Video Game News and Reviews

Chillingo, publisher of the massively popular Angry Birds game, have been very busy in the last few days climbing their way to the top of the iPhone and iPad app charts with their latest game. Cut the Rope is the latest game from the publisher and it combines simple game play, intelligent physics, candy, bubbles and green creatures, this winning combination has earned the game top of both the free and paid app charts. The aim of the game is to get the candy into the mouth of the green creature that just arrived on your doorstep in a box. Although this may sound simple enough, to get a higher score, you need to hit the 3 gold stars and…

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that Gears of War 3′s release date was being pushed back from April 2011, to an undisclosed date during the holiday season 2011. Well today, to fill the void between April and the new release date, Microsoft announced that a public multiplayer beta will be made available in 2011. We plan to host a public multiplayer beta for Gears of War 3 in 2011 featuring dedicated servers. This public beta should hopefully mean that the game is even better when released as they will have the time to make any improvements based on gamer feedback. Lots to look forward to next year!

A brand new trailer has been released for the next upcoming game in the Need for Speed franchise, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. In the latest video, we get a good look at some of the fancy police cars, not sure what police force could afford motors like that, alongside the range of privately owned exotic cars that we can look forward to playing this November. The cars aren’t the only thing to look forward to though. As you’ll see in the trailer below, the game includes over 100 miles of roads to race on, littered with amazing scenery and high speed turns. Finally, the trailer also gives us a sneak peak into the brand new “Autolog” feature which makes it easier…

After yet another year on year drop in sales for the biggest game retailer in the UK, GAME Group have announced for the second time this year that they will be closing down some of their stores over the next 3 years. GAME Group, which owns both GAME and GameStation stores, currently own 635 stores across the UK, even after closing 15 stores earlier this year. Over the next 3 years, the gaming retailer plans to shut down another 85 of their stores across the UK. A lot of gamers won’t be effected by this change massively as GAME Group are trying to cut down on their overlapping stores, for example, where there is a GameStation and a GAME store…

Bungies second Halo: Reach weekly update has brought more astounding stats plus some more news about the upcoming October updates. In their first weekly update, Bungie announced that over 950 years had been spent playing the online matchmaking modes and over 1360 years had been spent on the single player campaign missions. Although they haven’t given a single player update, Bungie have announced that in just two weeks of the game’s release, over 5900 years have been spent playing the online matchmaking modes, amazing! Alongside the stats announced, Bungie also spoke more about the October updates which mainly consist of bug fixes and tweaks to the system, however, they also mentioned there will be a few extra game modes being…