I got a chance to play FireFall at PAX East back in March. It feels extremely tight and polished already, and was tons of fun (and this is coming from the one who is stricken with perpetual shooter fatigue). Granted, I only was able to get my hands on the …

In an interesting, albeit spoiler-ridden interview with key members of Portal 2′s design team at Fast Company, Valve’s VP of marketing Doug Lombardi announces the future announcement of DLC for the game. At the moment, hard details are scarce though as many of you probably know, there is plenty of …

It has been a fairly slow news week, but this little tidbit caught my eye. Do you remember Hydrophobia? Probably not, because it was kind of terrible by all accounts (though had a really neat water physics engine, go figure). Anyways, the game’s developer/publisher Dark Energy is re-releasing a “definitive” …

Hi-Rez is looking to jump on the Hero Arena bandwagon with their newly announced SMITE. The company, probably best known for their shooter/MMO hybrid Global Agenda (a game that doesn’t really have the tactility of a shooter, nor the depth of an MMO) released the announcement this morning, claiming that …

The original Portal basically caught everyone who played it completely off guard. It was the product of Valve Software’s time-honored tradition of benevolently devouring smaller companies and teams that they think are being unique or creative. Conceptually beginning as a student project being made at DigiPen, the game (and its …

Okamiden is a fitting tribute to the end of the much-beloved Nintendo DS. Arguably the system’s swan-song, the game is an example of what is possible near the end of a device’s lifecycle. Packed inside its cartridge is a sprawling adventure lasting more than twenty hours in a fully realized, …

Game Informer Magazine claims it has confirmed, through multiple sources, that Nintendo is set to announce the successor to the Wii before or during this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo. With Wii sales beginning to taper off and a rumored price drop to $150 for the motion control marvel, the current …

George Hotz, aka Geohot, the hacker who cracked Sony’s Playstation 3 protection code, has settled with the Japanese electronics giant. Amidst a series of sensational legal proceedings, trips to South America, group attacks on the PSN, and more, Hotz has decided to settle and accept the terms of his surrender. …

Those of you who have been following the ongoing Alternate Reality Game surrounding the release of Portal 2 undoubtedly know how insane it has become. For those who haven’t, here’s a basic scaffold: to promote the upcoming launch of Portal 2 on April 19th, Valve has created a very odd variety of …

And Notch is bolder than I thought. The “game” will officially deploy on 11/11/11, the same day as Bethesda’s much anticipated Skyrim. In addition, the next update (1.5) will add weather effects.  You can read the official anoucement here.
Does anyone else think this is a risky move? Or is there …