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EA’s online download system Origin has been accused of placing a form of tracking software onto your computer to get your personal information, but EA has always denied the claims that gamers had made. After a post in the forum Day One Patch and the responses that follow, is there finally proof that Origin is reading information off of your gaming machine? User forsayken claims that when he booted up Origin to play Battlefield 3, he took notice that Dead Space 2 appeared, however he claims that he downloaded Dead Space 2 four months ago off of Steam. Turns out from the responses, others have taken notice to the same thing happening to them with other Steam purchased gam…

EA's online download system Origin has been accused of placing a form of tracking software onto your computer to get your personal information, but EA has always denied the claims that gamers had made. After a post in the forum Day One Patch and the responses that follow, is there finally proof that Origin is reading information off of your gaming machine? User forsayken claims that when he booted up Origin to play Battlefield 3, he took notice that Dead Space 2 appeared, however he claims that he downloaded Dead Space 2 four months ago off of Steam. Turns out from the responses, others have taken notice to the same thing happening to them with other Steam purchased gam…

Summer sucks. Well not the weather, but for gamers the summer months usually bring that long awaited drought that hits right before the madness of the fall and holiday season begin causing us to empty our bank accounts down to nearly nothing all in the name of video games. Here's what's out this week: Xbox Live Arcade The Walking Dead Episode 2 - 400 MS Points Jeremy McGrath's Offroad - 800 MS Points FREEBIE ALERT - Haunt is free for a limited time! Mini Ninja's Adventures - 1200 MS Points Downloadable Content Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut - Free Skyrim: Dawnguard - 1600 MS Points Battlefield 3: Close Quarters - 1200 MS Points Games on Demand Cabela's North…

Summer sucks. Well not the weather, but for gamers the summer months usually bring that long awaited drought that hits right before the madness of the fall and holiday season begin causing us to empty our bank accounts down to nearly nothing all in the name of video games. Here’s what’s out this week: Xbox Live Arcade The Walking Dead Episode 2 – 400 MS PointsJeremy McGrath’s Offroad – 800 MS PointsFREEBIE ALERT – Haunt is free for a limited time! Mini Ninja’s Adventures – 1200 MS PointsDownloadable Content Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut – FreeSkyrim: Dawnguard – 1600 MS PointsBattlefield 3: Close Quarters – 1200 MS PointsGames on Demand Cabela’s North American Adventure –…

The previous 2011 release date for the upcoming Kinect enabled Project Draco apparently was just a tease. The Xbox Live Arcade game which is "inspired" by 1995's widely successful dragon rail shooter, Panzer Dragoon now has a new release date that has been listed by Joystiq as sometime in 2012. Project Draco is being developed by the Ground Inc. and will follow a human trying to train a dragon to aid them in combat. Sound a tab bit familiar? via Joystiq Click here to view the article

The previous 2011 release date for the upcoming Kinect enabled Project Draco apparently was just a tease. The Xbox Live Arcade game which is “inspired” by 1995′s widely successful dragon rail shooter, Panzer Dragoon now has a new release date that has been listed by Joystiq as sometime in 2012. Project Draco is being developed by the Ground Inc. and will follow a human trying to train a dragon to aid them in combat. Sound a tab bit familiar? via Joystiq Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

Prepare for a Magicka “Surprise”, Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, Pirates of Black Cove, Defenders of Ardania and Supreme Ruler: Cold War Playable at Event! NEW YORK – February 11th, 2011 – Paradox Interactive has today announced a strong line-up of playable titles for this year’s Game Developers Conference taking place in San Francisco between February 28th and March 4th. The renowned developer and publisher will be showing off a variety of upcoming games including the newest addition to their acclaimed Mount & Blade series entitled Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword and a new tower defense game set in the Majesty universe titled Defenders of Ardani…

If you happen to sign into Xbox Live at some point today you might have noticed that there are issues with Xbox Live Marketplace. Those problems are not your imagination and are widespread. Microsoft released a small statement regarding the Marketplace outage on their support page and said that Xbox Live users are experiencing issues when browsing the Games Marketplace, checking out Indie Games from a 360 or Xbox.com, and issues are being reported with the Games for Windows on a PC. Now we can all await the rumor mill to start saying that hackers have broke Xbox Live Marketplace. via Microsoft Support Update: Major Nelson tweeted this last night: At this point, it look…

Seems the community has already fixed the resistance bug present in patch 1.2. The unofficial script extender for Skyrim squashes this bug. I have confirmed it works. See the official forum post below. http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php...esistance-bug/

