Microsoft has announced the pre-order bonuses for its upcoming Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and they might be must haves if you’re a big enough fan. The first digital goodie is a Grunt Funeral Skull which, when equipped,causes dead grunts to explode like plasma grenades. Given that grunts tend to travel …

Sigourney Weaver has revealed that she would still be interested in reprising her most famous role – alien-zapping heroine Ellen Ripley – for another Alien movie. The actress last played the character in 1997’s Alien Resurrection , a film that was not held in massively high regard by the critics. …

Perhaps not everyone got the memo. See, power-ups are meant to be a good thing. They are, by definition, supposed to power you up. As in ‘not power you down’. So why be so cruel as to program things into your game that can be collected by the player that …

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Actress Googie Withers, best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes , has died aged 94. Googie (born Georgette Lizette Withers) died in her home in Australia on Friday. She was born in British India in 1917, and she took up acting at 12 years old, when …

Nationals are now over in the 2011 Pokemon Video Game Championships, and win or lose, a delightful time was had by all.As we get ready for the international showdown among the globe’s most elite Pokemon trainers at Worlds in August,it’s time toreflect on the triumphs and defeats of the tournament …

We’re creating and destroying in pretty equal amounts this week. On the former end, we’ve got free-to-play management sim Tiny Tower and path-making puzzle platformer Continuity 2: The Continuation, while our more aggressive side is sated with the surprisingly decent Transformers: Dark of the Moon HD and the four-in-one Galaga …

Price: $3.99 Size: 33 Blocks First Released: 1991 Talk about literal. Fortified Zone is a top-down shooter about – wait for it – a fortified zone. In this particular case, it’s one that’s in need of some serious blowing-up, which is where the game’s unique dual protagonists come in. You …

The gaming community spends a lot of time lamenting the lack of originality and creativity in modern titles, so imagine our collective surprise (and smoldering disdain) when we found out US consumers bought more copies of Duke “….loading…” Nukem Forever than the critically praisedlesser-knowns Shadows of the Damned and Child …