The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Takes Flight in November

It would have been a blue Christmas without a new Zelda title under our Christmas Wii, but Nintendo comes through in the nick of the time, announcing a November 20 release date for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword The largest Zelda adventure yet and the first designed solely for the Wii (Link’s Crossbow Training…

Diablo III Just Got Harder Than Hell With New ‘Inferno’ Difficulty

Diablo and his minions will dole out the most extreme player punishment in Diablo III, thanks to its fourth, harder than Hell difficulty level known as Inferno. Blizzard revealed the harsh, high-level difficulty gameplay feature at Gamescom today, explaining what it means for the most dedicated of Diablo III players. Blizzard Entertainment game director Jay…

NCSoft’s Newest Title: WildStar

Featuring a cartonny sci-fi art style, WildStar is the latest MMORPG from NCSoft. The game is being developed by Carbine. The debut trailer is pre-rendered, but that’s okay! This title, along with a new playable build of Guild Wars 2, is what NCSoft is showing at this year’s Gamescom. You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the…

Borderlands 2, From the Angle You’ll Be Playing It

One of the four new Borderlands 2 images released for Gamescom shows what the game looks like in the first-person perspective. You know, the angle from which you’ll actually be playing the game. The other three show some lovely environments and character art. Enjoy. Our guys in Germany will be playing the game this week…

Tekken in 3D. For Your 3DS.

The Iron Fist Tournament is coming to the 3DS with Tekken 3D Prime Edition. But that’s not all. The 3DS cartridge will feature full-length CG movie, Tekken Blood Vengeance

New Diablo III Screen Shots from Gamescom 2011

Need for Speed Has a Need for Snow

Upcoming racer Need for Speed barrels down Independence Pass in Colorado and puts a big decision in front of the player: Do you race against the tumbling avalanche or simply wait for the *next* Need for Speed game to come out? Need for Speed: The Run features cars like the Audi R8 and the BMW…

Get A Good Look At Soulcalibur V‘s New Fighters: Maxi, Tira, Voldo & Hilde

Welcome to the stage of history, Maxi, Tira, Voldo and Hilde. The four newest characters to join the ranks of Soulcalibur V are at the focus of this year’s Gamescom showing, illustrating how these familiar faces look with another 17 years of experience and age. The four new characters join Pyrrha, Patroklos, Zwei, Natsu, Ivy,…

Watch Them Play Valve’s DOTA 2

The International, Valve’s live DOTA 2 championship is happening now at Gamescom. That means that a select group of dedicated gamers are currently vying to be the champion in a game that hasn’t yet released. While no one but the competitors are allowed to play the game just yet, you can watch their hands on…

The Wii Gets a Redesign. Wii Kisses GameCube Goodbye.

This Christmas, the Nintendo Wii is a getting a slight, wait for it, Wii-design. I mean redesign! According to The Official Nintendo Magazine, the tweaked Wii will be released in the UK this holiday season (no word about a US release). The change is that this Wii is designed to lay flat and has a…

Get Up Close and Personal With a Very Evil Jedi

The upcoming Star Wars The Old Republic isn’t all happy Jedi and sunflowers and rainbows and Rancor puppies. There are bad guys. And one of them is at Gamescom. This is a lovely big statue of Darth Malgus, one of the villains of the PC MMO. He looks like he could do with a nap.…

Brace Yourself for So Many More Call of Duty (Websites)

Hope you like Call of Duty! Because Activision, the game’s publisher, is reportedly going on a domain registering spree. The folks at website Fusible believe Activision has registered the following websites: CODBlackOps3.com, CODBlackOps4.com, CODBlackOps5.com, CODBlackOps6.com, BlackOps4.com, BlackOps5.com, BlackOps6.com, CallOfDutyBlackOps3.com, CallOfDutyBlackOps4.com, CallOfDutyBlackOps5.com, CallOfDutyBlackOps6.com, CallofDutyMW5.com, and CallofDutyMW6.com As Fusible pointed out, the domains were registered by DNS…

It Takes Multiple Hands to Stop These Asura’s Wrath Screens

In Asura’s Wrath, bosses are as big as planets (awesome!) and sword attacks are stopped with bare hands (rad!). As previously posted, in the game, Asura, your six-armed main character, is a demigod betrayed by other gods, sending him into a 12,000 year hibernation (of sorts). He awakes, bent on revenge against them. You can…

The Delightful Booth Companions of Comic Market

What cosplayers wear at Comiket aren’t the only colorful clothes at Japan’s biggest self published comic fair. The outfits that the booth companions don are just as fetching. Not all the booths at Comic Market are, well, for comics. Erotic game makers also show up at Comiket in full force. I’ve said this before, but…

Okay, I Like These DMC: Devil May Cry Screens

DMC: Devil May Cry isn’t only getting a new trailer at this year’s Gamescom, it’s getting new screens. Funny that! As much grief as DMC gets for the main character’s stupid new look (it’s pretty stupid!), these screens look hot. DMC: Devil May Cry is headed to the PS3 and the Xbox 360 sometime next…

New Ratchet & Clank Trailer Cranked Out

The Gamescom Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One trailer shows off gameplay, humorous dialogue, and movie trailer like blurbs. But this is no movie! It’s the next hope for fun four-player gaming. The game allows players to wield weapons that work better with friends—four friends. Hopefully you have three of those! This October, Ratchet &…

Time To Rock Your Balls Off

Japanese pop, rather Jpop, is pigeonholed as cute, ear saccharine. That might not exactly be fair. But there’s no arguing, sometimes Jpop needs more guitars. More awesome hair. Sometimes it needs more metal. Sometimes Jpop needs more Marty Friedman. Marty Friedman (above, center) is a great, great guitarist who is perhaps best known for his…

Gamescom 2011 Starts Now

While a few companies held press conferences and showcase events yesterday, today we’re off to the Koelnmesse for the first day of the actual show. We’re leaving, oh, around now, so for the next 12 hours we’ll be playing games, looking at games, talking to people who make games and then writing all about, it…

It’s Doctor Strange Vs. Nemesis in Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3

The latest pair of fighters in Capcom’s long and somewhat embarrassing reveal square off in this Gamescom edition of Yes, We Already Know About the New Characters in Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 In one corner we have Nemesis, a biological weapon created by the Umbrella Corporation during their white hot “Let’s Fuck Up Everything”…

LittleBigPlanet Vita Takes Pictures Around Town In New Trailer

Get ready to make some monsters. LittleBigPlanet has, of course, always been about original creations. In this new video for the Vita version of the game, Sony shows off creation on the go, with images from the real world reshaped into a prehistoric dinosaur. Sackboy is in your pocket, and there’s nothing wrong with that.