Justin has been a gamer since the Intellivision days back in the early 80′s. He started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.
The masters of virtual pinball wizardry, Zen Studios, announced earlier this week that Zen Pinball 2 will be released on the North American and European Wii U eShops later this month
Ubisoft has confirmed that there is a bug in the Hidden Secrets DLC pack for Assassin's Creed III that is causing "a very small number of players" to have their game save data erased. The bug was first reported by players posting on the company's forums and has since been reproduced by the game's developers.
Electronic Arts announced earlier this week that Crysis 3 will launch on February 19th in North America and February 22nd across Europe, confirming that the title will be part of their calendar 2013 first quarter lineup. Previously EA had the title listed as having a vague February 2013 release.
Irrational Games announced this morning that BioShock Infinite has been pushed back from its February 26th release date -- which was itself a delay from the game's original release window of October 2012 -- and will now launch on March 26, 2013.
Team Ninja's original announcement for Dead or Alive 5 Plus this past weekend didn't shed much light on what we could expect from the fighter when it launches next year. Tecmo Koei released the first details about the game today, revealing some interesting new features for the upcoming Vita title.
Outside of the exciting news about the Panorama View app and the disappointing news of Pikmin 3's delay, Nintendo confirmed a ton of 3DS and Wii U game news during their Nintendo Direct presentations yesterday. Below is the full round-up of all of The Big N's announcements.
Just days after confirming that Dawnguard will launch for the PS3 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim early next year, Bethesda Softworks has announced that they fully intended to continue working towards releasing both the Dawnguard and Hearthfire DLC packs on Sony's console.
During the Nintendo Direct presentation earlier today The Big N announced that Pikmin 3 is no longer a "launch window" title for the Wii U, and has officially been delayed into the second quarter of next year.
During a Nintendo Direct presentation this morning, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced that the Japanese Wii U eShop will be updated with the Google Maps and Panorama View apps early next year. Iwata then demoed both apps -- which are far cooler than they sound -- using a completely ridiculous helmet-cam setup.
Activision Publishing announced today that Call of Duty: Black Ops II has topped $1 billion in worldwide sales during its first 15 days at retail. For comparison, last year's Modern Warfare 3 reached $1 billion after 16 days, and the 2009 film Avatar took 17 days to hit the same milestone.