Giant robots hold fast in Japan, as Mobile Suit Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna Portable for the PSP remains the bestselling game in the nation. Yes, this week’s chart is that exciting! Only a handful of new debuts landed in the Media Create top thirty, including portable baseball game Pro Yakyuu Famista DS 2009 and horse…
The release of The Beatles: Rock Band is going to be a “big deal.” We know. But it’s going to be a bigger deal than we’d expected. While we had little doubt that MTV Games, Harmonix and Apple Corps would be doing their damnedest to drum up press for the Rock Band game planned to…
PlayStation Network racer WipEout HD got a slew of new features today, thanks to an update that brought about new features like badges, friend invites, and a ranking overhaul. But it’s also a little buggy. WipEout HD report that they’re experiencing some issues following the 1.30 update, with the PlayStation 3 game bugging out when…
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor doesn’t have much of a video game pedigree—he contributed to id Software’s Quake and Doom 3—but the man is no stranger to games. He even pitched one, long ago. Reznor tells Digg founder Kevin Rose that he and Nine Inch Nails art director Rob Sheridan once pitched a game…
The Wall Street Journal, following news of slowing sales for the Wii and Nintendo DS and a boost in “hardcore” games sales in Japan, says Nintendo is “beginning to look vulnerable” after years of success. The Journal is referring, of course, to the most recent sales data from Japan, courtesy of sales trackers Enterbrain and…
The creative team responsible for Night Zero, a post-apocalyptic photographic novel that follows the survivors of a deadly viral outbreak, have found inspiration in Valve’s Left 4 Dead, which they photographically pay homage to. The Night Zero team’s project is called Left 5 Dead, an attempt to photorealistically recreate the iconic Survivors from Valve and…
Investors looking to score some easy green on Nintendo’s little white console may be left blue, particularly if they fall for the “red herring” that is the console’s massive install base, says one analyst. Cowen & Company’s Doug Creutz says the Wii may represent “fool’s gold for someone looking to invest in video game development”…
The arrival of the Nintendo DSi in North America, Europe and Australia brings about the first Nintendo handheld in nearly eight years that doesn’t support Game Boy Advance games. Who wants to reflect? MTV Multiplayer’s Stephen Totilo does, lamenting the symbolic passing of the Game Boy Advance. He calls it “the first portable I cared…
Taito will release Space Invaders Extreme on Xbox Live Arcade later this month, a high-definition remake of one 2008’s best portable games. Xbox owners get more than just extra pixels—they also get extra Jeff Minter. Minter and Llama Soft are responsible for the “colorful and synthetically organic visualizer backgrounds” in the XBLA version of Space…
Europeans with a hankering for PlayStation news tailored to their continent of choice should say their goodbyes to the officially unofficial Three Speech blog. It’s going the way of the dinosaur. Three Speech will be replaced by a new, shiny European PlayStation blog, one we presume will be a lot like the one we’ve been…
Sega’s PlayStation 3 exclusive role-playing game Valkyria Chronicles is deploying new downloadable content to the front lines of the PlayStation Store April 16th. It’s a perfect reminder that you should buy this game. Given that Valkyria Chronicles is also ludicrously value priced at GameStop right now, should you be spending U.S. dollars, we’d think that…
The designer behind The Sims and Spore has left Electronic Arts, the publisher announced today, starting a new “think tank” known as Stupid Fun Club, a venture that has EA’s backing. “The entertainment industry is moving rapidly into an era of revolutionary change,” said Will Wright. “Stupid Fun Club will explore new possibilities that are…
NIS America has made an honest game of Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This? announcing the PSP game for a July release, confirming what we reported last week. Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This? (or HIOPB!WDIDTDT? to be brief) is the English-language release…
The official web site for Sony’s MAG, the “massive action game” for the PlayStation 3 from SOCOM developers Zipper Interactive, has gone live. Don’t expect to absorb too much, other than some radio chatter. The official Massive Action Game site features little more than some carefully camouflaged screen shots of the game and a preview…
Nintendo’s video on demand service, planned to launch in Japan sometime this year, might not just be limited to the Wii. According to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, it may also come to the Nintendo DS. Iwata tells the Wall Street Journal that the advertising-based video service—currently announced for availability in Japan this year, but reportedly…
Halo fans with a thirst for referential material will be queuing up for the Barnes & Noble midnight launch of the Halo Encyclopedia, which has been announced for a fourth quarter release at book stores. DK Publishing, fine reference book publisher of things all things useful, historical, mundane and incredibly nerdy, will pack 350-plus pages…
Broadband internet provider Time Warner Cable is making good on its plans to charge its subscribers for the amount of bandwidth they consume, a decision that could have a serious impact on your cable bill. It could also have an impact on your video game buying habits, as Gamers With Jobs explores in a new…
We’re not quite sure why the Xbox 360 has become the lonely Japanese otaku voyeur’s console of choice, but D3Publisher’s Dream C Club is only going to further entrench the console as perv-worthy. Dream C Club‘s premise, if you aren’t familiar, is to recreate the visual wonders of a Japanese hostess bar, letting the player…
Sony’s brilliant PlayStation 2 game Shadow of the Colossus is becoming grist for the Hollywood blockbuster mill, in what appears to not, unfortunately, be a horrible, horrible joke. Might want to pour a stiff drink. According to the Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz Blog, Sony Pictures will be tackling Shadow of the Colossus for a movie…
John Romero takes us back to the early formative days of id Software, way back to November 1993, about a month before the release of the original Doom. It was a time of mullets, when CRT monitors dominated, when Shiny’s Aladdin for the Sega Genesis and Bram Stoker’s Dracula for MS-DOS captured the imaginations of…
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