In one of the coolest moves within the last two years, a developer has decided not to slap an MP component into its shooter. In a recent conversation with Eurogamer at a Tokyo event, Platinum Games’ Shinji Mikami confirmed that Vanquish would not have a competitive online component for fear of stripping down the title.
“Vanquish is very intense, full of action. There are just so many things going on,” Mikami told Eurogamer. “When you take that into a multiplayer environment, then you have to realistically consider shaving a lot of …

Want to know what’s going down in Metro 2033’s tunnels? The wait for the FPS isn’t much longer.  The title hits North American shelves on March 16. And if you needed proof that the date is in stone, well, here you go: publisher THQ announced that the game has gone gold. It’s been pressed and all of that business.
Hitting alongside the announcement this morning was a cool little teaser trailer that shows off a bit of Metro 2033’s post-apocalyptic world. From experience, I can say that they got the whole …

It seems unwise to use a keyboard and mouse with Street Fighter IV PC. Something tells us that spinning kicks and fireballs just won’t feel the same. But if you’ve got a Mad Catz Fight Stick lying around, and 20 extra bucks, you could be kicking it like a pro in a matter of a download. Capcom’s popular fighter is the next Games on Demand sale item, hitting at $19.99 instead of the usual price.
It’s also $19.99 on Stardock’s Impulse platform, which we’ve heard is actually kind of cool if …

For a few reasons, more people are flocking towards EA DICE and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 than ever showed up to cheer on the original Bad Company. The big factor, as far as I can tell, directly relates to a certain other big-name first-person shooter losing a portion of its following because of some sketchy decisions that were made.
More importantly, Bad Company 2 looked promising from the moment we caught our very first glimpse. That’s what it’s really about; forget the politics, just this once. Most of us played either …

If you weren’t happy with the 105 tracks that hit Rock Band Network yesterday, don’t worry — Harmonix and MTV Games are still supplying your weekly does of “regular” old DLC. Here’s what to expect next week:

The White Stripes Pack 02 ($5.49/440 MS Points for the pack, or $1.99/160 MS Points/200 Wii Points)

“Fell in Love with a Girl” +
“Seven Nation Army”
“You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told)” +

Single Tracks

The Futureheads – “Decent Days & Nights” + ($1.99/160 MS Points/200 Wii Points)
The Futureheads – “Hounds …

Eidos has revealed a new image from Deus Ex 3 (potentially to be called Deus Ex: Human Revolution), and well… yeah, that’s it up there.
What is it? Well, it’s a hand and a lighter, dummy. Eidos Montreal “community guy” René Valen, who posted the image on the Eidos forums, is just a huge tease.
“I can’t say a darn thing about this,” he wrote. “other than people who like to go into details will shortly have some new material to dissect.”
What, we can’t dissect this image? I’ll start — that’s a …

Even if you’ve written 457 angry e-mails to Capcom, filling its ear with your fury over the impending release of Super Street Fighter IV, you’ll still get a bonus for purchasing the original game. In a recent conversation with Gamasutra, Capcom’s VP of strategic planning and business development, Christian Svennson, revealed that the studio plans to give some stuff away to purchasers of the original.
” … And we haven’t announced it, but for those who have purchased and played Street Fighter IV on the system that they play this on, …