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In a surprising and not so scandalous news flash, Sony’s Playstation 3 sales are finally catching up to Microsoft’s sales of the Xbox 360. Sony released their financial reports for the Q2 fiscal year and show that the Playstation has moved 55.5 million units worldwide, just about catching and placing them in position to be on the verge of passing their rival console, the Xbox 360 which has moved 56.7 million units worldwide. It is nice to see something good coming out of Sony’s camp instead of the usual hackfest that it seems has been haunting the brand since the beginning of the year. via MCV Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

While the three in the title might lead some to believe this is the third game in the Bejeweled series, it is actually the fifth and the only direct sequel to Bejeweled 2.This fantasy themed variation on the same is a far cry from the original Bejeweled released ten years ago with only two modes of play. Bejeweled 3 provides players with 8 modes of play and 8 types of gems to swap. Bejeweled 3 brings back 4 traditional modes of play, as seen in Bejeweled 2, and adds 4 new modes. Returning on the platform are Classic mode, Zen mode, Lightning mode, and Quest mode. Classic mode is the basic Bejeweled game at its core. Players continuously swap gems until there are no more …

Publisher: Telltale Games Designer: Graham Annable Platform: Windows, Mac Os X, PSN, iPhone, iPad Genre: Puzzle/Adventure Release Date: June 30, 2011 Price: $2.99 -iPad, $.99 -iPhone, and $9.99 -PC The one man puzzle solving machine of the FBI Nelson Tethers, is back on the case solving puzzle-esqe crimes in the followup to 2010′s Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent, Puzzle Agent 2. In this sequel, Nelson is still bothered about the unresolved case from the town of Scoggins including the still missing Isaac Davner. Nelson is determined to put all of pieces of the puzzle together and figure out what really is going on in the tiny town of Scoggins. Do you have the wits t…

To say that the Xbox Live Arcade 2005 release, Bejeweled 2 was a hit is a huge under statement. The game’s addicting modes had gamers playing for hours at a time, not only on the Xbox 360, but across consoles, on PC’s, and the internet. After the release, fans of the puzzler have been eagerly waiting to get their hands on Bejeweled 3. Today, PopCap has announced that Bejeweled 3 has launched on the Xbox Live Arcade for the price of 1200 MS points. Bejewled 3 will also be available for purchase in a retail store near you for the Playstation 3, Nintendo DS, and Xbox 360 on November 15th. This entry into the popular franchise features twice as many game modes as Bejewele…

I know that most of you are salivating over getting your hands on what could be the most anticipated RPG release this year, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. How many of you plan on heading out to your local game store to pick up a copy for your PC? Hold on there cowboy. You might want to know what the minimum and maximum requirements are and thanks to Bethesda’s Pete Hines, you can now find out if your little rinky dink computer can handle such a beastly game. Minimum Requirements OS: Win XP/7/Vista (32 or 64 bit)CPU: Dual CoreRAM: 2GBGPU: DX9c video card w/ 512MB RAMInternet Access for Steam activationMaximum Requirements OS: Win XP/7CPU: Quad-Core Intel/AMD CPURAM: 4GBGP…

Jurassic Park fans are one earth-shaking footstep closer to sinking their teeth into the anticipated release of Jurassic Park: The Game, as Telltale Games, the leading independent digital publisher and developer of episodic interactive entertainment, today announced that Jurassic Park: The Game has gone gold. The game is set to launch on November 15 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft; PlayStation®Network for PlayStation®3, Windows PC and Mac. An iPad version of the game is also in development and will release shortly after November 15th via the iTunes AppStore. Jurassic Park: The Game breaks new ground for Telltale Games as it is the fi…

Developer: Ninja Bee Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Platform: Xbox Live Arcade Release Date: Wednesday October 26, 2011 Genre: City Building Players: Single Player, Local Multiplayer Rating: ESRB E for Everyone Price: 320 Microsoft Points Distribution: Xbox Live Marketplace Little blue aliens are landing and invading your world in Ninja Bee’s 2010 followup to A Kingdom of Keflings, A World of Keflings. These friendly, tiny, and so humorous bundles of joy are looking for you to help build them an alien friendly kingdom. Do you have what it takes to build a kingdom for aliens? Let’s fire up that Xbox, hit play on A World of Keflings, and find out in our revie…

Telltale is proud to announce that their acclaimed Back to the Future: The Game is now available at retail for PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii. Available for the incredible price of only $19.99, Telltale Game’s acclaimed extension of the blockbuster movie trilogy has arrived on store shelves just in time for the holidays. So strap in, power up the flux capacitor and put the continued time traveling journeys of Doc Brown and Marty McFly at the top of your gift list. If the Back to the Future fan on your shopping list has yet to experience the game that made Joystiq.com say “…managed to make me feel eight years old again” or IGN.com happily report that the game is “…a wel…

