The Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II (RTS) multiplayer beta is now available to everybody who didn't get Soulstorm today over Steam. The beta is 5.4 Gigabytes or 5400 Megabytes. Dawn of War II will come out February 19th and will have a fairly robust campaign mode featuring the Space Marines. The Multiplayer portion allows you to play as the Space Marines, the Orcs, The Eldar, and the Tyranids.The game mimics Company of Heroes's cover system and now includes the ability to destroy cover, much to the delight of Gears fans everywhere. The game will include achievements however you cannot achieve any gamerscore during the beta. Read More…

:::: COIN-OP TV WEEK IN REVIEW (1/26/09) :::: COIN-OP TV is an Internet TV show about the Video Game Industry, People and Events with hosts Robert Welkner and Hailey Bright.  We broadcast live on Thursday nights on www.TheStream.TV and also do coverage on location which can be found on the regular website www.coin-op.tv     - The Latest stuff! Read More…

Rare have announced that the bear and birds second adventure, Banjo-Tooie, will be hitting the Xbox Marketplace sometime in April with more Stop 'N' Swop. 4J Studios are adding more Stop 'N' Swop features that never made it into the sequel."4J Studios have dredged the Banjo team’s collective memory and implemented the original plan for Stop ‘n’ Swop, for the first time on any platform ever and after many long years of waiting. Without going into too much detail, the Stop ’n’ Swop items collected in Banjo-Kazooie will ‘magically’ appear in Tooie, resulting in... well, you'll just have to find out. Read More…

With the new Friday the 13th movie coming in just a few weeks, the Gears team is hosting nearly 2 weeks of giveaways on Xbox Live starting February 1st. That's 65 daily prize packages and 13 grand prize packages.The daily packs come with: * Gears of War 2 video game soundtrack * Gears of War Aspho Fields novel * A 12" x 18" Gears of War 2 promotional poster autographed by members of the Epic development team * An in-game Golden Hammerburst and Lancer weapon The grand prize packs come with: * A Samsung 40-inch 1080p flat panel LCD HDTV * A Locust Bust * A red Xbox 360 Wireless Controller * A Marcus Fenix bronze statue * Gears of War 2 video game soundtrack * Gears of War Aspho Fields novel * A 12" x 18" Gears of War 2 promotional poster autographed by members of the Epic development team * An in-game Golden Hammerburst and Lancer weaponTo register, you either need to go on Xbox.com or download the 13 Days of Gears Registration Gamer Picture from the Marketplace. The rest of the info can be found here. Read More…

Dark Void Game Play Videos Not much to really report on here. The short and skinny of it is that Capcom has brought out some more game play videos for their new Sci-Fi Action-Adventure game. All of which are videos that got glanced over by all the other big things that Capcom was bringing out at CES. But what kind of a news guy would I be if I let something like this fall to the curbside. So with no further gilding the lilly, such a great phase, I will give you some more footage of Dark Void. Read More…

Finish Them! Mortal Kombat Devs Challenge You Tonight! Ever wonder if they people behind Mortal Kombat Vs. DC are any good at their game? Think you could take them down? Well here is your chance. On Jan. 16th Er... I Mean. On Jan. 23rd, that's tonight, you will get your chance to do so. Make them put their proverbial money where their mouths are I guess. The whole thing kicks off at 10pm EST and will go for about two hours. Well more like they will be hanging in the MK chat room waiting for challenges. Read More…

Black Ace and Red Joker Double the Possibilities If you live in North America and were wondering when you would be able to get your hands on the new iteration of Mega Man Star Force, well they just announced when you can get it. Well kind of. More a general season of the year. Summer of this year to be exact. But it is suppose to be early summer. So we may be talking June-ish if all goes to plan for them. Read More…

After the layoffs at 1UP.com and EGM a couple weeks ago, many wondered what the future would hold for the 40 some employees now without jobs. Fortunately for many of them, they banded together to start various new projects. As one of their fans, I've had the chance to witness and experience these new projects, and here is the basic rundown. Rebel FM&Eat-sleep-game.com: Former staffers Anthony Gallegos, Nick Suttner, Phillip Kollar, and others bring you the first project. Read More…

I Am Alive due by end of March - Ubisoft No this is not a sequel to or homage to Portal and the end song. It's actually a new game that is being released by Ubisoft. Yes I know, you've heard nothing about this game right? Most of us have heard nothing about this game outside of the original game trailer for the game. That's been out for a bit, but that is not the news here. The news is that the company bringing this game, Darkworks and Ubisoft, has it's new release date sometime within the first quarter of this year. Read More…

New Street Fighter IV Trailer Who's foaming at the mouth to get their hands on the new Street Fighter game? I know there has to be a lot of you. Especially since this one looks to be one of the best in the series. Nostalgia versions aside. I do wish I had more to tell you on this, like all the fun little details about the game. Having seen it already and such, but I fail to have a fact sheet and assets before me. Oh wait, I lied, I have the new trailer for this game. Read More…

Like most fangirls, Cosplay is a typical part of my geek life. Being a Valve fanatic, I gather every year at A-KON to cosplay with my fellow valve fangirls and fanboys for a weekend of fun, frags and photos. Last year I encountered many Chell cosplayers, but none of which had a gun from the game as realistic and inspiring as this. Emily, as I assume that's her name, struck big when her boyfriend commissioned her a Portal Gun for her Chell costume. Like many other's have already stated - Marry this boy!!! Read More…

Final Fantasy XIII Countdown To What? So there is no solid news about what is going on at the Final Fantasy XIII site, but there is now a counter on the front page, and a button to register to be informed of what is going to happen when the counter hits zero. It is obviously not a count down to when the game is going to launch because the counter ends in roughly seven days. But it could be something awesome given all the stuff that has been hitting Japanese magazines lately. My guess is that is a countdown to where you need to spread out the news of the count down to 13 people or Sephiroth will show up and give you a nice sword through the chest. Read More…

Our friend Six Okay over at GearsOfWar.com made an update yesterday afternoon telling everyone that there has been an update to Gears of War 2. Here is the breakdown of what's included in the fix: Exploit Fixes: Crabwalking, invisibility, weapon-slide, melee through walls, unlimited ammo. General Fixes: Shotgun and Boomshot updates, meatshield chainsawing updates, team communication, Insane gamer pic award. Balancing: Planted proximity grenade updates, increased quitting penalties, spawn protection, flamethrower stopping power. Improvements: Annex uses execution rules, achievement progression in the War Journal, added 7 DLC-based achievements worth 175 gamerscore. Read More…

PROTOTYPE #1 (OF 6) So a little while back, I hooked you up with some awesome pics and video of Activision's Prototype. One their new IPs out on multi-platforms. Well it looks like they are going to try to take a page from what, in my opinion, made Dead Space that much more awesome. Releasing it to multiple other forms of media to build up some momentum. As of right now, posted on DCComics.com, they are showing a 6 part comic line for this new game. Read More…

In case you aren't keeping up-to-date on the Viral Marketing Campaign for Resident Evil 5, the official website is covered with tid-bits and goodies for zombie lovers. Spread the word to your friends, unlock new content, and make sure you check out the strange writings plastered on the wall. If you look closely, you may discover curious phrases such as "Wesker is a Liar," "Sheva Knew," "Wheres Ozwell," as well as "Flashbacks, can't stop them!"Keep-up to date with Chris Redfield and the Viral Marketing Campaign here, and check out the new, high-quality trailer here. For Excella Gionne's ridiculous bust size, you can look below. Read More…