With Chinese New Year just around the corner, 2010 will be the year of...Blizzard? Announced today by Blizzard President and Co-Founder, Mike Morhaime, the closed beta of StarCraft II will launch towards of the end of February. That is awesome for those, myself included, that have been waiting for StarCraft II to come out. The news of StarCraft II was not the only announcement made by Blizzard. To be released later this year, Blizzard's highly acclaimed MMO, World of Warcraft, will be releasing their latest expansion with Cataclysm. Read More...

Episode Fifty Nine of the Aggrocast is here. On this episode, Mike, Brian and Binh begin with a discussion of our 2009 Game of the Year Awards. We move on to what we've been playing, where Brian decides to spill some salt with PlayStation Home and recommend the game as his On The DL pick. Binh discusses a bit of Star Trek Online, and then joins in as Mike raves about Mass Effect 2. Bargain Binh brings everyone a 2009 Activision game for under $20. Mike decides to seek revenge three times over with his Netflix Picks. Read More...

*Disclaimer: If you have not played Mass Effect, then I urge you to play through it before reading this review, as it will contain some spoilers from the first game. After the original Mass Effect, Bioware had a tough job on their hands. They made an excellent game, but one that was hampered by complaints from the players. So during the two plus years since the original, Bioware has spent their time making the necessary changes. The final result is leaps and bounds ahead of the first. Read More...

Well, seeing as how today is such a special day for football fans, it seems only right to present a deal for the current king of console gridiron - the John Madden NFL series.  Personally, I'm a 2k man, but since that series has gone the way of the dodo, I present a special deal to entice the Madden community. Both Amazon and Wal-Mart are having deals concerning the newest iteration of the title.Amazon proudly proclaims, "Get a $20 Video Games Credit: Pre-order Madden NFL 11, forWii, PS2, or Xbox 360, and get $20 off a future video game purchase. Read More...

3G Studios just announced that they would be crafting a first person "social shooter" for Facebook, arguably the most popular social networking site on the net. It seemed like this was in the making, the idea of a Facebook as a platform for more robust content (i.e. something a little more in-depth than say Farmville or Mafia Wars). As more and more companies seek to establish a presence on sites like Facebook, like EA staking their claim for instance by picking up Playfish, this seemed like a natural progression. So what does 3G Studios have in mind? Read More...

Well as long as you have a version of Rock Band that allows for DLC to be added onto your game. That and wait until after the game to buy the track from the Rock Band store. Like you would break anyways right. Between the Super Bowl it's self and the Super Bowl Commercials, when would you find the time anyways. Well that and if you are not too drunk buy then, but now I'm flowing off topic. Any Who, the fine minds over at Harmonix have gotten a hold of what The Who are going to be performing during the Half Time show. Read More...

The Behemoth, the cats responsible for Newgrounds, Alien Hominid, and Castle Crashers have given a name and a trailer for their newest title, "BatttleBlock Theater" (formerly "Game 3"). The plot is described over at the The Behemoth's official blog as, "Having been shipwrecked on a mysterious island you find yourself both betrayed by your best friend Hatty and captured by the locals. All of this is happening while being forced into deadly performances. This however, is just the start of your problems. Read More...

When it comes to "Game of the Year" articles, they seem to all come out before the year is over. Is it a rush to be the first, or is it because no games really come out in December? Regardless, we at Aggrogamer decided it was best not to rush so we had time to play those few games that released in December. Everyone deserves a fair shot. We also thought of making just one list of our votes on Game of the Year, but instead settled on everyone coming up with their own lists and to forgo one single title as the Game of the Year. Read More...

Have you been waiting for the new Stargate Universe MMORPG to be released? Well I have bad news, you’re going to have to continue waiting. If you would like to fill that gaping wormhole in your life though, the fine folks at Firesky are giving you a third person downloadable shooter to hold you over till....whenever. Firesky announced that Stargate: Resistance will be available for download on February 10th, 2010, from Direct2drive. Read More...

This podcast is a little late due to the sickness going around. Mike's complaining about Modern Warfare 2, Brian is complaining about being sick and playing too many video games and Binh's complaint is he's enjoying Star Trek Online way more than he thought he would. The guys debate on Bayonetta's "features" and whether or not it is offensive. Our features include Bargain Binh going classic, On the DL will let the jury decide and your Netflix Pix takes a slide on the wild side. Remember to get the word out to the masses by rating and reviewing us on iTunes and the Zune Marketplace. Read More...

Space... the final frontier... these are the voyages of the starship Aggrogamer. That’s right folks. Atari, and Cryptic have banded together to make Star Trek Online to enrich the MMO world, and thousands of gamers beamed aboard to play the beta. With phasers set to kill and transporters all set to beam down to the planet surface, it is time to explore like we never explored before. Disclaimer: Remember this is only a beta impression. With the story taking place thirty years after Star Trek Nemesis, you start the game by making your character. Read More...

When you have a red, hot rage against the gods like Kratos does, how are you suppose to quench it? A rage that is hotter than the deepest bowles of Tartarus hot. Well with the new Kratos Fury Slurpee being housed in your local Seven Eleven stores in the next week or so. Then you can probably enjoy this Blackberry and Lime flavored frozen delight all the way up until the launch of the game in March. At least that is how it was made to sound from Evan Brody, the Marketing Manager for Slurpee and Big Gulp Brands. To go a bit further for all of this, on each of the four different cups for this promotion there are codes you can input on Slurpee. Read More...

Well it was rumored earlier that the End would Begin on March 17th from the release date of the God of War III PS3 bundle in Europe. There were no confirmations about it being the true listed date or not. Well that was until now. That is, Sony just announced the official release date for God of War III as the 16th of March. So mark it as official and get ready for the Chaos. With that being announced, Sony was also nice enough to show off exactly what the Ultimate Edition will look like before you open it, and then after. Read More...

You know, with Sony flaunting their wand, Microsoft showcasing Natal, and Nintendo - well, doing what Nintendo does, I should not be as impressed with following video. But I am, and I am more excited about this than any project proclaimed by the previous companies. I see so much more in this than the horrible advertisement videos that Microsoft produces for Natal. This is a demo for some very cool augmented reality technology - watch it, and then tell me that you'd rather play "Microsoft Presents: Avatar Kickball Powered by Natal" more than this. It's Virtual Virtua On with a customized interface to give you the utmost in ARG mechanized warfare. Read More...

Looks like Naughty Dog is serious about bringing some eye-opening DLC to their blockbuster title, Uncharted 2. On the 28th of this month there is going to be an overflow of new skins to adorn your multiplayer experience. As Naughty Dog proclaimed over at the Playstation Blog, "Thanks to our friends at Guerilla Games, Insomniac Games and Sucker Punch Productions, we’ve been able to a pull off something unique within the UNCHARTED 2 competitive multiplayer modes – our first DLC release is the UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack. The PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack contains seven new skins featuring some key personalities from other major PlayStation first-party titles – Sev and a Helghast soldier from Killzone 2, Nathan Hale and a Chimera from Resistance 2, and Cole (both good and evil variants!) and Zeke from inFAMOUS. Read More...