Developed by: Iridium Studios Platforms: PC and Xbox LIVE indie games Players: 1 Puzzle Quest proved that adding RPG elements to a tried and true game design like a match three puzzle can turn a game into absolute crack. But what happens when you add RPG elements to a rhythm game? Sequence is a bit of an odd mix. It’s a rhythm game with RPG elements such as item drops, equipment and leveling, but it requires just as much skill progression on the player’s end as it does for developing your character’s level. In the game you must fight a series of monsters and a boss on each of the seven floors of a tower, with your ultimate goal being to reach the top and escape. Thre…

Talk about embarassing. EA has announced that Battlefield 3 will have a day one update that gamers will be required to install in order to play the game and that all media reviews of the shooter be held off until a week after it’s release. EA has also added that Xbox 360 gamers will have to download the game to their hard drive in order to see the graphics at their best representation. What is EA’s reasoning behind the day one update? DICE are perfectionists of course! “DICE are perfectionists — they will not stop polishing the game until it is in your hands” claimed EA. Why yes, gamers across the board will accept that giberish especially after the horrible, cheat fi…

Blizzard has announced that players of their massive time consuming and ever so popular PC game, World of Warcraft will receive the upcoming Diablo 3 free. Of course there is a teeny tiny catch. In order to get Diablo 3 for free you must purchase their new annual pass and adhere to a few other minor commitments to Blizzard. The World of Warcraft annual pass can be paid in monthly installements just like a month to month subscription however where it differs is that you get Diablo 3 for free, the in game mount Tyrael’s Charger, and guaranteed access into World of Warcraft expansion beta. If you are jumping for joy right about now, slow down there. You must have an acco…

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is slated for release worldwide on November 11, 2011. Learn more about Skyrim at http://elderscrolls.com and at The Elder Council, the official Facebook page of The Elder Scrolls https://facebook.com/TheElderScrolls Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

Telltale Games’ Jurassic Park: The Game is stomping toward its anticipated November 15, 2011 release date with the speed of a hungry T-Rex pursuing a herd of tasty Gallimimus. Telltale has partnered with GameStop and GameStop.com on an exclusive pre-order for the Xbox 360 version of the game. Anyone who pre-orders between now and the November 15 launch date will receive a codeat the time of purchase (online customers will receive their code via email within 2 days of their game shipping) to unlock an official Jurassic Park T-Rex avatar pet on Xbox LIVE! It’s a dino-mite incentive as the Jurassic Park T-Rex avatar pet is authentically modeled on the design used in the Jur…

As the freaks, zombies, vampires, monsters, and all things that make up Halloween prepare to party on October 31st, Zen Studios has found a way to help you pinball and scare loving gamers out there get in the mood a few days early. For a limited time only beginning on October 26th, you can download Pinball FX2′s newest pinball table addition Paranormal for free as a thank you from Zen Studios for all the support that they received. “In celebration of one year of Pinball FX2, and as a big THANK YOU to all of our supporters, we are happy to offer the new Paranormal table free for one week!” according Mel Kirk, the Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations. “For pla…

Are you still in denial about the next Xbox being in development? Many gamers are even after the job title changings of many of the Xbox staff to reflect working on the next Xbox. What about if I told you that sources close to Xbox believe that the new Xbox will be at E3 2012 and they even go on further to say that a late 2013 or 2014 launch is in the horizon? Sources are claiming that both Microsoft and their partners are gearing up for a late 2013 to 2014 launch of the next generation Xbox. The sources of this information range from chip manufacturers to middleware firms. Online game design website Develop even came up with a few possible hints of what some people i…

Developed by: Paradox Interactive Published by: Paradox Interactive Platform: PC, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Ipad Release: 6 December 2011 Defenders of Ardania is an upcoming tower defense game, set for release in December this year. It is set in the fantasy world of Ardania, the same world from the Real Time Strategy series, Majesty, also developed by Paradox Interactive. We got a chance to play a preview build of the game. In it, players take the role of the human leader, referred to as “Your Majesty” as they attempt to figure out why Sir Foxwalde has attacked. Rest assured that the story progresses much further than that, with players utilising and fighting units from …

