
Speaking of Rock Band 2-related news, we haven’t talked much about EA’s sequel to the ultimate party game with inebriated/sober co-workers and friends. With Ms. Brightside & Talkshowhost not around, the Rock Band 2 love [...]

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I think we’re going to need a bigger boat – uh gun.
Zerg and Tentacle (I know they have claws not tentacles but if the original game wasn’t so kiddy friendly they would) fetishists rejoice – your long snubbed favorite cuddly, armor ripping, tank destroying, commander disemboweling aliens have finally found their [...]

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  *not actual gameplay

Showing their ongoing love for racing games with four letter ALL CAPS titles such as previous racer, GRID (perhaps to make it more XTREME TO THE MAX I don’t know) – Codemasters has announced FUEL, a no-boundaries on and off road racing game.
If [...]

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Remember that old fiasco a year ago when the Rock Band guitar weren’t compatible with Activision’s Guitar Hero games, and vice versa for the Rock Band games? In a turn of events, Sony has been working with the three "music-rhythm game-inclined" developers, Neversoft (of Activision), Harmonix, and Konami, to make sure that the Playstation 3 [...]

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Now you can experience the glory of battle and the thrill of WAR before the game goes live! Players can get into the WAR open beta by pre-ordering Warhammer Online from select retail partners. Participants of the closed beta will automatically be granted open beta access.
Pre-Order Customers [...]

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EA has indeed come a long way from sticking to their tried-and-true plan of re-releasing football and soccer games with updated rosters, eh? Fresh from their Fall preview show, dubbed the EA Showcase 08 in the west part of the States, there are two titles that stand out.
Battlefield Heroes (PC) [...]

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Adorable mascot or the future face of corporate greed? You decide…
I’m sure all of you have seen the latest video of LittleBigPlanet, the most anticipated sandbox 2D platformer that could move units. So much so that Sony, being incredibly confident in this title, is planning [...]

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There’s a new Far Cry 2 trailer out, and as has become my recent habit, I have taken to investigating it for evidence of video game racism. For those not in the loop, ever since the Resident Evil 5 fiasco, it’s become somewhat sticky to shoot at anything that isn’t an obvious abomination to the [...]

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It’s not everyday that a big franchise courtesy of Insomniac becomes a downloadable game, or see a game trying to put on the pants of 2-D shooting that SNK wrought.
Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty (PS3 via PSN)

Basically an epilogue episode for Tools Of Destruction, this game pits Ratchet with the same [...]

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Popular with aficionados of novelty weapons – yours truly included – the Ratchet & Clank series is coming to Playstation Network. Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty, a stand-alone adventure offering  up to four hours of gameplay features our lombax hero and his robot friend as they, presumably, if I don’t misunderstand the [...]

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