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The analyst Michael Pachter, who is watching the video game industry for the firm Wedbush Morgan Securities, has stated that he believes that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will sell twice as many copies during this holiday season as Battlefield 3. Pachter believes that...

We don't know yet what Rockstar has planned for the next installment of the Grand Theft Auto series but one of the original creators of the franchise says that freedom and good stories are something that the series will always try to deliver. Speaking to Gamespot Dan...

Batman: Arkham City, the new action game from developer Rocksteady and publisher Warner Bros. Interactive, has managed to take over the first position in the United Kingdom video game chart on its first week on sale. The game is a sequel to the very surprising Arkham...

A series of website registrations from Sony Pictures suggests that the production company has managed to enter into a deal with video game publisher to create and launch an Assassin's Creed movie. Fans of the franchise have spotted no less than sixteen domain names that...

Sony and Sucker Punch are getting ready to debut the first standalone expansion for Infamous 2, in the form of Infamous: Festival of Blood, which is out today, in North America, and tomorrow, in Europe and the rest of the world. Infamous 2 impressed quite a lot of...

Blizzard finally revealed to its fans at the BlizzCon event during the weekend the full details on its upcoming Blizzard DOTA release, which aims at bringing together some of the most impressive heroes from Blizzard�s own properties, like Warcraft, Starcraft or Diablo, and...

Nintendo has confirmed that yet another streaming service, Hulu, Plus will be arriving for its current consoles, the Nintendo 3DS and the Nintendo Wii, after Netflix already appeared some time ago for the home console and more recently for the portable device. The...

The upcoming SSX titles from Electronic Arts has received more details recently, including a firm release date as well as a new trailer that highlights all of the dangers a snowboarder faces when trying to tackle some of the most perilous mountains in the world. EA confirmed...

Shank 2 is definitely one of our most awaited games here at Softpedia, largely because we loved the first one and had lots of mindless fun with it. As such, seeing as how Klei Entertainment, its developer, shared a couple of new screenshots of the title, we more than gladly...

Nielsen, the tracking firm well known for offering information on consumer products and how they are used, has released a new Cross-Platform report which shows that the overall time spent with game consoles by the public has increased by 14 percent during the last year. The...

After unveiling the first downloadable content pack for Gears of War 3 earlier this month, Epic Games has now introduced the second add-on that will be launched for the game later this year, called RAAM's Shadow, that will allow players to engage in a prequel single-player...

When Blizzard announced that it will include real world money powered Auction Houses in its upcoming Diablo III a lot of fans reacted angrily, accusing the company of only trying to create a new revenue stream for the game. But the developers have said that their only...

Valve has confirmed that a new update is coming for Portal 2, which puts a heavier emphasis on user generated content, packing in a new map editor and infrastructure improvements so that players can share their own creations with others. Portal 2 received its first big add-on...

Microsoft is expected to announce the next generation Xbox 720 console at the 2013 edition of E3 and release it onto the market either later that year or in early 2014, at least according to a batch of new rumors that have surfaced on the web. Current generation consoles are...

The development team behind the Starcraft Universe MMO project have announced that the Player versus Player mode of their game will be playable by all those interested via the Battle.net service from Blizzard until October 30. On that date the mod will be taken down and the...

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has talked about open world games, seeing as how he and his team have masterminded some of the most successful titles in the genre, and where the industry is going in the next 10 years. When you talk about open world games, Rockstar is the...

Mass Effect 3 will get a single-player and multiplayer demo in January, 2012, with BioWare confirming that gamers will be able to get their hands on it either by redeeming the online pass for Battlefield 3, as well as through other ways, which have yet to be detailed. ...

Ed Fries, who worked on the development of the Xbox 360 hardware and led the Microsoft Game Studios at one point, spoke to the Official Xbox Magazine in the United Kingdom about how the strong connection between the Microsoft home console and the Halo franchise threatened the...

Before Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was officially confirmed there were rumors that another project, third person and somewhat different, was set to be launched first by Activision, with Sledgehammer Games handling the development. Now speaking to CVG Glen Schofield,...

Ubisoft has talked about the design process in the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations title and how the team tried to create a unique location with Constantinople, recreating all of its iconic landmarks that existed in the 16th century, while emphasizing the different...

