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News Grand Theft Auto Online to Debut on 15th August
Is your body ready?
Ever since that delightful tease at the end of last month’s Grand Theft Auto V trailer, we’ve been dying to learn more about the game’s multiplayer mode, Grand Theft Auto Online. Fortunately, we’ll be finding out a whole lot on 15th August, when Rockstar Games is set to deploy a
News Grand Theft Auto 5 Gameplay Footage Dropping, Er, Tomorrow
Inject it into our eyeballs
That Grand Theft Auto V gameplay footage that Rockstar Games recently teased isn’t far away – in fact, it’s probably being uploaded to a secure server as we type. The publisher – that simply can’t stand to do things the conventional way – has confirmed that we’ll get our first proper look at the open world...
News Deus Ex: The Fall Teaser Trailer Asks Whether You're Ready to Begin
Prepare yourself for tomorrow
Eidos Montreal has all but confirmed that we’ll get our first glimpse at Deus Ex: The Fall tomorrow. Following the discovery of a handful of a domain names earlier in the year, the developer has deployed a desperately brief teaser trailer, hinting at a 5th June announcement. The seven second video includes the...
News Sony: Dozens of PlayStation Vita Games in the Pipeline
Plenty to play
PlayStation Vita evangelist and indie game aficionado Shahid Kamal Ahmad has taken to Twitter once again to tease the handheld’s impending line-up. Writing on the social networking site, the senior business development manager insinuated that there are “dozens” more titles on the way for the fledgling handheld. The exact nature...
News Need for Speed Is Probably Going to Shine on Your PS4
Single screenshot accelerates into sight
The floodgates have well and truly opened. Following last night’s Xbox One reveal, publishers are scrambling to announce their games – not just for Microsoft’s machine, but for Sony’s too. The new Need for Speed is the latest title to sort of join the party. The above screenshot popped up on the...
News This Trailer for Japan Studio's Latest Game Sure Caught Our Attention
We've got no idea what it is, though
Japan Studio is on fire. After years of deflecting questions pertaining to The Last Guardian and twiddling its thumbs, the Eastern outfit has actually decided to start making some games again. It’s already released the brilliant Soul Sacrifice this year, and still has both Puppeteer and Knack in the pipeline...
News Sony: There's an Amazing Big Title Coming to the PlayStation Vita
And it's not an indie game
Shahid Kamal Ahmad clearly saw the poll results to our PlayStation Vita reaction article overnight. The senior business development manager at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe – who spends more time on Twitter than he does asleep – is responsible for a number of the indie games coming to the system, but he’s also...
News Haunting Teaser Image Hints at Call of Duty: Ghosts
Ghost in the machine
There’s no question that Call of Duty: Ghosts is a real thing now. Activision has updated the series’ official website, including a mysterious teaser image which resembles a phantom-like face. Cleverly, the picture is made up of hundreds of smaller icons, submitted by users to the page. You can link up your Facebook or...
News Ubisoft Tease Hints at New Watch Dogs Footage Caught on Camera
Watching your every move
Ubisoft could be about to broadcast a brand new batch of Watch Dogs b-roll, if a teaser uploaded to the title’s Twitter page is to be believed. In the message, the company hinted: “Aiden Pearce was seen on Lake St. ctOS is pulling video, will be updated tomorrow.” We suspect that the trailer will be structured...
News Bethesda Teases Mysterious Project, Laps Up the Fallout
Zwei to go
Hours after putting The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim out to pasture, Bethesda has launched a teaser for a new title. The publisher uploaded a mysterious video onto its Twitter account this afternoon, showing little more than barbed wire, a few books, and a vinyl record. Contrary to public opinion, though,
News EA Games to Deploy Battlefield 4 Details on 26th March
Publisher planning a barrage of information
EA Games will blow Battlefield 4’s doors wide open on 26th March in San Francisco. The publisher has sent out a slew of official invites to North American outlets, confirming the impending reveal of the first-person shooter. A similar ‘Save the Date’ invite teased the title’s announcement last...
News Could The Last Guy Be Making a Comeback on Vita?
Acquire title to be revealed next week
Criminally underrated PlayStation Network arcade puzzler The Last Guy could be plotting a path onto the PlayStation Vita, if a new teaser website set up by Japanese developer Acquire is to be believed. The page – which includes Google Map-esque backgrounds similar to those employed by the aforementioned PSN...
