As of June 12th, this past Friday, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a year old. We say “Happy birthday, Old Snake.” Konami says, “We’re gonna make some Metal Gear announcements!” Yes, the Metal Gear publisher is once again prefacing actual video game announcements with a warning that it plans to make…
It’s never too early to learn which post-apocalyptic infected are best to avoid, so give your kid a jump start on identifying which shapes mean “I’m about to have blinding bile vomited upon me” with this Left 4 Dead mobile. These hand-crafted, laser cut mobiles can impress upon your little boy or girl with the…
The European PlayStation.blog has shed a bit more light on the newly announced PSPgo hardware, answering some burning questions about how it differs from the currently available PlayStation Portable models, including battery life expectancy, accessory compatibility and Memory Stick changes. The PSPgo, according to official European word, will come with an “embedded battery” offering a…
When Muramasa: The Demon Blade ships for the Wii later this year, it won’t come with the option for English language spoken dialogue. The Japanese language track will remain, with English language subtitles your only option. So says Ignition Entertainment‘s Shane Bettenhausen, who tells Siliconera that the Vanillaware-developed and Ignition-published Wii game is so “deeply…
Music sales have been on the decline for years—even if that decline seems to be slowing—with record executives citing illegal filesharing and downloading as one of the root causes for the downturn. But are all those Sam Goody’s closing and executives whining over just the rampant illegal downloading, not purchasing, of music? The Guardian argues…
Ever wanted to see Microsoft’s John Schappert dance? Ask him what’s in the Xbox 360‘s “Project Natal” hardware, specifically if it uses 3DV Systems‘ technology, which Microsoft was rumored to have purchased earlier this year. GameTrailers TV host Geoff Keighley asked the (deep breath) Corporate Vice President of Live, Software and Services for the Interactive…
Namco Bandai‘s PSP port of Soulcalibur IV, dubbed Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny, carries over much of its console predecessor’s character customization features. Want to tell the eternal tale of swords and Smurfs? You can do that. Or you can go pink, add devil horns—the Soulcalibur team seems to really like horns—or give yourself an intimidating skull…
.html Konami is looking to squeeze a little more cash out of the development of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots by taking the online portion of that game to Japanese arcades. The recently announced Metal Gear Arcade takes Metal Gear Online and stuffs it into an impressive-looking, but similarly expensive to develop,…
Toymaker Mezco Toyz was planning to release LittleBigPlanet licensed action figures this year, in sizes ranging from 2″ to 18″, along with sundry other Sackboy and Sackgirl themed things. Not anymore, as the product line has been scrapped. According to customer notifications from retailers like BigBadToyStore, Mezco Toyz has nixed plans for a LittleBigPlanet action…
It is entirely possible that I’ll be playing Plants Vs. Zombies this weekend, as I’m in possession of a new power supply that will make the ol’ Windows based PC function like it did in its heyday. Of course, that may not be such a good idea, as I hear it’s rather good and somewhat…
With little in the way of new software releases charting in Japan, console and handheld gaming system sales take a dip across the Pacific. Nintendo DSi sales were way down, but one console actually saw a boost. That would be the Xbox 360, which is a little bit odd, considering there were no new major…
Still morbidly curious about the bloody twelve-year-long pileup that was Duke Nukem Forever? Then the Jace Hall Show has you covered with new gameplay footage of the indefinitely on-hold 3D Realms game. If screen shots, artwork, rough video and legal shenanigans weren’t enough to satisfy you, perhaps off-screen footage—no direct feed here—of the unbelievably delayed…
It’s a big, big, big week for the North American PlayStation Store, as new downloadable content for Killzone 2, Call of Duty: World At War, LittleBigPlanet and Burnout Paradise bombards the PlayStation Network. And there are games! Plenty of games, as Heavy Weapon, Gunstar Heroes and Bomberman ULTRA lead the list of playable titles. There’s…
THQ’s mixed martial arts brawler crushed the competition in May, when more than a million copies of UFC 2009 Undisputed were snapped up by gamers looking to snap some joints. The Ultimate Fighting Championship game moved 679,600 copies on the Xbox 360, 334,400 on the PlayStation 3, making it May’s bestselling video game. It beat…
The U.S. video game industry took another hit, right in the sensitive hardware region, as May sales show another month-to-month and year-over-year decline. Despite drops, Nintendo remains the hardware champ thanks to continued Nintendo DS and Wii sales. Both the DS and Wii saw sizable hits from the previous month. April was boosted by the…
Need a little EXTREME FEVER on the go? The iPhone version of the highly addictive Peggle is just 99 cents today via iTunes. Like other versions of Peggle it packs in awesome gameplay and comes highly recommended. Buy it! [iTunes]
Good news for the economy came today when U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich of Ohio used the iconic Pac-Man to illustrate the United States’ nation debt, which currently stands at more than $11.38 trillion. Where’s the good news? It’s not in the ever-increasing “Federal Debt as percentage of GDP” ratio. Because that looks bad. The…
I really dig PlatinumGames’ Bayonetta, especially after being able to finally go hands-on with the game at E3. I also really appreciate the insight the developer is providing into the game’s design, which today focuses on Bayonetta’s guns, Scarborough Fair. PlatinumGames designer Muneyuki “Johnny” Kotegawa illustrates how the ornately designed guns, which Bayonetta can also…
Punk rock trio Green Day is bringing its catalog of music to MTV Games and Harmonix’s Rock Band, confirming the news dropped by the band itself earlier this week. While details about just how much of the band’s back catalog are still to be revealed, the partnership will kick off on July 7th with three…
Japanese gamers liked last week’s sales chart so much, they bought the exact same games, making for an encore sales presentation. Once again, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Gyakuten Kenji and Shin Sangoku Musou 5 Empires win, place, and show. That puts Square Enix’s newest Kingdom Hearts game for the Nintendo DS at over 400,000 copies…
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