Who can end Dragon Quest IX‘s chart topping run in Japan? As expected, it’s Monster Hunter 3, the Wii sequel to the bestselling slay and loot series that has seen monstrous success on the PSP. Dragon Quest IX‘s three week run at the top of the chart is ended by sales of more than half…
After months of legal wrangling—after the developer of Scratch: The Ultimate DJ was purchased by its biggest competitor—Genius Products and Numark Industries have found a new developer, Commotion Interactive, the music and party game division of Bedlam Games. Scratch: The Ultimate DJ, which was originally planned to beat Activision’s DJ Hero to market, will now…
Dust: An Elysian Tail, an entry in Microsoft’s XNA Dream Build Play competition, is not only the best looking video game we’ve seen from the contest, it might be the best looking downloadable Xbox 360 title ever. In fact, I’m having a hard time believing it’s playable. But considering Dust: An Elysian Tail appears to…
You can partly blame Battle.net for the delay of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty into 2010, but based on the capabilities that Activision Blizzard execs are promising for the service, it’s clear Blizzard has their work cut out for them. On top of developing StarCraft II, Diablo III and whatever World of Warcraft expansion(s) the…
Sony may not have an official PlayStation 3 price cut on the books, but indications that the console is due to get cheaper this year increase by one more. Amazon has recently cut the price of the priciest PS3 bundle. Evidence of an impending PlayStation 3 price drop? Not necessarily. But the availability of some…
Golden Tee, the rare arcade game with mainstream jock appeal, is teeing up for its annual release. How to celebrate? Country music, natch! Brace yourself for the best theme song for an arcade golf game you’ll ever hear. The Ira Dean Band’s “It’s Golden Tee” really captures the essence of viciously attacking a Golden Tee…
Activision has released the finalized list of songs for Guitar Hero: Van Halen, featuring 28 tunes from the David Lee Roth era of the band, not a Sammy Hagar (or Gary Cherone) vocal track in sight. Included, according to a reveal from MTV Multiplayer, are classic Van Halen tracks such as “Running With The Devil,”…
Nintendo’s follow up to the best-selling game of all time, Wii Sports, is off to a good start in the United States. The company boasted today of Wii Sports Resort‘s first week sales, some 500,000 copies in eight days. That’s still a long way from the more than 45 million copies the original game sold,…
It’s official. You won’t be playing StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty this year, as Blizzard has moved the release date of the real-time strategy game to the “first half of 2010.” No, they never dated it; but they have now. Activision Blizzard’s reason for the delay of StarCraft II is reportedly tied to the relaunch…
When Warner Bros. snapped up ailing publisher/developer Midway, it bought most, but not all of the company’s assets, including intellectual properties like Mortal Kombat and This Is Vegas. What else did Warner Bros. grab in the Midway closeout? Lots. While we were well aware that the WB would secure popular franchises like Joust and Spy…
When the PlayStation Network version of Military Madness: Nectaris was announced, there wasn’t much meat to that announcement. Today’s update on the turn-based strategy game corrects that, overpowering us with details, including multiplayer info(!). Turns out the PSN version of Military Madness: Nectaris‘s single player game is largely a remake of the TurboGrafx-16 original, now…
A new trademark filed by Sony Computer Entertainment America may point to a new “incentive rewards program” dubbed “P.S. Thanks,” something that could be a positive benefit for serious PlayStation fans. The trademark specifically protects P.S. Thanks—presumably short for PlayStation Thanks—against “entertainment services” for an “incentive rewards program geared toward quantifying, identifying and motivating top…
Normally, we’d recommend just about any piece of fan fiction that begins with Metroid bounty hunter Samus Aran coming out of the closet. But McSweeney’s satirical rant from the Zebes native isn’t even remotely sexy. Serious Metroid fans may get a titter out of the referential piece, but conservative Galactic Federation types aren’t going to…
EA CEO John Riccitiello made first official mention of the continuing Medal of Honor franchise today during the company’s quarterly earnings call, but gave little indication on how the series would progress. Riccitiello said the next Medal of Honor game is “somewhere out there,” but that executives on the call were “not yet in a…
Vanillaware’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade is a lovely looking side-scroller. But it could be even lovelier at higher-than-Wii resolution, an option not out of the realm of possibility, according to studio founder George Kamitami. He tells Gamasutra that Muramasa: The Demon Blade‘s assets are created at double the size of what we’ll see in the…
Wii owners will be getting their own Modern Warfare fix this fall, as Activision will release Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for Nintendo’s best-selling platform in November, arriving day and date with Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be a port of Infinity Ward’s blockbuster hit Call of Duty 4:…
As seen from the offices of EA’s campus, which could use a window wash.
Officially reminding us of the game’s existence, as teased in July, Sega announced Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll for the Wii today, issuing a slightly more accurate winter 2010 release date for the sequel. Sega confirms that both Wii Balance Board and Wii Remote and Nunchuk controls can be used for the game, which…
The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of EA Sports‘ Grand Slam Tennis will be coming a little later than originally planned, thanks to the runaway success of EA Sports Active. What does one have to do with the other? EA Sports head honcho Peter Moore says that the sports label is focused on getting…
Electronic Arts is planning a smaller, arcade-style version of its long-running Madden NFL football franchise, revealing that the publisher is working on Madden Arcade for a release before the holiday season. EA Sports bossman Peter Moore announced the game today. Moore described Madden Arcade as following in the vein of the publisher’s Xbox Live Arcade…
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