World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Dated

7.5 million subscribers for WoW As World of Warcraft subscribers have now reached 7.5 million worldwide, Blizzard Entertainment is getting ready to release the first game expansion entitled The Burning Crusade. This new pack will hit European and North American stores...

Valve Delays Half-Life: EP2 Until Summer

That means Team Fortress 2 and Portal, too. Talking with Valve’s Marketing Director Doug Lombardi, CVG has learned that Half-Life 2: Episode Two, and subsequently Portal and Team Fortress 2, has been pushe back from Q1 2007 release till sometime in summer 2007...

PS3 Japan Launch Madness

Nearing the end of a 17-hour wait for our PS3s. Right now we’re sitting near the front of a very long line of future PlayStation 3 owners at the tried-and-true Shibuya Tsutaya store in Tokyo. It’s 2:45am, and there are roughly 200 people behind us at the...

Some PS3 Launch Dates Confirmed, Some Not

Taiwanese and Honk Kong gamers will certainly get a PS3 The question on everyone’s lips is whether or not Sony can respect PS3 launch dates previously announced. Some concern in that regard is normal, as the company already announced that they will miss the Japanese...

Nintendo World Kicks Off in Japan

New Smash Bros. footage and more at the new Space World. Swords, and Mario Party 8. The DS also has a bunch of new titles playable, including Sim City DS, Wario Thief, and more. A new Smash Bros. trailer is also on display – it’s about three minutes long...

Gran Turismo Awards Winner to Feature in the Next GT Game

1960 Chevy Corvette- the best car around The fourth annual Gran Turismo Awards just took place in Las Vegas. The host of this event was Sony Computer Entertainment America who decided for the event to take place at the SEMA (Speciality Equipment Market Association)....

Neverwinter Nights 2 Includes Dungeons & Dragons Online Free Trial

Interesting marketing strategy from Atari As the release of the second installment in the Neverwinter Nights series is getting closer and closer, Atari has decided to promote it by giving away some goodies along with every retail copy. Looks like every retail copy of...

Oddworld Creators Have New Game, CG Film

Studio had originally said they were done with games. After Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath failed to hook gamers in spite of its critical acclaim (we gave it an 8.0), Oddworld Inhabitants basically said “see ya” to the videogames industry, instead...

PlayStation 3 Too Low-Tech for Gears of Wars

Preston Thorne of Epic Games slips out some information Apparently, the Xbox 360 has reached its limits with Gears of Wars, hardware limits that is. Gears of War is a third-person tactical action game developed by Epic Games and using the 3.0 Unreal Engine. In an...

Just Cause 2 dropping in?

What we heard: Though not a raging success in North America, Just Cause has been fairing quite well in retail in the UK, where it stayed on the region’s top 10 all-formats list for four weeks after its September release. This success was apparently enough of a...