Communist Revolution at Infinity Ward Empowers Proletariat

Encino, France – Comrade Dan Amrich of Activision’s Ministry of Public Affairs today announced details of the sweeping compensation reform in the newly recognized People’s Republic of Infinity Ward. Spoils seized from the bourgeois tyrants Zampella and West’s personal treasury during last month’s revolution has been placed in trust and will be redistributed to the…

Scuffle Breaks out On Stage at Capcom’s Captivate 2010

Marvel and Capcom Fight over Who Created Unpopular New Character Honolulu, HI – Last week during Capcom’s annual Captivate press event the publisher revealed the existence of Marvel vs Capcom 3, a modern sequel to the well-loved series of fighting games pitting Marvel’s biggest superheroes and villains against characters from Capcom’s considerable library of intellectual…

X-Com Whistleblower Testifies Before Senate

Describes Agency “Crippled by Nightmarish Bureaucracy” Washington, DC – Capt Aaron Mercer, former US Air Force pilot and recently discharged member of X-Com, was today called before the Senate Defense subcommittee to testify concerning his allegations about chronic mismanagement at the troubled international UFO defense agency. Committee members reacted with outrage as he described an…

Bullet Point BS: 4/15/2010 – NPD? Arglebargle!

You may have noticed every gaming blog in the world publishing five or six stories today in rapid succession to discuss the US videogame sales figures from March. This can mean only one thing: the NPD figures are out! The PS3 had perhaps its best month ever for software sales thanks to strong performance from…

Remember X-Com? Not if you’re under 28 years old…

But that’s just as well, because if you are old enough to remember the original X-Com fondly, you probably aren’t happy to learn the just announced new entry in the series, “XCOM”, is not the turn-based strategy remake by Ken Levine and Irrational Games long hoped for, but instead a first person shooter from Bioshock’s other developer,…