Epic Games has recently announced two big changes for Gears of War 2. One of them is a title update for the people who have been complaining about the rank system and the other is a new map pack containing four brand new maps.Players will now be earning points by playing online in public matches and ranking up levels, max is 100. Basically the more points you get, the more experience points you will get to level up. Players who reach a certain level will then unlock more achievements:Rookie Gear (level 5)Seasoned Gear (level 15)Battle-Tested Gear (level 25)Battle-Hardened Gear (level 50)Veteran Gear (level 100)The last two achievements are said to have the new Snowblind Map Pack in order to unlock. Read More...

Resident Evil 5Rated M for MatureReviewed on: XBOX 360Reviewed by: Ben Brody (outstandingcoffee@yahoo.com)Today is the day! Resident Evil 5 comes out at Midnight and I'm sure many of you are going to be picking it up later tonight. While I wrote this review as a standalone article, I do feel that you would benefit from reading the previous 3 Days of Resident Evil 5 articles. And without further ado, here's the review!The Official Pwned. Read More...

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Game Trailer Just in time for the motion picture release we will see the game based on the new Marvel film. But little has been seen on this new game, pretty much about the same as the film short of trailers and such. But it would seem that is coming to an end to get gamers and those who love movie adaptations of games all pumped and rearing to drop a few dollars on Wolverine. Should it be a big surprise? Well the surprise here is that it looks really nice. Read More...

Screens From Xbox's Ninja Blade Who doesn't like Ninjas? Besides maybe Pirates, or Robots, or Zombies. Okay, well there is a small list there that might not like them. But you know what they can't not like about Ninjas, these new screens for the game Ninja Blade. Ok, well maybe they can because they don't have a new game coming out. But now I'm just rambling on. In any instance, the below images do a great job of showing off the style and look of the new game due out in a about a month or so. Read More...

Take-Two has just released a teaser website for Bioshock 2: Sea or Dreams and are going around town putting up weird posters on the streets to advertise the website, which can be found here.Picture provided by Kotaku reader Dominique:Though the site is new, there isn't much too see on there. You can see a picture of the big daddy doll that was shown in the first teaser trailer of the game, a picture of an "average mens shoe" on the beach and local newspaper articles such as one from February 20th, 1967 titled "LOCAL GIRL VANISHES IN MYSTERIOUS ATTACK" which should give some kind of hint about what to expect in the upcoming game.Still more updates to come. Hopefully we'll get an insight of what to expect in the game or maybe some actual gameplay soon. Read More...

For the Gears Of War fans out there, now is your chance to not only scoop up a custom Gears Of War Xbox 360 Pro, but to also be charitable.  Clayton Davison of Tech"Know" Podcast is working with Epic Games to raise money for the Make A Wish Foundation and is auctioning off the console on Ebay. The console features a crimson Gears of War logo hand drawn by the Senior Concept Artist, James Hawk, on one side and on the otherside features the signatures of the games Lead Designers.    Here is the list of the signatures featured on the console:James Hawk, Senior Concept ArtistCliff Bleszinski, Design DirectorDave Ewing, Senior Level DesignerRod Fergusson, Senior ProducerJoe Graf, Unreal Engine 3 Technical DirectorDave Nash, Lead Level DesignerChris Perna, Art DirectorLee Perry, Lead Gameplay DesignerAlan Willard, Senior Level Designer The entire auction includes the following:An Xbox 360 Pro console with a 20Gig hard driveA copy of Gears of War 2 Wireless ControllerHD AV CablesThree months to Xbox Live Gold.The auction began today and will be up for 7 days and bidding starts at $249. Read More...

Lich King Hand Crafted Beer Steins When it comes to World of Warcraft, every NerdHard-core player likes to try and one up each other by getting some of the coolest gear, drops, pets, or whatever. Something to gloat over each other and say look how awesome I am in this virtual world. Don't deny it WoW addicts. You know you've done it. You most likely even went as far as getting armor and/or weapons that look like your toon's. Read More...

It was almost two months ago that Capcom announced exclusive Xbox 360 and PlayStaion 3 console bundles exclusive to Japan. It seems as though half that good news is coming to North America as Capcom and Microsoft are celebrating the much anticipated debut of the Resident Evil series on the Xbox 360 with the release of a red, limited edition bundle. As with the stand-alone game, the console bundle will arrive on store shelves on Friday, March 13. The pack will feature a copy of Resident Evil 5, red Xbox 360 Elite with 120 GB Hard Drive, matching limited edition red wireless controller, a black Xbox 360 headset, and exclusive premium Resident Evil 5 theme downloaded over Xbox Live. Read More...

Infinity Ward has announced that Double XP Weekend will be resurfacing next weekend, February 27th - March 1st. Along with Double XP, they have revealed that they will be bringing a permanent addition to game types. Hardcore Headquarters will now be available for the fans of the Hardcore gameplay. This is great news for the Call of Duty 4 fans, and shows they are determined to continue pleasing those gamers who continue to play one of the top multiplayer games out there. So get your clips loaded, n00b tubes ready, and prepare for some Modern Warfare tacked on with double XP. Read More...

More Screen Shots From God of War III With the big media event that happened recently for God of War III and the new extended trailer being launched, it would seem that Sony is ready to start the huge marketing scheme for this game. Which I will not complain about at all. Except that we will all have to wait until after this year's E3 show to get a up close and personal look at this game. They are going to be showing it off in all of it's glory there. But until then, we can all ogle Kratos and the game with the little things like the below screen shots. Read More...

New God Of War III Footage We have been tantalized and teased with small clips from God of War III in the past few months. To no end. Leaving fans drooling like hungry Cerberus for more. Well today, Sony has released some more game footage as well as information about the game. Still no release date given, but with what has been given, one can't be anything but excited. These two new videos aide quite well with this. The first is the extended, like 3 minutes extended trailer for the game. Read More...

First Real God Of War III Details A little while back a cover shot of the new Game Informer magazine was 'leaked' onto the net. Well not really leaked, but more given to tease the big article in the magazine, God of War III. One of the more anticipated games in my opinion. No it is not a humble one. So you can guess it has been much waited for, the new Game Informer. Well someone has received their copy early and decided to post scans of it on line. Read More...

            Ubisoft announced today that the official Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. demo will be released over the next two days. Firstly it will appear on the Xbox Live tomorrow Feb. 11th, and then the following day it well be released on the PlayStation Store. However the PC Demo is still a good two weeks away with a date of Feb. 26th. Read More...

Epics Rod Fergusson made a post in the Gears of War 2 forums about a "proposed rank change", hopefully making the rank system more experienced based whenever a third update comes out. Fergusson writes ""What if, instead of skill rank, we instead showed your experience level." And over at Kotaku explains how it would work:• Experience would be acquired through individual performance in public mutliplayer. The experience would be balanced according to game times, so you couldn't level faster on the respawning game types. • Levelling would not be a fixed amount for each level, but a progressively higher amount for successive levels, ("like a typical RPG. Read More...

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...