ArenaNet, the development team behind the Guild Wars franchise have today announced that their MMORPG Guild Wars 2 has ranked in as the fastest selling MMORPG in Europe and North America. This data comes from DFC Intelligence, a strategic market research and consulting firm, with the territorial sales of Guild…

Remember a few years about when everything was about vampires. We had Twilight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries dominating the entertainment industry. Strangely this vampire fanaticism never really made it into the video games industry, probably because games had already burnt out on vampires around the Blade era with…

Microsoft have announced their intentions to shut down Games for Windows Live and to cease selling games through the PC Games Marketplace. This change is happening alongside the new Xbox 360 system update which sees Microsoft Points being faded out of the system. The official statement reads as follows: "As…

The video shows us famous Lord of the Rings characters such as Legolas, Gollum, Sauron and Frodo, with cinematic, as well as in-game footage of various battles from the MOBA. The game was previously available on PS3 but should sit right at home on PC with mouse and keyboard controls.…

The Anno series, famed for its city-building and RTS elements, began in 1998. Since then the series has amassed over 5 million sales worldwide, 1 million of which comes from the most recent installment - the future-set ANNO 2070. The long-running economic real-time strategy series is introducing some new events…

FTL: Faster Than Light is a charming Kickstarter-funded indie title which has taken the industry by storm and has been catapulted into the pantheon of great indie success stories. But how does the game measure up? FTL is based on a style of RPG gameplay known as Roguelikes. A Roguelike…

In today's Call of Duty Ghosts reveal, we learned that the maps in CoD Ghosts will be something completely different for a CoD game. The maps will change as you play, buildings can blow up and fall down, the map will literally change around you as you play. The game…

This morning Nvidia sent out a new statement retracting its comment of a PC version of GTA V being released. The statement read: “Please note, during our Thursday’s earnings call, our investor relations team provided a list of important games that gamers are looking forward to on PC this fall,…

A big congrats to Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, we at VGU are big fans of this Medieval slash feast and it is great to see it doing so well even after all this time. As you can expect, the guys over at Torn Banner Studios are obviously really happy about this and…

Morphicon and Koch Media today announced that ArmA 3, the ultra-realistic military simulator, has been given a release date of September 12th, 2013 for PC. The game ships as a Limited Deluxe Edition, featuring a hologram slip case, a special key card, a detailed map of the Altis Island and…

Another midweek, another midweek madness, check out what's on offer from Steam and grab a midweek bargain. Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is a sci-fi RTS game and is critically acclaimed across the board. Scoring an 82/100 on metacritic the game expands on the first Sins of a Solar…

Console owners wanting to get a bit more agricultural are in for a treat, as Focus Interactive have announced a release date for the console version of the farming sim, which is currently set at September 4th. In celebration of this news, new screenshots have also been released which show…

Originally released on the NES in 1989, Ducktales (woo-hoo!) became one of the most beloved games of the generation, permanently ingraining itself into the hearts of gamers. Famous for Scrooge McDuck's pogo-cane jumping and a stellar soundtrack, the game has now been re-made by WayForward technologies. Ducktales (woo-hoo!) Remastered features…

The new gameplay trailer from Ubisoft details many things about how hacking works in Watch_Dogs. This includes how you will gain access to systems within the city and what systems and information you can gain access too. It's interesting to note just how many different ways you can hack the…

Fans have asked for it, console players didn't really care and Rockstar seemed a little despondent, but Grand Theft Auto V may be coming to PC's this fall after all. At Nvidia's Q2 2014 earnings call Senior IR Director of Nvidia Chris Evenden said:"Many consumers look for PC as a…

Project Phoenix is a Kickstarter unlike any you ever will have seen. It features talented individuals form all corners of the game industry (with credits including several Final Fantasies, The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Valkyria Chronicles, L.A. Noire, Diablo III, Halo 4, Crysis 3, the list goes on) coming together to…

  [REDACTED] Does not kill. That would be far too easy. Instead, he commits his crimes through stealth. He sneaks, he distracts, he avoids. He is never seen, and seldom heard. As he grows in popularity and notoriety, so will his inventory. Blackjacks, bugles, thunderclaps and veils are just some…

Ever since The Bureau: XCOM Declassified has been on Steam, there was a challenge to see how many people would pre-order the title. The trick was that if more people pre-ordered the game, more rewards would become available for pre-order customers. Now it can be said that the community truly…

The new trailer shows off the level of detail in current builds of WRC 4 from the snowy roads of Sweden and also showcases the attention to detail used on the Rally Car of Sébastien Loeb, winner of 9 championships and his team mate Mikko Hirvonen. As the trailer states times,…

The latest headset from Mad Catz will be available to PC and Mac Users. Announced at E3 2013 the headset features 40mm Neodymium speakers and in-line controls for volume and chat. Darren Richardson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. stated, “Our TRITTON Kunai range proved popular at E3 thanks…

In June, Capcom began a competition asking for fans' best remixes of "Fragments," a track from Dontnod Entertainment's Remember Me, a 3rd person action game set in Neo-Paris. The game's community then took to their instruments, decks, and whatever else they could make music with and got to work. Today,…