It’s Thursday which means it’s time for yet another entry in this week’s Square Enix sale on Steam. Today the sale takes on two lesser known games in the publisher’s library; one is the cute action game Mini-Ninjas from developer Io Interactive. The other is the downloadable only puzzle-RPG game Gyromancer which was developed with [...]

It’s really, really hard for us to get excited about a game based on a TV series that was once hot but then fell apart in its last year before it got canceled. Yet that’s what the upcoming game adaptation of the cult hit TV show Prison Break has to deal with. It’s going to [...]

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). [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

City of Heroes has the best pseudo-seasonal event anywhere: the double XP weekend. Forget holidays that you’re usually sick to death of in which you can get some arbitrary gimmick powers, it’s cold hard character boosting that really gets everyone excited. And if those of us that play the game weren’t swimming with enough alts, [...]

OnLive has announced that its cloud-based game streaming service will launch in the 48 contiguous US states on June 17, 2010. The service will initially be available to PC and Mac owners for a monthly service fee of $14.95. Each game purchase and rental will carry a charge on top of the base subscription. [...]

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ubisoft will release a short film ahead of the release of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. The film will be helmed by Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy, the duo that just won an Academy Award for their short film Logorama. We’re assuming the Ghost Recon film won’t be quite as [...]

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 [...]

Last January at CES 2010, PC gaming controller maker Razer announced a partnership with Sixense to release a motion sensor-based PC game controller. A prototype of the device was demoed at CES using Valve’s first person shooter Left 4 Dead 2. Now Razer has announced that the SDK for their still unreleased PC motion controller [...]

Last year, Ubisoft released a series of short live action films that tied into Assassin’s Creed 2. Now the publisher wants to do the same thing with their upcoming military shooter Ghost Recon: Future Solider and they have recruited the people behind a movie that just won an Academy Award.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog [...]

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 [...]