Infinity Ward co-founders and studio heads Jason West and Vince Zampella are fighting a tough court battle with Activision over the way IW was run and compensation for the West and Zampella’s work. But that didn’t stop the guys from starting up their new studio, Respawn Entertainment, which will work on “original IP”.

Epic Game, EA and developer People Can Fly have now unveiled Bulletstorm, the new action IP. The game follows two mercenaries in an alien world where they have to, guess… fight aliens! The game looks and feels a lot like Gears of War, which can only be a good thing. The upcoming issue of Game Informer will have all the details later this month.

Netflix is now officially available on the Wii, after coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 quite a while ago. Netflix is now shipping the discs required to watch movies, alongside a Netflix account. However, unlike with the Xbox 360 and PS3, movies will not be in HD on the Wii.

The wonderful and beautiful game Machinarium has been denied by Microsoft on the Xbox Live Arcade platform for not being an Xbox Exclusive, as the game is also released on the PC, Mac and Linux as well. The developer, Amalita Design, has now moved on to PlayStation 3′s PSN platform instead.

Gears of War 3 has been rumored for an April 2011 release for a while, and it’s expected that a formal announcement will be made later today. However, as early as last week, Gears 3 was pretty much confirmed when an image on Xbox Live popped up, the image you see above. Expect the first gameplay videos and trailers at E3 in two months.

We just told you about the Halo movie but perhaps you want to hear something that is actually coming soon? Well, IGN has just put up a feature that showcases the 4 maps that are to appear in the Halo: Reach beta which is launching on May 3rd. These maps are entitled Sword Base and Power House, which will be great for Slayer, Headhunter, Overlook, which will utilize the Generator Defense/NT 1 gametype and finally Boneyard which is a “great landscape custom built for Invasion”.

So there you have it folks, they even have some pictures of the maps that you can check out here.

If you’re a Halo fan you’ll undoubtedly already know that there has been talks about a movie based on the franchise for some time. The film actually entered production but was later sacked due to improper funding. Ever since then it’s been rumor after rumor with no official word on the movie’s current state.

Well, during a conference Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor has said that they will be a Halo movie “when the time is right” and that the own the IP so if/when they want to make the movie they can. He then went on to say that a movie would increase the Halo fan numbers even more.

Just make the damn thing already, we’ve been waiting forever.

via kotaku

Pokemon has been around seemingly forever and the game sales are showing so signs of ceasing. Today the latest games in the series have been revealed entitled Pokemon Black and Pokemon White. Unfortunately, we won’t be seeing these games as a Nintendo 3DS exclusive but instead we’ll be seeing them appear on the Nintendo DS later this year.

There’s virtually no more information but the Japanese Pokemon website lets us know that we will learn more on April 15th.

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Are you a fan of Bejeweled? If so, you’ll be happy to hear that PopCap Games has come forth and released Bejewled Blitz for the PC. If you’re a Facebook user you may know that there is a Bejeweled Blitz applition. The PC version, priced at $19.95, will add additional gameplay along with a full-screen version and a better graphics.

Really though? $20 for a game like this?

via popcap

If you’ve been looking to pick up a Street Fighter IV FightStick but haven’t been able to justify the high price tag, you’re in luck. Buy.com has just announced that they will be discounting the PS3 version of the controller to $29.99. Additionally, if you’re looking to go a bit more hardcore, they have the Tournament Edition FightStick up for $119.99, a nice saving.

I don’t know about you guys but I prefer a controller over these FightSticks any day. Maybe I need to actually use them some more. What do you think?

Edit: It seems the FightSticks are out of stock, bummer. Let’s hope they hold this promotion again once it’s back in stock.

via destructoid