What’s a developer to do when their third installment of their popular series, Resistance sells rather poorly in the United States? Go on the defensive of course. Insomniac Game’s Resistance 3 was not as huge of a hit as they might have hoped here in the United States. The followup to 2008′s hit Resistance 2, only managed to sell a meger 180,00 copies during it’s first month release compared to Resistance 2 which sold 385,000. GamersMint who posted an article detailing their let down first month sales, compared Resistance 3′s sales to Dead Island’s first month sales which released on the same day. Dead Island happened to move over 2 million copies. So what did Insomni…

This December your favorite characters from the X-Men universe will be appearing in the second of four tables coming to Marvel Pinball as part of Zen Studio’s Marvel Pinball: Vengence and Virtue event on the PS3 and XBLA. The second table will feature events that have been inspired by the popular X-Men comic book series and includes when Magneto destroyed the Brooklyn Bridge and events based on the Dark Phoenix Saga. The Dark Phoenix Saga events will feature actual dialogue from the classic series. The X-Men table will be joining Ghost Rider and two other announced tables. Zen Studios teases that “one starring a “vengeful” character, the other a “virtuous” one” will soo…

Last week the brillant minds at Ninja Bee which happen to be behind one of the Xbox Live Arcade’s most addicting games A World of Keflings, announced that new alien-friendly downloadable content would be arriving soon. Details were a tad bit fuzzy at the time regarding a release date and price, however my fellow kefling addicts can calm down now because Ninja Bee has released the details. On October 25th , the It Came From Outer Space DLC will release on the Xbox Live Marketplace for a tiny lumpsum of 320 points. Not too shabby considering that the content will add anywhere between two to four hours of gameplay and increase the game’s total content to 30%. It Came From…

Developed by: Bitfield GmbH Platforms: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later Players: 1 Rated 4+ by Apple Application Ratings. ( contains no objectionable material ) Blockado Deep Sea is the fourth and most difficult installment of the Blockado series. With the change of difficulty also comes a change of scenery. As the name would imply your puzzle solving skills are put to the test under the sea. The sea overlay and subtle ocean sounds provide a nice relaxing atmosphere to solve the puzzles in. Deep Sea builds on the Blockado puzzle solving series where you must get a treas…

One of the most toughest and frustrating bundles of joy to grace your Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, Dark Souls, has been beaten on a speedrun in an amazing one hour and 26 minutes. The tough as nails RPG was released less than a month ago and gamer SexyShoiko proved that despite the reputation that this game comes with, the difficulty was no match for their knowledge and skill set. If you think you can beat Dark Souls in a faster time or just want an insane challenge, please know that this RPG may cause many of you to die repeatedly in the game and smash your controller in an anger filled rage. You have been warned. via PSX Extreme Tweet This Post Post to Facebook…

Square and IO are promising fans of the long running Hitman series a more personal and darker look into the life of their favortie bar coded and bald hitman, Agent 47 all while he is on the run in 2012′s release Hitman: Absolution. In the latest teaser trailer, it appears that 47 has the upper hand on the metro PD as they run around yelling like morons while trying to find him. Needless to say, 47 is doing what he does best. via Gamersheep and Tweet This Post Post to Facebook View the full article

As we all know, Ezio Auditore da Firenze is the biggest badass to come out of Italy in the past six hundred years. But how would you like to play as him against some of the whackier characters to come out of a Japanese fighting game? It is rumored that Ezio will be a playable character in Soulcalibur V. It’s doubtful that you will be able to jump down from a rooftop and instantly assassinate your opponent, however Ezio is a master of many weapons and would make a great addition to the weapon based fighting in Soulcalibur. Soulcalibur is no stranger to cameo appearances, so this awesome rumor could very well be true. Source: Official XBOX Magazine Tweet This Post Post t…

In the upcoming Battlefield 3, there will be nine multiplayer maps. These maps are the ones ‘that combined bring out everything we want both veteran and new Battlefield players to experience in Battlefield 3 multiplayer’ says DICE’s David McDonagh. So here is the list and names of the maps you can expect to run, duck, and drive in on Oct. 25th. Caspian Border This map is one of the few that is ‘lush and green’ and is supposed to be an obvious choice for players who want to play with vehicles. This is a large map where base distances are usually too long to cover just on foot, so vehicles will play a major part in this map. Damavand Peak This map takes place on a mountain …

Bethesda’s games are very well known for the sheer amount of in-game content included in their titles. The studio has made some of the biggest and most detailed maps in games today, maps that provide hundreds of hours of possible quests. And that’s just for one playthrough. I personally have sunk in over two hundred hours into both The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Fallout 3. But what if I were to tell you that the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls sequel, Skryim, could be completed in 2 hours and 16 minutes? In an internal competition, the developers raced through the game to see how fast they could complete it. The top two scores were clocked in at 2 hours, 36 minutes, …