Japanese publisher Sunsoft, perhaps best known for its NES release Blaster Master and subsequent sequels, will be resuming operations in North America the company announced today, soliciting a little relaunch help from Gaijinworks. For those unfamiliar with Gaijinworks and their singular title Miami Law for the Nintendo DS, the company was formed by ex-Working Designs…
Konami has made a date with Naked Snake for his next North American outing, penciling in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for the PlayStation Portable, expected to arrive on these shores May 25, 2010. Snake’s ’70s era sneak attack will hit North American PSPs just a few days before Europe gets a crack at it,…
It’s once more into the Nexus, friends, as I revisit Demon’s Souls this weekend—hopefully to wrap the things up—so that catch-up review can be written and so the world might be mended. So the world might be mended. I’ve also got some more New Super Mario Bros. Wii to play, helping me make those all-important…
The sheer number of foxy blue alien women in Mass Effect 2 has pushed the limits of the DVD format’s storage capabilities. As a result, BioWare is spreading the Xbox 360 and PC game across two discs. While that won’t mean that much to owners of the PC version—it’s a two-disc install—poor Xbox 360 owners…
Annual iterations to reliable blockbuster games—like Call of Duty—would likely go a long way to improving Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive‘s bottom line. But execs for the publisher don’t believe GTA is in need of annual sequels. “In any non-GTA year, should we just assume you’re not going to make money?” an investment analyst…
PlayStation 3 owners can see what the Bayonetta buzz is about with the North American release of the game’s demo, which joins Call of Duty: Classic in this week’s PlayStation Store update. If they have an Xbox 360, they can also download the Xbox 360 version of that Bayonetta demo, letting them compare, contrast and…
Namco Bandai’s incredibly bizarre Muscle March, the WiiWare game featuring posing races between buff, bikini-clad bodybuilders and bears, is coming to North American next year, believe it or not. This English-language trailer should aid in the believability of it all. Really, there’s nothing I can add to this trailer. I’ll shut up so you can…
Level 5’s latest Professor Layton puzzle-adventure, Layton Kyouju to Majin no Fue, debuts at the top of Japan’s video game software sales charts, another 300,000 Nintendo DS games added to the series’ impressive sales. Professor Layton and his apprentice Luke didn’t have much in the way of competition this week, with cute railroad sim Momotaro…
With developer Gearbox Software calling a Borderlands sequel a “no-brainer” and the title called out as one of the few bright spots on publisher Take-Two Interactive‘s earnings sheet, more talk of more Borderlands shouldn’t surprise you. Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick said during today’s quarterly earnings update that the role-playing shooter, which had a “successful launch,”…
Originally planned to hit this “winter” then moved to the first half of next year, Rockstar Games‘ third Max Payne title won’t hit until August 2010 at the earliest, publisher Take-Two Interactive announced today. The rest of Take-Two’s slate, including BioShock 2, Red Dead Redemption and Mafia II appear to be sticking to their regularly…
When Spike TV‘s telegenic hosts hand out awards at this year’s VGAs show next week, this, the Vector Monkey as designed by LittleBigPlanet developers Media Molecule, is what winners will walk away with. Yes, Megan Fox, this could be yours! How did Media Molecule get wrapped up in the Spike TV Video Game Award statuette…
This week’s episode of crime procedural Bones tells the tale of Billy and Steve, competitive gamers vying for the “perfect score” on a classic arcade game. But unlike documentary The King of Kong, one of these gamers winds up… murdered! And unlike The King of Kong, gamers Billy Gabel and Steve Rifton—the less fortunate of…
Late pop star Michael Jackson had a fairly close relationship with Sega, lending his image to Space Channel 5 and Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker. Jackson was also rumored to have contributed to Sonic the Hedgehog 3, a rumor now confirmed. According to an interview in the French magazine Black & White—the “official magazine of Michael Jackson”—Jackson’s…
Yesterday, a handful of former Fuzzyeyes Studios employees told Kotaku that steampunk-style role-playing game Edge of Twilight had ceased development and that the developer had been hit with substantial layoffs. Today the developer responds. Fuzzeyes reps deny that the developer is shutting down and that Edge of Twilight development will continue in January. Reps confirm…
My room had a private balcony, a calming view of the Pacific, and beaches a few hundred feet away. Like dozens of guests who stayed at a Santa Barbara resort in October, I was there to play a video game. Over the course of two days, I gazed upon California’s beaches from a distance. I…
Participating in a Mortal Kombat fight to the death is scary enough as it is, but Johnny Cage’s explanation of how a tournament works, apparently lost on Shang Tsung, is a good public service announcement. That is, if you plan on holding your own Mortal Kombat contest any time soon and plan on letting a…
Earlier this week, gaming site Aeropause reported that Silent Hill musician and producer Akira Yamaoka had parted ways with Konami, his employer for nearly two decades. While Konami hasn’t yet chimed in, it appears Yamaoka has. Video game music blog Original Sound Version cites a forthcoming interview with Yamaoka that confirms his departure from the…
New Super Mario Bros. Wii looks sharp, but slow, when run on the Dolphin emulator, a piece of software that has offered a similar high-definition look at Super Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. While the YouTube HD video runs at a snail’s pace, the creator of the above video says the Wii game…
Sony may have put aside plans to offer a UMD solution for PSPgo owners, but a third-party may be stepping up to the plate. Logitech is rumored to have a UMD drive add-on planned for Sony’s download-only device. CVG cites an unnamed source in its report, pegging an external UMD reader that will let PSPgo…
Christmas comes early to the PlayStation Network, as Q-Games fourth PixelJunk brand game, dubbed PixelJunk Shooter, burrows its way to the North American PlayStation next week. The December 10 update to the PlayStation Store will offer PixelJunk Shooter for an unannounced price. Here’s to hoping that Shooter follows previous PixelJunk pricing at $9.99 USD or…
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