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Joystiq has obtained an internal IGN memo sent by company president Roy Bahat announcing layoffs at the media site today. We currently have no accurate estimate for the number of people let go today, nor do we know if any divisions have been shut down entirely.
Bahat states in the memo, "We're doing this to reduce costs. While we've been doing well - we're profitable and our audience continues to grow - we're still feeling the effects of the economy, and we need to make sure we can invest where there is opportunity. Over the past couple of years, we have been focusing IGN on areas where...
There are plenty of reasons to be wary about buying expensive electronics over the internet. They could be forever lost to shipping accidents. You could have trust issues about purchasing items from faceless vendors. Or maybe you're just addicted to instant gratification. If brick-and-mortar transactions are your preferred M.O., then you'll be pleased to hear that the formerly Amazon-only 360 Elite Spring Bundle, which comes packaged with Forza Motorsport 3 and Halo 3: ODST, is now available at Gamestop for $299.99.
We can't stress this enough -- this is by far the best Xbox bundle ever...
Square Enix is sure hoping that the recent release of its long-in-production RPG hasn't caused you to forget about its other long-in-production RPG: The PSP-exclusive Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. The company recently sent a jolt through the series' dormant U.S. fan base by announcing that the title will come stateside sometime this summer.
According to Squeenix's press release announcement, the North American version of the game will include new features, such as "an extra boss and additional multiplayer options," as well as something called "Crown Stickers." That certainly sounds...
Seit heute lädt der Background Downloader auch den 2. Teil des Patches 3.3.3 herunter, der allerdings wohl erst in der nächsten Woche live gehen wird. Die Grösse des 1. und 2. Teils beträgt zusammen ca. 129 MB, und dieser 2. Teil steht euch, wie gewohnt, in Kürze auch bei unserem Host gamona zum schnellen Download [...]
Offizieller Launch-Trailer zu Just Cause 2 erschienen und Download-Content angekündigt. Das finale Video zum Actionspiel der Avalanche Studios enthält unter anderem die Testwertung vom Game Informer und explosive Spielszenen.
"A two pack?" you ask, confused by today's announcement of the Borderlands DLC retail package. "But doesn't that game have three DLC packs? And aren't there more coming?" Yeah, sure, and you might even have a point! But for now, 2K Games chose to announce the release of The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned and Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot, together on disc, for $19.99 (starting on April 6 in North America and April 9 everywhere else).
More confusing? Apparently the retail pack won't arrive on PS3, though both pieces of content are already available digitally (for the same price, no less) on...
We were busy ogling the suitable-for-framing cover art of the May issue of GamePro just posted by mag boss John Davison when we noticed a title we didn't recognize: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. Considering how well-informed and handsome we all are, we were understandably stymied. Unfortunately, Activision declined to comment so we don't know any more than you do about it at the moment, though we have to assume this is the previously-announced upcoming Spider-Man game, which supposedly won't suck.
Hopefully we'll have more for you when the issue starts hitting subscribers in the...
How many of you right now are playing games and using your plain-jane television speakers to blast the sound out? With so much focus on high-definition visuals, gamers tend to treat sound as an afterthought. Especially if you have several systems, which means a tangle of spaghetti wires held together with spit and baling wire. Transitioning from your PC over to your PS3? It ain't that easy. Jumping from your Xbox to your iPhone? Ditch your headset, find your earbuds, unplug, plug, repeat.
Thankfully, Astro Gaming realizes that gamers are constantly on the go, and they've just announced the...
Da der Niederlassungssitz des Publishers gPotato Europe Limited sich in Irland befindet, feiert das Team beinahe schon traditionsgemäß in ihren MMOGs den irischen Feiertag St. Patricksday. So auch in dem free2play Titel Fly For Fun, in dem jeder Spiel... ...
Neuer Trailer zum Action-Adventure Prison Break, das auf der ersten Staffel der gleichnamigen TV-Serie aus den USA basiert.
When EA DICE decided to release some downloadable armaments in the original Battlefield: Bad Company, it proved to be a fairly unpopular decision. However, the recently found a way to outfox the gaming community, releasing Bad Company 2 DLC without drawing our ire. How did the studio accomplish such a feat? Easy -- it just released the DLC in a completely different game.
Battlefield Heroes recently received a large push of content inspired by Bad Company, including six modern weapons and the outfits of George Haggard and Kirilenko. Best of all, if you log onto Heroes while using an account...
Though they differ wildly in tone, art style, and price tag, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Battlefield Heroes now have a lot more in common than just their namesake. Developer DICE has announced a handful of premium unlocks for Battlefield Heroes that are styled after equipment from Bad Company 2.
The latest update to EA's free-to-play shooter includes six new weapons, a health boost item, and two outfits designed to look like characters from Bad Company 2. All this comes at a price, but anyone who bought a new copy of Bad Company 2 can tie the included VIP code to their...
Steam is having a "midweek madness" sale on Dragon Age: Origins until Thursday at 4PM PST. BioWare's fantasy epic is discounted 33 percent, making the regular and "digital deluxe" editions $33.49 and $43.54, respectively.
