GameSpot
- Q&A: Breaking down the Chains of Olympus
- POST-MORTEM: Two months after he helped bring God of War to the PSP, Ready of Dawns Ru Weerasuriya looks back on the literally epic games reception and development.
- PressSpotting: Rockin' out with MTV's Stephen Totilo
- The man behind MTVs gaming coverage about the state of game journalism and its evolving role in mainstream media.
- Spot On: Putting the "super" in superhero games
- Action-packed comic adventures should fit gaming like a spandex jumpsuit, so why do so many of them turn downright villainous?
- MLB Power Pros 2008 on deck
- Take-Two brings back Konamis big-headed baseball series for a double-header on the Wii and PS2 this July; DS version bats clean up in the fall.
- Gran Turismo takes 50 millionth sales lap
- Dual retail/online launch of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue puts Polyphonys 10-year-old racing series past milestone.
- Burnout Paradise crashing PCs
- First-ever computer edition of Criterion racing series gets a tune-up to multiplayer and online features.
- Verbinski BioShocks Hollywood
- Pirates of the Caribbean director helming adaptation of 2Ks groundbreaking undersea actioner; Universal courting Gladiator screenwriter to pen script .

1UP
- This Week in WTF?! May 11, 2008
- Featuring a special preview of MK vs. DCs milder fatalities.
- Haze
- We check out the demo in anticipation of next weeks release.
- Bangai-O Spirits
- We spend some hands-on time with the DS shmup. New screens.
- Valkyria Chronicles
- Canvassing the tactical battlefield in this PS3 game.
- Activision's 2008 Revenue Nears $3 Billion
- Publisher reports record Q4 sales as revenues surge 92%.
- Activision on New Call of Duty, Tony Hawk
- Shooter to enter new theater of war, while Hawk will skip consoles in 2008.
- Top 5 StarCraft Opening Gambits
- The best StarCraft openings -- Will they work in the sequel?

Eurogamer
- Article: Genetically Modified Gaming
- It looks like an MMO, but it isnt an MMO. Yet.
- News: Gears 2 gameplay video on Live tomorrow (Xbox 360)
- 7am Saturday.
- News: GRID demo leads PSN update (PlayStation 3)
- Plus Guitar Hero 3 and Army of Two DLC.
- News: Burnout Paradise coming to PC (PC)
- Massive resolutions, customised content.
- News: Four games for Virtual Console (Wii)
- Expensive festival still going.
- News: Microsoft bigwig has a right go at Sony
- Claims 360 is winning in Europe after all.
- News: Reeves: PSP needs more games (PlayStation Portable)
- Phenomenal Japanese titles for Europe.

ToTheGame
- VIDEOS: Battlefield: Bad Company (PS3/X360) @ ToTheGame
- VIDEOS: Battlefield: Bad Company (PS3/X360) @ ToTheGame
- VIDEOS: WoW: Wrath of the Lich King (PC) 4 Trailers @ ToTheGame
- VIDEOS: WoW: Wrath of the Lich King (PC) 4 Trailers @ ToTheGame
- VIDEOS: Top Spin 3 (PS3/X360) @ ToTheGame
- VIDEOS: Top Spin 3 (PS3/X360) @ ToTheGame
- SCREENSHOT: Top Spin 3 (X360) @ ToTheGame
- SCREENSHOT: Top Spin 3 (X360) @ ToTheGame
- SCREENSHOT: Spectral Force 3 (X360) @ ToTheGame
- SCREENSHOT: Spectral Force 3 (X360) @ ToTheGame
- SCREENSHOT: Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (PC/PS3/X360) @ ToTheGame
- SCREENSHOT: Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway (PC/PS3/X360) @ ToTheGame
- VIDEOS: MotorStorm: Pacific Rift (PS3) @ ToTheGame
- VIDEOS: MotorStorm: Pacific Rift (PS3) @ ToTheGame

