The Championship Gaming Series is gearing up for it's second season, eager to continue it's successful run from season one. CGS CEO Andy Reif spoke with Gameriot earlier today and has divulged the first details about this year's plans.

Reif confirmed that the North American combine and draft will take place March 7th to March 9th, at the South by Southwest (SXSW) interactive, music, and film festival in Austin, Texa…  More

 

Besides being an avid gamer I’m a huge fan of movies and an amateur connoisseur of short films. Naturally, this predisposes me towards liking Machinima, but I’m not necessarily easy to please. The Best of Machinima is going to have to do more than throw out internet shorthand and game culture vernacular to make it onto this blog. Things like physics videos, while often very cool looking, are also not what I’m looking for. With that in mind I have scoured the internet in s…  More

So Resident Evil is back. Again.



I haven't played it but I feel Yahtzee touched on but ultimately glazed over an area that I feel needs to be addressed:

Let. Franchises. Die.

I can't put it to you any more simply than that. And I say that having loved most of the Resident Evil games. I know 'Corporate' is always going to want squeeze every last dollar out of the proverbial money tree, but enough is enough. When you stop adding numbers to the end of your games you've got so damn many of them; you…  More

Found this great topic of discussion over at the Something Awful website. Some of the Valve created achievements may be difficult for the casual Team Fortress 2 player, and the new achievements on the way may add even more difficulty. With this in mind the guys over at the Something Awful forums came up with a unique idea; achievements that everyone can get. Take a look:

I read a lot of gaming news articles every day. Some of them are very interesting, others are only interesting because I'm a gamer, and still others are just about impossible to care about. But I would read a hundred of those stories I don't care about if it meant avoiding stories like this.

I think the first instinct of most media outlets is to start laying blame. It's the video games that drove him to such violent madness. Or it was his troubled childhood, gang violence in his neighborhood, a m…  More

Today the Electronic Sports League announced the prize payout for the 2008 European Nations Championship, featuring Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike: Source, WarCraft III, and FIFA 08. It breaks down as follows:

Counterstrike 1.6 - 27,500 Euro:

1. 15,000 €
2. 7,000 €
3. 3,500 €
4. 2,000 €

Warcraft III - 10,000 Euro:

1. 5,000 €
2. 2,500 €
3. 1,500 €
4. 1,000 €

Counterstrike Source - 10,000 Euro:

1. 5,000 €
2. 2,500 €
3. 1,500 €
4. 1,000 €

FIF…  More

Have any of you ever paid $40 for a demo of a game?  Me neither.  But damn, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue has 60 cars, 16 car online multiplayer and might be the best graphics on the PS3 yet.  It also features the new "in the car, dashboard" view as seen below.


Sony's press release today stated the game is due here in the USA on April 17th.  The game will be available for a download over the Playstation Network and for purchase as a normal game disc.  Both options wil…  More

Sigh. It is arguable that LOTR: Online turned out decently and therefor the books were not utterly defiled, but I just can't see that happening here. The news is that the Chair Entertainment Group will be using the UT3 engine to make Ender's Game, the game. See how poorly that rolls off the tongue. Say it with me: Ender's Game, the game. Crap, utter crap.

If this game is good I will swallow tacks. If you've read the book you will understand just how petty and irrelevant any game based off of the …  More

As the biggest online retailer Amazon is a decent guide post for how well games are selling. I was shocked to find that Nintendo is dominating the charts with 8 of the top 10 spots including spots 1, 2, and 3 for Nintendo Wii. The list of the top sellers is as follows:

01. Guitar Hero III Bundle—Activision (Wii)
02. Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party Bundle—Konami (Wii)
03. Wii Play w/ Remote—Nintendo (Wii)
04. Rock Band Special Edition—MTV (PS2)
05. Super Mario Ga…  More