Do you want to have your gaming PC with the fastest processor available, at least for the next few months? Intel has you covered today. The PC chip maker used the Game Developers Conference as an excuse to announce the new Core i7 – 980X Extreme Edition processor (previously known by its code name Gulftown). [...]

Almost a year ago, a trademark for “Crafting Mama” was spotted. It’s now being put to use, as Majesco has announced, well, Crafting Mama for DS. In her latest endeavor, Mama will occupy her seemingly endless time with a new task: arts & crafts.
In a series of 40 projects, players will create things like [...]

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Peter Molyneux has made it clear that Fable 3 is ditching as much of the 2D interface from Fable 2 as possible. Speaking at GDC, he finally showed us exactly how Lionhead will achieve this. According to Molyneux, Microsoft user research revealed that a majority of Fable 2 players understood [...]

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Unless you’re a journalist, analyst or developer, your odds of ever attending the Game Developers Conference are pretty slim. Feel free to live vicariously through the Joystiq crew by checking out the gallery below. No, it’s not nearly as flashy as E3 and PAX’s show floors — except in the case of [...]

Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg is thrilled with February’s NPD numbers, and for good reason. The Xbox 360 took the top spot in home console sales last month, despite not being a Wii. According to the NPD, it’s the first time this has happened since the Halo 3 launch in 2007.
BioShock 2 seems to have had [...]

Normally we don’t get too excited over updates to the Battle.net Mobile Authenticator, but reader El Oreo brought the most recent update to our attention. Version 1.1.0 of the iPhone version of the mobile authenticator contains the following updates:

A new “Copy” feature lets you copy the currently displayed authentication code into your device’s clipboard. You [...]

Scr-scr-scratched through all of DJ Hero’s tracks? Activision has announced a new DLC mix pack featuring Renegade Edition headliners Eminem and Jay-Z. The collection is scheduled to drop on Xbox Live, PSN and Wii this month and includes:

“Shake That” by Eminem mixed with “Show Me What You Got” by Jay-Z
“Without Me” by Eminem mixed with [...]

It’s an awfully nice gesture of Sony to invite us to its GDC 2010 press conference — and it’s one where we expect to see some equally nice gestures. That’s a Motion Controller joke, folks. Check back by 4:00PM PST (7PM EST) to catch our full and irritatingly detailed liveblog!

4:24PM Jeremy, the demo pilot, doesn’t [...]

As promised, developer Relic and publisher THQ have now released their newest and quite large content update to 2009’s RTS game Warhammer 40,0000 Dawn of War 2. The update, which is automatically downloaded via Steam, also prepares the game for the release tomorrow (in the US) for Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War 2 Chaos Rising, [...]

Ever since hearing last November that Icarus Studios was working on an iPhone app for Fallen Earth, we’ve been starving for details. Count it as a road warrior’s dream fulfilled, then, as Massively sat down with Associate Project Manager Dave Haydysch at GDC for a hands-on demo of this beefy application.
“My goal was to make [...]

Feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information available on the EverQuest II forums? It’s easy to get lost amid the forest of posts, replies, and game guides collected on the official site since the title launched in late 2004. To alleviate the information overload, SOE has released the Treasure Chest, a compendium of worthwhile forum [...]

As is the case with many PC game titles nowadays, Blizzard’s upcoming sci-fi RTS game StarCraft II will be getting an automatic patch for the first day of its release. VG247.com chatter with Blizzard’s lead designer Dustin Browder who confirmed the news but added that they will make the Day 1 patch as small as [...]

The 2010 edition of the Game Developers Conference has just started in San Fransisco but the dates for the 2011 event have apparently already been set. Our sister site Joystiq reports that GDC 2011 will be held from February 28-March 4. As usual, the show will be held in and around the Moscone Center in [...]

First he won a silver medal at the Winter Olympics, and now he’ll be on the cover of the Wii-exclusive NHL 2K11. Vancouver Canucks forward Ryan Kesler sounds genuinely excited about the opportunity, telling The Canadian Press that the only way he thought he’d ever end up on a game cover was “if I put [...]

Commander’s Log:
Well, whaddya know? I get up this morning and ride down to Deck 2, and the first thing outta Kelly’s mouth is that I have a new message at my Private Terminal. About time — things have been hella boring around here since beating up the Collectors! Anyway, it’s from Illusive Man — [...]