Admittedly, I don’t have the skills to complete a single Left 4 Dead campaign on “Expert” difficulty. I’m a little to casual with the auto shotgun. But having 12 Survivors on my team? Well…
This little Left 4 Dead modification, one that takes advantage of 12 player slots for up to a dozen survivors versus the world’s infected, isn’t some simple switch one needs to flip via console commands. It requires a pair of installed mods, some setting finagling, a little misdirection plus some jumping through hoops that will likely …

Wolfenstein has a lot to live up to.
The original Wolfenstein 3D popularized, if not defined first-person shooters. Return to Castle Wolfenstein’s multiplayer introduced some of the most popular features of multiplayer gaming to the PC.
What will Wolfenstein deliver?
What It Is Wolfenstein is the latest first-person shooter in id’s popular franchise. This time around Raven Software continues the story of 2001′s Return to Castle Wolfenstein with B.J. Blazkowicz using a mystic amulet to find the source of supernatural power that Nazis are tapping into.
What We Saw I played through a …

Ever sold something to GameStop? In retailer’s refurbishment facility in Grapevine, Texas, used game goods are made fit for public consumption.
While writing an article on how GameStop has the used game business down pat, The Dallas Morning News checked out the facility, where game discs are inspected and cleaned and where hardware is inspected, disassembled and cleaned.
Click the link below for a peek behind the curtain. Check out the article here.
Photos: Inside GameStop’s refurbishment facility for used video games and consoles [DMN Technology Blog]

MTV Games and Pepsi appear to be teaming up for a Rock Band-themed, Pepsi-soaked promotion this Summer, giving away up to 1 million free Rock Band tracks to lucky sugared soft drink swillers.
According to an anonymous tipster, Pepsi will be handing out 10,000 free Rock Band tracks per day to consumers via an “under the cap” contest for seven weeks, starting in early June. All one need do is pick up a bottle, twist the cap off, then look underneath to see if they were an instant winner or a …

Rockstar Games and Microsoft may be giving Xbox 360 owners a chance to brush up on their Max Payne history in advance of the release of Max Payne 3, courtesy of the Xbox Originals program.
The ESRB lists relatively new ratings for both Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne for the Xbox 360. Typically, that’s a good indicator that the games are going to hit the Xbox Originals lineup. That’s a good opportunity for those of you who missed out on the originals to see how …

According to IGN, there were whispers on the floor of the Game Developers Conference last week. Whispers about the Wii’s upcoming MotionPlus accessory, and how it would ship in a rubber jacket.
“So?”
So, unlike the rubber jacket that’s currently available for the main Wii Remote, this one “might ship infused inside of a jacket and cannot be removed”.
Less of a rubber condom, then, and more like a rubber straightjacket. Things We Saw and Heard at GDC ’09 [IGN]

Okay, it took eons but we went through all your trash talk and pick our ten favorites. Now it’s your turn to pick the best trash talk quip.
Here are the ten best trash talkers’ trash talk that incorporated classic board games (Battleship, Yahtzee, Scrabble, etc.). The grand prize winner will get a sofa (yes, A SOFA) and an Xbox 360.
Here are the top ten:
One Haruhila: “Here’s a seven point word for you: FAIL.”
Two dfjkhsdkfjhsd: “I’d challenge you to a game of Connect Four, but you know, first you have …

MP Edward Vaizey last week introduced a motion recognizing (sigh, recognising) games recently honored (sigh, honoured) by BAFTA. He also used the motion to decry “the complete lack of support from Government” of the industry.
Fable II (Lionhead Studios), Race Driver: GRID (Codemasters) and LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule) were all developed at UK studios, and all won at this year’s Bafta Video Games Awards. Vaizey, a Conservative, singled them out for praise) in his motion in the House of Common. Eleven members supported the motion.
Here is its full text:
That this House …

MP Edward Vaizey last week introduced a motion recognizing (sigh, recognising) games recently honored (sigh, honoured) by BAFTA. He also used the motion to decry “the complete lack of support from Government” of the industry.
Fable II (Lionhead Studios), Race Driver: GRID (Codemasters) and LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule) were all developed at UK studios, and all won at this year’s Bafta Video Games Awards. Vaizey, a Conservative, singled them out for praise) in his motion in the House of Common. Eleven members supported the motion.
Here is its full text:
That this House …

What’s in it for you if you join the Entertainment Consumer Association? Well, now the $20 membership gives you 10 percent off games on Amazon.
Curious that we’re hearing of this as an oh-by-the-way that ECA prez Hal Halpin dropped in a GDC interview. I’d think they’d want to blast a news release far and wide on it. But it’s out there now, and if you buy 2 games a year on Amazon, the membership’s basically paid for itself.
The ECA is the closest thing there is to a gamer’s lobby. So …