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UFC fans will have to wait to watch UFC fights on their Xbox 360 until December 20, because Microsoft announced that the app has been delayed. The UFC app which was suppose to arrive on the Xbox 360 today allows gamers to watch fights, stream in HD, watch the interactive fight card, and of course purchase pay per views all while using Kinect. Microsoft did not say why the delay happened, but at least it will be available for the next pay per view fight. via Gaming Blend Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

88 miles per hour, a DeLoreon, stolen plutonium, 1.21 gigawatts, and a Flux Capacitor. Those are the things it takes for time travel to be possible. Thanks to Doc Brown we know this and understand it. Sort of. I mean, what the hell is a gigawatt anyway. I guess for the purposes of this review that’s neither here nor there. Just know this going in, Doc is in trouble and it’s up to you to control Marty and figure out what’s going on and save Doc. The game starts in a very familiar way, but with some subtle differences. Einstein is loaded in to the DeLoreon and sent 1 minute in to the future. This is where things that you thought you knew, go off the rails. Once y…

Developed by: Ubisoft Montreal Published by: Ubisoft Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC (reviewed) Players: 1 offline with 8 player multiplayer It’s that time again, where we sharpen our hidden blades and get ready to brutally assassinate hundreds of inept guards in our quest for the truth. You once again take up the mantle of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, now an old man, but still every bit as capable as in his previous outings. The formula still holds true, and most of the features from Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood have returned. Main story missions are in Sequences, or chapters, and most of them have bonus objectives to complete for full synchronization (a better score). Almo…

Amazon has placed THQ and Volition’s Saints Row: The Third on sale for the time being. The price of $59.99 has been slashed down to $39.99. In Saint’s Row: The Third, gamers continue the story of the Third Street Saints who have traded in a life of respectable crime and turned into full on sell out celebrities endorcing “ass tasting energy drinks”. via Amazon Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

We all know it’s coming. EA even confirmed back in early November after Battlefield 3 released, that there will be a Battlefield 4. Now one gamer believes they may have caught a tiny easter egg regarding the next Battlefield while playing the mulitplayer. During a multiplayer round on the Battlefield 3 multiplayer map, Wake Island one gamer caught the numbers “2143″ inscribed on a wall. Could this point to a game following the futuristic ice age set Battlefield 2142 that never made it to consoles? Take a look for yourself. via Eurogamer Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

Remedy released an announcement trailer last week for the upcoming downloadable episode for Alan Wake, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. Today, they released the full extended trailer which shows Alan Wake doing what he does best. Dodging “omega 3 fatty acid” foes and still managing to get hit in the back during the slow sequence scene. Alan Wake’s American Nightmare will be releasing on the Xbox Live Arcade as a downloadable episode. via CVG Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

Sega has discounted select games on the Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and iOS. On the Playstation Network, users can pick up Renegade Ops for $8.99, Sega Rally Arcade for $5.99, Sonic 4 Episode 1 for $4.99, and some others for low prices until January 3rd 2012. For your iOS device, many games including various Sonic, Super Monkey Ball, Streets of Rage titles, and more have all been marked down to $.99 each until January 9th, 2012. Xbox Live Arcade only has two Sega games discounted and those select titles are After Burner Climax for 400 MS points and Renegade Ops for 600 MS points. Those point prices are good until January 2nd, 2012. via Sega Blog Tweet Th…

Rocksteady is saying thank you to fans of Batman: Arkham City by giving out a free downloadable Batsuit skin. The Black Batsuit with the familiar yellow emblem will be available on December 21st to download from the Playstation Network, Xbox Live Marketplace, and PC, but only for one day. Rocksteady also provided a cheat code so that gamers who have yet to complete the game can change into the new Batsuit skin. To use the code go to the main menu, select your save slot, and do the following combo: Left, left, down, down, left, left, right, up, up, and down via Batman Arkham City Blog Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

