Amazon.co.uk have released a statement to confirm what the industry pretty much knows. Red Dead Redemption’s mix of must have online play, fantastic pedigree of open world shooters and western setting  mixed with awesome PR work has resulted in what Amazon have described as:
..undoubtedly the most hotly anticipated video game of the year so far. Demand has risen significantly over the last week as excitement and buzz around the game has built, making it one of the most successful titles we have seen on Amazon.co.uk this year before it has even been …

Peripheral manufacturer Mad Catz has signed a five-year contract to develop controllers for the Rock Band franchise and any other future versions of the Harmonix-developed titles.
“Serving as the principal Rock Band video game peripherals partner on a multi-territory basis leverages the powerful product development and global marketing and distribution capabilities Mad Catz has built,” said Mad Catz CEO Darren Richardson.

Lost Planet 2 has a new video out, showing some of the customization mechanics for you character.
There was one thing that I thought that Lost Planet was missing, and Capcom has answered giving us somewhat sexy Lady Pirates.
In other related news apparently Capcom thinks bikinis are bullet proof and one of the sole requirements to be a female pirate is under-boob.
Click the link courtesy of Giant Bomb for more Lost Planet 2 goodness
Meet the Lady Pirates of Lost Planet 2.
The Lost Planet 2 multiplayer demo is out now on both …

Okay, silly question, heard of Goldeneye? Chances are you have fond memories of the N64 classic that led to the development and launch of Perfect Dark and the team behind it went on to bigger and better things with the TimeSplitter series so ANY news about a prospective Goldeneye game must surely be a good thing?
Well, hate to pee on your parade but they also launched another Goldeneye game fairly recently by the name of Rogue Agent… Okay, now we’ve killed your buzz, allow us to bring the news:
It’s nothing …

Part one of our Remember this? news today comes from that historical announcement years gone by of a zombie apocalyptic shooter. We’re taking pre-Left 4 Dead here, in fact, we’re talking pretty much right after Dead Rising. So what do we have for you?
Well, not too much but it’s a start: the publisher for Techland’s Dead Island (makers of Call of Juarez), is likely to be Deep Silver. Rumours were rife after the developer announced it had secured a publisher last year that it would have been Ubisoft (with Techland’s …