News Velocity Developer FuturLab Sure Loves to Tease
You definitely asked for it
We thought Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima was the master of the countdown clock, but he may just need to renounce his crown. It turns out that there’s a new contender to the teaser throne, and it belongs to Coconut Dodge developer FuturLab. Not content with dropping hints in press releases, launching s
News Splash Damage on the Brink of Announcing New Title
Rule breaker
Teaser websites are typically reserved for the hubbub of E3, but Brink developer Splash Damage clearly couldn’t contain its excitement until summer. The company has uploaded a specially prepared countdown page pointing to 11:29AM on the 29th November. It’s unclear what the studio’s working on, but we’re eager to read your...
News Cryptic SEGA Trailer Teases Incoming Announcement
Detective time
Where’s ex-editor James Newton when you need him? SEGA's released a brand new teaser trailer that’s had everyone in the Push Square office stumped. The cryptic short – entitled 2 x 5 – features lots of screaming and the sound of Sonic losing rings. If you listen carefully, you’ll also spot the “Get Ready” voice sample...
News Team Ninja Readying Tokyo Game Show Reveal
What could it be?
Give credit to Team Ninja for at least attempting to inject some life into the Tokyo Game Show’s non-existent build up. The Ninja Gaiden developer has confirmed that it will be revealing its latest project at the Japanese convention later this week. Team Ninja is currently gearing up for the release of Dead or Alive 5, which is...
News Sony Has Unannounced Titles to Reveal at TGS
Place your bets now
We worried that Sony’s software splurge at GamesCom would keep its Tokyo Game Show surprises to a bare minimum, but it turns out we were sorely mistaken. According to the latest issue of Dengeki PlayStation Magazine, the platform holder is planning to reveal a slew of new titles during the Japan-centric show. Unfortunately,...
News Square Enix to Reveal Future of Lightning Saga Soon
She was just a wish
Square Enix is set to reveal a new direction for the Lightning saga on 1st September, the publisher has announced. The so-called Lightning saga consists of two games already: Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Together the titles have sold over 9.6 million units. It’s not entirely clear what the Japanese publisher is...
News Look Out for a Mass Effect 3 Announcement Later Today
T'Soni a few hours to wait
Announcements of announcements – how do you like them? Publisher EA Games doesn’t care, as it’s promised to show something Mass Effect 3 related during its Summer Showcase event later today. What is it? We don’t know. The likeliest candidate is a new piece of single-player DLC, but we suppose anything’s...
News SEGA Teases NiGHTS into Dreams Announcement
Dream catcher
SEGA is teasing something to do with classic on-rails flying title NiGHTS into Dreams. The publisher uploaded an image of an industrial-like setting on its Facebook page earlier today, which fans have noted looks an awful lot like Stick Canyon from the original SEGA Saturn game. There’s some discussion that this could be related to...
News Hitman: Absolution Gets Cryptic Ahead of E3
Look sharp
We’re on the cusp of E3 now; the madness is less than a week away from transpiring. As such, publishers are opting to fill the time with cryptic teases of major announcements they’re not quite ready to share yet. First out of the blocks is Square Enix with this playful Hitman: Absolution image. You know it’s a tease because, well,...
News Spike TV to Debut New Star Wars Game
May the force be with you
Spike TV is set to officially announce the next LucasArts developed Star Wars game. The reveal will be teased during a pre-E3 episode of GTTV on 31st May, and will be followed by a full gameplay demo during E3 All Access Live on 4th June. Details are scarce right now, but we've got our fingers crossed for a new Star Wars:...
News Yakuza 5 Reveal Coming 24th May
Happy, happy
The official website for SEGA’s uber-niche (but absolutely brilliant) Yakuza franchise has been overhauled, teasing the impending reveal of Yakuza 5. Excuse us while we go and perform some cartwheels around the office to release our overflowing excitement. Phew, that’s better. The website shows construction workers and a poised...
News PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale to Debut This Week
Promo trailer practically confirms it
We’ll finally get our first look at gameplay footage from Sony’s heavily rumoured mascot mash-up PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale this Thursday. Host Geoff Keighley prompted speculation when he teased a massive “PS3 exclusive” would debut on this week’s episode of GTTV – but the announcement has...
News Geoff Keighley: Huge New PS3 Exclusive Reveal This Week
Announcement extravaganza
It’s going to be a “good week for PlayStation fans” according to GameTrailers hype-man Geoff Keighley. The industry legend teased over the weekend that a “huge new PS3 exclusive” will be revealed on GTTV this Thursday, with the first in-game footage on display. While it’s unclear what the title will be,...
