Month: May 2012

Reveal Trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Activision just revealed the first trailer for Treyarch’s upcoming title Call of Duty: Black Ops II, along with a release date of November 13th, 2012. The trailer marks a turn for the series — the game appears to take place in 2025 and is heavy in technological warfare. Cyberpunk-themed CoD with horses to prevent the […]

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Konami Set To Deploy Solid Snake Onto Vita This June

Solid Snake will be deployed on the PlayStation Vita for the first time with the release of the Metal Gear Solid Collection this June Konami has announced. The Vita version of the collection will include the re-mastered versions of Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 that were released on the Xbox 360 […]

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TERA Online Launches

TERA Online is now available for purchase, according to developers En Masse Entertainment and distributor Atari. TERA is an action-based MMORPG that was developed using Epic Game’s Unreal Engine 3. In the game, players can assume the role one of eight different classes across seven different races, ranging from the strong Baraka to the elegant […]

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Shadowrun Returns (With Almost Two Million Dollars)

The Kickstarter project for Harebrained Schemes’ planned Shadowrun Returns finalized this past weekend, bringing their fundraising total to $1,895,772, though nearly $60,000 of that total was provided on PayPal. With the original project goal of $400,000 reached in 28 hours, Harebrained Schemes continued to provide further incentives for supporters including in-game content, localization options, and […]

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Set for Nov. 13

Confirming public speculation, Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops will be receiving a sequel on November 13, 2012. At the time of this writing Callofduty.com‘s UK page has sparse info, such as the preview still of a currently unplayable trailer on YouTube, and only a small amount of promotional copy promising that Call of Duty: […]

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Daily Giveaway: Magicka May Day

I hope that you have all survived Walpurgis Night unscathed and are ready for an excellent first of May. In the past, the first of May was May Day, a springtime festival. It’s also International Workers’ Day. This year is different. May 1, 2012 will be remembered (by a few of you) as the day […]

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Win a Signed Copy of Gears of War 3

If there is one thing we at Broken Joysticks love besides video games, it’s creativity. Good films, timeless literature, mind boggling abstract paintings, and performance artists covering themselves with live fire ants rarely fails to stimulate our right brains. However, it recently came to our attention that driving Chainsaw Bayonets into the necks of locusts […]

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Welcome To Broken Joysticks

First off, welcome to Broken Joysticks. The secretive cabal behind this fine website is unified by a mutual love for videogames. We wish to spread the love as it were, blessing acolytes for their devotion to gaming. The people behind Broken Joysticks are not fresh faced newbies when it comes to the gaming industry. Many […]

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