Sony has announced that the PlayStation Network will be down for maintenance in Europe this Thursday, October 27th. READ MORE

Konami has confirmed The Metal Gear Solid HD Collection has suffered a delay in Europe, on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. READ MORE

Microsoft has released a brand new trailer for Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor. The last game was highly entertaining due to its over sized controller, however this time a Xbox 360 controller combined with Kinect is preferred. READ MORE

Rockstar has put up a GTA V debut trailer countdown timer online, just in case the wait wasn't already hard enough. READ MORE

Activision is kicking off a massive double XP weekend in all Call of Duty titles, including Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops. READ MORE

The first in a new trilogy of Halo books that will bridge the gap between Halo 3 and 4 has been released. Halo: Grasslands is penned by Karen Traviss, who has also written books in the Star Wars and Gears of War universes. READ MORE

Yoda and Darth Vader looked really cool in Soul Calibur IV but many top players had a hard time getting to grips with the characters. Namco Bandai has promised that it will be different with Ezio in Soul Calibur V. READ MORE

Back in 2009, an arcade classic was in desperate need of a makeover—and, of all places, it came from the Wii, surprisingly enough. The House of the Dead: Overkill served as a prequel for the immensely popular lightgun House of the Dead games and explained, sort of, both the origins of Agent G (the series’ main protagonist) and the zombie-causing formula he’s fought for 15 years—all wrapped in a ’70s B-movie setting with over-the-top voice acting, tons of sex and swearing, and cheesy moments galore. Looking to capitalize on that surprising success, Sega’s ported the game over to the PS3 with some upgrades in hopes of catching lightning in a bottle with a new audience. READ MORE

If you're planning on playing Battlefield 3 on Ultra then you are going to need a PC that can handle that kind of abuse, but picking the right parts can be a daunting task. Luckily Nvidia is here to help. READ MORE

GTA V was officially announced yesterday and as expected the rumors have started to circulate. One claims the game will be set in a real life version of Los Angeles, and an insider source has since added some strength to this rumor. READ MORE

Sony has released a new batch of content on the PlayStation Store with highlights including inFamous: Festival of Blood, PixelJunk SideScroller and Daytona USA. READ MORE

Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia believes that Grand Theft Auto V could ship more than 25 million copies, putting it on par with Call of Duty: Black Ops and 3 million ahead of Grand Theft Auto IV. READ MORE

The Cursed Crusade revolves around the idea that those who commit heinous crimes against their fellow men—whether in the name of God or not—see their bloodline marked for generations, and that their descent to hell is guaranteed. I think this game may suffer from the fate it laid out for several of its in-game characters. READ MORE

When Kinect launched last year, several titles showed off the possibility of the peripheral, but few had the lasting appeal of Kinect Sports. Fun when played individually—but truly appreciated with a group of friends—the game made a clear, lasting impression on the casual market. Now, Microsoft looks to see if they can reel in soccer moms again with Kinect Sports: Season Two. American football, baseball, golf, darts, tennis, and skiing are all featured in this newest iteration—and if you thought you broke a sweat before, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. READ MORE

The MotionSports series is Ubisoft’s attempt to give gamers a more realistic alternative to the Kinect Sports offerings while also providing a variety of different sports. Since Kinect Sports took a cue from several of the original MotionSports games and added football and skiing to their gamut of minigames this year, MotionSports decided to go a step further with Adrenaline and focus on extreme sports: mountain-climbing, kite-surfing, wingsuit-gliding, mountain-biking, kayaking, and the return of skiing. But could they fix their own flaws from their first go around? READ MORE

At E3 2011, EA and DICE promised that consumers who purchased Battlefield 3 on the PS3 would get a bonus bundled with the game—a free, full copy of Battlefield 1943. READ MORE

Get a look at Exterminatus, the new four-player co-op mode for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. READ MORE

In the latest installment of our series of EGMNOW-exclusive webcomics, we talk to Gears of War's Augustus "Cole Train" Cole about his ambitious spirit. READ MORE

In the latest edition of Iwata Asks—an interview series conducted by Nintendo global president Satoru Iwata—he talks to the team at HAL Laboratory about Kirby's latest adventures for Wii, Kirby's Return to Dream Land. In doing so, the team discusses the 11-year gap in home console Kirby games—which came about as a result of three different Kirby projects being started and then cancelled in mid-development. READ MORE

There seems to be an unwritten rule about new gaming hardware: No matter how many things have been done right in the system's creation, inevitably something has to go wrong. READ MORE