I’ve been out of it – clearly – for the past week, so I’m definitely late to the party. This came across the email chain, and admittedly, the old 2D yearnings deep in my loins started to feel a little flame building. So Dungeon Fighter Online is a Korean developed online brawler being handled by Nexon America, Inc. It launched here in the states this month, but has built up quite a following with a manga and impending anime around the corner to keep up with the fan love.

The magic words, folks, is that all this coolness comes with a ZERO dollar investment price. Meaning, if you want to try it, it’s totally free. It’s an online game, and the beta is still apparently going on. I haven’t played it myself yet, so I’m not offering any opinion – yet, but the art style looks quite appealing. “Free” is always my magic starting point, so let’s see if I can get this brewing on my Mac. I’ll play around with it and try to figure out their class-based system (you can choose from Gunner, Fighter, Mage, Priest, and Slayer). I missed the whole World of Warcraft craze, so I’ll keep you posted this weekend as to whether this sucker gets its claws into me…

Don’t be fooled by the videos. It’s easy to dismiss Electronic Arts’ Brutal Legend as a Heavy-metal inspired God of War clone. With every video showcasing Jack Black’s Eddie ‘Roadie’ Riggs as a hard-rocking “Kratos” style demon-slayer, we’d say that’s probably a fair conclusion. Even if the bulk of your exposure was based on the charming-but-brief run through of the Xbox or PlayStation demo, it’s a safe bet that you’re putting your money towards a solid, albeit devilishly-inspired, music-loving action game.

This, of course, is what the master tacticians of EA marketing want you to think.

What happens when a free-roaming adventure jumps genres and goes from God of War pummeling to Command and Conquer strategy? If those descriptions are all over the map, that’s actually Brutal Legend in a nutshell. Does Legend’s hybrid mash-up of free-roaming adventure meets driving, meets strategy, equal the sum of its parts? Or, is Brutal Legend all metal angst and hilarious – but squandered – potential?

Leaked ‘Zombie Survival Guide’ trailer for Left 4 Dead 2, featuring an extended look at the story, and lots of bloody zombie killing action!

Have you seen UDON’s Darkstalkers Tribute art book? I got mine yesterday! 300 pages of all new artwork created especially for this book, by Adam Hughes, J. Scott Campbell, Yasuhiro Nightow, Mark Brooks and many more! Guess who has preview pages — plus your daily babe wallpaper fix?

Some may say there wasn’t a whole lot to see at this weekend’s Big Apple Comic Con. Mostly true, but did you know that Joe Mad and his Darksiders game were there? And they just announced the game’s official release date — no, it’s not in 2020! For those who missed it, we’ve got the walk-through video.

Yesterday I updated one of our most notoriously popular posts with some videogame babe wallpapers, so I thought I’d share them with you too.

In a time when military first-person shooters have gone the route of stylish arcade action, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising looks to offer something to military sim purists.  Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis was a PC game developed by Bohemia Interactive Studio and  published by Codemasters in the early 2000’s on PC and later on for the original XBOX.  Back then it was easily one of the better realism based first-person shooters on the market.  Now all of these years later, and after a falling out between developer and publisher, Codemasters themselves developed and release Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising utilizing a different game engine and promising more immersion.  Does this new Operation Flashpoint game rise to the occasion or will it sink to the depths of obscurity?

Now is an incredible time to be a PlayStation fan, but an even better time to be a God of War fan. With God of War 3 just around the corner, fans eager to revisit war-torn Greece and sock it to the Pantheon of Gods, might want to look at the new prettied-up God of War I & II collection being released this November on PlayStation 3. We’ve got the new trailer, which looks amazing. Of course, why shouldn’t it? The God of War games are considered some of the greatest pure action games ever made. Now they’re shinier, which, in gamerspeak, equals BETTER. Take a look.

Let’s just be honest, the Need for Speed franchise has gotten a bit stale as of late. The series was beginning to feel like Madden, it seemed like you were getting one of the previous games from the series with a few new features and content. Typically that came in the form of new models of sports cars and some shiny new graphical techniques. Need for Speed: Shift has broken that mold and created a new foundation that EA will most likely build upon until there is no room to build anymore. The huge change in gameplay? Realism.

It’s all a bit confusing, but Sony intends to make sure that you get your high-end gaming with loads of storage space at a price point that you can live with.
On November 3rd, it’s finally official: A 250 gig PlayStation 3 bundle hits U.S. retailers packaged with the exemplary Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Now, what’s this business about a Final Fantasy bundle in Japan?? Official Press Hype comes after the jump.