For fans of the WWE, there was a lot to love about last year’s WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009. Visually the game was astounding. The characters models were about as lifelike as you could possibly get with attention paid to the smallest details. A great amount of time was spent revamping the tag team matches adding things like hot tags, illegal blind tags, and having inactive teammates being more attractive while standing on the ring apron. Add in the Inferno Match which debuted in the 2009 game and you have one heck of a game. But having played so many of the previous WWE games (going all the way back to when the company was still known as the WWF) I personally felt like there was so much I had seen before that had been cut out. Read More...

Luke Cage was born and raised on the streets of Harlem, New York where he went by the name of Carl Lucas. Much of his time was spent as a member of a gang known as the Rivals. Over time he came to understand how his actions were hurting his family and chose to better himself by leaving the criminal world and become an honest and decent person. However he was betrayed by a former friend who framed Cage for possession of heroin. After frequent altercations and escape attempts while in prison, Cage was transferred to Seagate Prison. Read More...

It’s taken years for mixed martial arts as a sport to grow into the worldwide phenomenon that it is today and much of the success is thanks to the efforts of the Ultimate Fighting Championship which has become the largest fighting league in the world. But if there’s one thing that’s been missing is an MMA video game that captures the spirit and the essence of the sport without having to step into the cage and get your face smashed in. There have been half a dozen attempts in the past, but nothing really seemed to work. Thankfully all that is about to change with UFC 2009: Undisputed. Read More...

3D Realms, the developers of Duke Nukem Forever has shut down.  Due to a cut off of funding from Take Two studios, 3D realms employees have already been let go. Take Two is keeping the publishing rights to Duke Nukem Forever, and Apogee Software have just confirmed that the situation at 3D Realms has not affected the development for the new handheld titles for PSP and Nintendo DS. The handheld will be developed by Frontline Games'. Duke Nukem Forever has been trying to release for almost 12 years, and even a short teaser was released in late 2007 (Seen Below). Read More...

Once again, Japan’s Famitsu magazine has released a bombshell with news of a Ninja Gaiden 2 port coming to the PlayStation 3. Yosuke Hayashi, the producer and director of the first Ninja Gaiden Sigma will be reprising his role in what is said to be not just a direct port, but an upgraded version of the original. Among some of the new additions to the game are a new weapon as well as all new battles against giant bosses. Perhaps the most interesting feature to be included in the game will be the ability to play as Ayane. Read More...

Everyones favorite badass is now making his way onto the Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 microsoft points. The game will feature 8 player co-op and "dukematch" over xbox live, User Clips where you can share, upload and post clips to the leaderboards, rewind time on death, unlockable concept art and more. Read More...

So it seems that Microsoft/Woolworths has decided to drop the price for all of you UKers. This isn't 100% positive until the actual flyer comes out of course, but it would definitely make sense that they did, considering they dropped the price for the US and Japan. So now all of you who thought the xbox was too pricey may have to speak another tune. Hell, if you have an old version, you might as well upgrade to a nice elite. Read More...

It is official guys, Duke Nukem 3D will be hitting your 360 very soon as a XBLA title.  3DRealms has officially announced that it has been completed for some time and passed final certification with Microsoft as of August 15th. The game will feature online co-op and multiplayer deathmatches and will have 12 achievement points (9 offline, 3 online).  There is no scheduled release date for the game as of yet, but 3DRealms said to expect game previews to pop up online by August 26th.  Price has also not been announced, but you can expect it to be between 800 ($10) and 1200 ($15) Microsoft Points, which falls in line with most XBLA releases. Read More...

Yo Yo guys.   Some of you may of heard of a place called Omega Sektor which is a LAN game center in Birmingham. On the 9th of August they are having a birthday bash. Tickets will be £10 and the place will be open till 2am.   They will be releasing more information on this soon. I hope to get a group of us going down to this, as I myself plan to attend.   I've also enlightened the people running the Omega Sektor myspace in the ways of Pwned, and urged them to come along, as it'd be greatfor the members of this site, and great for them to get their events known. Read More...

Today a few of pwned.com's UK members gathered in London to meet up. Needless to say, the ground trembled with THAT much epicness in one place. LOL, just kidding... sorta. As one of the members who went I can say the other pwned.com people I met are just as awesome in person as they are in our community. The members who went were: Neil (Neil337), Kai (Phate), Gary (Horon), Darren (Mellowd) and Nicky (Navie). Luc (Loveducky) joined us at the pub later on in the day as well! Read More...