Kotaku
- Niko Bellic's Backstory
- Mr. Juandrful over at Kezins.com has pieced together a backstory on Niko Bellic, in a VH1 Behind the Music kind of biography. Counterintuitively, I should put up a spoiler alert here, because...
- Work from Home, Earn Cash
- To: AshFrom: OwenRe: Poker, The RedemptionSo the realboss at the realjob is in Hawaii all week which means, woohoo, work-from-home with impunity! Oh shit, do they have the Internets in Hawaii?...
- The Week in Games: No Reversals!
- Major League Eating comes to DS this week, so you can, I dunno pack your face using the stylus while you chow down at a McDonalds on a lunch break or something. Remind me to tell you all sometime...
- The Games My Mother Played
- May 1st 1980 I came home from school to find my mother waiting there for me, a giddy smile on her lips. She always loved birthdays. Back then we were living in an apartment, my younger sister and I...
- A List of Demands for Grand Theft Auto
- Not even two weeks since its release and the ingrates at Kombo.com already have eight things they want to see in Grand Theft Auto from now on. Everyone has an ultimate GTA experience list, and Im...
- Why Achievements are Awesome
- OK, I think I get the gist of this piece. TeamTeaBag takes a look at gaming achievements on the 360, and its hard for me to assess the tone: Either SmellyGeekyBoy (the writer) • resents the hell...
- Classical Gaming: A Roman Retrospective
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun linked to this nice retrospective of Roman-themed games over the years, starting with Legionnaire (1982) and ending with Rome: Total War (2004). The series of musings includes...

Joystiq
- Japanese hardware sales, April 28 - May 4: Mothers in gaming edition
- Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business As today is a nationally recognized day of matronly appreciation, I thought it appropriate to
- Weekly Webcomic Wrapup looks up at the stars
- Filed under: Culture, Online, PollsHave you ever just looked up at the stars, trying to make your own constellations ... and suddenly everything becomes a star cluster of Pac-Man-related shapes? (Imave via The
- Apple Wiimote-esque patent revealed
- Filed under: Mac, Nintendo Wii, BusinessCal us crazy, but we think weve seen this before. An Apple patent filed in November 2006 has just been published, describing a 3D cursor system thats surprisingly
- Amazon and Gamestop offering God of War III pre-orders, claim March 2 release
- Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, ActionWe know that a vast majority of the gaming media consumers out there have a fairly negative outlook when it comes to pre-orders for popular titles (did anyone
- Rumor: Kid Icarus Wii details, screenshots revealed
- Filed under: Nintendo WiiFor a game that hasnt even been formally announced, there sure seems to be a lot of information circulating about the Wiicreation of the celestial NES action-platformer, Kid Icarus. For
- Gamecock's Wilson announces candidacy for ESA president
- Filed under: Culture, E3, Business With a number of names skipping out on this summers E3, not to mention heavyweights Activision and Vivendi Games disavowing themselves of the ESA altogether, Gamecock sent word that its Grand Poobah Mike Wilson plans
- Spend Mother's Day playing games with mom
- Filed under: Culture, CasualDont panic: Its Mothers Day today in North America. We know it crept up on you, overshadowed by more significant holidays like Gears of War 2 Gameplay Footage Day and

Blue's News
- Metaverse
- Microsoft Starts Blocking YouTube Links From Being Shared On MSN And Windows Live Messenger. Thanks Ant and Slashdot. Indiana Jones and the Long Knives of the Internet. Thanks Mike Martinez.
- Safety Dance
- How I Built a Working Poker Bot, Part 1 - Coding the Wheel. Thanks Ant.
- Sunday Game Reviews
- Napoleons Campaigns on The Wargamer.
- Sunday Hardware Reviews
- Lian Li Armorsuit PC-P80R Spider Edition Case on techPowerUp. MSI X48C Platinum Motherboard on t-break. NZXT Cryo LX Notebook Cooler on ThinkComputers.org. Vantec NexStar Hard Drive Dock on OCIA.net....
- Out of the Blue
- Happy Mothers Day!! Mother of All Links: Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez. Play: The Cellar. Link of the Day: Best & Worst Moms Ever. Thanks Neatorama. Best and Worst Movie Moms. Thanks Digg. Pink...
- Op Ed
- GameCritics.com - Mass Effect for PC: Why do people hate DRM?
- Sunday Preview
- Trusted Reviews: InstantAction: The Future Of Casual Gaming?

