Two social media heavyweights — Lady Gaga and Zynga — will partner for GagaVille, an offshoot of FarmVille. GagaVille, a uniquely designed neighboring farm to FarmVille, that sports unicorns and crystals, according to Zynga, launches May 17.GagaVille visitors will get a first listen to unreleased... 

TorrentFreak‘s annual report on the most pirated games of the year has Activision‘s Call of Duty: Black Ops taking the dubious top honor for 2010. Even with Activision’s attempts to play “good cop” with pirates, Black Ops is estimated to have been downloaded 4.27 million... 

“It’s the most dynamic sales weapon we have ever had in our arsenal, giving us the equivalent exposure of a multi-million pound TV campaign,” Capcom’s UK product manager Karl Reader told MCV. “We foresee other publishers will follow suit.” And why shouldn’t... 

Who should ex-Friends star Matthew Perry thank for landing his latest job, a role in Fallout: New Vegas? Not his agent. According to senior producer Jason Bergman, Perry’s role was cemented thanks to talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. On the April 24, 2009 show, Perry appeared not only to promote 17... 

Over on Fortune City’s visitor guide website, you’ll find tons of info relating to Dead Rising 2′s world. One of the key elements revealed is a spiffy map of Fortune City to give you all a head start when playing the game. Be sure to head on over to www.visitfortunecity.com to check... 

Valve is making some noteworthy changes to the way Left 4 Dead 2 plays, the way it scores and the way it can sometimes infuriate players. When Valve polled zombie apocalypse enthusiasts on their rage quitting reasons, this was why. The official Left 4 Dead site outlines some, but not all, of those impending... 

Interplay has launched a teaser site for Fallout Online, presumably the proper title for Project V13 from Chris Taylor, designer of the original Fallout (with help from Masthead Studios). This comes in the wake of drawn-out legal action between Interplay and Bethesda over the rights to the Fallout... 

Ubisoft has announced even more details about its upcoming relaunch of its gritty, open-world franchise, now titled Driver: San Francisco. We make it out to San Francisco for a few days every year for GDC, but we’ve never witnessed a single act of gritty crime, so we’re not sold on how eventful... 

Microsoft has confirmed during its post- press conference / mass console giveaway “media roundtable” that it is no longer manufacturing the original Xbox 360 hardware in any form. A Microsoft representative has told Joystiq that the now-outdated machine will continue to be sold until stock... 

What more do we need to say? We’ll be heading back into the future ’50s world of Fallout, sculpted by Obsidian, on October 19 in the US and October 22 in Europe. In case you hadn’t already seen in the recently released E3 trailer, the Las Vegas … er, New Vegas setting is... 

Microsoft reportedly has a juicy reveal up its sleeve for the upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo mid-June: Inside sources say Hulu is coming to the Xbox Live service on the Xbox 360 console. Gear Live reports that in addition to Project Natal details, Microsoft will be unveiling the Hulu service... 

Microsoft Korea has submitted Sega’s Crazy Taxi and Sonic Adventure to the Korean ratings board, leading to speculation that the Dreamcast titles are racing to XBLA. Sega was unable to officially comment on the ratings. Sonic Adventure popped up like a blue blur on radar back in January, while Siliconera... 

Ninjabee has announced that A World of Keflings will expand on the Avatar functionality of its predecessor, A Kingdom for Keflings. Specifically, the title will allow players to bring their Avatar props and pets inside the game world. Players will be able to summon their props and pets whenever they... 

The first downloadable episode for Valve‘s southern fried zombie shooter Left 4 Dead 2 didn’t make its originally scheduled “late March” release. Thankfully, it looks like “The Passing” campaign will make a late April release. Valve updated the official Left 4 Dead... 

Can’t say this mash-up ever occurred to me, though, in hindsight, it seems sort of obvious. Four people from four different backgrounds trying to conquer a gauntlet to ensure their future survival. Whether they’re up against flying monkeys or zombies, the challenge before them is still epic. The... 

We’re not exactly used to finding out hot scoops on Valve‘s game projects from Xbox Live’s “Inside Xbox” feature “SENTUAMESSAGE,” so it was especially odd to us when we heard that Left 4 Dead 2‘s upcoming Left 4 Dead 1 crossover DLC “The Passing”... 

As a safe haven for all the world’s thinking people, we’d like to happily announce that though this post is about a new look for Portal protagonist Chell in the upcoming Portal 2, you’ll find no sly, winking references to the original game anywhere in sight. We’re fresh out... 

This week’s Xbox Live deal ain’t too shabby, if you haven’t got yourself a copy of Fallout 3: GOTY Edition or already downloaded all of the game’s DLC onto your hard drive. Each of the five episodes continuing the adventures of our strong, silent hero (or villain, if you prefer...