The modding community is celebrating its 11th annual awards and is showcasing the top 100 mods for a variety of games for you to see and pick as your favourite for this year! With some amazing mods such as DayZ for Arma2: Combined and Black Mesa for Half Life 2…

Due to an error made by new stations in America, Mass Effect is taking the brunt of the abuse for the event that occurred this week. Fox news and CNN reported that a "Ryan Lanza" was responsible for the shooting, this information however was WRONG. This did not stop hundreds…

In a recent interview, the team's executive developer, Hirohide Sugira and team player Michihiko Inaba had this to say about their upcoming Wii U project: Inaba: “I’d like to make an HD game that will wow the players. I want to show that Japan can still keep up with the…

If you are a fan of Oddworld you may want to get your wallets ready because there are two games available soon for you to enjoy! Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD for PS Vita (out in North America on Tuesday 18 December and Europe on Wednesday 19 December, priced at $14.99/€11.99/£9.99) and Oddworld:…

The crazy people behind Team Fortress 2 have just announced that a new feature is being added to Steam, the ability to sell items from your inventory or Market home page to other users! A direct quote from the TF2 team says that "As part of our on-going efforts to…

As was revealed last week, the UK government is going to be introducing a tax relief of 25% for selected games in development, the tax break is hoping to be brought into effect by next year but it is still subject to change. However, even before it is brought into…

Gabe has finally come out and admitted it, Valve ARE making a console! "I think in general that most customers and most developers are gonna find that [the PC is] a better environment for them," Newell noted in an interview with Kotaku. "Cause they won't have to split the world…

HOLY HELL this game looks amazing! Set in a huge new world and with more dragons than before Dark Souls 2 looks AMAZING! We at VGU are HUGE fans of the Souls series and it is GREAT to see a new title in production! To check out the offical site,…

In a recent article by PC Gamer they revealed that they have not only played Bioshock Infinite, but they also interviews Ken Levine, the games creative director. In this interview, Ken was quoted as saying, "I would say that the ending of the game is the most ambitious thing we’ve…

The Pokémon Company today announced that it is adding Global Battle union (GBU) Wi-Fi tournaments to its video game series season. This will make it much easier for players of the Pokémon video games to become Pokémon pro's! The next big event is the VGCS Winter Battles taking place from…

Tasked with making games with the theme of "Mendelian Inheritance: genetics and genomics," the 12 teams that were shortlisted have been working hard in order to present their work so far, live, to a panel of judges from the Welcome Trust. The teams were graded on a specific set of…

Team Fortress 2 is a class based first person shooter developed by Valve initially released in 2007. Now a free game on Steam the game TF2 still draws in a huge audience even after 5 years of being released. This is mostly due to the fact that the game has…

Ni No Kuni is an upcoming JRPG that has been developed by the critically acclaimed Japanese dev studio, Level-5 with the assistance of the legendary Japanese animation company, Studio Ghibli, responsible for such classic animated films like Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle. The game is set to be exclusively…

As of right now, the final pieces of art from the London Games Festival have been made available to buy now to help raise money for charity. The London Games Festival is an event that celebrates the culture of games and the creative talents within that industry and is being…

Mario is back and this time it’s all about the cash! No, Nintendo haven’t sold out, it’s just the latest Mario platformer for the 3DS, New Super Mario Bros 2! The game is a direct sequel to New Super Mario Bros (for the DS) and like that game re-introduces some…

After releasing HAZE Free Radical tried to find a publisher for TimeSplitters 4, even showing off a WORKING demo during the pitch meetings! But there was a small problem, HAZE! It turns out that due to the bad press HAZE had received publishers were nervous to work with the company,…

Final Fantasy 7 (for Playstation 1 and PC) initially released in 1997 and re-released again on the Playstation Network in 2009 is widely regarded as one of the best JRPG’s in a long time, gaining critical acclaim upon release. Now because of the 25th anniversary of the Final Fantasy series…

Welcome to Opinionated! We here at VGU have a fair few thoughts about the games industry and how games are designed, so, what better way to tell the world then by putting these thoughts on paper? Remember, these articles are only opinions of the writers and do not reflect the…

Early stolen copies of resident evil 6 have been sold in Poland a long time away from its official release date. Capcom told EuroGamer "Capcom is currently undertaking a thorough investigation into reports that Resident Evil 6 is being sold ahead of its official October 2 release date," the publisher…

Beyond Two Souls by Quantic Dream release date  is about a young girl, Jodie Holmes who is voiced and modelled after actor Ellen Page. You live the life of Jodie Holmes, a young woman who possesses supernatural powers through her psychic link to an invisible entity. With amazing visuals you take…

When the PlayStation Vita first come out users were promised big named games and exciting new features such as using the vita system as a controller. However this vision shortly ended in disappointment with only a few games being released in the six months since release and features such as…