January 2012
Games of 2012: Tomb Raider →
Drawing inspiration from James Bond and Batman as it treads the dark path to reinvention… Tomb Raider is a gaming institution. First released back in 1996, this new game represents the tenth…
December 2011
Games of 2012: DmC →
There’s more to this reboot than Dante’s new hair… What a difference a haircut makes. Click here to read the full article
Games of 2012: Enemy Front →
New shooter digs up the past and heads to the frontlines of WWII… Not very long ago, the FPS seemed to be constantly fighting World War II. Click here to read the full article
The science of linear games →
Between the wide plains of Skyrim and narrow alleys of MW3 you’ll find the best games in the world… When you want to see a game developer squirm, ask them if their linear game is, in fact, a…
Activision and EA headed to court over West,... →
EA told it must defend $400 million contract-interference lawsuit. A California Superior Court judge has ruled that EA must defend itself in a $400 million contract-interference suit brought by…
Latest Darkness 2 videos show multiplayer... →
Drunks, killers and psychos… 2K has released three new videos focusing on the new characters its introducing to The Darkness 2’s multiplayer mode. Click here to read the full article
Secret of Evermore retrospective →
We return to Evermore, and find plenty still to discover. Life was hard as a JRPG fan back in the ’90s. If games were released outside Japan at all, it was usually six months late, with…
Star Wars Xbox out April - rumour →
R2-D2 console pictured on set of new TV show. That too-awesome-for-words Star Wars-themed Xbox 360 you’d swap a limb for will be out in Spring, if new rumours prove accurate. Click here…
US PS Store update: Holiday deals aplenty →
Sony celebrates the holidays with discounts and collections. It’s a time for discounts and special bundle deals on the US PlayStation Store this Christmas. Click here to read the full…
The Last of Us revealed, developed by Naughty Dog →
Post-apocalyptic urban survival horror revealed with cinematic trailer. The Last of Us has just been revealed on the VGA Awards live stream. Click here to read the full article
Spike VGAs: Every rumour and announcement blown... →
MGS, Alan Wake and BioWare - Everything you should expect from this weekend’s show… The MTV-backed Spike Video Game Awards have become an exciting annual fixture in the gaming news calendar, and…
Vita won't allow web browsing while gaming →
No background browsing while a game is running. How handy would it be to pause a game, flick over to an online guide, get the help you need and flick right back into the game all on the same…
Monster Hunter Tri G: Worth buying a Circle Pad... →
Is that a monster in your pocket or are you pleased to see G?. We’d never advocate applying the lessons learned in games to real life, but you’ve got to love what virtual bloodsport Monster Hunter…
Counter Strike: GO closed beta is GO →
Current key holders should be shooting each other already. The closed beta for Counter Strike: Global Offensive has gone live today. Click here to read the full article
November 2011
Final Fantasy XIII-2 screenshots show Caius Ballad →
The main meanie gets in front of the camera. Square Enix has released a bit-size portion of screenshots for Final Fantasy XIII-2. Click here to read the full article
Apple cuts iPad 2, iPod prices for 1 day only →
Black Friday deals keep on coming. Apple is offering one day iPad 2 and iPod touch sales, with free shipping to the UK. Click here to read the full article
Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D dated →
3DS game finally arriving in March. Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D will launch on March 8, 2012. Click here to read the full article
3DS announcements for casual gamers coming at E3 →
Nintendo preparing more content for casuals next year. One thing the DS did really well was cater to a massive range of gamers from the hardcore teen to the curious grandma. Click here to…
How 'Adventure Mario' became The Legend Of Zelda →
History Lesson: The surprising origins of Nintendo’s timeless franchise… It was the morning of 1 February, 1985, and Nintendo needed a hit. Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, and Toshihiko Nakago…
Shinobi 3DS launch trailer →
Grptonite’s 3DS Shinobi revival out this week. Here’s a launch trailer for Shinobi on 3DS, which is out now in EU and hits US stores on November 15. Click here to read the full article
5 unappreciated games that deserve sequels →
A few forgotten franchises that could do with a new entry… Sequels are big business. Publishers are more comfortable funding already established games that have proven to be big sellers, and the…
Capcom charges real money for Dead Rising 2: OTR... →
‘Gamebreaker’ and ‘Firefighter Skills’ DLC packs released. The days of ‘up, up, down, down, left, right, etc…’-style cheat codes are well and truly dead. Click here to read the full…
30 in 30: Rockstar North / DMA Design →
The Scottish studio that created a monster. The studio formally known as DMA Design is most famous for the creation of monster cash cow Grand Theft Auto, but the Edinburgh-based developer was…
GTA V vs GTA: San Andreas - clever comparison... →
What a difference six years makes. GTA V could be viewed as a true sequel to the phenomenal GTA: San Andreas, and this video puts the old and the new next to each other. Click here to…
Australian politician wants Grand Theft Auto IV... →
NSW Attorney General strikes again. Australia’s NSW Attorney General Greg Smith - who initially withheld otherwise unanimous support for an Australian R18+ rating for videogames last July - has…
Modern Warfare 3 video looks back at key plot... →
