ME3 and Amalur demos grant gamers free goodies [Update]

Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning is about to get some well-deserved exposure when its demo is released January 17th. Completing the demo will reward you with a free weapon and suit of armor for Mass Effect 3 along with a few goodies for Amalur. Likewise, completing the ME3 demo when it releases will grant you some free gear for Amalur. Total breakdown of the items after the jump!

Kinect for Windows coming February 1st

It was inevitable. Microsoft will be releasing a new version of the Kinect made especially for Windows. Considering the blistering amount of video demos we’ve seen including Kinect controls for Skyrim and turning invisible, it’s surprising that this announcement didn’t

Dark Souls PC petition lists over 54,000 signatures and counting

I have yet to play Dark Souls, but I’ll be damned if its predecessor Demon’s Souls didn’t make me feel like trash for dying countless times. It was all worth it for the absolute satisfaction you receive after trotting through

Link's next adventure is already in development

Surprising no one, Skyward Sword was a huge success and the next big Zelda game is already underway. The hazy confirmation comes from the Hyrule Historia book via a quote from series producer Eiji Aonuma. “The voices of those who’ve

New Devil Survivor 2 trailer reminds us Devil Survivor 2 exists

The original Devil Survivor is notable because it is the game I own the most copies of (three), and because it was a sparklingly brilliant strategy RPG for the Nintendo DS. A combination of Japanese RPG series Growlanser with Persona

Dating sim Katawa Shoujo finally releases

The road has been long and hard for the dating sim Katawa Shoujo, for five years it has been in the making. The story began in December 2000 with a single piece of concept art for a doujin called Schuppen

Top tier game journalists join forces with Vox Media

Up until now, it had been unfortunate to see such big names in game journalism like Russ Pitts and Justin McElroy resigning from their posts on the likes of the Escapist and Joystiq. Those joining them included other veterans from Joystiq like Chris Grant along with Brian Crecente, former EIC at Kotaku. It had seemed that game journalism had lost many of its best, but now we know what they’re all up to.

These venerable game journalists will be banding together to form the team behind a new gaming site headed by Vox Media (which I envision as some kind of giant robot). Vox currently maintains tech website The Verge and a sports portal SB Nation, but will be expanding its horizons into the realm of gaming. Currently we don’t know much about this new website, but as McElroy puts it,

“I, and a big team of talented folks, are going to be building the best video game site ever.”

Russ Pitts gives further credit on his blog and somewhat of a timeframe for the site itself,

“It’s going to be some time before we can actually get to work writing and whatnot, and even more time before we have an actual website to call our own. Vox is giving us a year to design and build exactly the site we want and to get it up and running…

Sonic 4: Episode 2 features Tails and Metal Sonic

Sonic’s looking to start 2012 off right with the next episode of his well-received game from last year. The most amazing beard ever and plenty of good news are revealed in the interview with Gamespot embedded below including the addition

Ocean Marketing throws juvenile PR tantrum

There is good PR, there is bad PR, then there is this. Ocean Marketing, a producer of several third party peripherals, have managed to make a fool of themselves in what may be one of the most childish and juvenile PR stunts ever. What happened is a customer known as Dave pre-ordered a couple PS3 controllers to come by December 17, but his order never made it in time. He sent a complaint to Ocean Marketing about it via email, but public relations worker Paul Christoforo only gave him trouble. He basically told him to wait and deal with it like a “big boy”. Later he said that the controllers weren’t guaranteed to come by Christmas anyways despite the fact that Dave paid for them to come by then. At this point Dave is extremely frustrated and threatens to publicize the unprofessional emails Christforo made. Christforo then replies with unrivaled professionalism and maturity.

Kingdom Hearts 3D confirmed for U.S. release, keeping awful title

Dream Drop Distance? Really? The next spinoff for the Kingdom Hearts series will be arriving on our shores for 3DS in 2012. Although this isn’t as surprising as the localization of Xenoblade, it’s good news for less jaded Kingdom Hearts