Category Archives: News Wrap

December wrapped up last year with THQ’s sale, the VGAs and a ton of Wii U dates. Head below for the twelfth and final part of our round-up of last year’s news.

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Wii U, Halo 4, Black Ops 2 and Far Cry 3 releases dominated November, after which the core industry started dropping news on GTA 5 and Mass Effect 4. Get the eleventh part of our 2012 news retrospective below.

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October marked the proper start of 2012′s release season, while Wii U and Halo 4 geared for launch. And there was something about Doritos. Get the tenth part of our retrospective of last year’s news below.

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September saw Nintendo enter the final stages of Wii U’s launch, TGS appear and vanish with barely a whimper and doctors Ray and Greg quit BioWare. Head below for the ninth part of our 2012 news retrospective.

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Gamescom led August’s headlines, but highs (Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes) and lows (the closure of Studio Liverpool) vied for attention. Head below for the eighth part of our 2012 news retrospective.

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Sony bought Gaikai for $380 million in July, as everyone tried to ignore their E3 hangovers and look forward to gamescom. Head down for the seventh part of our 2012 news retrospective.

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E3 2012 would prove to be solid and depressing, with Crystal Dynamics dropping itself into the year’s greatest PR disaster with some grandiose misinformationing related to Tomb Raider.

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May was all about Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, E3, Diablo III, Max Payne 3, 38 Studios going bust and Danny Bilson leaving THQ. Get the fifth part of our 2012 news retrospective right here.

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April 2012 was a slow month marked by the first mentions of E3 press conferences, Sony’s continuing struggle, the ramping up of Diablo III and the virtually unnoticed release of the first episode of Telltales’ The Walking Dead.

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March saw GAME reach the end of everyone’s tether, Mass Effect 3 launch and Geohot get busted for pot. Get the third part of our month-by-month 2012 games news retrospective below.

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February 2012 saw the launch of Vita in the US and Europe, the true extent of GAME’s disastrous situation in the UK and Double Fine’s game-changing Kickstarter. Head below for the second part of our look at 2012′s news.

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This year started off with Star Wars: The Old Republic’s lurching to life, some feverish next-gen rumouring and Sony prepping Vita’s western launch. Get the first of our monthly retrospectives for 2012 below.

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It should still be quite fresh in your mind, but let’s seal the deal and wrap up our 2011 retrospective by recapping December, or, to give it its more common name, “Star Wars Month”.

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Christmas didn’t kill us. It made us stronger for the 2012 news apocalypse. Get a round-up of all the “other stuff” that happened over the break below.

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Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3, Uncharted 3, Skyward Sword, Assassin’s Creed Revelations and Saints Row: The Third all released in November, making for the year’s most intense ship period. Here’s what happened.

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Battlefield 3 launched in October, ending one of the year’s biggest promotional campaigns and pre-empting the arrival of Modern Warfare 3. And Uncharted 3 released in the US. October was all about threes.

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Two of the year’s most important events, a rapidly filling release calendar, probably the year’s biggest new IP and Epic’s farewell to the Gears of War trilogy. September 2011 was all go.

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For a large percentage of our audience, August 2011 is the month their capital city went violently insane. For the rest of us, there’s this.

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A Persona spin-off baffled our US brethren; San Diego Comic Con went nuclear; Australia prepared to grow up; and EA coughed up a lung to buy one of the best-rated developers in the world.

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We’re half way there, and you know what that means? Revisiting E3 2011; a surprisingly crowded summer release schedule; and the continuing saga of Hackers vs The World.

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