Shadows Of The Damned Bringing Rock N’ Roll Straight To Hell

Shadows of the Damned, a game being worked on by Goichi Suda (No More Heroes) and Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil), has a new trailer out. Click through to see if it features leather jackets, demons and rock n roll. Well of course it does. Shadows of the Damned will be out next year on PS3…

European PS3 Owners, Get Ready For MUBI!

Movies? No, MUBI. The streaming art house cinema service is coming to the PS3 this week, so grab the popcorn. On November 3rd, the service commences on the PS3 in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. The following week the service will launch in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain,…

How The Weak US Dollar Is Good For Video Games

The US Dollar is as weak as it’s ever been at the moment. That’s (generally) bad news for Americans, but for everyone else? It’s good news if you buy video games and like to save money. It’s long been a complaint from gamers in territories like Europe and Australasia that video games are disproportionately priced…

Katamari Damacy Creator Felt Like An Outsider At Namco

Katamari Damacy designer Keita Takahashi wasn’t happy at Namco Bandai. When leaving the company, he called it “so-so”. His reasons are a bit more melancholy than that. “The reason why I quit Namco was because I started to feel like I didn’t belong there any more,” Takahashi recently told website Eurogamer. Takahashi’s games, he noted,…

Your Christmas Tree Needs Video Game Console Ornaments

Last holiday season, reader Dave wowed us with his laser-cut controller ornaments. This year, he’s getting into the Christmas spirit early with these console ornaments. There are plenty of machines represented: NES, PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast, SNES, PlayStation, PS3, Genesis, Xbox 360, even the Nintendo 64, they’re all included. The pack will cost you US$35. And…

Has Nintendo’s Vitality Sensor Flatlined?

At the 2009 E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, Nintendo revealed the Wii Vitality Sensor for the first time. The peripheral was M.I.A. at the following E3. And at a recent investors meeting, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata didn’t explicitly provide an update. During a Q&A session, Iwata was asked if Nintendo is still making big…

Nintendo World Store Gets A New Coat Of Paint

The Nintendo World Store in New York City has just reopened after its first major refurbishment since opening back in 2005. While both floors of the store have been given a facelift, as you can see via these photos from Wired.com, if you’ve ever been there you might need to have some of the changes…

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Capcom Japan Says Mega-Man Creator Quit To Create More Games

Keiji Inafune of Mega-Man and Dead Rising fame made no secret that he hated his job. Late last week, the game designer finally left Capcom, a company he worked at for 23 years. The developer’s Osaka headquarters says why. “Due to the sudden upheaval in the market, it seemed necessary to drastically reform our game…

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Michael Jackson’s Glove, Reduced To A Game Freebie

Michael Jackson’s white glove, which he first wore when performing the moonwalk for the first time, became a trademark symbol of one of the greatest musicians to have ever lived. And it’s now free for purchasers of a Wii game! Ubisoft, the publishers of Michael Jackson The Experience on Wii, will be bundling a replica…

A Week In Comments

I Can Explain This Comment by: Adhominem Nominated by: Walter Kurtz After you have unprotected sex with your virtual wife, do you unlock Milo? GameStop Robber Shot Dead By Police Comment by: Fauxcused Nominated by: Optimistic Prime Let me take care of the obligatories: 1.) Would have been epic were it a headshot. 2.) Did…

New Xbox 360 Bundle Includes Forza 3 and Alan Wake

Microsoft yesterday revealed a new Xbox 360 bundle for the holiday season, one which packs a 250GB console in with two games. It’s the same one as we’ve already shown you for the Canadian and European markets; namely, one that also packs in a boxed copy of Forza 3 and a token for a downloadable…

Review: Angry Birds: Halloween Special Edition

Popular puzzle game Angry Birds is all dressed up for All Hallows’ Eve. Nothing quite says “Halloween” like smashing pumpkins, green pigs in ghost costumes and birds flying through the air. Trick or treat! Angry Birds is a physics-based puzzle game for Apple’s iOS in which birds are trying to recover stolen eggs, and Angry…

Indie Devs Not Happy With New Xbox 360 Dashboard

The new Xbox 360 dashboard is clean. It’s very white. It’s also got a lot of indie developers for the platform upset with Microsoft, accusing the platform holder of putting their baby in the corner. Xbox Live Indie Games used to be somewhat easily found in the “Games Marketplace” section of the dashboard. Now? They’ve…

Ready For Battle

The United States Supreme Court building, Monday night. We’ll be inside on Tuesday, covering the Court’s first case about video games. It pits California against the game industry over a law that would make the sale of very violent games to kids illegal.

Timesplitters On The Comeback Trail

When Far Cry developers Crytek bought shuttered British studio Free Radical, many wondered how long it would be until we saw the return of the Timesplitters franchise. That time may be soon. According to a report on Eurogamer, Crytek UK – as Free Radical is now known – is “talking with various publishers about the…

Take A Peek At God Of War III’s Gorgeous Art Book

Got a knock on the door this morning. Was the postman with my God of War III art book. Let’s take a look at the thing, eh? The book is available from Ballistic, and comes in three variants, one for $65, one for $129 and the one you see above for USD$300. [God of War…

Two StarCraft II Players Look To Obama For Hope, Change

The Zerg and Protoss player base uses Comedy Central’s Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear as a platform to bring sanity to StarCraft II multiplayer. He’ll get to it, guys, just like getting Arrested Development back on TV. Thanks, Jordan!

Super Jonas Bros.

What’s this? A video game thing in my nightly off-topic post? Don’t worry, dear reader with an interest in things not just video game related. This post is still for you. We’ve got sports too! I’m sure you’re just dying to talk about the World Series, so have at it. Flip over a car in…