In Gears of War 2 news, the people of Epic seem to really understand their audience. Epic loves us for exactly what we are, a bunch of achievement whores. Now while some people may be above spending time going through games solely to raise their gamer score, most of us are not. Epic has created a whole new type of achievement system, called "linked" achievements. Linked Achievements occur when someone obtains an achievement in the first game(Gears of War), this then unlocks new content in the second game(Gears of War 2). Some examples of this are:- Complete Act One in Gears Of War, unlock a playable Anthony Carmine in Gears of War 2- Find 10 COG tags in Gears Of War, unlock Minh Young Kim in Gears of War 2- Kill Raam in Gears Of War, unlock a playable Raam in Gears of War 2According to xboxfocus. Read More...

The beta for Warhammer Online is beginning to look a little grim; with major content cutbacks that will affect the release I'm sure. This month Warhammer online took out FOUR major cities and FOUR classes... that is BIG. Warhammer Online is the upcoming major competitor for the reigning champion of MMO's, World of Warcraft and with a cut back this big it is either a really really good thing or a really really bad thing. With Age of Conan slowly (but trust me it's not at all yet) falling off a bit, Warhammer Online really needs to step it up and take advantage. The content cuts may be a good thing; maybe the developers realized they need to focus their manpower on a smaller amount of content, but at the same time that could be a bad sign... Read More...

CAPCOM COMIC CON SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Just popped into my inbox so I thought I would pass it on. Good news for those who are rolling to San Diego in 11 days. Capcom just released what they will have at the San Diego Comic Con. Now I have yet another thing I have to fit a good chuck of time for. Not going to go into all the things I am thinking after reading this list, but RE5 and RE Degeneration are in there. WOO HOO! Hi Everyone, Before the E3 madness begins, here is everything you ever wanted to know about Capcom's activities at Comic Con this year! Read More...

After 22 fantastic years of the Castlevania series, Konami announced that the latest installment of this series will be out in early 2009. This new installment will take full advantage fo the Wii controls, you will be able to employ numerous amounts of attacks on your enemies. I would imagine the controls would be similar to Zelda, where you use both the Nunchuck and the Wiimote. Where other Castlevania installments have fallen short, this title is going to break the boundries and let the player interact with the surroundings, which of course, will be used to destroy the minions of Dracula. So after being able to toss and destroy you enemies with weapons, you will also be able to use the monsters in the game and set traps for them ;) Not only will this game be insanely fun, it will also have a multiplayer option where you are able to battle 1v1 with your friends. Read More...

New Dead Space Trailer Advises Strategic Dismemberment So let me guess. You saw that title and thought "WTF? I gotta check this out." I know that's what I did when I first saw this. It is also why I clicked onto the video. (See below.) It is about what I was expecting as well. Well maybe not exactly, but I was not let down with what I got from clicking the link and watching the video. So what is this? It is a show of the game Dead Space, a little bit. Read More...

Today, Valve released a whole bunch of updates for Team Fortress 2. Of the updates come 2 (not so new) maps. Valve has been keeping a close eye on it's servers and it seems that it picked it's 2 favorite user-created maps and stuffed them into today's TF2 Update. CP_Fastlane and CTF_Turbine are now available to you - so you can join these servers without having to wait to download them.On another note, Valve's second installment of the TF2 Achievement updates has also been released today. The Pryo's achievment pack and 3 new unlockable weapons are yours for the taking. Read More...

Today the battles begin here on pwned.com for our pokemon trainers! 15 people were paired up for the first round of ass-spanking competition. To follow this event, go to the league page Pwned Pokemon League . Read More...

Today 3 new Fallout 3 screens have been released to the general public. So lets take a look at them: Complete and utter waste, the rendering is soooooo gooood. MY STATS, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM Holy crap, look at that leg being blown off! I gotta say I am pretty excited for this game. Read More...

ChiXamungUS.com is a website for females who like video games, anime, cosplay, skateboarding, cars, art, and fashion. It is a new website already filled with cool people who want to do fun and interesting things with the community. They are supported at the moment by mostly gamers, so ChiXamungUS.com is hosting their first All Girl Gaming tournament. A way to bring the female gaming community closer together. Read More...

Nintendo Announces Worldwide Mario Kart Wii Tournaments So you got the game. You've played the game. You've played against friends. You've taken nudie pix with the game box blocking out the goods. Well now, Nintendo is going to give you yet another option to take with the game. Like, I don't know, enter into online tournaments hosted by them online. All through the Mario Kart Channel. Sounds pretty sweet of them to do, and with no wait as well. Read More...

U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think So this is something that is a few days old, but it was kind of buried. So I figured I'd bring it up here. The short and dirty of it is that the U.S. Government is paying for a few games to be built to help train spies and interrogators on their craft. So not just tactics, but quick thinking and analysis. Something that games have been proven to provoke a great response with. Read More...

Peach, Samus Return To Feast Upon The Living Alright, so you se this cool pic of Zombie Samus right? Unless you have images turned off, of course you do. You can actually se the other one, Peach, if you follow the link below. Both really well done pieces of art in my opinion. I know it's not 100% gaming news, but it was worth note. I can't wait to see if there is more. Marvel Zombies is one of the coolest comics I've ready in a while. Read More...

From Wii Fit To Wii Strip? I saw this and almost died. First from laughing. Then from the possibilities it could have when I host gaming parties. Oh the possibilities. I know a lot of females that would be down for this without the game. This would just give me yet another reason to get them over. But enough of my musings about the fun that would ensue. If you are still here and didn't skip my ramblings just to check the link, I'll give ya the short and dirty version. Read More...

Real MGS4 Headset So much like the guys at Kotaku and a few other sites, I saw this and thought it was a really good joke someone on the net came up with. I mean look at it and you can totally see how it looks like a good Photoshop job. At least until it was featured in catalogues and has a real release date for the US and Europe. Pretty fucking cool looking thing. I've been looking to get a new headset and it looks like I can get a cool one if I manage to wait it out. Read More...

Pokémon Trophy Telegram Yes, you are seeing what you are seeing above. It is a Pokémon trophies that you can send as a telegram. You know, for when you have to be a thunder stealer in the message sending area. Some may just prefer to send an e-mail or something in today's age, but wouldn't it be awesome to get one of those instead? Think about it. You know you would love it. Read More...