Tales Screens Tell Little, Show Rocket Ship

Somebody likes to wear white, Stan loses to Cless and Japan’s deep-seated obsession with pirates somehow ties into space and kabobs. That’s about all we can tell from this slew of Tales screens Namco Bandai reportedly released today. There’s a batch each for the upcoming Tales of Graces on the Wii, Tales of VS on…

New Virtual On Figures Appeal To Sexy Maid Mech Fetishist(s)

While dedicated Twin Stick controllers for the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade re-release of Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram may be nothing more than a pipe dream, we can definitely count on new mech action figures! *snort* Sega’s already got a pair in the works—the RVR-H8 Raiden II RNA and RVR-87 Specineff—but have added two more. Well,…

What Does Peter Moore Know About The Xbox’s Motion Control Plans?

Now that former Xbox exec Peter Moore is well established at EA Sports, he’s probably going to be willing to spill the beans on the oft-rumored motion controller planned for the Xbox 360. Right? Well… Moore, when asked by GameTrailers TV‘s Geoff Keighley about his knowledge of Microsoft’s plans—plans that may have formed during Moore’s…

Spring Thunder Snow

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: I Wrote You A Letter. No, You Didn’t. But… You know what’s worse than thunder snow? Spring thunder snow! Actually it isn’t that bad once you realize that it can snow pretty much anytime in Colorado. It snowed the day Tristan was born, in May. The trick to spring snow…

Japanese Hardware Sales In A Funk

This week’s hardware report from Media Create isn’t a positive one. Similar to the industry’s performance in the U.S., Japanese weekly hardware sales are down across the board—with the exception of the Xbox 360. That’s somewhat curious, as the Xbox 360’s rise over the previous week is substantial, enough to put it within spitting distance…

Adult Gaming on the DS: The Chinatown Conundrum

With 100 million DS and DSi in the hands of gamers worldwide, Nintendo’s portable is a mighty tempting platform for developers. So why are only seven of the nearly 1,100 games for the DS rated Mature? A popular argument is that Nintendo’s portable is for kids and soccer moms only, something that the Japanese developer…

Could Matthew Perry *Play* Any More Fallout 3?

Celebrities—they’re just like us! They shop for mundane things. They do movie promotion interviews on The View. They obsessively play video games like Fallout 3 to the point that they require medical attention. Or maybe that’s just former Friends star Matthew Perry, who tells the ladies of the view that he’s been playing Bethesda Softworks’…

Wolfenstein Opening Chock Full Of Dead Nazis

The opening cinematic for the new Wolfenstein starts off quietly and ends like any good Wolfenstein video should – with dozens of dead Nazis. The opening cinematic is filled with tons of heroic action, courtesy of America’s number-one weapon against the Nazi regime, special agent B.J. Blazkowicz. I love the fact that the clip reinforces…

Fallout TV?

Dwell On It points out that back in February Bethesda Softworks applied for a trademark on the word Fallout for “entertainment services in the nature of an on-going television program.” It could be a case of covering all of your bases, or maybe they really are thinking about turning the role-playing game into a tv…

Guitar Hero: Van Halen Confirmed By Ratings Board?

While Activision’s plans for a Guitar Hero game highlighting the music and career of Van Halen is a poorly kept secret, the publisher hasn’t yet officially announced it. But the German game ratings board has. The Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK) has rated Guitar Hero headlining Van Halen for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, a fairly…

GameStop Shares Dip Despite Financial Assurances

The March NPD results indicated a year over year decline in game sales, and retailer GameStop felt it in their stock prices, despite a statement issued today reaffirming its 2009 financial guidance. GameStop stock has taken a bit of a dip today, currently trading at around $28.84, nearly 3% lower than yesterday’s closing price of…

SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3’s First Look

Yesterday Sony announced that a third iteration of SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo was coming to the Playstation Portable. Today we get a first look at it.

Sponsor Shout-out

Thanks to this week’s sponsors: Cheez-It Star Trek Yourself, Eidos, EDMC Art Institute, Energizer, Final Fantasy XI, MSN IE8, New Egg, Red Faction Guerrilla, Virgin Atlantic.

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Me? I’ll be playing OutRun Online Arcade, so far a brilliant Xbox Live Arcade game that’s deceptively simple at first, but incredibly addictive. I’ll be wailing on some “Heart Attack Mode” when I can. But I’m also going to be playing a little Guitar Hero: Smash Hits and Punch-Out!! for the Wii. Maybe even a…

SOE Assures Parents It’s Okay To Play Free Realms

In advance of the release of their family-friendly online multiplayer game Free Realms, Sony Online Entertainment has release a booklet explaining the benefits that games like Free Realms offer children. “Let The Kids Game” is the title of the booklet, now available via SOE.com and WhatTheyPlay.com, which details all of the good that can come…

We Need a New Drinking Game, Stat!

Sony Comments On PS2 God Of War Games Coming To Blu-ray

Sony surveyed potential God of War III fans this week about what they’d like to see in a collector’s edition for the PlayStation 3 sequel, including repackaging the first two games on Blu-ray. That would almost certainly indicate that PlayStation 2 games would be playable on the PlayStation 3, a backwards compatibility option that the…

Tour Aion’s Lovely Morheim Zone

NCsoft’s latest zone tour video for Aion: The Tower of Eternity ice, sand, lava, forests, and 50% more heim than any other massively multiplayer online role-playing zone. Having not actually played Aion I don’t suppose I can really comment on the heim levels of any particular zone, but people don’t generally name online game zones…

Battlestations: Pacific Ups The Cheesecake Factor

Eidos sexes up World War II quite a bit, with the inclusion of award-winning burlesque artist Miss Polly Rae as aircraft nose art in Battlestations: Pacific. Originally used as a method to mark friendly aircraft, nose-art eventually became a way for pilots to express their individuality, evoking memories of a more peaceful time to help…

City Of Heroes Players Create More Content Than Devs In 24 Hours

Only one after NCsoft released their player-created content focused Issue 14: Architect update, and players have already crafted more than 20,000 mission arcs. In a letter to the community posted on the official City of Heroes website, Matt “Positron” Miller revealed that within the first 24 hours of the new updates’ existence, players in both…