That is the question after a recent statement that was made by Activision's Bobby Kotick after the rumor mill has been swirling about Activision making a Call of Duty MMO that would require a subscription to play online. "If you think about the success that we've had in other product categories on subscription, you can get a sense of the direction that we want to take that franchise," Quick to show that they are not down with that decision if it happens, Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling released a statement. "This rumor has absolutely nothing to do with Infinity Ward or our games, including Modern Warfare 2. We would never introduce such a system for Modern Warfare 2 so do…

Back in February,developers Overkill Software announced that a sequel 2011's PayDay: The Heist was in development. The followup, PayDay 2 finally received it's release date and surprise! It's next week. Overkill Software announced that the Steam version of the game will be releasing on August 13th, while the PS3 and Xbox 360 will get their version of the unique first person shooter between the dates of August 13th and August 16th in a blog post to the Steam community. Also confirmed back in early May was that both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of PayDay 2 will be releasing digitally and in retail stores, however Overkill has yet to make an announcement regarding pricing …

Bethesda and Zenimax Online Studios are facing a huge backlash from PC gamers over The Elder Scrolls Online subscription system. The Elder Scrolls Online forum has lit up with angry gamers who were surprised to find out that Zenimax is placing a hold on their bank accounts for a full 30 days with the $14.99 a month subscription, despite having free 30 day access to the game. In order to play the Elder Scrolls MMO, gamers have to store their debit or credit card information first. Unfortunately if you do not store your card information, you cannot play the game that you just purchased. Some gamers have also claimed that Zenimax has already taken the payment out of their a…

Rare tweeted today that Perfect Dark which is headed for the XBLA will not only be at Microsoft's X10 event in San Fransico this month, but that it will be playable. "In Perfect Dark XBLA news: the game will be playable at the X10 event next week, widespread coverage to ensue. Have some of that!" Perfect Dark will not be the only game being shown at the event. MCV has reported that Lionhead confirmed that Fable III will be making an appearance. Alan Wake, Halo Reach, and Natal are expected to be shown as well. Click here to view the article

The end result of Fable III left fans feeilng their beloved game had a taken a turn to the dark side literally. Gone were the lush, bright graphics that Fable fans have grown accumstomed to and instead gamers had to stare at often dingy and gloomy landscapes. Peter Molyneuex, Producer at Lionhead Studios finally admitted that fans weren't the only ones that were disappointed the outcome of Fable III, so was he. Molyneux further explains his disappoint with the game when his Fable III goals of selling 5 million units were not met. With that being said let's hope that the next Fable game that rolls out gets back to it's roots and leaves us wanting more instead of saying…

The end result of Fable III left fans feeilng their beloved game had a taken a turn to the dark side literally. Gone were the lush, bright graphics that Fable fans have grown accumstomed to and instead gamers had to stare at often dingy and gloomy landscapes. Peter Molyneuex, Producer at Lionhead Studios finally admitted that fans weren’t the only ones that were disappointed the outcome of Fable III, so was he. “It didn’t end up being the game that I dreamed it would be…” ~ Peter Molyneux, Producer with Lionhead Studios in an interview with Gamasutra “The game came together so late that we had so little time to balance and refine. There was just a few weeks to do it.…

Peter Molyneux will be leaving Lionhead and Microsoft for a new company, 22 Cans after he is finished working on the Kinect friendly entry into the Fable series, Fable: The Journey. Molyneux made the statement earlier today stating that he is leaving Microsoft on happy terms. Molyneux's departure might be causing fans of the Fable series to jump for joy after expressing their disappointment in the turn that the series has taken with the release of Fable III. No news on his replacement will be. via Joystiq Click here to view the article

Peter Molyneux will be leaving Lionhead and Microsoft for a new company, 22 Cans after he is finished working on the Kinect friendly entry into the Fable series, Fable: The Journey. Molyneux made the statement earlier today stating that he is leaving Microsoft on happy terms. “It is with mixed emotions that I made the decision to leave Microsoft and Lionhead Studios, the company that I co-founded in 1997, at the conclusion of development of Fable: The Journey. I remain extremely passionate and proud of the people, products and experiences that we created.” Molyneux’s departure might be causing fans of the Fable series to jump for joy after expressing their disappointm…

