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  Sony Doesn’t Know Yet If Your Credit Card Number Was Stolen

  Sony has not yet determined if the personal information or credit card numbers of users on the still-offline Playstation Network have been stolen, according to a Sony spokesman. Sony Computer Entertainment is conducting “thorough investigation” into the outage, Satoshi Fukuoka, a spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo, told PC World. Sony Computer Entertainment of…

  By Brian Crecente Published April 25, 2011
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  The Best Nintendo Downloadable This Week Isn’t A Game At All

  Riding on a wave of WiiWare demos, word searchers, and puzzle games, this week’s most intriguing downloadable offering comes from Flat Black Studios, the animation and software company behind the films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. You might not know Flat Black Studios, but chances are you’ve seen their work, whether it be the…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 25, 2011
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  Play A Game For Social Change

  America may not be headed toward a future of citizens tracked with implanted chips, pacified by drugs and tightly segregated, but creating that Orwellian future now could be the best way to prevent it, one activist group thinks. Rolling into its fourth week, Facebook game America 2049 is activism as entertainment, education as political thriller.…

  By Brian Crecente Published April 25, 2011
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  Café Amongst Yourselves

  Welcome back to Talk Amongst Yourselves, where we talk about video games. We are pleased to announce, by the way, that the next generation of Talk Amongst Yourselves will be playable at E3. It will support inputs of at least eight buttons and present a new paradigm for talking amongst yourselves. Thanks to veteran TAY…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 25, 2011
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  The Supermarket Gets A Little Sexier With Evangelion

  NEON GENESIS SUPERMARKET | OSAKA, JAPAN: The toy aisle is looking more fetching than usual. (Photo by Brian Ashcraft) Nintendo Confirms Wii Successor. It’s On Sale In 2012. Today in Japan, Nintendo confirmed the upcoming release of the Wii’s successor. The still-unnamed console will be revealed at this year’s E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2011
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  Is This A Wii 2 (Project Cafe) Prototype? Or Yet Another Photoshop?

  And if it is a Photoshop, it’s starting to seem like the phonies are copying images that could very well be phony. Fantasy feeding fantasy! [Thanks everyone who sent this in!] [Update: Added a second image. Then fixed my post, because I screwed it up. –Joel]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2011
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  Yes, People Still Buy This Game Boy Advance Game

  Japanese website Geimin.net has a list of the top thousand selling games during 2010, based on Media Create data. On the the list, there was one game that stands out. It’s an oddity of sorts. There were 291 Nintendo DS games that made the top thousand, 288 PSP games, 176 PS3 games, 108 Wii games,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2011
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  Nintendo Wants “New Approach” With Wii Successor

  With the Wii successor, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said, “We would like to propose a new approach to home video game consoles.” However, don’t count on a 3D home console like Nintendo’s newly released 3D-glasses free portable, the Nintendo 3DS. According to Bloomberg, Iwata said, “It’s difficult to make 3-D images a key feature, because…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2011
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  Let’s Watch The Zelda: Ocarina of Time‘s 3DS Opening Right Now

  Let’s! The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time won’t be out on the 3DS until the June, but let’s go ahead and watch the game’s opening movie. June’s so far away. It really is. 『ゼルダの伝説 時のオカリナ3D』オープニングムービー公開 [インサイド]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2011
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  Gravity Guy‘s A Fast Call — Up or Down

  Melding the core distinctions of two of my favorite iPhone titles – Hoggy and Canabalt – is Gravity Guy by Miniclip, which released in December and was updated last week to introduce multiplayer. Like Hoggy, Gravity Guy is a platformer where you invert gravity to navigate obstacles, rather than jump. Like Canabalt, it’s a one-touch…

  By Owen Good Published April 25, 2011
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  James Cameron Says Video Games Are Powering 3D

  3D. Had enough? Tough crap, it sounds like there will be more. And according to movie director James Cameron (pictured, with George Lucas), the future of 3D is being fueled by video games. “Video games are going to help propel the autostereoscopic (glasses-free) play because that’s going to be the entry level for most people,”…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2011
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  Bringing Mass Effect To Life Before Your Very Eyes

  Most of these “Fancy Pants” galleries we run are full of great photos of people in great costumes, but a few of this week’s pictures go the extra mile. Leading the charge is this Aria T’Loak, which is not just an amazing piece of costume play, but an amazing choice of character. Joining her this…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2011
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  Portal 2 Is A Place For Mad Men

  Portal 2 and Mad Men. They don’t seem like the likeliest of bedfellows, but this reimagining of the hit TV show’s opening credits still works! [via Super Punch]

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2011
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  Get A Look At The Red Faction Movie In These Production Photos

  Syfy’s live-action take on the Red Faction universe, Origins, will make its debut on June 4. If you were wondering what the thing looks like, well, wonder no more. It’s hard to make out what’s going on, other than the fact there are people on Mars and some of them are wearing clothes that are…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2011
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  The Human Who Sleeps On PlayStation Magazines

  Under Twitter user Bros’ mattress, there is a treasure trove of magazines – fifteen years of Dengeki PlayStation magazines to be exact. Bros started with the September 27, 1996 issue and hasn’t looked back. Bros has looked under the bed, though. In an age when paper is becoming increasingly meaningless, it’s comforting to note that…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2011
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  Do Not Buy A 3DS From The Home Shopping Network

  Your first instinct may be to hate this. For the price-gouging, for the fact they can’t seem to get even minor details right (my what is a 2D camera?). But give it a few minutes and that’s exactly the reason you’ll grow to love it. It’s the Home Shopping Network at its finest! [via Go…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2011
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  Expect More 3DS Remakes

  Get ready for more Wii-Makes 3DS remakes as downloadable games for the eShop. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says one can expect more games remade on the 3DS, like perhaps maybe, SNES game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past? He doesn’t confirm it, but does sound keen. [via Edge]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2011
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  Is Nintendo’s New Machine The Death Of The “Console Generation”?

  So, Nintendo has finally confirmed that a new console will be out in 2012, six years after the release of the Wii. With Microsoft and Sony not due to release consoles until 2014 at the earliest, is this the death of the “console generation”? Since the latter half of the 1990s, video game consoles have…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2011
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  3DS Sells 3.6 Million, Nintendo Profits Nosedive

  Since launch, the Nintendo 3DS has sold 3.61 million units. That and the fact the company’s operating profits are down a whopping 52% due to a slide in sales of the DS and Wii are the highlights of Nintendo’s latest financial report

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2011
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  How Final Fantasy XIII‘s Heroine Became Homeless

  In role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII, the protagonist Lightning didn’t have a house. She had one. That is, until Square Enix cut it. Lightning’s futuristic, peanut-shaped abode seems to be covered with a shiny, metallic coating (and a yellow racing stripe). A glass-covered staircase led up to the entry way. Inside, there was a bedroom…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2011