"So, you’ve grown from this idea of a female gaming community to GamerchiX, how has the community evolved?

Trixie: What is so cool about the GamerchiX community is that the women are so pro active. We gave them a way to connect to each other and they’ve just gone turbo as far as building sub communities and things like that. One member built our t shirt store on Zazzle, some others did a fund raiser for a member that needed medical help.We have a Tween group, a Moms group, a Bump club for t..."

DRM makes some people angry...and it makes some people REALLY, REALLY, REALLY angry.

Here is a video posted on youtube a guy made of himself, ranting about DRM. There are two good reasons to listen: first off, this guy is a huge gamer, so he has a right to speak (he has mountains of PC games in the background); and second, he is sort of funny, and really angry, but he makes some good points as well.

Warning: The guy uses plenty of bad words. If you get offended or annoyed by bad words,...

So you've all heard about about Qore giving you access to special Betas whilst your subscribing to it, however did you know that the current Beta special (namely the Socom Beta) which will be released....eventually... will not be available till TWO WEEKS AFTER the Public Beta releases... so remind me, what was the point of downloading Qore to get access to the beta's if you could just get the beta other ways before hand anyway?

With Gamespot losing Jeff Gerstmann over a controversial firing, many other editors of the site left and eventually created The Giant Bomb. With the move from Gamespot to Giant Bomb, it appears that the Giant Bomb is shaping up to be everything that people loved about the "old" Gamespot, and with the team from the "old" Gamespot there, it's easy to see why.

Take a look at todays 'Giant Bombcast' and decide for yourself, if the Giant Bomb is the Gamespot replacement many were hoping for or ...

"We risked being trampled by 300 rabid Hideo Kojima fans to bring you some photos and coverage of the event at HMV Oxford Street."

"An awesome first for FSB and the FIFA fan world, we have the first pics of FIFA 09! Taken from the upcoming PSM3 magazine, the images show a greater level of detail never before seen in any football game.

Here's three pictures taken, tactically so that none of the text is shown - we don't want to get in too much trouble ;)"

One week removed from WiiWare Launching in Europe, the PAL region continues to get some love from Nintendo of Europe. Three games were added today to the Virtual Console, and it's a pretty diverse list too.

The first game up in this set is Samurai Shodown, the first game in SNK's fighting game series. The series is regarded as one of the top-tier fighting game franchises, with this game and its sequel, Samurai Shodown II receiving high praise from gamers and critics alike.


This week...

Thought I'd repost my story from Neoseeker here. You should check this trailer, it is pretty sweet.

A video of some gameplay from the upcoming Mirror's Edge game from Digital Illusions CE (DICE) was released today at a Sony press conference in London....

BTW: You can watch a larger version of the video if you click on the source, or click on the share button when the video is playing.

"After being on air continuously since December 2002, Gamer TV, Europe’s most respected games television series, has ended its run for the foreseeable future.

IMG who own the rights to the Gamer TV brand have decided that it no longer forms part of their future plans, despite the series performing well on Bravo in the UK and on other channels around the world.

Since September 2005 the series has been produced by indie Lighthouse Productions Ltd.

Executive producer Richard Wilcox comme..."

Criterion Games have revealed a new home menu that will be included with the upcoming "Cagney" update of Burnout Paradise, currently scheduled for the end of June.

Players who boot into Burnout Paradise after downloading the "Cagney" update will be presented with a brand new home menu, complete with a live internet news feed, an event calendar and several customisable widgets, including current time and weather conditions.

Burnout Paradise's "Cagney" update will be made available for fr...

Whith TF2 still as popular as ever and to continue with features to keep players coming back for more, Valve has released details on the first class to get their set of extended abilities; The Medic.

The Blutsaugher
Players who earn one third out of the 36 new medic achievements will be given a new syringe gun. The new gun is named 'The Blutsaugher'. This new weapon does not give out crit hits but instead will suck health from enemies when hit. This will be useful when low on health or wh...

A mysterious timer on a myseterious Japanese Site... what the timer is counting down to... well from the looks of it, a game... however what can be sure is that we'll find out in 57 hours, 40 minutes and counting (down)...

Also hear the voices... they sure sound English to me...

The official website for the recently announced PC RTS Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II went live today.

The URL for the website is http://www.dawnofwar2.com/

There isn't that much info on the website currently, but there are 3 great looking screenshots.