If you are doing last minute Christmas shopping or just want to buy yourself a game, you might want to check out GameFly’s Year End Sale. Dozens of titles on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo DS have been slashed to unbelievable prices. While some of the games are either old or just do not deserve a glance, there are some titles on there that are worth getting if you have yet to play them or have someone on your list who is asking Santa for them this year. Mortal Kombat, Alice: Madness Returns, Portal 2, and for the kiddos the Ben 10 Triple Pack just to name a few. GameFly’s sale will be running now until January 3, 2012 and features …

For those of you that have forgotten or got the chance to play the awful Spec Ops: The Line private beta, it appears that 2K Games wants to remind you that the game is still coming and it appears to have received a bit of a makeover in the following trailer that is full of new gameplay footage. via Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

While Sony says, “We do not comment on rumors or speculation about our products” when questioned about whether or not God of War IV was on the horizon, a composer who is working on the music for the game has ousted the project without Sony knowing. The award winning Timothy Williams has confirmed to Joystiq that he is indeed helping out with composing the music for God of War IV and that the game is now on his resume as “upcoming”. Williams has composed music for several Hollywood hits including Watchmen, 300, and Halloween. He also composed music for video games such as Army of Two: 40th Day, Transformers, and Rise of the Arognauts. via Joystiq and Timothy William’s R…

Those of you looking to get your hands on Gotham City Imposters, the downloadble title coming to the Xbox Live Marketplace, Playstation Network, and PC will just have to wait a bit longer. The previous launch date of January 10th, has been pushed back to February according to a press release from Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment. In the first person shooter title Gotham City Imposters, gamers can choose which side of the law that they want to be on in order to take over Gotham City, the do-gooder Batman side or the evil hijinks Joker side. Once the decision has been made, gamers can then create their own imposter versions of their favorite character and battle it out a…

Those of you that are eagerly waiting to get your hands on Platinum Game’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance will be getting an early surprise. Kojima and Platinum Game’s CEO Tatsuya Minami and Producer Atsushi Inaba, who incase you missed the memo, are now working on Revengeance have all confirmed to Famitsu Magazine that the Raiden only action game will be playable at this year’s E3 in June. The now action only spin off featuring the white haired, somewhat disliked, and newly metal bodied Raiden has no set release date other than sometime in 2012. via Andriasang Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

Comic book and video game nerds unite! DC Direct announced a new lineup of action figures based on 2009′s hit Batman Arkham Asylum and 2011′s followup, Batman Arkham City. These highly detailed and gorgeous action figures include Titan Joker who is due out in November and Killer Croc and Mr. Freeze who are both hitting retail shelves in June. Also announced were The Penguin, Batman, Clown Thug, Ra’s al Ghul, and Azrael which are all releasing in September. via Game Informer Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

What’s in a name? Well not much if you are referring to Nintendo’s upcoming console the Wii U. After complaints that the company has received since the announcement of the Wii U, rumors have been spreading across the interwebs that Nintendo is considering changing the name of the console. Sources close to Nintendo are claiming that Nintendo is worried that there might be confusion over the name of their newest console like with the numerous other different named DS handhelds. Nintendo has not confirmed anything regarding a possible name change so we will have to leave this one at the rumor door, but I do wonder if they thought maybe about changing the name to Nintendo R…

The Salt Lake City Tribune is reporting that the outspoken co-founder of Eat Sleep Play, David Jaffe is out of a job. Jaffe reportedly lost his spot at the company he helped he co-found in 2007, because Eat Sleep Play and Jaffe wanted to do down separate paths. Eat Sleep Play’s other co-founder Scott Campbell has since confirmed this report and said that they company will now focus on developing games for iPhone and iPad. Jaffe was not the only employee to leave the company. Eat Sleep Play has also laid off 8 employees all before the launch of the Playstation brand exclusive, Twisted Metal on February 14th. via Salt Lake City Tribune Tweet This Post Post to Faceb…