Of course, the discounts are to get you on the hook to purchase the game's first expansion, Awakening, which releases today. But, just so you go into this with eyes wide open, DA:O is a long game -- especially if you get the bundle stuffed with the extra DLC missions. The game is so long, in fact, that if you purchase the base game now, by the time you're ready for...
High Noon in unserer Bildergalerie: Rockstar Games hat neue Highres-Screenshots aus Red Dead Redemption veröffentlicht. Der Western-Shooter erscheint in diesem Jahr für PS3 und Xbox 360. Eine PC-Version wurde weder offiziell angekündigt, noch von…
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Perhaps you've always wanted to get on board with the Joystiq Podcast but didn't know where to start. Maybe you're a long-time fan, but forget funny things almost as soon as you hear them. Or maybe you just have three spare hours and want to fill them with delight.
For all of you, there is Joystiq Podcast: Episode Zero.
The product of nearly a year of work and countless man hours, Episode Zero collects listener-selected best bits from the first 100 episodes of the Joystiq Podcast. Though a labor of love for the whole of the JPAG, special thanks goes to Ryan Gan for...
Vor wenigen Wochen erst konnten wir im deutschen Hauptquartier von Publisher THQ eine fast fertige Fassung von Metro 2033 anspielen. Inzwischen haben wir uns mit der Vollversion nicht nur durch die halbe Moskauer Metro geballert, sondern dort unten in den düsteren Katakomben viele Freunde und Verbün ...
Say you were to jump a sweet speedboat off an even sweeter ramp, then climb onto that speedboat and shoot a rocket at a dude in a tower (which is a real thing that happens in Just Cause 2) for 15 to 20 hours. Afterward, if someone asked you how much more time you wanted to spend doing things like that, we imagine the answer would be "a lot." Perhaps it's no coincidence, then, that that's exactly how much DLC lead designer Peter Johansson tells Eurogamer is coming to the Just Cause 2: "a lot."
And that's on top of all the content already on the game disc, which, by all external signs,...
The ship may have sailed on the free Guitar Hero: Van Halen deal, but if you're still keen on scoring some kind of a bargain with Guitar Hero 5, then Amazon may have the cure for what ails you. The online retail giant is currently offering last year's Guitar Hero for just $28.99 in their "Deal of the Day" promotion.
This price applies to all four platforms (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and Wii), though it includes none of the required guitar controllers or other faux rock peripherals. That's probably not such a bad thing, as our own independent research...
Bisher war nicht genau bekannt, wann das Actionspiel Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker für die PSP und die PSPgo in Europa erscheinen wird. Am heutigen Tag hat der Publisher Konami dieses kleine Geheimnis endlich gelüftet. Wie in einer offiziellen Pres... ...
If there's one thing Dante's Inferno lacked, it was originality. Lacking the "holy sh-" impact of God of War III, Visceral Games' hack-n-slash felt incredibly pedestrian. That changes with "The Trials of St. Lucia," an upcoming premium DLC pack that introduces the game's first bit of originality.
The DLC add-on is made up of three new features: online co-op, user generated trials, and St. Lucia, a new playable character inspired by Christianity's Saint Lucy. Like Dante, Visceral's reimagining of her character is rather far-off from biblical canon. The playable martyr looks like an...
Zwar dürfte die Verschiebung des Release-Termins für den potentiellen Top-Titel auf den 17.Juni, die Konami im Zuge einer Pressemittelung bekannt gab, einigen Fans der Serie die Wartezeit nicht gerade erträglicher machen, dafür dürfte das Erscheinen des Spiels nun noch besser ausfallen. Denn wie der amerikanische Playstation.Blog berichtet, wird nicht nur in Japan ein besonderes PSP-Bundle zum Launch des Titels erscheinen:
Das US-Bundle soll neben einer UMD-Version des Spiels eine "Spirited Green" PSP-3000, einen 2 GB Memory Stick Pro Duo sowie einen besonderen Gutschein für den...
Konami's pushed back the release of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker to June 8, a recent press release states. Back in January, the Japanese release was also delayed, so we've been waiting for the other combat boot to drop and it's finally happened. Yup, we're crying under our cardboard box, too. Of course, in addition to the game itself, the newly-announced PSP bundle will be released on the same day.
What we want to know is, if the Japanese delay is a crime, what's the North American delay? A case of first degree joy-icide?Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker release sneaks to June 8...
Am Mittwoch, den 17. März 2010, gibt es in Aion zum St. Patricks Day ein kleines Event. Dabei steht der Kobold Fergus McGreedy im Mittelpunkt, der in seinem Leben große Reichtümer aus Elysea, Asmodae und sogar aus dem Abyss ansammelt.
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Jetzt ist es offiziell: Wie der Publisher Square Enix heute im Rahmen einer Pressemeldung bekannt gegeben hat, erscheint die Game-of-the-Year-Edition des Actionspiels Batman: Arkham Asylum definitiv auch in Deutschland. Diese Sonderversion enthält... ...