News New Call of Duty to Debut Next Week
Back ops
It’s time to plot your pursuit of prestige all over again, as Activision readies the announcement of another Call of Duty title. As previously speculated, all will be revealed on 1st May. A countdown on CallofDuty.com notes that the title will be showcased during the basketball playoffs on US cable channel TNT. Seems like an appropriate...
News Soul Sacrifice Introduces a True Fantasy on Vita
Once upon a monster
For a game we know next to nothing about, Soul Sacrifice is beginning to seem like a big deal. The PlayStation Vita exclusive – revealed in Famitsu magazine earlier in the week – has now been granted a fairly high-budget teaser website, showing off some concept art from the game. Set to a thumping drum-beat and images of...
News French Website Teases "Major PS3 Exclusive" Announcement
Hype get
T’is the season for PS3 announcements it seems. Last week Sony held a hush-hush showcase for North American press in New York, and it appears all of the talking-points from that event are gradually going to trickle online in the coming weeks. You should already expect a God of War related announcement in just a few days, but the fun and...
News SEGA Teases Major Shining Series Announcement
Coming next week
SEGA has a big surprise up its sleeve for Shining fans next week. The official Shining Blade Twitter — via Andriasang — tweeted that the "biggest thing in series history" will happen next week. Previously the account has hinted that information about the next game will be included in the packaging for Shining Blade,...
News New Medal of Honor Comes Out Guns Blazing Next Month
Tier one
Remember that magazine teaser we posted yesterday? Yeah, it’s hinting at EA’s next Medal of Honor game. How do we know? Because Kotaku’s just received an invite to an exclusive Medal of Honor press event scheduled to take place in the US on 6th March. Incidentally, that’s the same day that the aforementioned magazine's latest issue...
News PSM3 Magazine Teases Mysterious Shooter Sequel
Lock and load
British PlayStation magazine, PSM3, is teasing the imminent announcement of a mysterious shooter sequel in its latest issue. The single page preview features an image of two bullets facing down and includes the text, “An exclusive look at one of 2012’s hottest shooters”. What could the game be? Our guess is the follow-up to...
News Atlus Wants You To Guess Its Next Game
Atlus wants to play a game of 20Q with you
The publisher's teasing the announcement of its next game. We already know that it's the fourth game in a series, starts with the letter "G" and ends with the letter "R". It's also a strategy RPG, which means we have zero interest in playing whatever the game ends up being. Because we're...
News New Trailer For The Amazing Spider-Man To Debut At The VGAs
Chalk up another exclusive reveal for this weekend's VGAs
Activision's announced that its set to debut an exclusive look at Beenox's upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man at the awards ceremony. It will tie in to the upcoming Sony Pictures movie of the same name, and depict the events directly after the film's conclusion. Most excitingly, the game will...
News Brand New Epic IP 'Radically Different', A 'Departure' For The Studio
Epic Games is a name more commonly associated with Microsoft
While the studio has released games on PlayStation 3, its Gears Of War series remains the developer's bread and butter. But the US based outfit has promised that its next IP will be "radically different" from the hurl-inducing machoness of its previous endeavours, and an all...
News Very Exciting THQ Game To Debut In December
'Tis the season to announce games apparently
As if Sony's upcoming The Last Of Us and Epic Games' brand new "experience" wasn't enough, THQ's confirmed its got a "very exciting" announcement in the pipeline. THQ core games boss Danny Bilson told AusGamers: We actually have a game we havent announced yet and I cant announce...
News Square Enix Developing 'Massive, Original Action RPG' Using The Unreal Engine
Remember when Square Enix signed up the Unreal Engine to develop a smattering of high-profile projects using the graphics technology? Famitsu's got the first scoop on what the Japanese publisher's cooking
In its latest issue, the Japanese gaming encyclopedia notes that the publisher is preparing a "massive, original action RPG" with...
News Codemasters Teases Eggciting News Regarding Dizzy
Remember Dizzy? The egg-shaped platforming mascot of yesteryear? It looks like Codemasters is teasing a comeback
Rumours started circling when Codies PR head Rich Eddy revealed that "Eggmergence Day" is coming. A teaser website named EggcitingNews.com has since been discovered asking "Guess Who's Back?". It accompanies a cryptic...
