May 26, 2010

Microsoft has initiated one of its biggest management shakeups in years, as it announced today that Robbie Bach and J Allard, the masterminds behind the company’s hugely successful push into video-game consoles, are leaving the company after decades of leading the Windows giant into new markets. Bach (pictured left), the head of Microsoft’s Entertainment...

May 11, 2010

Possible new multiplayer weapons revealed. On a cryptic new website Ubisoft has teased the next installment in the Assassin’s Creed series dubbed Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. We already know the game will take place in Rome and star Ezio, as an experienced assassin who does battle against the Templars. The new web site acts as a Templar...

Apr 13, 2010

Studio Epic Games (Gears of War) has released the first details of its upcoming first-person shooter Bulletstorm, which Electronic Arts will publish in 2011. The game features a pair of mercenaries betrayed by their group leader and banished to a mutant-riddled planet. Bulletstorm’s highlight is a skillshot system that rewards players “for inciting...