Oh yeah... and did I mention there is a teaser trailer on the site?

With the game edging closer to release than Stargate SG-1: The Alliance ever did, Cheyenne Mountain, the team behind the new MMO have started releasing more and more screenshots for the game, and it's definitely not hard to say that this game is looking to be great.

With the somewhat of a let down of WAR being delayed we needed a picker upper. EA Mythic has done just that by announcing details regarding WAR's collectors edition bundle, and, what a bundle it is! (Just look at the images and drool).

In terms of collectors editions PC games have been known to have some substantial loot to go along with the game after spending quite a big chunk of cash more. EA certainly isn't skimping out on this, riviling the CE loot that WoW offered.

With the WAR CE...

The first batch of Companion Cube Plushies sold out within the same day they were released and could be found on eBay for $50-100+

Well, with such a high demand Valve has restocked the plush cube of love for only $29.95 USD. However, if you do not live in the US expect to pay double for your cube as shipping is pretty pricey. If you missed them the first time you have a second chance to get one but only while supplies last. I just placed an order for mines; what about you?

Sins of a Solar Empire has been incredibly successful: coming from a small team of under 15 developers, this RTS/4X hybrid game has been a huge hit with critics and gamers alike. It has already sold over 200,000 units, becoming one of the best selling PC games of 2008, with almost hardly any preview coverage from the major gaming sites.

Is it possible that someone, or some group, is jealous of Ironclad's success?

It seems that the Ironclad website has been getting bothered with some D...

"Far Cry marked the beginning of a new era for shooters. An era of gorgeous graphics and of advanced artificial intelligence, we are confident that Far Cry 2 will have the same impact again on the FPS genre landscape."

Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer said yesterday that the company will support Blu Ray, though they are denying that they're in talks with Sony about their Blu Ray drives. More on that topic will be sure to follow in the coming weeks. Really Microsoft were left with no choice but to support Blu Ray since it's now the de facto standard. Though what they'll do about Blu Ray and the 360 is a question that probably won't be answered for some time.

"Patch 1.2 can be applied to both vanilla Crysis (v1.0) and Crysis v1.1 since it will update automatically to Crysis version 1.2.

*Added new effects for vehicle shattering after being frozen
*Player movement will now be cancelled if the player is shooting while moving in prone mode.
*Fixed issue where player will exit VTOL from closed rear hatch irrespective of seat.
*Continuously firing the VTOL machine gun in 3rd person mode no longer causes the VTOL to descend.
*Fixed an issue where..."

We have managed to get 8 new screenshots for the upcoming XBOX360 and PS3 game, Saints Row 2, though the screens are from the XBOX360 version of the game, you can see that it does not disappoint.

Showing us how much customisation will be in the game, it's certain that Saints Row 2 will be bigger than the original Saints Row. Take a look at the five screenshots attached below, and more at the source.

Students over at the IT University of Copenhagen have taken over their local bar (Scrollbar) to hold every Friday a "Mario Bar". They even have drinks to match.

The drinks in the images attached are:
Yoshi
Bowser
Goomba
Big Boo
1up

for the directions and ingredients on how to make these drinks (and more) head on over to the source.

Blog, Kotatku owner, Brian Crecente reports on Postal 3 during GDC 08'
after talking with Running With Scissors founder Vince Desi, that our favorite video game movie director, Uwe Boll, will be in the game. However, you will be able to kill poor ol' Uwe.

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"Uwe Boll will be in the game," he said, "you can kill him."

Fans of Uwe's Postal movie will truly be able to show their appreciation to the man in the game.

The game was announced during the final E3 2006, and is one of the Playstation 3's biggest third party exlusive titles. Still with an unknown release date (speculated to be 2009), Final Fantasy XIII is certainly looking better and better with every new piece of information, and fortunately, we've just been given two more scans.
Here are just some of the points made in the article:

• Alot of the old FF teams staffs are returning to this project, including those that worked on VII, X and XII...

Terrible plan on words I know, but couldn't think of anything else...In any case, the new trailer for Wipeout HD has now been released exclusively at EuroGamer TV. With no release date set as of yet, this is one of the first of many trailers we will be seeing over the coming months, and with the game being able to support 1080p, this trailer just shows you how amazing racing is set to become.

Some of the points made in the video:

• Ultra - Smooth: 60 frames per second animation
• Full HD 108...