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Looking forward to InSane, the upcoming horror game from THQ and director Guillermo del Toro? Well, I have some bad news for you–in a post-earnings conference call earlier, THQ officially announced that InSane has been cancelled. -Nick’s take: There’s a silver lining…
Madden NFL 13 releases for Xbox 360 and PS3 on August 28. A Wii U version of the game will follow sometime later. However, football-loving gamers might not want to wait past August; in an interview with ESPN Playbook, producer Yuri Bialoskursky…
Football fans, rejoice; EA is giving up its stranglehold on the football video games market! Well, its stranglehold on the college football games market, anyway. A class-action lawsuit filed back in 2008 that claimed EA is violating anti-trust laws because of its…
Remember Devil’s Third? The promising action game from Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden developer/outspoken personality Tomonobu Itagaki? Originally shown at E3 2010, the game was being developed by Itagaki-san’s new studio Valhalla Games and being published by THQ for the PS3…
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was a great EA-published action-RPG that didn’t sell well enough to keep developers 38 Studios and Big Huge Games in business. If there ever was a sequel, however, it seems that EA would want to publish it. Speaking…
June 2012 was another bad month for video game sales according to the NPD, with overall revenues plunging 29% compared to June 2011. The best-selling game of the month was LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, which managed to sell a respectable…
Remember when gamers hacked into Street Fighter X Tekken and unlocked the 12 characters that were on the disc, but weren’t supposed to be unlocked until the PS Vita version of the game goes on sale in the fall? Capcom didn’t exactly…
Telltale’s great The Walking Dead downloadable episodic adventure game won’t be the only The Walking Dead game in town. Activison Blizzard is going to be publishing a new The Walking Dead game next year for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC–and this…
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier recently came out on PC (following the game’s release on Xbox 360 and PS3), but you might want to avoid that version of the game if you can. Why? Many gamers are reporting on the game’s…
E3 2012 has come and gone, but the memories of the show’s best games linger on. The Game Critics Awards–the most prestigious E3 awards considering they’re voted on by multiple publications–have named Sony’ and developer Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us as…