Japanese Xbox Live Guy Mugged Before E3

This is less game-related, and more crime-related. Right before E3, Icchou Mori from Xbox Live‘s Inside Xbox was taking pictures pictures in front of the convention center, when… His bag was swiped. Gone were his passport, cash, credit cards and cell phone. Mori had been in Los Angeles only three hours. He contacted the LA…

What Do Cammie Dunaway, Peter Molyneux & Yoko Ono Have In Common?

They were the least popular people at E3! Least, they were according to some round-up work done by Bitmob in the wake of their E3 keynote study. While tidying up the various highs and lows of gaming forum NeoGAF’s reaction to the three major E3 keynotes, Andrew Hiscock notes that when it comes to the…

iPhone Install base vs Console Install Bases

Ever wonder why people will not shut up about iPhone gaming, even though the platform is yet to really hit its straps? This graph, showing the install base of the device compared to the install base of “real” gaming systems, explains it. Combining the iPhone and iPod Touch together, you can see that while the…

Check Out Cross-Dressing Phoenix Wright, Part 2

Once again, the ladies at musical troupe Takarazuka Revue are bringing Phoenix Wright to the stage — complete with singing, dancing and cross-dressing. And once again, Takarazuka star Ranju Tomu will be taking the role of Phoenix Wright in Gyakuten Saiban 2 – Truth Resurrected, Again. This time, Tomu is sporting a new hairdo. There’s…

How Valve Find The Time To “Leak” Team Fortress Vids

When the excellent “Meet The Spy” video was “leaked” a while ago, it didn’t take long to assume that, well, it hadn’t been leaked at all. Instead, it looked as though it had been released by Valve, and made to look like a leak. So why would the company go to such lengths to fake…

What Does Autographing 500 Dead Rising Coffee Mugs Look Like?

This, apparently. Not only have we never seen 500 Servebot Dead Rising mugs, we’ve also never seen Mega-Man creator Keiji Inafune sign 500 Servebot Dead Rising mugs. Now we have. Beware: This clip has clinking noises. If you are sensitive to clinking noise, might want to turn the volume off. Keiji Inafune Signing 500 Servbot…

Steam Getting Oblivion, Morrowind

Looks like Bethesda will soon be bringing a lot more than just Fallout 3 to Steam, with users spotting some advertisements on the service advertising games like Oblivion and Morrowind. Reader Tom sends us the above image, and while I haven’t seen the same advertisement myself (nor can I see any mention of the games…

No More Bossing Ashley Or Wrex Around In Mass Effect 2 [Update]

Mass Effect had a fairly memorable supporting cast! The fascist soldier lady, the angry turtle man, the slightly too-handsome junior officer. Hope you didn’t get too attached to them, however, as they won’t be returning to your party in the sequel. While some of them will feature in Mass Effect 2, none will be returning…

Here Is Your Japanese Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver Packaging

This fall, Nintendo is releasing Pokémon Heart Gold and Pokémon Soul Silver for the Nintendo DS. These are tenth anniversary remakes of Pokémon Gold/Silver. The original Gold and Silver appeared on the Game Boy and sold 23 million copies worldwide. Pokémon Heart Gold and Pokémon Soul Silver will be packaged with pedometers dubbed the Poké…

Japanese Hardware Sales Go Down, Down, Down

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…

Flock Gets Spring Update, Fan-made Shoes

Flock! is getting a PC update tomorrow called “Spring” that features six new levels, a new animal and special objects that “change the way you herd.” To go with this announcement, Capcom has also blogged a fabulous pair of fan-made shoes. Flock! for those of you sheeple who haven’t gotten into it, yet, is an…

So, How Many People Actually Buy Stuff Over XBLA Or The PSN?

Digital delivery of games and gaming content is the inevitable future. But how prevalent is it in the present? The NPD Group estimate that, as it stands, digital downloads on a console are doing…OK. The retail tracking firm reckon that, of all Xbox Live “Gold” subscribers, 18% of them “regularly download from Xbox Live Arcade”.…

More Duke Nukem Forever Footage, If You Want It

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…

Sam & Max Save The World Next Week

Telltale Games is releasing the first season of Sam & Max on Xbox Live June 17 as Sam & Max Save the World. The six-episode collection of Sam & Max’s 2006/2007 adventures features Achievements, tweaked gameplay controls and HD graphic support. The compilation used to be called Sam & Max: Season One, but I guess…

PlayStation Store Update: Little Big Heavy Thunder

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…

NPD Instant Analysis: Things You Should Note

A fighting game blow-out. An EA surprise. As always, some notable omissions. And an NPD-PD PlayStation bump! For your May NPD gaming sales armchair analysis, consider the following: Killzone Leads Infamous For Biggest 2009 PS3 Original: The PlayStation 3 push for original first-party games gave the world Killzone 2 in February, which managed 323,000 units…

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UFC 2009 Is May’s Undisputed Bestseller

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…

Nintendo Tops U.S. May Hardware Sales Once Again As Sales Drop

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…

Nintendo: Wii Vitality Sensor Targets Gaming Hold-Outs

Nintendo’s announcement of the Wii Vitality Sensor was one of the most mystifying product announcements at the show. We asked for more information. Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata unveiled the Wii Vitality Sensor at E3 and has since explained in interviews that the Wii add-on will use light to measure bloodflow and therefore certain bio-rhythms for…