What happened among all that shooting you did? Here’s what… Does anyone even remember the storyline in past Call of Duty games? There were some terrorist fools, or whatever, and we shot them all…
inFamous: Festival of Blood's Move controls work... →
Sucker Punch shows off motion controls following ‘Festival of Blood’ DLC release. Sucker Punch recently released the inFamous ‘Festival of Blood’ game on PSN for PS3 which, among other things,…
October 2011
Aliens: Colonial Marines: Can it topple Halo,... →
Is this a stand-up fight…or another big hunt?. Many have tried, but few have succeeded. Despite the rich source material and the fact that most modern shooters have liberally borrowed from the…
Mario & Sonic London Olympics trailer →
Footy, tennis, netball and… synchronized swimming. Football, Tennis, canoeing all sound fun. Even Volleyball we can handle. But we’ll leave synchronized swimming to the ladies. Thanks. Click here to read the full article
Battlefield 3 releases with 'close to 3 million... →
Making it “the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history”. Battlefield 3 had racked up “close to 3 million pre-sales” as of yesterday, based on internal EA estimates. Click here…
GAME goes sketchy →
Phil and Ed from GAME TV change gears in the name of sketch comedy. After taking a break last week, GAME TV is back - and this time, it’s sporting a whole new format. Click here to read…
CVG's Site of the Week: Sillegamer →
Our picks from around the web… Last week CVG’s gaming website of the week was Nukezilla, a gaming site that aims to better the industry through a combination of healthy cynicism, a dash of humor…
Lord of the Rings: War in the North trailer →
More in-game footage from this winter’s LoTR quest. We’ve got a new trailer trailer below for Lord of the Rings: War in the North. Click here to read the full article
Will the November 2011 release crush hurt gaming? →
Opinion: John Dean thinks games publishers are taking massive risks with our cash… 2011 is without a doubt one of the greatest years that gaming’s ever seen. Anyone with a niche interest has…
Epic Halo: Anniversary 'behind-the-scenes' video →
343 Industries gets excited about the original Halo. 343 Industries has released this awesome seven-minute behind-the-scenes trailer for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Click here to…
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 →
Man, what a bunch of jokers. Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, from the tiny dinos that ate half the cast of Jurassic Park 2 to the giant behemoths currently wandering the plains of Xenoblade…
Dark Souls and Hideo Kojima are in CVG's Heroes... →
Our champs and chumps of the past seven days… Another week, another round of heroes and villains where the virtuous are praised and the sinners are damned to a seven day eternity of being on this…
Xbox 360 to top US September sales - analysts →
Hardware and software sales predictions offered ahead of tonight’s NPD results. Game industry analysts have weighed in with US sales predictions for the month of September, ahead of the NPD Group’s…
Resistance 3: Two free maps, fix patch incoming →
‘Creek’ and ‘Granary’ maps coming with new bug squashing patch update. Insomniac has confirmed it’s working on an update for Resistance 3 that will include two free maps. Click here to…
3DS Extension Slide Pad packaging revealed →
Controversial peripheral hits Japan in December. Amazon Japan has revealed the packaging for the 3DS Extension Slide Pad. Click here to read the full article
PSN 'twice as popular as XBLA' with UK dev -... →
Trade group suggests PlayStation bias in British dev community. PSN is twice as popular as Xbox Live Arcade with UK game developers, claims a new survey. Click here to read the full…
Battlefield 3 set for bizarre footballer reality... →
American TV braces for Operation Gridiron. EA’s announced unexpected plans for a Battlefield 3 reality TV show in the States. Click here to read the full article
20 brave new gaming worlds →
Amazing new games, and the worlds you’ll explore… New York? The Middle East? Big floating ring in space? Been there. The end of the generation isn’t about the same old places; it’s about worlds…
Skyward Sword: An adventure 25 years in the making →
Taking to the skies with Link in this huge preview… Dissenters would have you believe that Link’s 25 years are a quarter century of conservative repeats. Boy finds sword, snaffles exotic kit,…
September 2011
Battlefield 3 beta open to all today →
Go hands-on with the highly-anticipated shooter’s multiplayer component. The Battlefield 3 multiplayer beta will open to all PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 players at some point today. Click here…
Crysis 1 PS3, 360 release date confirmed →
Original Crytek stunner lands early next month. EA’s announced a Crysis release date for consoles. Click here to read the full article
Gaming's hardest puzzles →
A look back at some of the most challenging puzzles ever… Today, puzzles are mostly used as distractions. Something to momentarily break the pace between bouts of shooting. And even then, the…
GoldenEye Reloaded video: 8 minutes of stealth... →
Developer sneaks through a mission. A new GoldenEye Reloaded video has arrived offering over eight minutes of gameplay footage. Click here to read the full article
Dance Central songs can be exported to DC2 →
…at a price. Microsoft has confirmed today that all your songs and routines in Dance Central will be transferable to Dance Central 2, but it’s going to cost you. Click here to read the…
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Bigger, better and... →
Hands-on with one of the most wanted games of 2011. Skyrim is proof we’re in the richest gaming generation of all time. Five years ago The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion wowed console players with its…