Dark Sector

Dark Sector smacks of familiarity as it peels key gameplay elements from several top-tier 3rd-person shooters like Gears of War, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Heavenly Sword et al. But it's not just imitation flattery, Dark Sector utilizes familiar elements in cleverly blended ways and does itself proud in the process.

GTA IV Sets Guinness World Records

It's official: Grand Theft Auto IV is the biggest entertainment release of all time. Better than Harry Potter books, stronger than Spider-Man movies, faster than Halo games. In fact, it simply stomps all other entertainment sales records.

Down Lo on the Downloads: Shop-Store-Market 05/08

With the PlayStation Store closed for virtual renovations the last month -- it's reopened now -- only Microsoft's Xbox Marketplace and Nintendo's Virtual Console offered up any new downloadable games. That's good news and bad news on the competition front; a few good games came available... and a few lousy ones.

Gran Turismo hits milestone, nobody hurt

Because nobody cares about 48 million, Sony just announced that the celebrated Gran Turismo racing simulation series has hit a real milestone, 50 million units sold to date, with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue bumping it past the distinguished marker just recently.

Doom 4 coming, id Software hiring

Two, two news bites in one, id Software just announced that development of Doom 4 is underway, and that they need help.

Grand Theft Auto IV

It turns out, sometimes hyped-up things really are all they're cracked up to be. Not often, but sometimes. This is one of those times. If you want to see a monster of a videogame and don't have a new-generation console yet, get one. Then get Grand Theft Auto IV.

Kiwi parents can't buy GTA IV for kids

If ever there was a reason to worry that GTA IV might spur some otherwise normal person to acts of real life aggression, it's this one. In New Zealand, anyway. Kiwi parents can go to jail if they buy their teen a copy of GTA IV.

Grand Theft Auto IV: No Game for Young Kids

The new pinnacle of videogame development on a technical level, Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) is also representative of the great divide between art and entertainment, or better said, the public's perceptions of it and kids who couldn't care less.

Midway Gamer's Day: This is (near) Vegas

What happens in Vegas stays... a good 15 miles off the actual strip, just to be sure. Or such was the case with Chris Hudak during his orchestrated visit with big huge game publisher, Midway. This is his story.

Midway Gamer's Day: This is Vin Diesel and Batman near Vegas

Chris Hudak and a gaggle of other game journalists were recently treated to a trip to Vegas under the auspices of Midway and the "Gamer's Day" event that allowed said journos a sneak peak at several forthcoming Midway games. Ironically, they weren't actually in Vegas per se, but at least one game, made up for it.