I just walked in the door, fresh from a taping of the Bonus Round for GameTrailers.com only to be greeted by two new games from the UPS man: Blazblue: Calamity Trigger and The Conduit. Guess what I’m playing this weekend? The answer is Blazblue: Calamity Trigger and The Conduit! Looks like I have a copy…
After a few weeks worth of shrinking sales, the Japanese hardware market saw signs of improvement, as almost every platform saw increases. Minor increases, mind you, but a positive trend upward nonetheless. The only platform not to improve was the Xbox 360, which doesn’t currently have a game in the Media Create top fifty sales…
Despite positive reviews for the Monster Games-developed Wii game, Nintendo’s Excitebots: Trick Racing didn’t burn up sales charts, moving a meager 13,000 copies in its first month on sale. Odd, considering it features playable poker and SUPER SANDWICHES. Speaking of playable poker in a racing game, you ever wonder what an Excitebots match between four…
Sony CEO Howard Stringer and his underlings have been teasing an expanded, product line-wide PlayStation Network for years. That broader service, leaping from the PSP and PlayStation 3 to Sony branded televisions and other gadgets, might hit next year. According to a Fortune report, it was PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai that said the bigger PlayStation…
Plenty of playable fun joins the North American PlayStation Store this week, with new PSN games, a new PS One Classic and fresh downloadable PSP games. You want Mobile Light Force? We got Mobile Light Force! Free content for LittleBigPlanet, MotorStorm Pacific Rift and Cross Edge join those playable additions, as do new songs from…
Musician and occasional video game contributor Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50. The “King of Pop” was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center this afternoon by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics after suffering a cardiac arrest. Jackson, in addition to being a bestselling pop artist with The Jackson 5 and as…
Today’s announcement of Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD for Xbox Live Arcade had a hidden bonus announcement buried within, the existence of Devolver Digital. That’s the new production company from the founders of the extinct Gamecock and G.O.D. Described as a “small, laser-focused production and publishing company based in Austin, Texas, (also with one…
Thanks to Sony’s Remote Play technology, PlayStation 3 owners will be able to play Arc System Works and Aksys Games’ BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger on their PSPs. Which is awesome. The high-res 2D fighter joins a short list of PS3 titles that support Remote Play, allowing PSP owners a chance to play the game almost anywhere,…
Official support for community created campaigns has just been added to Left 4 Dead, thanks to the most recent update to the game. Valve has also updated the Left 4 Dead authoring tools—so get crackin’ map makers! Valve announced the long-awaited PC version update via the official Left 4 Dead blog last week, highlighting the…
Brothers In Arms developer Gearbox Software recently filed four new titles for trademark, all ending with “War Hero.” Gearbox president Randy Pitchford says the new intellectual property is part of its “interests” but not yet ready to be revealed. “The news of the Gearbox Software ‘War Hero’ related trademarks exposes a bit about our interests…
Nintendo has a new hit on its hands, as Tomodachi Collection for the Nintendo DS tops Japanese sales charts. The Mii collection and interaction software moved more than 100,000 copies in its first week on sale. A handful of new releases, including Capcom’s Fate/Unlimited Codes Portable for PSP and a pair of Tago Akira no…
The decision to drop the Call of Duty from Infinity Ward’s follow-up to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has hit the present day shooter where it hurts, right in the sensitive brand awareness zone. Does that mean Modern Warfare 2 is in trouble? Hardly! While tracking firm OTX found that awareness of the game…
Xbox 360 owners are venting on the official EA forums (and our tips line) that EA Sports‘ Fight Night Round 4 is locking up and crashing at the game’s loading screen. A fix (of sorts) is seeing some success. While those complaints are typically vocal, they appear to be somewhat limited—the forum thread currently has…
Nintendo’s Metroid Prime collection for the Wii is due to land in North America on August 24th in a snazzy “collector’s edition” form that bundles up three games, a Metroid Prime Trilogy art booklet, special metal packaging and more. By more, we really mean a paper sleeve in which to slide the Metroid Prime Trilogy…
Brothers In Arms and Borderlands developer Gearbox Software is either taking its World War II shooter series into the modern day or has designs on adding Guitar Hero controller support to military shooters. Or both. Or neither. Whatever its plans may be, Gearbox has protected a quartet of new, heroic trademarks, including “World War II…
When former Sonic Team lead Yuji Naka left Sega to form the semi-independent Prope, he said the studio would focus on “original entertainment.” Prope’s first major release, Let’s Tap, is certainly original, packing five multiplayer focused mini-games into one title. Mini-games? Original?! Yes, because Sega’s Let’s Tap plays unlike anything else on the Wii, as…
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Hey there Club Nintendo of America members, your status is about to reset! On June 30th, to be specific. If you want to reap the benefits (free stuff!) of elite status in Nintendo of America‘s customer rewards program, pay attention. You have until next Tuesday to rack up the required “coins” to ensure you’re of…
Japanese role-playing game The Last Remnant was originally planned for a release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. As of today, only two of those releases have happened, with the third, the PS3 version, starting to look unlikely. While middling critical reception of The Last Remnant may imply that PlayStation 3 owners aren’t…
NIS America is dropping plans for a UMD release of Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?, opting to make the PlayStation Portable game exclusively a downloadable PlayStation Network game. Retailers began canceling pre-orders for the PSP game earlier this week, with online outlets like GameStop removing listings of Holy…
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