By a show of hands, who has no idea what Starcraft 2 is? Of course you all know what it is. It’s only the most talked about game right now. Ever since the original title came out over 10 years ago, the second game has been discussed amongst gamers non stop. Now that Starcraft 2 has finally been released, it will be played non stop for the next century.Starcraft 2 has become one of the most competitive games of all time literally over night. Practically a national sport in Korea, the Starcraft franchise spawns endless tournaments with unbelievably large cash prizes, sponsors,

What company this year has easily had the most controversy? Yes, it has been Activision. Their CEO has been called some unkind words, huge lawsuit with ex-Infinity Ward heads, and now we have this unbelievable sight. It’s been rumored for a while that a paid membership is in the works for our beloved Modern Warfare 2 and other Call of Duty titles. These rumors unfortunately, may be true.A video from 360 Junkies shows the paid membership screen prompting the player. In the video clip’s description, a player was trying to join a friend’s game in progress and was

The newly announced sequel to one of the highly acclaimed RPGs, Dragon Age 2, will not disappoint. The game has been taking notes from one of the greatest games of all time, Mass Effect, and that can’t be anything but a good thing.Apparently, Dragon Age is getting rid of the “tree” dialogue system, which displays lines of text, and will now use the “wheel” system from Mass Effect. The significant thing about this change is that the new system is supposed to help simulate “real time” conversations. The newly implemented system is not

Gamescom has given us a lot of gaming goodness this week. This next treat comes courtesy of Sucker Punch. They’ve given us a trailer for Infamous 2 with some neat frozen gameplay. The trailer has you go through the city and there’s destruction and monsters and people running. Some gameplay would have been better, but its still nice to see it coming along.There was one big thing that is different in the trailer. Remember the whole re-design that Sucker Punch did of the games protagonist Cole? They had him looking young and not so generic. In the trailer, it’s

Capcom’s Dead Rising title, created a large fan base that had everyone quoting our favorite journalis, Frank West. Now, we have Dead Rising 2 and we are going to be following the rougher and tougher, Chuck Greene.  Today Capcom has revealed their Special Edition version of the anticipated sequel. Titled as the “Outbreak Edition” gamers who pick this copy up will receive a few extra goodies.The Outbreak Edition(show above) will come with:A Zombie Tourist FiguringTraffic ConeServebot HatBonus DVDThe game is set to release on September 28th. Share Tweet

How does an “interactive comic-style” prequel to Dead Space sound to you? If your mouth watered a bit, then that means you’re excited. We know that Dead Space 2 on the PS3 and Xbox 360 won’t arrive until January of next year. Yes, it’s still several months away, but Visceral Games is going to give us a sample of the story.The downloadable game titled, Dead Space Ignition, will occur just before Dead Space 2. The game is said to have a “satisfying arcade experience that will challenge players with puzzles and twitch gameplay.”Antony

The first BioShock game didn’t enjoy a lot of developer attention in terms of DLC content – just some new abilities and a bunch of extra challenge levels for the PS3 version. 2K Marin, the developers behind BioShock 2, have stated that BioShock 2 will receive a lot of DLC, delivered through an “aggressive” campaign.“We are working on pretty aggressive plans for DLC and that’s actually something that is already under-way,” was the statement made by Kent Hudson, senior systems designer at the company. The studio seems to be splitting the

So remember all of the Project Pink/Zune Phone rumors from way back? Well, they have started again thanks to a statement by Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert:“Our recent industry checks indicate Microsoft will be debuting its own phone sometime in the next two months…We expect the new phone to debut soon, at either the Feb 15-18 Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona Spain, or possibly at CTIA in Las Vegas one month later.” It’s Egbert’s belief that the Zune Phone will come from a Microsoft/OEM partnership similar to that of Google and HTC

According to a recent study conducted by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), there are only about 2 million users in the country actively (at least once a month) accessing Internet through their mobile phones and other mobile devices.The association goes on suggesting that about 27% of all mobile phones — which translates into 127 million people — have an Internet-ready mobile device. Furthermore, out of this number, only 9.4% (12 million users) have used Internet over

Streaming video from your laptop to your TV has been a possibility for a while now, but most of the implementations rely on Wireless USB to achieve the effect. Netgear appear to be taking a different approach to the problem, using Wi-Fi instead. The PTV1000 Push 2 TV Adapter has just made its way to the FCC, which means we should expect it pretty soon.The device seems to use a yet unreleased standard by Intel, named Wireless Display. So far it can only run on Intel’s Core i3, i5 and i7 processors and requires an integrated GMA graphics card and Windows 7 as well –