Not a bad looking week in new games with BioShock 2 and Dante’s Inferno arriving, along with Star Ocean: The Last Hope for the PS3 and Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll for all you Wii Balance Board owners. The DS gets a little love too this week with Percy Jackson and Scene It? Twilight. The PSP gets no love at all with nothing out this week, which isn’t unusual. Hit the jump for the full list of new game ..read the full article

David Cox, a producer at Konami and owner of the twitter account “CastlevaniaLOS”, tweeted a few details about the upcoming game today. In addition to sharing the title’s number seven ranking on GameTrailers most anticipated games list, Cox also revealed the following bits of information in response to questions about the game:

“There is lots of platforming – climbing, jumping, using the combat cross to swing, grip, rappel and all sorts of stuff !!” tweet

and ..read the full article

If you read this site you know that I absolutely loved Darksiders, but you also know that the 360 version of the game suffered from some pretty unfortunate screen tearing. Well, according to a post by the Darksiders Community Admin, the patch Vigil Games promised us is on its way.

Xbox 360 users, we’re pleased to announce that a patch for the screen tearing issue experienced by some gamers will be available on Wednesday around 2am PST! Just fire ..read the full article

GameStop, also known to some as EB Games, has allowed a few Halo: Reach gameplay images to hit the web. Game Informer subscribers may or may not have seen some of these images already depending on whether or not they’ve got their copy of the gaming mag yet.

All in all the screens look like what we’d all expect to see from a Halo title at this point with a bit more realistic texturing and a darker ..read the full article

There have already been two new content releases for BioWare’s Epic RPG Dragon Age: Origins. Both Warden’s Keep and The Stone Prisoner were released with the original game and made available for download immediately. However, a 3rd piece of DLC, “Return to Ostagar” was slated for release on Jan 5th,  it was then delayed until Jan 15th, it has now been delayed … again, leaving Dragon Age fans asking WTF!?

When asked about the ..read the full article

BioWare has just announced their plans for the first two DLC additions to Mass Effect 2, and both will be accessible free to those who buy the game new via a new platform the company is calling “The Cerberus Network (TCN).”

Non used game buyers will be able to use TCN to download the first DLC for free on January 26th, in tandem with the game’s release, and the second DLC sometime after that. Used game lovers will still ..read the full article

Amazon.com is giving away a PlayStation Home Big Daddy suit for gamers who pre-order the Special Edition BioShock 2 game for the PlayStation 3. Access to the stunning piece of virtual attire will be granted to you via a code you’ll receive within “ten business days” after the game’s release.

All in all, the suit looks nice and I guess you could wear it at the bowling alley along with the seven or so other people that manage to find the ..read the full article

Let’s go ahead and address the elephant in the game- Bayonetta’s eponymous Bayonetta is meant to be sexy. Reading the developer blogs and looking at the concept art, it’s clear that Platinum Games knew exactly what they were doing by creating a femme fatale with long legs and nude attacks, and they use it to their advantage.

Now, whether or not you consider Bayonetta to be nothing more than a portrayal of an oversexualized female meant to excite ..read the full article

Sony Computer Entertainment has released several new God of War III screenshots highlighting the muscular badass that is Kratos. Enjoy the shirtless God of War sexiness below.

God of War III Online Co-Op Rumor Nixed By Sony God of War III Gameplay Incoming God of War III Hits US Shelves on March 16th, UK Release Date Confirmed Soon David Jaffe Says 2010 God of War Reboot Would Feature Zelda 64 Open World Elements God of War III PSN Demo Gameplay Footage: Head ..read the full article

In preparation for the January 19th launch of Capcom’s sci-fi action adventure title, Dark Void, on the PS3, 360, and PC, the company has made an early demo available to PC gamers. Capcom promises “stunning in-game physics” on the PC via “extensive use of NVIDIA® PhysX® and APEX technologies.” You can download the PC only demo exclusively at FilePlanet with a free membership.

On a somewhat related side note – Is it me, or does Dark Void’s alien fighting cargo pilot turned ..read the full article

The winners of our first ever “Review Then To You” contest have been selected. Sorry this is being posted so late. You could say I was on a bit of a warpath over being falsely accused for destroying all of mankind. Anyway, the games up for grabs in case you forgot or simply don’t recognize them from the lovely image above are: Batman Arkham Asylum, Madden 10, Uncharted 2, and Wii Music Modern Warfare 2.

If you ..read the full article

Allow me to begin this review by addressing two crucial audiences. The first would be the open minded gamer that isn’t out to crucify a game because it borrows successful elements from titles that have come before it. If you fall into this category, simply skip the rest of this paragraph and move on to the next. You could perhaps use the time you saved at the end to make yourself a nice ham and cheese ..read the full article

According to a corporate email that Sony sent to Gamestop stores, God of War III will be released on March 16th in the US. A Sony Computer Entertainment Europe rep told VG247 that they should be able to confirm a UK release date in “the next few weeks.” The game hits Japanese shelves on March 25th.

I still haven’t completed the God of War collection. Time to get movin’.

God of War III Hits US Shelves on March 16th, UK Release Date ..read the full article

The latest episode of Qore, the PlayStation Network’s subscription based online magazine, reveals that Bioshock 2 will be at least 10 hours in length.

In a Bioshock 2 preview segment, Qore host Veronica Belmont said the following:

“At the start of the game, you wake up a mystery. And for at least the first ten hours or so, you remain a mystery.”

At first I wondered if she meant 10 hours in game time, but that really wouldn’t mean anything to us ..read the full article

When the final U.S. box art for Heavy Rain arrived yesterday, not everyone was as pleased as I at the inclusion of its dripping wet protagonist.

That got me to thinking: what else might change in the U.S. release? Might we see a repeat of Indigo Prophecy? Might stateside gamers have to live down the irony of a game whose cover was sexier than its content?

According to Sony, the answer is a resounding no; and believe it or not, that goes ..read the full article

You know the old adage about how sex sells? That valuable marketing information has not been lost on developer Quantic Dream, who has seen fit to place a dripping wet female front and center on their final box art for Heavy Rain.

I can’t say I approve, but that didn’t keep me from downloading a high-res copy for my, ahem, private collection… and you can too, right after the jump.

(click above for high-res)

Heavy Rain is now scheduled for a February ..read the full article

It’s time to clean out some of our review copies here at Ripten, and rather then turning them into GameStop for a piddly amount, we’re going to give Ripten Twitter followers a chance to win them.

Here’s the deal. Start following Ripten on Twitter if you’re not already, and Retweet this contest with the following tweet on your Twitter account:

Follow @ripten and retweet for a chance to win 1 of 4 of 2009’s best games! http://bit.ly/5xbbdB

That’s it. Everyone who follows Ripten ..read the full article

Landry Walker, a writer who has worked on DC Comic’s “Batman: The Brave and the Bold” as well as “The Incredibles”, published an interesting article on the web sharing his views on videogame violence and what he thinks gamers really want versus what they say they want.

He claims to have come to this realization while watching a friend play Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkahm Asylum game. The sheer fact that Batman was actually taking damage was ..read the full article