Far away from the charts and the mega-commercial releases and the grinning Bobby Koticks, there is an exciting world of games loaded with passionate expression, dazzling ideas and a staggering wealth of creativity. They are independent games and they are being celebrated at next month's International Festival of Independent Games, aka IndieCade. The 32 finalists of this year's IndieCade awards a... more.

Far away from the charts and the mega-commercial releases and the grinning Bobby Koticks, there is an exciting world of games loaded with passionate expression, dazzling ideas and a staggering wealth of creativity. They are independent games and they are being celebrated at next month's International Festival of Independent Games, aka IndieCade. The 32 finalists of this year's IndieCade awards a... more.

There was no official news of a zombie mode at Activision's big Call of Duty: Black Ops event in L.A. this week. No official news at all. In fact there was close-to flat-out denial that the best bit of World at War was even going to make it in to Treyarch's new Cold War CoD. But fear not. Official word only means so much in this industry. And the word that came out of the event u... more.

There was no official news of a zombie mode at Activision's big Call of Duty: Black Ops event in L.A. this week. No official news at all. In fact there was close-to flat-out denial that the best bit of World at War was even going to make it in to Treyarch's new Cold War CoD. But fear not. Official word only means so much in this industry. And the word that came out of the event u... more.

More familiar psychopaths and blood-soaked locations. Hit the jump to see the new stages compared with their classic inspiration... ...... more.

More familiar psychopaths and blood-soaked locations. Hit the jump to see the new stages compared with their classic inspiration... ...... more.

A new Activision-published game, Blood Drive, has appeared on Amazon, but has not been officially announced. The combat racing game takes place, apparently, in "Lost" Vegas, and is due for release on October 26th of this year. We thought "blood drives" were things our annoying, charitable friends guilted us in to. And then all we get for giving our precious life juice is a cookie and a stic... more.