LucasArts producer Cameron Suey has admitted in an interview that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is in fact inferior on the PS3 because of the way it was built. He also stated he likes "putting builds on the 360," saying "it's a lot faster" than the similar process to code a PS3 title. With the PS3, the Force clearly is not, right Yoda? ...

There aren't enough videogames starring Kiwi birds. In fact, I can only think of Ivy the Kiwi? and this one, Fly Kiwi, Fly! Both of them feature needless punctuation that makes sentences look really weird, but they're both pretty damn good. And feature Kiwi birds. Which makes them awesome... ...

Tokyo Game Show might be looming just over the horizon, but not all the interesting developments on the Japanese side of the games industry are coming out of a packed-to-the-brim Tokyo Bay convention center. Earlier this month, the annual CEDEC conference was held in Yokohama, Japan. CEDEC is a conference sponsored by Japan’s Consumer Entertainment Software Association (the same group that puts on TGS) and is geared heavily toward development, much like the Game Developers Conference. Unlike GDC, however, CEDEC is considerably more low-key – though that doesn’t mean that there isn’t some interesting news flowing forth from the event... ...

Behold the best-of-the-best from Capcom’s recent color in Servbot contest, which challenged fans to create their own custom bot. Capcom received 115 entries, which ranged from cute to adorable and held a poll to determine the winner… ...

It used to be that games and exercise went together like sex and tax preparation, but now the workout genre has grown to become one of the largest and most lucrative genres in the industry. In light of this sweat-sweat revolution, The Exergame Network (TEN) has seen fit to introduce its own health-based rating system, much to the dismissive wanking motions of gamers without kids everywhere... ...

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars was lauded by reviewers and critics but didn’t sell as well as expected. Now, publisher Rockstar is working on reviving the handheld crime title with a new, higher-resolution version for the iPad... ...

Above: Borderlands fan botman strikes a pose with his awesome psycho bandit mask

Borderlands fan botman, has shared patterns for an excellent paper craft project he just finished on Gearbox Software’s official gaming form. You’ll probably recognize the iconic mask as the same one worn by the character featured in the game’s cover art… ...

You know when Hollywood cons you into thinking a character is lovely and warm before revealing them to be a cold calculating villain by the end of the film? Well, if allegations from an anonymous source are to be believed, some would say FarmVille developer Zynga could be the real-world equivalent.

An ex-employee of the FarmVille team has recounted Zynga boss Mark Pincus' alleged words: "I don't fucking want innovation. You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."...

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Being both amazing and resolutely independent, Valve is in the fortunate but sadly rare position of being free to say whatever the hell it likes about anything. And it does. Although currently enjoying a great big make-up hug with the PS3, MD Gabe Newell has been no stranger to giving Sony's machine a brutal kicking in the past. But to balance things out a little, he's just fired the phrase "train wreck" at Xbox Live.

Speaking in one of an epic series of interviews currently being prepared for the internets by our busom buddies at PCGamer.com (this one covering Valve's self-precieved failings), Gabe blamed the current XBL system for a big chunk of Valve's console-based woes. Click on for more details. ...

Cosplay comes in many forms. Every so often it's a grown man dressing up as a creepy-ass man fairy. Occasionally, it's a bald dude thinking all he needs to become the Ghost of Sparta is a coat of red body paint. But usually, it's attractive women squeezing into a tiny school uniform and claiming they're some obscure Tekken character (sorry, no link for that one. And yes, we are bastards). Of course, sometimes you'll get an enterprising gamer making cosplay that looks like it's been sculpted with shredded Turkish meat. This is one of those times. ...

Nervous in a fire-fight? Anxious in a raid? Until now, gamers have been able to mask their inner-most emotions behind a headset, but according to new research from Spain, there may soon come a day when everyone online will be able to see you sweat... ...

Shooter fans in Japan will get to choose between a dubbed and subtitled version of Call of Duty: Black Ops when it releases this winter. You can get a taste of what western warfare sounds like when it’s dubbed in Japanese by checking out this recent trailer… ...

Let's be honest. There are basically ten billion zombie games on the iPhone, and not all of them are very good at all. Fortunately, Zombie Shock is one of those absolutely superb ones that are more than worth the cash... ...

Battle vs Chess promises to expand on regular chess in so many ways they’re almost uncountable. Aside from mixing up chess rules and injecting RPG elements, there are also puzzle games aplenty. Of course, none of that would matter if the game was boring to look at, and based on the latest trailer, it’s easy on the eyes for sure... ...

Developer Treyarch announced today that Academy Award-winning actor Gary Oldman (Book of Eli, The Dark Knight, The Fifth Element) will reprise his role as Viktor Reznov in Call of Duty: Black Ops. But he's not alone... ...

It's probably the most famous cheat code in the world. Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start. Yup, the Konami code is (was?) the mantra for an entire generation of gamers. But who would have thought that it would do anything in Google Docs? Yup, there it is in all its glory, doing something totally useless (unless you live in an Enter The Dragon-style room full of mirrors, in which case you're almost certainly evil and must be stopped with Kung Fu right now).

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So there's this carrot, right, and it looks a lot like it has arms and legs. It's got a lot of character. The grower of this amazingly appendaged carrot thinks that it looks like Buzz Lightyear. I say no frickin' way that vegetable looks anything like Buzz Lightyear. Not a chance. However, it does bear more than just a passiing resemblance to a couple of game characters. ...

One of the biggest changes to the Call of Duty franchise this year will be the addition of Theater Mode. If you've ever played around with Saved Films in Halo 3, you know exactly what to expect: a built-in machinima studio in which every multiplayer match can be saved and then explored with a free-roaming camera. Take a look... ...

We were on location in Los Angeles earlier this week when Activision and Treyarch revealed Call of Duty: Black Ops’ expansive new multiplayer offerings. There was certainly plenty to be enthused about (read the juicy details here) but a few attendees were so thoroughly psyched - or wasted - that they spontaneously went all Electric Boogaloo on it. Luckily our all-seeing camera captured the magic – click through to watch it for yourself... ...