Recently, EA's Sports Division head honcho Peter Moore sat down with Gamastura and discussed the techonology of the Wii U and why offline gaming is a thing of the past. "My dev teams -- their heads are exploding, in a good way and a bad way," Moore responded when asked about Nintendo's new entry into the console war. "How do we look at this new technology? We don't just want to bolt this on; this has to be relevant to the sports gamer." Moore later discusses his thoughts on offline gaming and why social gaming has exploded in recent years. It looks like EA, at least their Sports Division will be abandoning offline gameplay. What does that mean for the future of single…

“…from the perspective of once again, Nintendo is putting a different spin on things, showing that it’s not all about graphic fidelity and processing power. In the world of sports, our minds are racing as to how we can bring a sports game to life in a unique way.” ~ EA’s Peter Moore in an interview with Gamasutra Recently, EA’s Sports Division head honcho Peter Moore sat down with Gamastura and discussed the techonology of the Wii U and why offline gaming is a thing of the past. “My dev teams — their heads are exploding, in a good way and a bad way,” Moore responded when asked about Nintendo’s new entry into the console war. “How do we look at this new technology? We do…

While speaking directly to Eurogamer, Phil Harrison attempted to clear up some ugly rumors and conflicting reports that surfaced since Microsoft's reveal of Xbox One.One of those conflicting reports that Harrison was quick to dispel was the report that the Xbox One will require a constant connection to the internet. "Some bits of the system will work offline. I think the key point to make is that Xbox One requires an internet connection, but it does not need to be connected all the time..." Just to repeat that, THE XBOX ONE DOES NOT REQUIRE A CONSTANT INTERNET CONNECTION MMMKAY? Another rumor that Harrison attempted to clear up was used games and digital permissions. "So,…

It has been 50 years since Marvel introduced everyone to the world of the Fantastic Four and to celebrate Marvel Entertainment and Zen Studios are releasing a Fantastic Four DLC pinball table on Pinball FX for the Xbox Live Arcade and Marvel Pinball for the Playstation Network. The brightly colored table that features all four members of the superhero team will release on May 17 on the Playstation Network and on May 18 on the Xbox Live Arcade. The table will also contain new Achievements and Trophies for those of you looking to add to your collection or boost your gamerscore. via Zen Studios Click here to view the article

The fine folks at Zen Studios are holding a tournament for fabulous prize packs going to the top 3 scorers on the new Mars table for Pinball FX2. There will also be random entrants for prizes like Mars candy bars, DVDs, and game codes. Take a look at the full press release below and go check out the new table. Be sure to let us know what you think of the table in the forums. Also, be on the lookout for our forthcoming reviews of Zen Studios games. Pinball FX2 Mars Tournament April 29 – May 13 Finding life a little lonely on Mars? The Red Planet is about to get invaded by pinball wizards seeking a SuperScoreRocketBoost and Martian themed prizes. Download the Mars ta…

Lace up your running shoes and stretch those muscles, because Rare is looking for you to race into the record books. On Saturday, April 23 gamers from all over the world will have one chance to break the Guinness World Record for "the most people running a virtual 100m dash at one time." All you have to do to participate is download your entry in the form of a free Xbox Nations gamer picture. Turn on your console on April 23, make sure that Kinect is running, pop in Kinect Sports, and complete a sprint mini game. Rare has stated that if you choose the entire Track & Field event, it will not register. For those of you who complete the sprint mini game during the spe…

Sony has announced their Black Friday plans for the Playstation 3 and PS Vita. PS Vita Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Bundle with a limited edition crystal white Wi-Fi PS Vita, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, and 4 GB memory card – $199.99Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassied Bundle with a crystal black Wi-Fi PS Vita, Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified, and a 4 GB memory card- $199.99Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Bundle with a crystal black Wi-Fi PS Vita and Lego Batman2: DC Super Heroes – $199.99Playstation 3 Ultimate PS3 Bundle that includes a 250 GB model, 30 Day Playstation Plus trial, Uncharted Dual Pack, and the Infamous Collection – $199.99Sony announced that …

Sony has announced their Black Friday plans for the Playstation 3 and PS Vita. PS Vita Assassin's Creed III: Liberation Bundle with a limited edition crystal white Wi-Fi PS Vita, Assassin's Creed III: Liberation, and 4 GB memory card - $199.99 Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassied Bundle with a crystal black Wi-Fi PS Vita, Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified, and a 4 GB memory card- $199.99 Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Bundle with a crystal black Wi-Fi PS Vita and Lego Batman2: DC Super Heroes - $199.99 Playstation 3 Ultimate PS3 Bundle that includes a 250 GB model, 30 Day Playstation Plus trial, Uncharted Dual Pack, and the Infamous Collection - $199.99 Sony an…