Good news if you haven’t pre-ordered a 3DS yet, there might be a bundle or two available. GameStop currently has listings for four mysterious 3DS bundles, each one including a rather anticipated game. The listings just appeared on the official website, and look like they could be legitimate. Granted, we’ve heard nothing about bundles so far, but it looks like these could be custom GameStop bundles….

Oh, dear. Looks like Microsoft didn’t do enough Kinect testing with African-Americans, Latinos, and other people with dark or tanned skin. GameSpot reports that while testing the Kinect, two dark-skinned employees had trouble getting the facial recognition features to work.

With the current world economic issues affecting the game industry, Microsoft has now begun to clean its own house by trimming some of the supposed fat from its developer portfolio.

Microsoft has already shut down several of its first-party studios including FASA, ACES and Ensemble and now it appears Rare is restructuring.

In a statement released to GameSpot, Rare’s Studio Manager Mark Betteridge said the restructuring could result in layoffs…

The massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) Fallen Earth‘s alpha testing game is going to begin this week, on August 14, 2008, and People who stop by GameSpot and sign up may have the chance to participate. So far, over 130 people have posted to apply for an alpha or beta testing position. Alpha testing is currently set to run until sometime in Q1 2009, and beta testing should begin shortly after.

If you want to apply, head to GameSpot, register and post on the event page. You have to give some basic information in your post (CPU, ram, graphics card and OS) in order to be considered. The Fallen Earth team will then select the first round of alpha testers based on information provided, when testers applied, the testers’ schedules and their internet connection speeds…

In the global fight against terrorism numerous government and private organizations have kept their ears to the ground, trying to prevent the next 9/11. Now it seems that Bethesda Softworks, a Maryland based developer which created the Elders Scroll series, has unwillingly become part of terrorists’ war on the Western world.

No, Bethesda isn’t dropping the controller and mouse for AK47s and joining Al-Qaeda, but it seems that even the world’s most fearsome terrorist group is also a fan of Bethesda’s upcoming game, Fallout 3…

Hot on the heels of the groundbreaking success of Grand Theft Auto IV, THQ said in an interview with Reuters that they are pushing back the release of Saint’s Row 2 from August 2008 to October 14, 2008.

THQ’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Bob Aniello, told Reuters that the reasons for this change were due to production quality concerns and to increase marketing efforts…

With the June 2008 release date of the next installment in the Metal Gear Solid series just, there has been a lot of assumption that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of Patriots will be the last in the series. That might not be the case.

In a recent interview with Reuters, Hideo Kojima, the creator and lead designer of Metal Gear stated:

“Metal Gear will always be around. I feel a responsibility to continue this series as long as users demand it.”

And the corporate consolidation of media continues – Kotaku is reporting on CBS’ acquisition of CNET networks cache of sites, including gamespot. Apparently, CNET’s board of directors unanimously agreed to the merger, and the transition is slated to occur by the third quarter of this year. From the post: “Upon closing, CNET Networks’ sites will more »

It looks like Rockstar is finally getting wise about releasing its games with numerous bugs and serious glitches. After years of putting out titles such as Grand Theft Auto, which always came along with a series of major technical problems; from frequent crashing, visual glitches or simply that entire levels wouldn’t load, (San Andreas being the worst offender) fans have decided that enough is enough.

After the release of Rockstar’s latest title, Bully: Scholarship Edition for the Xbox 360, which was originally released on the PlayStation 2 in October of 2006, the game once again suffered from a number of major technical glitches. But Rockstar has acknowledged that this kind of performance on a next-generation console is unacceptable.

On Thursday (January 31, 2008), Gamespot anointed Ricardo Torres as its newest Editor-in-Chief, a position that hasn’t been filled since previous EIC Greg Kasavin left to work at Electronic Arts in January 2007. Upon taking the job, Torres told GameDaily, in an interview, that he wants to win back the readers who were disgusted with the site after December 2007′s infamous ousting of its Editorial Director, Jeff Gerstmann. Rumors perpetuated that Gerstmann was allegedly fired for giving a negative review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men and drawing the ire of advertiser Eidos and CNet’s management, although CNet contends it was due to unrelated “internal reasons.”

Unfortunately for Torres, his plea doesn’t pack the…