Month: June 2011

Building up to 15th July, when the most anticipated ending to the hugely popular franchise hits our cinema screens, EA have released more screenshots and a new trailer for the movie-game tie in. The screens show the Wizarding World of Harry Potter ablaze, with Hogwarts on fire and Voldemort and his evil army taking over…

Rising Star Games have today announced that their latest title to hit the Xbox Live Games on Demand will be Deadly Premonition, which is one of the companies hit games from 2010.

It has today been announced that the latest title on the Xbox Live Indie gaming network is going to be Mars Revenge. This game, created from one-man studio, Rett Software, is a modern shooter with a throwback to Galaga or Galaxians in the 80s.

So that past week has been busy in the gaming world, with Ocarina of Time 3DS still in most people’s 3DS’, but it would appear that as summer approaches the casual factor has come back to the UK Top 20 Charts and a fitness title has taken the top spot! With L.A. Noir and F.E.A.R.…

Sony confirmed at E3 that Sly Cooper will be making his return to the PlayStation in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. The game will star regulars such as Sly, Bentley and Murray. In the game, pages of the Thievius Raccoonus are disappearing and Bentley, now keeper of the ancient master Thieves book, must round up…

After just two weeks in retail stores, Sony have released the digital version of inFAMOUS 2 for the PlayStation Network. At a huge 15 GB the game costs £49.99. Even though it is slightly more expensive than the retail version, Sony do give users a one hour free trail to give a taste of what’s…

Sony have confirmed that they will be releasing 3 PlayStation 3 bundles in July. Each will come with two games per set and exclusive content and themes based on up and coming titles. They Include: Uncharted Collection, Resistance Duel pack & Ratchet and Clank variations. They will be released on the 22nd July.

HMV are offering 10% off 3DS games when a store Mii is picked up via streetpass. In a clever use of marketing and to further promote the streetpass feature on Nintendo’s third dimension console, any person to have picked up one of the Mii’s at HMV’s participating stores, will receive the discount on 3DS games.

Set in the modern day Middle East, Unearthed is a third person exploration game that is the first game from Saudi Arabia arriving in episodic format on the PlayStation 3 later in the year. Created by Semaphore, the game promises to have a mix of platforming, stealth, melee and shooting gameplay.

Today sees the Twentieth Birthday of everybody’s favourite blue hedgehog. In 1991 we first saw Sonic run through Green Hill Zone on the Mega Drive and he only had the jump and roll to his name. 20 years on and we are waiting expectantly for the next instalment in one of VGN’s favourite Videogame series.…