Make as many jokes as you want about this, but “Get Ready to Lick the Competition” says Microprose and Kung Fu Factory in a press release for their new arcade game titled, Girl Fight. Releasing later this spring, Girl Fight is well as the title implies girls fighting and will feature long legs, flying hair, and sexy vixen-esqe fighters. The female only fighters will be customizable with characters skins, abilities, and codex entries. No price has been announced for the fast paced arcade fighting game, however something tells me someone out there will pay $15 to see a little virtual T&A battling it out. via Joystiq Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full a…

BAFTA’s nominees for the 2012 video game awards have been announced and apparently we live in an alternate universe where games that suck or fail miserably at trying to be different (yeah you LA Noire) deserve to come out on top. Batman: Arkham City and LA Noire faired pretty well receiving most of the nominations including Best Game, Game Innovation, Artistic Achievement, and Action. LA Noire also scored a nomination in the Debut category. Other titles receiving their share of nominations include Modern Warfare 3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, FIFA 12, Portal 2, and Assassin’c Creed’ Revelations. For the complete list of where these games and other games fall, please vi…

Incase you missed it lastnight during the season premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead, Mass Effect 3 debuted the full CG launch trailer titled Take Earth Back. Not to be confused with last weeks tiny little bite sized trailer Take Earth Back, this is the full CG trailer that looks absolutely spectacular and will get your panties in a uncomfortable wad. March 6th cannot come fast enough! via Bioware Mass Effect Youtube Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

Fans of the Mass Effect series will be happy to know that they surpassed the number of pre orders for Mass Effect 2 with Bioware’s upcoming entry into the series, Mass Effect 3. EA product manager Will Graham said that the pre orders for Mass Effect 3 have “broken the targets set” and are “ well ahead of where we were at the same point with Mass Effect 2“. EA has been heavily advertising to get the Mass Effect brand out there for Mass Effect 3′s release on March 6th. Besides commercials, collectable items, and trailers, EA has also launched copies of Mass Effect 3 with GPS devices attached into space so that gamers can track the copies and hunt them down when they land. …

Before the Kinect friendly Fable: The Journey releases this fall, Lionhead has announced the Xbox Live Arcade will be getting some Fable action before hand. Fable Heroes will be launching prior to Fable: The Journey and will feature four player co-op and will also tie in with Fable: The Journey by using unlockables and avatars. Fable Heroes has been in development by Lionhead since last April. No specific date or price has been announced for the downloadable title. via Eurogamer Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

343 Industries takes you behind the scenes to see the first in game footage of Halo 4. via Halo Waypoint Youtube Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

GDC San Francisco – March 5th, 2012 –Paradox Interactive today announced the details of its three previously teased games from small and fresh-thinking game studios for the 2012 Game Developers Conference, upholding that size doesn´t matter when it comes to big gameplay experiences from small development team.Despite some pre-show jitters and a touch of stage fright, all three games, entitled The Showdown Effect, Dungeonland and RED Frontier, are being showcased at the convention. The trio of intriguing and innovative games will be available to view and to play at Paradox’s Interactive’s gaming lounge at GDC.Action-packed and loaded with adventure, all three of these game…

Gamers have been pouring into Metacritic to give their own reviews and score for Mass Effect 3 which just so happened to release at midnight. Unfortunately most of the reviews have been zeroes due to some fail worthy comments who apparently cannot stomach that you can have same sex relations in the game and astonishingly managed to beat a 20-40 hour game within 12 hours of release. This is just to merely serve as an embarrassment to the asshat cry babies in this world. *Caution ramblings below were not edited for spoilers or profane language. Read at your own risk* gayme3scenes “Daaaaaaaang! I ain’t know there was gay sex scenes in this game! I thought was gurrrbage…

Ninja Gaiden 3′s online multiplayer will be only be available to those of you who buy either a new copy to receive an online pass or of course pay the extra fee for the pass if you buy it used. Ninja Gaiden 3′s publisherTecmo Koei confirmed the news about online pass earlier today. Ryu Hayabusa’s adventure continues in Ninja Gaiden 3 on March 20th for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The Wii U will receive it at a later date that has yet to be announced. via Shack News Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article