Whew, that was a close one. We were really hoping to get another opportunity to purchase Batman: Arkham Asylum again, but it seemed Rocksteady and Eidos had planned to keep the game's Game of the Year edition exclusively overseas. Fortunately, it seems they've changed their minds -- an Eidos press release just confirmed that the expanded version of the game (which includes four extra challenge maps and 3D support) will be getting a stateside release.
Whether you missed out on 2009's surprise superhero smash hit, or whether you were just disappointed by its lack of extra dimensions,...
Dass die Rabbids nicht sterben würden, war spätestens mit dem letzten Geschäftsbericht von Ubisoft klar, in dem man zu verstehen gab, dass man die ... (mehr auf NintendoWiiX.net)
Wii-Fit war gestern: Die heutigen "Zukunftsvisionen widmen sich VirtuaSphere, einem Spielerlebnis der nächsten Generation und dem Eidos-Titel Deus Ex 3.
Für die hiesige Veröffentlichung von Samurai Warriors 3 hat sich Tecmo Koei mit Nintendo zusammengetan, um das Wii-exklusive Action-Spiel am 28. Mai gemeinsam in den Handel zu bringen. Zum Inhalt des Spiels:Der jüngste Spross der populären Reihe wird die Wii-Fans mit einem innovativen Spielmodus und einer komplett neuen Rahmenhandlung überraschen. Zusätzlich zu einer Riege bisher unbekannter Charaktere sowie brandneuen Kampf- und Gameplay-Elementen stellt der Titel die Spieler mit neuen taktischen und strategischen Herausforderungen auf eine harte Probe. Sowohl online als auch offline...
Wer geglaubt hat, dass die Entwickler von Volition derzeit die Hände untätig in den Schoß legen würde, sieht sich getäuscht. Vielmehr arbeitet das Team fieberhaft an einem zweiten Patch für das Actionspiel Red Faction 3: Guerrilla. Wann genau dieser ers... ...
God of War 3 erscheint erst am Freitag, den 19. März, aber für alle, die bereits jetzt schon mal in den fulminanten, PS3-exklusiven Action-Titel aus dem Hause Sony Santa Monica hineinblicken wollen, stellen wir heute die Komplettlösung online.
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ArmA 2, der legitime Operation Flashpoint-Nachfolger, wusste im vergangenen Jahr nur bedingt zu überzeugen (PCGames-Wertung der Version 1.01: 64%). Erst nach dem Aufspielen des ein oder anderen Patches gelangte das Spiel in einen wirklich spielbaren…
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Though we don't have any new gameplay details on upcoming grappler EA Sports MMA for you today, we do have a whole mess of new screenshots. The images feature everything from the usual "two sweaty dudes staring each other down" to the brand new "dude walking down a runway with fire shooting in the air" -- there are even several images of MMA rings with the audience seated at dinner tables, presumably in the VIP section, watching the fight. Nothing says "Roman Colosseum" quite like eating dinner while watching two meaty gents beat each other into the mat!...
Der Spieleentwickler Epic Games wird in diesem Jahr keinen neuen Titel auf den Markt bringen. Dies bestätigte Mark Rein, Vice President des Unternehmens, in einem Interview mit G4TV auf der Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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There have been rumors about a Blu-ray drive (both of the internal and external variety) coming to the Xbox 360 a number of times, but that notion was once again shot down by Microsoft's UK director of Xbox and Entertainment Stephen McGill last week. Asked about the prospect of Blu-ray on 360 in an interview with CVG, McGill said, "We have no plans to adopt Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360. In fact, the future of home entertainment started last autumn when Xbox 360 became the first and only console to offer instant-on 1080p streaming HD movies."
Speaking about the same...
Eine schwere Geburt ist die Veröffentlichung von "Demon`s Souls". Nachdem Sony die Rechte für die USA abtrat, wurde es ein Verkaufsschlager. Folgt jetzt Europa?
Okay, so North America's limited edition Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP pack doesn't include an exclusive camo PSP, or a stand thingy, or a snakeskin-like carrying case. But it does include a "Spirited Green" PSP-3000, a color previously unavailable in America. It doesn't include a PSP Go, so we're guessing the "relaunch" hasn't begun yet.
Launching alongside the standalone game on May 25, the pack includes said green PSP, a copy of the game on UMD, a 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, and vouchers for both an unidentified movie download (for US residents only) and exclusive in-game...
Okay, so North America's limited edition Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP pack doesn't include an exclusive camo PSP, or a stand thingy, or a snakeskin-like carrying case. But it does include a "Spirited Green" PSP-3000, a color previously unavailable in America. It doesn't include a PSP Go, so we're guessing the "relaunch" hasn't begun yet.
Launching alongside the standalone game on May 25 June 8, the pack includes said green PSP, a copy of the game on UMD, a 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, and vouchers for both an unidentified movie download (for US residents only) and exclusive...