TheGears of Warpreview partiesare happening tonight after hours at Gamestops and EB Games. The actual reason for these parties is to show some exclusive never before seen gameplay footage. I think Cliffy B. put it best when he said, “You’re not gonna find that stuff on the internet, not anywhere. It’s just for you.”If your local store is participating, you should still stop by to grab some of the swag. Cliffy also reveals that they’re going to have a bunch of cool events happening on XBL Nov....

Nothing like a good old game of killing the f*ck out of everything! That’s just whatSplatterhousewas all about back in the retro days and that’s whatthe new onewill be too. Kill, kill, kill! Violence! Gore! Blood! YAY! On top of the retro trailer, we have a bunch of screens and two additional videos below showing nothing but gameplay. Some parts are a bit off and look likeSplatterhouseneeds some more polish. Otherwise, the game is looking mighty fun....

We had heard that iPad and iPhone users would be getting a taste ofMinecraft— an official one, at that — but hadn’t gotten much else on the matter. “We’re doing like the iPad/iPhone Apple port ofMinecraft, but another developer is doing it,” Mojang’s Markus Persson explained to PC Gamer. “We’ve barely started. We know we’re going to do it and vaguely how we could do it. One of our focuses is we just don’t port the game over and say ‘Hey this isMinecraft,’ but to make something that makes sense for that platform....

Gears of Warcharacters are all obscenely unattractive people, to the point where if I’d have to choose between shagging Marcus Fenix or one of his locust enemies, I’d be hard pressed to decide which is the more desirable. Still, as unlikely as it is, they make some hot looking toys, and the second series ofGoWaction figures have been revealed. The new figures portray Dominic Santiago, Damon Baird and two Theron Guards....

Have you heard ofGeon Cube? Yeah, I didn’t think so; I hadn’t either until I got this press release. That lack of press alone probably spells doom for this game. No matter how great it turns out, people aren’t going to buy it. No one wants to take a chance on a new puzzle game these days, unless ofcourse it’s built into Facebook, or it has an awesomely meaningless name like “Snood” or “Wiggletwats“....

The above video comes courtesy ofGametrailers.comand provides an in-depth look back at one Mr. Gunpei Yokoi, the man behind the most successful handheld of all time, the Nintendo Game Boy.While the narrator seems to be a hired plant from the National Association for the Promotion of Narcolepsy, the information contained in the twelve minute video is extremely englightening. It chronicles Mr. Gunpei’s inventions from the Kegel-esqueLove Testerto the rudimentaryGame & Watchtitles, and while it stops short of covering his Game Boy or Virtual Boy excursions, the titles covered provide the basis for everything to come after them, and as such make this video an interesting look back at things that only the most hardcore Nintendophile would know....

The actor awkwardly mentioned it at the Spike Video Game Awards this weekend, but Atari has confirmed that Zachary Quinto will be lending his voice toStar Trek Online. Quinto played Spock in the recentStar Trekfilm, but won’t be reprising the role for the PC MMO. Instead, Quinto will play the role of an Emergency Medical Hologram, as well as voicin the tutorial. “Being a part of theStar Trekuniverse has been an incredible experience for me,” Quinto says....

If there’s anything I love more than candy, it’s scary movies and free s**t. So ’tis the season for sweets and frights and deals; with Halloween just a few weeks away, and Sony’s celebrating with some “killer” horror flick deals on the PlayStation Network video store. If there’s anything I love more than candy, it’s scary movies and free s**t. So ’tis the season for sweets and frights and deals; with Halloween just a few weeks away, and Sony’s celebrating with some “killer” horror flick deals on the PlayStation Network video store....

In case you weren’t aware, Nintendo recently released the Opera web browser for their Nintendo DS. Being a person who likes all things DS, and is also one of the five people left on the planet who doesn’t have an Internet enabled phone; I decided to pick one up. After several hours of playing around with the browser, I came to several conclusions that I would like to share with you....

Excuse how excited that headline looks. The exclamation points are part of the game’s title: Utacchi!! I knew nothing about this Bemani DS game, a February Japanese release, untilSiliconerasaid something about it today.It turns out that we wrote about it late last year. Have any of you music games fans tried it yet? They call it a lightPop’n Musicwith touchscreen controls. You hold your DS sideways like a book and you’ll tap notes that fall from the top of the screen in rows ranging from one (easy) to five (difficult)....

It’s getting to the point where downloadable content is almost a given for any videogame worth its place in the market. We’ve come to expect it, and when you’re even talking about DLC for Quantic Dream’sHeavy Rain, you know we’re entering a bold new era. Luckily for us, Quantic Dream has its priorities straight, andhas explainedthat its primary focus is on making the finished product before moving onto any possible extras....

I’ve been waiting patiently for the new HAWP to pop up on Gametrailers for days now. Turns out, I should have been watching for it to pop up on my TV instead. HAWP was featured on the “Going Viral” segment of the latest episode of Game Trailers TV, which recently aired on SPIKE. You can see it for yourself here, at around the12 minute mark. Now I’m keeping my eyes peeled for both a re-run of GTTV to pop up on Spike,andfor HAWP to pop up as a stand alone episode on Game Trailers....

Patients at Seacroft Hospital in Leeds England are a sad lot. Not only do they require a lower prosthetic limb, but they also have to playWii Fitto get used to it. Physiotherapists at Leeds have instituted a revolutionary new plan – get patients to playWii Fituntil they bugger off and sap someone else’s time. The act of buggering off is difficult if the patient doesn’t learn how to balance first. Seacroft’s senior physiotherapist Lynn Hirst is using the popular game to give patients a visual indication of how poor their weight distribution is with their fake limb....