GamesIndustry.biz
- News: Dates set for Games Connect: Asia Pacific
- The organisers of GCAP have announced the dates of this years event and are calling for submissions
- News: Games Convension Asia Conference calls for papers
- The organisers of Septembers GCAC are calling for speaking proposals for the upcoming event
- News: EA receives $1 billion loan commitment
- Electronic Arts has secured a commitment for a $1 billion loan towards its proposed acquisition of Take-Two
- News: BioWare alters proposed PC copy protection
- BioWare has responded to an outcry over proposed PC copy protection methods requiring online validation
- News: 10tacle and TGC reverse acquisition
- 10tacle, which announced the acquisition of TGC last year, has decided to reverse the transaction
- News: Reeves admits PSP needs more new games
- But SCEE president promises absolutely phenomenal Japanese titles will be released in Europe
- News: MMO Week: Industry has been irresponsible with kids
- Club Penguins co-founder thinks the industry has treated children irresponsibly, leading to great cynicism

Evil Avatar
- Happy Mother's Day From EvAv
- Forum: News ItemsPosted By: Everlost_MIPost Time: 05-11-2008 at 05:31 AM
- What CoD4 Means For The Future of the MMO
- Forum: News ItemsPosted By: Dr.FingerPost Time: 05-11-2008 at 05:19 AM
- WiiWare Releases (May 12, 2008)
- Forum: News ItemsPosted By: Evil AvnovicePost Time: 05-10-2008 at 10:55 AM
- Gears of War 2 Gameplay Trailer
- Forum: News ItemsPosted By: bapenguinPost Time: 05-10-2008 at 05:06 AM
- EA Secures $1 Billion Loan to Finance Take-Two Buy Out
- Forum: News ItemsPosted By: fitbabitsPost Time: 05-09-2008 at 10:47 PM
- Mass Effect / Spore 10-day Check Removed
- Forum: News ItemsPosted By: VarsityPost Time: 05-09-2008 at 02:58 PM
- First Gears of War 2 Footage Tonight (10:30 PST)
- Forum: News ItemsPosted By: jeffbaxPost Time: 05-09-2008 at 02:48 PM

CVG
- More Far Cry 2 footage
- New developer diary shows off more fancy effects.Ubisoft has sent us another developer diary, taking a look at the making of Far Cry 2.Click here to read the full article
- Tom Clancy's EndWar
- Everyone dies."Theres an Einstein quote thats in our design bible which goes everything should be as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler", says Endwars Creative Director Michael De Plater. "Designing complex stuff is easy - you just add
- Sid Meier's Civilisation Revolution
- Preview: Everybody wants to rule the world.When it comes to PC games, were usually of the opinion that you can shove em up your hard drive. Click here to
- Brothers in Arms resurfaces in screens
- Five new shots of Gearboxs definitely-coming-out-this-time WWII shooter.After an eternity in development and a short while gone AWOL, Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway has resurfaced in five new screenshots. So we can assume it might actually be coming out sometime
- Lord of the Rings Online mini-game released
- Beer and axe-throwing. Nice and safe, then.Codemasters is pimping the second promotional mini-game for Rings Online expansion, Mines of Moria. Click here to read the full
- Red Faction: Guerilla
- Its GTA on Mars. Well, sort of...Red Faction was an FPS that let you blow holes in walls. That was its thing. But the destruction was severely limited and, no matter how hard you pummelled the walls with rockets, you
- New WoW: Lich King Death Knights details emerge
- Information on expansion pack spills over the net.Brand new details about Blizzards upcoming WoW expansion Wrath of the Lich King have emerged online, boasting a whole heap of content that almost convinces us to re-activate our WoW accounts.Click here to