News Bioware's Next Big Project Teased Ahead Of VGA Reveal
As promised, Game Informer magazine has released the first teaser image of Bioware's next big project
The screenshot of the game — which is due to be fully revealed at next month's Spike TV VGA awards — shows a collision in a dusty, desert like setting. It's certainly a world away from Dragon Age and Mass Effect, but without more details is...
News Sony Teases 'Surprise Announcement' For Jump Festa
It's always exciting when Sony teases the words "surprise announcement"
But it nearly always leads to a bunch of wild and unattainable expectations. So let's keep our hype gauge in check, then. Jump Festa, a Japanese games festival, is set to take place in Tokyo later this year. Awkwardly the event will coincide with the launch of PlayStation Vita,...
News Curious PlayStation 3 Teaser Hints At... Something
Your guess is as good as ours
A mysterious new PlayStation 3 teaser video has launched on the platform holder's YouTube channel promising to show us what's "beyond the doors" on October 5th. The footage shows a group of war veterans enter a pub or hotel. There appears to be Killzone-themed weapons on a rack against the wall, and a...
News Yakuza Developer Planning Big Announcement Tomorrow
Yakuza series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi has revealed that he's making a big announcement tomorrow at a press conference in Tokyo
The announcement will be streamed via Japan's Nico Nico video service. And that's really all we know. Nagoshi is currently working on Binary Domain for PlayStation 3. A new Yakuza title would send us crazy like a bag of...
News Atlus Teases Persona Announcement
Let's play a little game: the Tokyo Game Show is coming
Atlus is teasing a Persona announcement. Said Persona announcement adopts the style of Persona 4. Atlus previously released all three of its Persona titles on PSP. We'll leave you to do the maths. We suppose the big discussion here is not what Atlus is about to announce — Persona 4 Portable...
News Geoff Keighley Takes To Twitter, Hypes Trailers: Uncharted 3 Co-Op, Soul Calibur V, More
GameTrailers TV host, Geoff Keighley, has taken to Twitter to hype up a number of exclusive trailers set to air on the show's pre-E3 special
Amongst the confirmed reveals is first footage of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception's co-op, Soul Calibur V, and the aforementioned Tomb Raider CG trailer. GTTV's promising around 10 exclusive reveals for the...
News Expect L.A. Noire DLC News On Your Desk Next Week
Rockstar's confirmed that details of L
A. Noire's</a> DLC plans will be revealed next week. The company announced the, errr, announcement in a Tweet overnight. There are already two additional L.A. Noire cases made available through various retail chains: The Naked City and A Slip Of A Tongue. Details on a third DLC pack, Nichlson...
News Natsume Preparing 'Highly-Anticipated' PlayStation 3 Title For E3
Natsume's bringing lots of titles to E3, but one of those games is yet to be announced
According to Siliconera, the "highly anticipated Wii and PlayStation 3" title might be a localisation of Rune Factory Oceans. We, err, we don't really know much about Rune Factory Oceans, but the commenters on Siliconera are literally flipping out with...
News Announcements Of Announcements: IO Interactive Warns Of Incoming Shrapnel Next Week
When we started this website, we made an internal pledge to cut out the metaphors that's so prevalent in games media
Sometimes we fail. We're failing right now actually, while we discuss aims and objectives that have nothing to do with this stor--... Ok. IO Interactive has Tweeted that "next week will be very good" and that we should...
News GDC 2011: Ninja Gaiden 3 Stabs Us All In The Face Ahead Of E3
There are better ways to tease the announcement of your product, but for Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden series, stabbing viewers in the face seems like an apt solution
The short Ninja Gaiden 3 teaser trailer, released to kick-off this week's GDC event, shows protagonist Ryu Hayabusa drenched in the blood of his victim — which judging by the first-person...
News Deep Silver Prepping New Title Announcement Today
After whipping the Internet into a frenzy with last week's Dead Island trailer, small-time publisher, Deep Silver, is linining up another announcement today
The publisher's head of US PR wrote on Twitter, Tomorrows a holiday, but Ill be working because Im announcing ANOTHER game tomorrow! Oy! A tenner says it's not as good as the Dead...
News Capcom Readying Two Blockbuster Announcements Before Summer
Capcom's Jun Takeuchi has revealed to Famitsu that the publisher will announce blockbuster titles in time for Summer
Takeuchi added that both games would be a surprise, and that they would launch in 2011. Speculation is pointing at Resident Evil 6 (yes please!), but Takeuchi mentioned that the games would be original. Original games are lovely and...