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is set to be launched in a couple of weeks and the developers have offered some more details on how players can interact with the dragons who are invading the game world, saying that there's a small chance that some encounters will not end up in...

Speaking to Screenplay Peter Moore, who is the Chief Operations Officer at Electronic Arts, has stated, �Like any piece of software, you launch and continue to polish it, upgrade it, get feedback and make it better. That�s where we are with Origin. We�re only four and a half...

Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia has decided to showcase through a batch of screenshots and a video the impressive effects in the upcoming Batman: Arkham City video game created through a partnership between its engineers and the development team at Rocksteady Studios. ...

Need for Speed: The Run, the new racing game from Black Box and Electronic Arts, has a special Challenge Series that delivers a more racing-focused experience than the regular single-player campaign. The Run is getting ready to be released next month and has gotten quite...

There was a time when both Fallout: New Vegas and RAGE were both in development and quite a number of gamers were asking whether the two games were sharing a universe, given that the post apocalypse was the center for both and that the color palette seemed pretty similar, not to...

Glen Schofield, the general manager of Sledgehammer Games, the co-developer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, has praised the engine of the new title, dismissing any criticism that it's an old technology with little improvements in regards to the previous Call of Duty games...

The developers at Irrational Games have confirmed that the PlayStation Vita based version of BioShock Infinite will be different from the one delivered on home consoles and that some parts of the game could be outsourced. Ken Levine, who is the leader of the Irrational...

Video game developer From Software has announced that it will be releasing a new patch for its recently launched Dark Souls, which will be focused on solving the problems with the multiplayer side of the game. The patch details posted on the official website of the game...

Even if Battlefield 3 is set to be released next week, video game pirates can already enjoy the new first person shooter as it was leaked at the beginning of the week on various Bittorrent websites. Battlefield 3 is definitely one of the most anticipated games of the...

Video game developer BioWare has announced that it was working with Dark Horse in order to launch a comic book series based on the Dragon Age universe, which will appear on a bi-weekly basis for three months during early 2012. Mike Laidlaw made the reveal at the New York...

Capcom has finally confirmed the existence of the Devil May Cry HD Collection, after being leaked by retailers earlier this year and even getting a rating from the ESRB before it became official. Capcom's Devil May Cry amazed gamers last generation, with three quality...

Rocksteady Studios' game director, Sefton Hill, has talked about the big number of villains and the boss fights in Batman: Arkham City, just as the game is being released all over the world this week. The Dark Knight is getting ready for a new set of adventures made by...

The full Achievement list for Assassin's Creed: Revelations has been leaked, with the Trophy list on the PlayStation 3 probably looking pretty similar. Be warned that some of the names and descriptions go deep into spoiler territory. Tax Evasion � Get your money back...

G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra is a video game that was developed by Double Helix Games and was published by Electronic Arts, Inc. The game was launched on the PlayStation 2 home gaming console from Sony, the newer PS3 from the same company, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the...

When I thought of a first person shooter from id Software my mind wandered to well crafted guns, smart enemies and cool combat situations but it seems that in the coming years the development studio wants players to also think about racing and card mini-games. RAGE is a...

DICE, the studio behind the upcoming Battlefield 3 first person shooter, has just presented a full list of details about the nine multiplayer maps that are included in the regular edition of the game, highlighting some of the design decisions taken by the development team during...

The original Mirror's Edge was a commercial flop and publisher Electronic Arts has not made any mention about a possible sequel for the free running game but one of the developers working at DICE believes that there's a market for such a game. Speaking to SPOng during a...

The Resident Evil franchise will be expanded via Operation Racoon City and Revelations in the next few months but no sixth core game is being planned yet, which has made some fans of the series a little bit nervous. But one of the main developers working on the series has...

Hitman: Absolution is not set to be launched for about another year but the developers working on the game are already eager to talk about the hardcore game mode that they are creating for the long term fans of the series. Speaking as part of a bigger interview with...

The developers at Tripwire Interactive have announced that they are planning to reset the stats of all the players who are engaged with their Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad first person shooter as they are deploying a number of fixes for some of the biggest glitches that...