Xboxyde
- Two images of Banjo
- An anonym journalist releases two images of Rares mysterious next Banjo game on an italian forum. Of course we were around and immediatly caught them. Here they are for your enjoyment, and we should have a lot more informations coming
- Artworks of James Bond
- Earlier this week, Activision launched the official website for the James Bond : Quantum of Solace videogame, based on the movie that will hit theaters in November. Not many details are known as of now, except that the main character
- Gears of War 2: Gameplay debut
- Epic and Microsoft drop the bomb and release the first gameplay video of Gears of War 2. Two minutes of extreme violence and fire, for what appears to be an explosive hyperbole of the first title. Visually, it looks stunning.
- Things on Wheels images
- SouthPeak also released these images of Things on Wheels, which will be released this summer on Xbox Live Arcade.
- Images of X-Blades
- SouthPeak Games unveiled these images of X-Blades, to be released on Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC this fall. The images are from the PC version, judging by the resolution.
- Video images of Top Spin 3
- 2K Games has revealed the first gameplay trailer for Top Spin 3, looking pretty impressive in-motion. The game will be released next month on Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and the DS.
- Lost Planet Colonies images
- Capcom has released a bunch of new images from Lost Planet Colonies, to be released on PC and Xbox 360 on the 6th of June. The images reveals new enviroments, Egg Bandit Mode and new VS mech weapons.

Playsyde
- Two images of Banjo
- An anonym journalist releases two images of Rares mysterious next Banjo game on an italian forum. Of course we were around and immediatly caught them. Here they are for your enjoyment, and we should have a lot more informations coming
- Artworks of James Bond
- Earlier this week, Activision launched the official website for the James Bond : Quantum of Solace videogame, based on the movie that will hit theaters in November. Not many details are known as of now, except that the main character
- Gears of War 2: Gameplay debut
- Epic and Microsoft drop the bomb and release the first gameplay video of Gears of War 2. Two minutes of extreme violence and fire, for what appears to be an explosive hyperbole of the first title. Visually, it looks stunning.
- Images of X-Blades
- SouthPeak Games unveiled these images of X-Blades, to be released on Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC this fall. The images are from the PC version, judging by the resolution.
- Things on Wheels images
- SouthPeak also released these images of Things on Wheels, which will be released this summer on Xbox Live Arcade.
- Video images of Top Spin 3
- 2K Games has revealed the first gameplay trailer for Top Spin 3, looking pretty impressive in-motion. The game will be released next month on Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and the DS.
- Lost Planet Colonies images
- Capcom has released a bunch of new images from Lost Planet Colonies, to be released on PC and Xbox 360 on the 6th of June. The images reveals new enviroments, Egg Bandit Mode and new VS mech weapons.

Cubed3
- XGen on Defend Your Castle WiiWare
- XGen Studios recently spoke on their upcoming WiiWare project, Defend Your Castle.
- Rumor: Skies of Arcadia 2 To Show Up This Year?
- The sequel to one of the best loved Role-Playing Games on the Gamecube will be shown later this year and will see a release on Wii, if a popular German SEGA site is to be believed.
- GTA Shoots Down Mario Kart in Europe
- Rockstars recently release of GTA IV sees the game take prime position over Mario Kart in Europe.
- One Ring to Rule the DS
- Pandemic Studios have announced a new entry into the Lord of the Rings franchise, Conquest.
- Rare's Scribes: Viva Pinata DS, Donkey Kong Country
- Rares latest edition of Scribes confirms the completion of Viva Pinata for DS and answers some interesting VC-related questions.
- Rogue Trooper Reborn on Wii
- Reef Entertainment has announced a port of Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Zone Massacre for Wii.
- Avalon Code Brings a Marvelous RPG to DS
- Marvelous Interactive have announced Avalon Code for Nintendo DS.
