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  So, How Many 360 Games Are Any Good?

  Picture the scene: your mum walks into GameStop. She walks to the Xbox 360 section, and picks out a game for your birthday. At random. What are the odds she picks a good one? Market research firm EEDAR are on-hand to help you find out. Having tracked every Xbox 360 game’s score in Metacritic, they’ve…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2009
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  PS3 Alchemy Game Out This Summer

  As hinted at earlier, Alchemist role-playing series Atelier is making the leap to the PS3. The latest entry, Atelier Rorona, will be released in Japan on June 25. The game will feature full voice — a first for the series — and 3D graphics. The artist is Meru Kishida. The game’s plot follows a novice…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2009
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  PC Sales Charts: The Imperial March

  Empire: Total War dominated last week’s PC sales charts. This week? It’s reign continues, as it tops the NPD retail charts and hangs onto second place in both the Steam and Direct2Drive lists. Sales and expansion packs helped keep it from being a Total War clean sweep, though, as Red Alert 3: Uprising and Unreal…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2009
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  New Gundam Game Coming To PS3

  This year is the 30th anniversary of mecha franchise Gundam. To celebrate there will be a 1/1 statue as well as a new PS3 game. Called Mobile Suit Gundam: Battlefield Record U.C.0081, the game supports up to 8 players via the PlayStation Network and could possibly be the spiritual successor to PlayStation 2 title Mobile…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2009
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  Wii Fit Girl Back, Shilling Wii Fit Clone For EA Sports

  .html Hey, look, it’s Wii Fit girl. Cheating on Wii Fit with its slutty new competitor, EA Sports Active. As you can see, providing helpful demonstration assistance for EA’s Jen Riley is Lauren Bernat. Wii Fit Girl. Explains why Nintendo were able to come out and say she wasn’t doing viral marketing for them. Those…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2009
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  Fable Caused Burn Out, Game’s Developer Got Bad Ideas While Drinking

  Making video games is no walk in the park. It’s hard. For those who worked in original Xbox role-playing-game Fable, it “destroyed lives”. In an interview with industry site Develop, Fable franchise designer Peter Molyneux explains just how bad it got during the creation of the first game: “If I’m honest, on Fable we just…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2009
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  Chat Up Crecente Tonight

  I’ll be getting interviewed live tonight on UfragTv, if you’re looking for something to kill 15 minutes or so. You can check out the interview live over on the site and even chime in with your own questions. It should start in about 10 minutes or so. See you there… or not! UfragTV

  By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2009
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  Shut Up, Capcom Are putting PS1 Games On The PSN

  Probably the biggest problem with the PlayStation Store (at least in the West) is that, inexplicably, there are so few PlayStation 1 games available. It’s something people complain about often. And something Capcom are fixing. Popping into Capcom’s boards, PR man and professional beach lounger Christian Svensson told users that Capcom actually submitted a bunch…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2009
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  Everyone Wants To Be Xbox LIVE Friends With Shoko Nakagawa

  Popular geek idol Shoko Nakagawa is a singer, a model, TV personality, co-host of kiddy morning show Pokémon Sunday and now an Xbox 360 owner. Earlier this week, she posted on her blog that she has purchased an Xbox 360 and a couple games (Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 5, Tales of Vesperia and Star…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2009
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  Crafting Mama Trademark Reveals Mama’s Post Gardening Plans

  On the same day that publisher Majesco dated Gardening Mama for the Nintendo DS, the character’s trademark holders put in for a new pastime for Mama. Keep your eyes peeled for Crafting Mama. Cooking Mama Limited Corp. filed for the trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week, securing rights to use the…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2009
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  PlayStation 3 Gets Free PhysX From Nvidia

  Game developers may find PlayStation 3 development a bit more attractive today, thanks to the generosity of Nvidia. The graphics chip manufacturer is offering its PhysX tech to developers as a free download. Nvidia, which also happens to be responsible for the PS3’s RSX ‘Reality Synthesizer’ graphics chip, has inked a deal with Sony Computer…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2009
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  More Mass Effect 2 Artwork

  To go with today’s platform announcement, BioWare released a third piece of art for the upcoming Mass Effect 2. This is it. Which serves as confirmation that there will be bars. Bars full of transparent people. So bars full of ghosts, then. Ghost bars! Confirmed.

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2009
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  Nintendo DSi Hands-On: Our Favorite Little Things

  Nintendo will release the third version of the Nintendo DS in North America and Europe next month, the dual camera-equipped Nintendo DSi. Already available in Japan, we tested the North American version last week. The Nintendo DSi brings with it a number of obvious cosmetic and functional changes. It’s slimmer, but slightly wider. There are…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2009
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  Valkyria Chronicles Figurines Make With The Sexy

  If only Sega’s PlayStation 3 game Valkyria Chronicles were more popular in the US, then we could get cool stuff like a licensed release of the upcoming anime or nifty capsule figurines like these. These fan-service swimsuit-wearing toys are a second set of capsule figurines to go with the more modestly-dressed first set released last…

  By AJ Glasser Published March 17, 2009
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  By The Way, Namco Bandai Owns (Most Of) D3

  Last month, Namco Bandai announced plans to turn Puzzle Quest and Oneechanbara publisher D3Publisher into a subsidiary. Today, the plan went into action. At the time, Namco Bandai already had deals to score up to 70% of the company, with plans to go for full ownership. As of this morning, they’d bought 95.02% of D3’s…

  By AJ Glasser Published March 17, 2009
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  BattleForge In Action

  EA’s card-based real-times strategy PC game BattleForge is set loose next week, and this action trailer demonstrates some of the powerful forces that shall be unleashed. I’ve actually had some time to tool around in the beta for BattleForge recently, and I have to say they’ve executed the fusion of cards and real time strategy…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2009
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  THQ Cuts Down Big Huge Games, Lets Go Two More

  Publisher THQ announced in February that it would be cutting back substantially, axing jobs and shuttering studios after losing $191.8 million last quarter. Today, we learn that developer Big Huge Games is due to close. Sources close to the studio say that Big Huge Games, developer of the Rise of Nations series and Catan for…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2009
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  Death Lottery

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Seal Of Approval Getting a physical tomorrow so I can sign up for life insurance. I told Patricia today that now everytime I fly it’s like she’s entered in the lottery. She was not amused. What you missed: Playstation Portable Getting Mammoth Comic Support InstantAction Brings Tribes To Your Web…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2009
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  Sega Brings Phantasy Star To Nintendo’s DSiWare

  Nintendo DSi owners not yet ready to invest in the full purchase price of Sega’s Phantasy Star 0 for the Nintendo DS have another option, thanks to downloadable DSiWare service in Japan. Phantasy Star 0 Mini has been revealed in the latest issue of Famitsu—the same that features details on Ninja Gaiden II Sigma for…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2009
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  BioShock: Breaking The Mold Art Book Gets Reduxed, Deluxed

  2K Games was charitable enough to issue a free-to-download art book for the original BioShock, a 60-page behind-the-scenes peek at the making of the game. Now it’s back for more. The BioShock developer is reissuing the BioShock: Breaking The Mold book with a Developer’s Edition version, now a 174-page softcover book that features “new art,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2009