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Video game publisher Namco Bandai has released a new trailer for its upcoming Inversion shooter, which is being created by Saber Interactive, showing how the title will actually turn shooting upside down by manipulating gravity. The trailer is pretty straightforward and shows...

Id Software is hoping that RAGE, the post apocalyptic first person shooter coming in early October, will change how gamers perceive the company. Speaking to Spong Tim Willits, who is the creative director working on RAGE at id Software, stated, “I believe when RAGE ships...

Even if it's intended to be formally released tomorrow, October 25, quite a few Battlefield 3 copies have found their way into the hands of gamers, and many have noticed a rather interesting leaflet included in the retail package, which seemingly hints at a new Medal of Honor...

Video game publisher Ubisoft has released a new trailer for its upcoming strategy game Anno 2070, showing off some new features and talking about the online matches. The game will allow up to eight players to compete or to cooperate to create the best cities, will be...

Video game developer EA Sports has announced that the official cover image for the upcoming Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 will feature Rickie Fowler, in North America, and Rory McIlroy, in Europe, with Bubba Watson and Luke Donald being the rather unlucky runner-ups. Craig...

Hard Reset came out of nowhere a few months ago, impressing lots of PC gamers with its lovely graphics and promising to deliver a high quality experience from a new studio, called Flying Wild Hog, composed of veterans from other Polish developers like People Can Fly, the makers...

The biggest challenge for the developers of first person shooters is to create games that manage to be familiar to players while changing enough to make them feel like they are exploring new ground. Speaking to Gamasutra Patrick Bach, who is the executive producer...

Battlefield 3 has been eagerly awaited for quite some time, ever since Electronic Arts, its publisher, and DICE, its developer, confirmed it late last year. Since then, we've been assaulted with news, details, videos and screenshots of the stunning first person shooter. ...

Blizzard has revealed that the next chapter in the Starcraft II trilogy, Heart of the Swarm, will have a shorter single-player campaign, cutting down the number of missions to just 20, as opposed to the first installment, Wings of Liberty, which had 29. Starcraft II is...

Video game developer and Steam creator Valve has again talked about piracy and how the only way to reduce its impact is to deliver an experience that the illegal copies of video games cannot match up to. This means that digital distribution can reach and turn a profit...

THQ and Relic Entertainment have made good on their word and released the cooperative Exterminatus multiplayer mode for their recent Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine third person shooter/brawler, for free, on the PC and PlayStation 3 platforms, while the Xbox 360 will also receive...

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...

Tokyo, Japan � August 31, 2011 � Sony Corporation (�Sony�) today announced the launch of Head Mounted Display �Personal 3D Viewer� �HMZ-T1′, a device that offers a spectacular new style for viewing both 2D and 3D content. Simply slip the device onto your head to experience the...

Mass Effect 3 might have just seen one of its biggest surprise features leaked early by a South African retailer, as a listing about its Collector's Edition mentions a special "Online Multiplayer Pass" that's included in the package. Mass Effect 3 was scheduled to be released...

Gears of War 3 has just received details on its first downloadable content pack, in the form of the Horde Command one, which is set to arrive on November 1 and bring lots of upgrades to the Horde cooperative multiplayer mode. Barely has Gears of War 3 been released on the...

The upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations video game will drop the puzzle sequences from previous games before it, like Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood, instead opting to intrigue players by letting them guide Desmond, the modern-day protagonist, through the dark recesses of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Video game publisher Ubisoft has announced a competition called Unlock the Animus, which is linked to the launch of the new Assassin's Creed: Revelations, with the grand prize being a trip with all expenses paid to Istanbul. Interestingly the official site of the Unlock...

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...

Epic Games, one of the leading studios in terms of graphics systems, thanks to its massively popular Unreal Engine 3, has presented a fully working version of the technology working inside Adobe's brand new Flash Player 11. Unreal Engine 3 is being used by a variety of...

Microsoft has just announced 40 TV content partners that will be bringing their entertainment options to Xbox 360 owners from all around the world, including cable operators like Comcast, as well as large channels like HBO, SyFy, or the BBC. Microsoft revealed at this...

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...

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...

Rage, id Software's long awaited hybrid between a first person shooter, role playing and racing game, was released yesterday in North America on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but most PC owners found it borderline unplayable by lengthy texture loading times and other such...

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...

Ubisoft is getting ready to release Assassin's Creed: Revelations in November, which is set to conclude the trilogy of titles focusing on protagonist Ezio Auditore, but a new game will also appear next year, which wraps up the story of the current-day protagonist, Desmond Miles....

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...

Video game publisher SEGA has announced that House of the Dead: Overkill is set to feature an anaglyphic three dimensional mode for all those gamers who are looking to get a gameplay experience that is closer to the feel of the grindhouse B-movies launched during the '70's. ...

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 Xbox 360 dashboard interface is going to receive its much awaited redesign in November, at least according to a leaked memo sent out to PayPal employees. Microsoft wants to make using the Xbox 360 and its Live service much easier, especially if users have a Kinect sensor,...

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...

Sony has just presented the first full pledged video in its brand new Long Live Play campaign, starring a variety of real life video game heroes, from Uncharted's Nathan Drake to God of War's Kratos, Infamous' Cole McGrath or Metal Gear Solid's Snake. As the PlayStation 3 has...

Racing fans from all around the world will be able to take the upcoming Need for Speed: The Run for a test drive on October 18, when Electronic Arts, its publisher, and Black Box, its developer, will deploy a demo for it onto consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Need...

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...

Ubisoft's Michel Ancel, the creative director of the French publisher and the man behind the cult classic Beyond Good & Evil, has admitted that fans won't see a sequel appear at least on current generation consoles, largely because of the high quality vision the company has for...

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...

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...