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.
Treyarch has just announced that the Call of Duty: Black Ops II pre-order bonus map Nuketown 2025 has been pulled from normal rotation in the game's multiplayer matches, and will now only be back for future "special events".
SCEA Bend Studio officially announced Uncharted: Fight For Fortune for the PlayStation Vita today, however, it is not exactly the "casino/card" that the Brazil ratings board led us to believe it was.
NeoGAF poster (and new Wii U owner) "Trike" accidentally found an operating system loophole on his console that allowed him to access the console's Miiverse debug interface. Nintendo has since shut down the exploit, and is claiming that the interface was nothing more than a left over prototype.
According to Frozenbyte, the developer behind Trine 2: Director's Cut, Nintendo has relaxed their policy on Wii U eShop games and is letting publishers set their own price points.
Sony announced this past week that they have shipped 70 million PlayStation 3 systems worldwide as of November 4, 2012. This puts Sony's console in an amazingly tight race with the Xbox 360, which hit the same milestone on September 30, 2012.
The pinball wizards over at Zen Studios have announced that the Marvel Pinball: Civil War table will be released next week across more platforms than you can shake a stick at.
The UK-based magazine Xbox World has revealed that their penultimate issue (the publication is closing its doors in December) is on sale now and features an 8-page blowout of everything they know about Microsoft's next generation Xbox console.
With the release of Hitman: Absolution almost upon us, Square Enix pushed out the game's launch trailer today to give us one final peek at the title before it hits retail shelves next week.
If you have spent any time at all playing Assassin's Creed III you are well aware that the game has a ton of bugs and glitches, despite the release of a day one patch. Ubisoft has been working on the issues since the game's launch last month and has announced that a new patch will be ready "by the end of next week".
Activision revealed this morning that Call of Duty: Black Ops II brought in an estimated $500 million in revenue when it launched on November 13, 2012. This easily surpassed Modern Warfare 3's first day revenue total of $400 million, and comes within striking distance of Black Ops' five day record of $650 million.