Enough of these jaunty, singing pirates. Octane and TopWare is bringing rape, murder, and pillage back to pirate games.

This new video shows off the even more dynamic environments promised by Team Ninja, which is cool. But it also shows off their more realistic-looking boob animations.

Episode One of The Walking Dead has shambled onto the PSN as of yesterday. Believe it or not, people are actually saying good things about it.

neur0n is keeping the scene alive with his series of custom firmware releases. He recently released two updates to the 6.60 flavor of his "Light" and "Regular" custom firmware for the original PSP lineup.

The PS3 scene has a plethora of tools available to get your console running custom firmware or dongles, if that is your thing. Unfortunately, there's always a bad bunch of people who just aim to release tools with the intent of bricking consoles. HwapX and Overx fall into this category with the recent release of their Venix GUI downgrader app.

Lollipop Chainsaw is looking nutty, and it has a decent soundtrack. Plus, you get to meet The Bosses of Zombie Rock.

Xenoblade Chronicles finally comes to North America in this week’s edition of On Shelves. Also, some other stuff.

Well, actually it sounds more like Capcom wants to make more money. This guy even just goes ahead and throws Call of Duty out there as a comparison.

Enjoying Streetfighter X Tekken and its useful blunders? Another fighter is on the horizon, and here's a little teaser of what could possibly be the full roster.

Looks like the studio behind the survival game Hydrophopia is being liquidated.

Harrison E gets tricky with SSX, but is it a cool game or just an avalanche waiting to happen?

It's been a while since we heard a peep out of Dishonored, but this new video shows that it's still alive and kicking.

Go download I am Alive!  Do it. Do it now. Well, you can give the free trial a go at least.

So while GDC is going on and rumours are flying everywhere there's something we need to weigh up.

Mass Effect! Mass Effect! Mass Effect!

We're only a week out from the world going to hell.

Insert basketball-related pun here.

If this is list is the real deal, 2012 may turn out to be a good year after all. And if it's not, well don't climb up my ass about it.

It's alive! It's alive! Oh wait, never mind SEN just crashed...try again later.

Other than getting new players, new money and new DLC it looks like Modern Warfare is about to get infected with a whole new mode...

Creator of one of the best indie mobile titles, Stay Alive, Rob Allison talks to Harrison E about creating the game, reddit and making games.

Just Dance just doesn't cut it.

Master Chief and Marcus Fenix could have known kung-fu, but now they won't.

Am I missing something here?

Things are looking brutal.

According to the developer, American Nightmare will be 4-5 hours long.

Cut yourself off a slice.

A new launch trailer is out for the escort game...no not like that.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Even when you say you drop the support make sure you know who your anchors are still tied to.

A spate of Xbox Live Arcade titles pushed through the ratings board reveals some old, some new, and, well, nothing particularly blue.

We all know the video games that should be movies and how most TV shows and movie adaptations are true steaming piles, but there are some franchises that haven't been mined yet.

Judge must not be a Linux user.

Need to know how to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland? Watch this new trailer for I Am Alive and you’ll be well on your way.

The bloody hack and slash game gets an official release date, and a few in-box goodies.

Harrison E takes to the skies in the new aircraft racer Skydrift. But will it take flight or crash and burn?

Awesomenauts was announced months ago as a downloadable game for the PSN and XBLA as a 80s animation- and toy-inspired game. Now we get a little insight into one of the playable characters, Yuri the Space Monkey.

I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite news post on the Citadel.

Over the course of this week, Ubisoft has confused us all with their stance on piracy. 

After explicitly stating that he wouldn’t be releasing the game to PC, I Am Alive director Stanislas Mettra is backpedaling as fast as he can.

According to Developer, 95% of PC consumers would pirate their game if they chose to do a straight port of Ghost Recon: Future Solider from the console.

Something about pirates. I didn't know they existed in Shanghai.

Postal 3 is on it's way in December and Harrison E sits down to have a chat with level designer, developer and viral video maker, Tim Wambolt.

Ten years ago, Microsoft took a chance by stepping into a market with zero credibility. It seems to have worked out.

Hey, remember that game Battlefield 3 that still totally exists? It’s getting a few changes in an upcoming patch.