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Fans of the venerated Need for Speed series are about to get another adrenalin boost, this time with sirens attached. With Hot Pursuit it’s all about the thrill of the chase and the desperate drive to escape. Read more...

In a surprise move that shocked those who watched Sony's E3 2010 press conference today, Valve's President Gabe Newell came on stage and announced that the company is changing its position on developing for the PlayStation 3. The first Valve-developed game to land on the PS3 will be Portal 2, a follow-up title to 2007's unexpected smash hit action/puzzler included in the Orange Box compilation. Portal 2 for the PS3 will drop day-and-date with the Xbox 360 and PC versions, sometime in 2011. Read more...

I hate racing games. I love blur. From Bizarre Creations (the same people that birthed Project Gotham Racing and Geometry Wars) this multi-platform racing combat game stands alone on the market as an insane mashup between modern shooters and kart racing. At least one online forum has dubbed it “Call of Burnout 2: Modern Mario Kart” - and they’re right. This isn’t Modnation Racers and it certainly isn’t Split/Second. blur is a game all its own and it’s really, really good. Read more...

The Expo hall at GDC Canada isn't stacked to the brim with developers, but those who are there are making the games we love to play. GDC is a chance for developers to reach out to one another, to middleware providers, and to potential publishers and employees. Read more...

I’ll be at Canada’s hottest videogame event tonight, attending the Canadian Videogame Awards. The best and brightest in Canada’s fastest growing entertainment sector will be in the audience and up for awards to recognize the Herculean efforts they made in 2009. We'll be live blogging (assuming the Lords of the Internet allow it) so join us! Read more...

Blizzard Entertainment Inc. has announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is coming to the PC platform on July 27, 2010 in regions all over the world. Read more...

The realm of real time strategy games dwindled in the wake of the original StarCraft. Claims were made for its crown, but the stalwart RTS that defined a generation has been loathe to give up its hard-earned conquest of the genre. Read more...

Spring is in the air and the urge to put the pedal to the metal is high - so do it safely with three choice racing games coming soon to high definition consoles. Read more...

Returning to Rapture is no easy task; the city Andrew Ryan built lies at the bottom of the ocean, and in the events of Bioshock 2 it has been ravaged by the seas that envelope it. Can Bioshock 2 match the style and sophistication of its progenitor? Read more...

Not too long ago, new trailer videos for the upcoming Lost Planet 2 revealed an unexpected visit by Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago from Gears of War. Check out more details on how they will be incorporated into the final release of the game, coming out this May. Read on...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon has been one of Ubisoft's most successful game franchises to date. So it's no surprise that Ubisoft has announced the next iteration set for release later this year. Read on to find out more... Read more...

Epic is a word that's bandied about like a hackeysack at a hippie convention, but in this case it's apt. Bioware and EA have released the launch trailer to the highly anticipated Mass Effect 2 - and it's every bit as good as we could have hoped for. Read more...

This news actually snuck out at the end of last year, but I can't help but feel it was overlooked in the Christmas rush. Ubisoft has announced and detailed Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands, a new installment in the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time storyline. Read more...

It's a new year, new decade for that matter, and with it brings what we've all been waiting for -- the games! Nope, I'm not talking about the Vancouver 2010 Games, they don't start for another five weeks. I'm talking about video games, the video games of January 2010. Read more...

Hey! Here I just was talking about a game I hadn't played, and now here I am mentioning the beta sign up for the sequel to another I haven't played. I don't know if you remember the E3 announcement for Final Fantasy XIV in which everyone freaked out because they announced the sequel to Final Fantasy XIII before even releasing it, only for everyone to become depressed when they realized Final Fantasy XIV is actually a sequel to Final Fantasy XI, the Final Fantasy MMO (yep, it's quite confusing.) Read more...