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Fable II fans, mark your calendars: The second downloadable content pack for the game, dubbed “See The Future,” arrives May 12.
Alongside the official release date announcement, developer Lionhead Studios has released the latest issue of semi-regular video podcast “Inside Lionhead” which focuses almost entirely on the upcoming DLC.
Too lazy to watch the clip? Lionhead’s official [...]

Forget Tokyo. Forget San Francisco. The real videogame capital of the world is Ottumwa, Iowa, according to town officials.
The city, which boasts 26,000 residents and has heretofore been most famous as the hometown of comedian Tom Arnold, has revealed plans to open a gaming hall of fame, backed by famed arcade gamer Billy Mitchell and [...]

Good news for fans of Steven Spielberg’s burgeoning career in the game industry: Boom Blox Bash Party officially has a release date, and it’s only a few weeks away.
The Wii-exclusive sequel to 2008’s Boom Blox retains its predecessors addictive, innovative “throwing things at other things” mechanic, while adding “four new worlds” and an “enhanced Create [...]

“With such a vibrant and active community as The Sims has, we wanted to build even further on the already immense offline experience, by offering players additional functionality, content and tools available online through the game,” said Sims 3 executive producer Ben Bell in this morning’s announcement.
To that end, EA has added a huge number [...]

Exciting new programming allows online qualifiers a chance to win $1 million (PRWeb Apr 30, 2009)

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Room Candy Games' Pimple Popper is a zit zapping, pimple popping, squeeze-o-rama! With five different faces, three types of pimples to squeeze, outrageous sound effects and realistic squeezing mechanics perfect for the iPhone® and iPod® touch – the "pus-sibilities" of enjoying this game are endless! (PRWeb Apr 30, 2009)

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Some call it football, others call it soccer, but all agree it is the greatest game in the world. Now, thanks to ifotbol.com, the game has gotten even better! Newly launched ifotbol.com has quickly become the Internet's most innovative, all-playing, all-encompassing soccer website ever, promoting the development of the game worldwide. (PRWeb Apr 30, 2009)

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My initial reaction to the slew of articles and reports on a recent study stating that about 10 percent of young American video gamers are addicted to video games: you think? Seriously, we know how attached children are these days on video games. We do not really need a study to tell us [...]

If you’re a World of Warcraft player, you may have recently seen an increase in the number of e-mailed phishing attempts asking you for your account information. Despite their claims, these are all attempts at stealing from you.
I mention this because over the last month I’ve seen a vast increase in the number of such [...]

Marvel Vs Capcom 2 is seeing a re-release on all the latest home consoles, with the exception of Nintendo’s Wii. Bad news for Wii owners, but an unavoidable reality of the complex licensing situation surrounding the game, according to Capcom’s Christian Svensson.
“This is a downloadable play, not a retail play. We don’t actually have any [...]

Quickly reacting to recent controversy, BioWare has issued an apology for its blanket explanation of why discussion of homosexuality is banned on the forums of upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Earlier this week the Internet was a hive of angry bees after Dahlgren explained the forums’ banning of terms such as “gay” and “lesbian” [...]

Q-Games president Dylan Cuthbert has unveiled the first trailer from the latest entry in the PixelJunk series, along with a request for PixelJunk fans to name his firm’s new game.
Currently known as "PixelJunk 1-4," the game tasks players with maneuvering a hovering ship through a series of underground passages filled with angry foes, reservoirs of [...]

Bad news for fans of epic roleplaying game The Witcher: Development of the upcoming, gorgeous looking console version of The Witcher has officially been suspended by developer CD Projekt.
The console port, titled The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf, was scheduled for release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this Fall, but a rift [...]

Electronic Arts and BioWare are bringing a new addition to the Mass Effect universe to the iPhone, only instead of a roleplaying game, this latest game is a cartoony, top-down shooter, reports Joystiq.
Revealed by a survey issued by the two companies, Mass Effect: Jacob’s Story stars “Jacob Taylor, a biotic-powered super-soldier who stumbles across a [...]

Red Steel 2, the follow-up to Ubisoft’s gun-slingin’ sword-slashin’ Wii launch title, will arrive this holiday season.
Ubisoft said Wednesday that the game will be built around the upcoming Wii MotionPlus controller, which adds 1:1 position sensing to the Wiimote. In Red Steel 2, this will mean that the game can “sense the strength of a [...]

Nearly 12 years after it first launched, seminal online world Ultima Online is still being updated. Publisher Electronic Arts has just officially unveiled Stygian Abyss, the game’s eighth expansion.
The expansion, which will see release this summer, introduces the playable Gargoyle race to the game, as well as the titular “Stygian Abyss,” which EA’s official announcement [...]