Extreme Sports

02.19.12

With over 150 fighters, seven weight classes and an assortment of MMA fighting styles, there’s a lot of depth in UFC Undisputed 3. The game’s producer, Neven Dravinski, has spent years playing the new game. He’s the Ultimate Fighting Championship expert. And now he’s sharing some tips for dominating the new PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game in the exclusive video interview below.

02.17.12

SAN FRANCISCO -- MMA fighter Danny Castillo has game outside of the Octagon. The lightweight UFC fighter was able to check out UFC Undisputed 3 early in San Francisco, just down the road from his training headquarters in Sacramento where he trains with Urijah Faberat. Castillo talks about the new game in this exclusive video interview below.

02.15.12

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson is one of the 150 Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighters that have gone virtual in THQ’s new UFC Undisputed 3 game. He’s also one of the majority of UFC athletes that has grown up playing games. In fact, Jackson could easily be considered one of the biggest gamers in the organization. While he’s held The fighter-turned-Hollywood-actor talks about his gaming background, dishes on the new UFC game, and explains why he has the coolest limo out there in this interview.

02.14.12

Greg Jackson is one of the masterminds in the growing sport of mixed martial arts (MMA). Jackson’s Mixed Martial Arts gym has been the home to UFC champions like Jon Jones (UFC Light Heavyweight), Georges St. Pierre (UFC Welterweight) and Tom Watson (BAMMA Middleweight Champion). Jackson’s fighting team has over 575 wins. The Gaidojutsu expert talks about THQ’s new UFC Undisputed 3 videogame in this exclusive video interview below.

02.01.12

Consoles and PC's have had a slow month interms of new AAA quality games arriving for your respected platform. While January got off to a slow start, it quickly recovered to bring us high quality tittles through digital distribution. Plenty of great downloadable arcade tittles were made available through XBLA, PSN and Steam, giving us many hidden gems on the digital marketplace. Let's look back at the games we reviewed over the past month.  

02.01.12

Every Tuesday, Sony brings its PlayStation faithful new content, add-ons for your favorite games, Themes and avatars for your PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. Again another standard week of PSN goods you can get, but for the most part the main draw are going to be demos. Twisted Metal is finally going to hit store shelves and the fans of  the series will be eager to get their hands on the multiplayer demo now available.  

01.21.12

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to Fathom movie theaters on Saturday, Feb. 4, at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT with its first-ever, live 3D broadcast of an action-packed UFC card. UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit Live in 3D gives fans the chance to witness the highly anticipated battle between former STRIKEFORCE champion Nick Diaz and former WEC champion and knockout artist Carlos Condit for the interim UFC welterweight title live and in 3D. This gives fans a chance to enjoy the action before THQ's UFC Undisputed 3 hits PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Dana White talks about the new game in the exclusive video below.

01.19.12

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD is a downloadable title for consoles that takes the best elements of the classic THPS games and gives them a fresh update to create an all new skateboarding experience. Tapping into fans’ muscle memories, the gameplay in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD returns to controllers and focuses on the satisfaction of linking sick tricks for maximum points. Combining sharp visuals with the best controls ever in a Tony Hawk game, the feel is cutting edge yet timeless. Hawk talks about the new game in this exclusive video below.

01.04.12

Every Tuesday, Sony brings its Playstation faithful new content, add-ons for your favorite games, Themes and avatars for your PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. For those who have the Playstation Plus, you can now get telltale's Back to The Future game for free. Ever wanted to find out what happened and wanted to continue your adventures with Marty Mcfly and Doc? Now is your chance, as you get all the six episodic for free. Another game you can get thanks to your PSN Plus membership is Sword & Soldiers. It's an enjoyable 2D sidescrolling strategy game that is highly replayable with a group of friends.

01.03.12

THQ is expanding the workouts available for its Ultimate Fighting Championship fitness game. UFC Personal Trainer: The Ultimate Fitness System now features DLC from prominent UFC bantamweight Urijah Faber, whose submission victory over Brian Bowles at UFC 139 earned him a future rematch against Dominick Cruz for the UFC Bantamweight Championship. The Urijah Faber Workout Pack will feature five new workout routines and 15 new Hit the Mitts drills. Wanderlei Silva talks about the UFC games in the exclusive video interview below.

12.11.11

Tony Hawk is making his video game comeback. After taking a hiatus from the virtual world, the Birdman has a new Activision skateboarding game coming in 2012 from Robomodo. The X-Games legend was at the Spike “VGAs” 2011 to talk about his latest title, Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD, in this exclusive interview from the red carpet at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.

10.07.11

LAS VEGAS – Electronic Arts has more than just a new Syndicate game coming back in a new form in February. The game giant is also rebooting its SSX snowboarding brand in January. Both titles are expected to be big games of 2012. The developer talks about the new extreme sports ride in this exclusive video interview.

08.26.11

Following in the footsteps of EA Sports Madden NFL 12 and THQ’s WWE 12, fans will get to vote on the cover athlete for UFC Undisputed 3 from THQ and Zuffa. Gamers can  vote on the forthcoming installment in the critically acclaimed mixed martial arts (MMA) video game franchise based on the Ultimate Fighting Championship by visiting www.ufc.com/ufcundisputed3 through September 30, 2011. The five choices are renowned UFC fighters UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre, UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez.

07.27.11

The sun was out in San Diego, but inside the convention center the slopes were packed with fresh snow and ice. Electronic Arts had the newest version of SSX playable at Comic-Con 2011. The game’s developer was on hand to talk about what’s in store for the new snowboarding title in this exclusive video interview.