As someone who's ­- as the years march on -- become less interested in how utterly hardcore a fighting game can be and more concerned with how a game can move the genre forward, I'm glad to say that Soul Calibur 4 achieves both. Balanced and feature-rich, SC4 improves on the groundwork of core fighting mechanics laid in the series' previous iterations while giving players a virtual fighting sandbox. Returning characters are tweaked so that they still feel familiar yet fresh, with new moves a... Read More

That's what a Rockstar employee had to say about the "awesome" paint job I gave to a tricked-out Aston Martin V8 Vantage roadster. Let's just say it involves a sparkle paint job that fades from gold to purple, with hot-pink tinted windows and a drawing of a giant bomb on the hood.

But I'm getting ahead of myself -- let's rewind a bit. After all, this amazing Aston Martin is the third virtual car I test-drove during a recent hands-on session with Rockstar's next release, Midnight Club... Read More

Episodic is right. The original 12-part Watchmen graphic novel -- considered one of the top 100 novels of all time, according to Time magazine -- is, as most of you know, finally making its way to movie theaters in March 2009, courtesy of 300 director Zack Snyder and scripted by David Hayter and Alex Tse. Of more immediate interest to gamers, though, is the news that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will release, in videogame form, the prequel to the Watchmen comic/film on PS3, Xbox 360... Read More

Resident Evil 5 is finally a tangible reality. After teasing us with trailers and snippets of information, at E3 2008, Capcom finally let game journos from around the world go hands-on with their baby. And we can tell you – it's going to be awesome. Sure, the gameplay very much picks up where Resident Evil 4 left off, but that's a pretty solid foundation to be building on. Plus, the game takes the series to a brand new setting, introduces co-op as a core mechanic and ups the visual ante in... Read More

THQ Australia told us today that Saint's Row 2 has come through the OFLC's classification process with an MA15+ rating, and that no changes were made to the game to attain that rating. That's good news for fans of insane mayhem, and to celebrate, we asked our local THQ rep to give us the low-down on some of the craziest stuff you can do in the game. Here are five of his responses.