Electronic Arts' Need for Speed series has a long, storied history, dating back to the 3D0 in 1994. Three new games are currently in development, distinct titles that EA hopes will appeal to different types of racing fans. Need for Speed: Shift is aimed squarely at simulator buffs, emulating an auth...

The Warhawk themed space for PlayStation 3's virtual world Home debuts today, giving fans of Incognito Entertainment's shooter/vehicle/flight combat mash-up a virtual space to call their own. In addition to the standard Home activities of chatting and emoting at strangers, the Warhawk Command Center...

Hell ain't a bad place to be in the upcoming God of War clone that's based on The Divine Comedy. New screenshots offer a taste of the infernal title....

SAN FRANCISCO — Electronic Arts' upcoming game Dante's Inferno is a riff on God of War that stars a beefed-up warrior based on the author of The Divine Comedy. Seriously. For those of us who spent our formative years sleeping through Classics lectures, Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem The ...

Puzzle Quest bewildered casual and hard-core gamers alike when it came out in 2007, tossing aside party lines in favor of a genre-busting hybrid that brought the best of both worlds. The game mixed the fan-favorite, match-three mechanic of Bejeweled and its many clones with a full-blown, role-playin...

Love playing Madden, but sick of parents griping about how much time you spend in front of the TV? You're in luck: Electronic Arts and Toy Island are teaming up to bring all the thrill and competition of sports videogames to the otherwise mundane real world, with a selection of sporting equipment th...

On February 12, you'll be able to purchase a ninja costume for your Home avatar, but unless you're a die-hard fan of buying digital clothing, that's hardly a reason to get excited. In the coming months, Capcom will also be augmenting your Home experience, offering up Street Fighter IV costumes and &...

Horror videogames are difficult to get right. What makes something scary? Blood on the walls? Spooky sound effects? Dimly lit corridors with blinking lights? F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, a new first-person shooter for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC (reviewed), delivers all those standards of the genr...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The long-awaited release of Will Wright's evolution game, Spore, wasn't the end of the journey. It was just the beginning. At a chic San Francisco art gallery Wednesday evening, Electronic Arts unveiled its plans to expand on the franchise in 2009. Wright and Co. are looking to brin...

For a genre that thrives on teamwork, skill, and getting large groups of players to tap away at their mice and keyboards until the wee hours of the morning, shooters have had surprisingly little luck making the transition to the MMO space. So to a genre dominated by elves, more elves, and a plethora...