December 5th Nintendo Direct NA Breakdown: Lego Iwata Loves Carrots

In today’s episode of “What’s going on with Nintendo?” we look at some gameplay footage and get a few release dates for big titles on the horizon for Wii U and 3DS among some other more… interesting things (like Lego Iwata, pictured above). Embedded will be the full-length video, with… Read More »

[UPDATE] Binding of Isaac: Rebirth Heading to New Platforms through VVVVVV, Cave Story Publisher Nicalis

In a postmortem by Edmund McMillen today in Gamasutra, he essentially announced the intent and confirmation of a remake of the PC indie hit Binding of Isaac for consoles and even possibly handhelds. In the article, he goes through a beautiful look at the road to Isaac, the decisions made that… Read More »

Call of Duty Elite Will Be Free for Black Ops II

With just months until we get our paws on Call of Duty Black Ops II, we still weren’t quite sure how the Elite services were being handled. Last month, we found out the details of the special editions but unlike Modern Warfare 3, there weren’t any promotions towards their flagship… Read More »

Ubisoft to Spend £4m on Marketing for Assassin’s Creed III

Ubisoft definitely want that #1 Christmas spot, that’s for sure. They’re setting aside £4 million ($6.5m) for Assassin’s Creed III’s marketing campaign and that will make it the biggest in the company’s history. With games like FIFA 13, Halo 4 and Black Ops 2 landing in the next few months… Read More »

Bayonetta 2 Announcement Trailer & Wii U Exclusivity

Yes, Bayonetta 2 has been announced today in the Nintendo Direct conference and what’s also been revealed is that the sequel to the much loved first game will be exclusive to the Wii U. Surprised I am not, disappointed I am. Naturally, no other details were announced. It is nice… Read More »

Madden 13′s Top 10 Defenders’ Ratings Are Revealed

Another week, another ratings reveal for Madden NFL 13. This reveal is a double-edged sword, unfortunately. While it’s a bummer that it’s the final reveal before the release, it means we’re THAT much closer to getting our collective mitts on Madden this year. Not surprisingly, you’ll have to crack 97… Read More »

Top 10 Madden NFL 13 Receiver Ratings Revealed

We’ve seen the best quarterbacks, the best running backs, and now we get the guys who are best at going out and catching that ball. The receiver ratings included tight ends and wide receivers, hence why you see guys like Gronk on the list. Unlike running backs where I had… Read More »

NBA 2K13 Gets First Developer Insight Video, Screenshots

Not much has been made available about NBA 2K13 since we were told that rap star Jay-Z would be executive producer of this year’s game. Now we’re getting our first in a series of Developer Insight videos where the team at 2K Sports gives us the lowdown on what’s new… Read More »

Assassin’s Creed III’s Twitter Has Gone Cryptic

Trailers and short gameplay walkthroughs can get old fast so if you’re an Assassin’s Creed fan dying for some fresh AC3 goings-on then listen up. The official Twitter account for the third major game in the series recently went all cryptic on followers and fans with a series of tweets that… Read More »

HBG Podcast 1: “Augmented Penis”

We finally begin our trip down the rabbit hole of a weekly podcast. Because of our wait from our E3 podcast, though, we’ve found ourselves with a LOT of subject material, especially after the great “HBG civil war” over the past week. So we ran fairly long, but we rarely… Read More »

NBA 2K13 Cover Athletes Revealed

After a few days of guesswork and even an early leak of the teaser image, we finally have our cover athletes for this years installment of the NBA 2K series. The teaser image showed a picture of a griffon, bed of roses, and a turantula. While that may be gibberish… Read More »

HBG Podcast: E3 Edition

We could have filled your RSS feeds with post after post detailing every mudane detail about E3. We could have flooded your twitter feeds with tweet after tweet as things happened live. We didn’t, though. We saved it for one approximately hour long trip where we (Aaron and Christian) try… Read More »

Injustice: Gods Among Us Announced

When Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe came on the scene it was certainly an interesting idea, but overall didn’t get an incredible reception. Maybe it was those two worlds being put together that felt forced or unnatural, who knows. What we DO know now is, that Netherrealm isn’t quite finished… Read More »