While the industry was consumed with yesterday’s news that Activision would exclusively publish Bungie’s new franchise for the next 10 years, we’re all sadly going to have to wait a while before we find out just what that new franchise actually is. View post: Bungie’s New Game...

UPDATE: Activision has now issued their official press release for Call of Duty: Black Ops…but they somehow managed to still keep most details about the game under wraps. The setting still hasn’t been revealed, but the release mentions Black Ops (as the subtitle suggests) will “take...

Telltale’s next game, Puzzle Agent , will bear a lot more in common with Professor Layton than Sam & Max . Read more: Telltale Reveals Puzzle Agent, Their First Wholly Original IP

The fabled lightsaber game everyone’s been talking about since the Wii was first announced has unfortunately never materialized — unless you count the disappointing Clone Wars game, that is. Either way, LucasArts hasn’t given up on the idea just yet. MCV spoke with LucasArts CEO Darrell...

All signs point to Nintendo introducing a new black Wii console in May, and a poster leak from GameStop all but confirms most of the rumors we’ve heard. Originally posted here: Black Wii Bundle Leaked in GameStop Poster

UPDATE: Microsoft has issued its first reaction to today’s news of a 10-year publishing deal between Activision and Bungie. Speaking to CVG, a Microsoft spokesperson said, “Our partnership with Bungie as a first-party developer for Xbox 360 remains unchanged, and right now we’re deeply...

Sequel to what was once an obscure import, Sin & Punishment: Star Successor is on the track to be released in the U.S. this summer Read more: N64 Sin & Punishment Almost Used Wii Remote-like Sensor

Scotland-based game developer Cohort Studios has a thing or two to say about the next wave of motion controllers. Go here to read the rest: PlayStation Move "So Much More Accurate" Than Wii, Says Cohort Studios

If you’ve noticed Dead Rising protagonist Frank West showing up in a lot of games, there’s a good reason for that: apparently Capcom wants to jam him down America’s throat. Frank has so far made (or will make) guest appearances in Tatsunoko vs. Read the original: Capcom Wants Frank...

It’s not often you see videogame endorsement deals that actually involve famous videogamers, but that’s exactly what third-party peripheral-maker Mad Catz has done in signing pro-gamer Daigo “The Beast” Umehara into a sponsorship. Never heard of Umehara? See the original post...