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This promising PlayStation Network shooter combines funky retro visuals with arcade gameplay. Get the full article at GameSpot “PlayStation 3 | Gravity Crash Hands-On” was posted by Luke Anderson on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:48:24 -0700

The official iPhone and iPod touch port of id Software’s Doom is now available. Priced at $6.99, the 76.8MB download packs a total of 36 levels across four episodes: Knee-Deep in the Dead, Shores of Hell, Inferno, and Thy Flesh Consumed. Along with single-player, the touch-controlled game packs four-person online competitive and cooperative multiplayer modes. [...]

Tender lovelings everywhere, life’s no fun without a good scare. That’s our job, but we’re not mean, in our town of Halloween. In this town, don’t we love it now, everyone’s waiting for the next surprise. Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back and scream like a banshee make you jump out of your [...]

Revealed mere hours ago, the “Terrifying Team Fortress Haunted Hallowe’en Special” is now available to all owners of Team Fortress 2 PC in the form of a free automatic update. The download delivers Harvest, a community-made King of the Hill map, along with the addition of pumpkin bombs, collectible candy, and five achievements that unlock [...]

It is with a heavy heart that I bid goodbye to Nicholas Breckon, the only constant companion I’ve had on my two-and-a-half-year journey into the hearts and minds of Shacknews readers. As has been mentioned several times around these parts, Nick is moving on to a community management position at Fallout 3 developer Bethesda. And [...]

Following an analysis of review scores and the value of a fast framerate over graphic quality, Insomniac has stated that just-released platformer Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (PS3) is “probably” its last game to run at 60 frames per second. “There is virtually no advantage in sales or reviews of a 60 [...]

NeoGAF user/Gamersyde staffer TTP has posted 37 "gore"geous direct-feed framegrabs from the demo.

We meet Bioware in London to witness the Dragon Age Warden’s Quest, as 10 international teams battle it out to win $50,000. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot “PC | Dragon Age: Origins Video Feature 7” was posted by guyc on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:50:47 -0700

GameSpot UK’s Luke Anderson blasts his way through Gravity Crash, a new downloadable title for the PlayStation 3. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot “PlayStation 3 | Gravity Crash Video Preview 1” was posted by guyc on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:40:30 -0700

The internet is in an upheaval over the latest numbers posted by Sony Corp. that revealed a net loss for the quarter ended Sept. 30 of 26.3 billion yen ($287.5 million), compared with a net profit of 20.8 billion yen in the same period last year. If you thought that was bad, according to 15 [...]

IGN: Bungie loves to tease us. Countdowns are its forte. Weekly updates with snippets of hints that could mean anything are common. In fact, just today we got another near meaningless hint in the studio’s weekly update. It seems the team has recently gone through a group-wide multiplayer play test. Naturally, nobody is willing to [...]

TVGB: "Eurogamer Expo’s PSP Go lounge was all things LittleBigPlanet today, with Sony Cambridge around to talk about their PSP edition of the game, and even a few of the original Media Molecule team to share their own thoughts on the latest edition to the franchise. We caught up with Martin Lynagh, producer at MM [...]

"Kotaku columnist Tim Rogers brings word that store after store in Tokyo is selling out of the Xbox 360 version of Bayonetta. But why? The Xbox 360 version was awarded a perfect 40/40 score from Japanese game mag, while the PS3 version was not – it received a 38/40. The above picture is from the [...]

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has claimed that there were a lack of hit titles in the first half of 2009 across all platforms and that this led to "worldwide market contraction."

Although Microsoft Corp. has much of the business world wrapped around at least some of its software, the largest software company in the world is mostly known for its consumer products. Names like Windows, Zune, Windows Mobile, Sidekick, and Xbox are household terms (well, in gadget households perhaps). Still, with all those names, why hasn’t [...]

TPG writes: "There’s just something inherently cool about pirates, isn’t there? Whether it’s the fact they’re outlaws, sailing the seas and taking what they want, or the fact they can have peg legs, hooks for hands and have a parrot on their shoulder, it’s obvious to all that being a pirate is just damn cool. [...]

TVGB: "…what does fitting a game with all the ambition of the original LBP on PSP mean for the handheld? "Possibly that PSP has a lot more potential than people realise," says one Sony Cambridge rep, "and hopefully that will push people to make it go further.""

Sarcasticgamer.com posted Youtube video that is a parody PSA for the Fight Against Grenade Spam or F.A.G.S. What the heck is Infinity Ward doing? From the article: "Wow. This video just dropped on twitter by http://twitter.com/fourzerotwo and htp://twitter.com/Infinityward is a YouTube Video for the Fight Against Grenade Spaming starring Phillies Pitcher Cole Hamels. Yes. F.A.G.S. [...]