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  French Boy Stabs Sister Over Nintendo DS [Update]

  A five year-old boy in the French town of Uckange has stabbed his ten year-old sister with a kitchen knife following an argument over a Nintendo DS, Le Post reports. The incident occurred on Saturday night, and was prompted by the sister’s refusal to allow her brother to play with her Nintendo DS. Upset over…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 2, 2009
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  Which Game Consoles And Console Makers Impress Young Japanese Women?

  Online research group goo Research questioned 1,102 women between the ages of 20 and 26 years-old to find out. Here’s the sample group broken down by region: 33.2 percent from the Tokyo area, 33.6 percent from the Osaka area and 33.2 percent from the Nagoya area. While the survey does not show what all Japanese…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 2, 2009
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  You Got Ninjas In My PSP

  Tenchu: Shadow Assassins sneaks onto the PSP this month, totally wrecking my resolve to save up money for a PSP2. This was a pretty understated port. Ubisoft announced it via Twitter post this morning and Wii platform pages on various press sites were amended with tiny “PSP” tags. Two screenshots also emerged, showing comparable graphics…

  By AJ Glasser Published March 2, 2009
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  How’s The Dexter Video Game Looking?

  Pretty odd, but considering the combination of Mark Ecko Entertainment, the iPhone and Showtime’s serial killer drama Dexter, we can’t say we’re surprised. A little more surprising is the combination of gameplay genres. According to the official update on the game, Dexter will feature “puzzle solving, stealth tactics, mini-games, and ‘slashing’ with the iPhone itself”…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2009
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  Halo 3: 1,000,000,000 Games And Counting

  Halo 3‘s got a somewhat popular online component, and has had one since it launched (hey, it’s Halo). Ever wonder how many multiplayer games that actually equates to, though? Try over one billion. Yup, Bungie’s near-OCD obsession with tracking numbers means that we now know that at 18:36 PT on February 28, a four-player Infection…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 2, 2009
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  You Haven’t Seen The Last Of Sonic The Werehog

  Sonic the Hedgehog fans (read: masochists) will be delighted to learn that, should Sega see fit to subject them to another Sonic Unleashed title, the lumbering, stretchy “werehog” is almost guaranteed to return. Sonic and the Black Knight director Tetsu Katano tells Videogamer “You will see the Werehog again.” That’s despite the general shunning of…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2009
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  Lay Off The Sequels Says Harvest Moon Head Man

  Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada says “the games industry worldwide is in danger if we keep making sequels,” just weeks before the 19th installment of Harvest Moon hits PSPs in Japan. Speaking to Eurogamer Italy, Wada went on to say that consumers are bored by sequels and excited by variety. That may or may not…

  By AJ Glasser Published March 2, 2009
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  The King of Fighters XII Hits PlayStation 3s This Summer

  .html We thought this U.S. debut trailer for The King of Fighters XII was just going to be an excuse to ogle the SNK Playmore game’s beautifully animated characters. How naive we were. That’s because the game apparently has a North American release window, which was, frankly, (good) news to this casual King of Fighters…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2009
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  Rockstar’s Dan Houser Tops Industry’s Hottest Developer List

  Edge Online has published its annual list of the industry’s “hot” developers, a hundred men and women whose names you should know. Topping the list is Rockstar Games co-founder and VP of Creative Dan Houser. Houser beats out Nintendo’s Hideki Konno and Shigeru Miyamoto, both of whom placed in the top ten alongside industry movers…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2009
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  Elevator Action Arcade Shooter Has Great Name, Even Better Gimmick

  Taito is giving Elevator Action fans another dose of floor-changing espionage action with the beautifully named Elevator Action: Death Parade. What separates Death Parade apart from its predecessors? Well it’s a light gun shooter. More importantly, it’s a light gun shooter with functioning elevator doors on the cabinet, doors that open and close to change…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2009
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  Killzone 2 Gaming

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Wedding Anniversary I did something this weekend that I haven’t done in quite awhile. I spent a big chunk of Sunday playing video games. Specifically, playing Killzone 2 online. Have you picked it up yet? Are you going to? What you missed: Resistance: Retribution Multiplayer in Action Toys R Us…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 2, 2009
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  Buy Xbox Live Gold Account, Go See Watchmen For “Free”

  Don’t pay good money for Watchmen tickets. Re-up your Xbox Live Gold status instead. That’s the deal currently being offered at retailer Best Buy, one that might be too good to pass up. Best Buy’s promotion takes your purchase of either an Xbox 360 console or an “Xbox Live product” and tosses two tickets to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2009
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  Court Denies Gibson’s Guitar Hero Lawsuit

  Guitar manufacturer Gibson’s grand plans to sue Activision over its Guitar Hero series have been dashed, as the District Court for the Central District of California has ruled against Gibson, denying its patent infringement claims. Gibson filed the suit against Activision last march, albeit “reluctantly,” claiming that Guitar Hero infringed on a nine year old…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2009
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  Midnight Club South Central trailer

  The free South Central upgrade for Midnight Club: Los Angeles includes four new neighborhoods, increasing the game’s total map size by a third. For $10 on the Playstation Network, or 800 points on Xbox Live, you can download the premium upgrade which includes the map expansion plus new vehicles, parts, music, vinyls, hydraulics and more.

  By Brian Crecente Published March 2, 2009
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  Rock Band Wii Catches Up With Texas Flood

  Good news, Wii owners. Harmonix is giving you a heaping helping of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s Texas Flood this week, too. Is the Wii version of Rock Band 2 finally catching up? It’s definitely a milestone, if nothing else. Not only are Wii owners getting the newly announced full album from Stevie Ray…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2009
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  Luc Bernard’s Mecho Wars Due Out This Month

  Luc Bernard dropped us a line today to deliver the latest information on Mecho Wars, the tactical prequel to Eternity’s Child for the iPhone. Mecho Wars tells the story of the war between the mechanical Landians and the Winged, which left protagonist Angel as one of the last of his kind in Eternity’s Child. Inspired…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 2, 2009
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  BioWare Forms Montreal Group For Mass Effect 2

  BioWare is forming a new studio within Electronic Arts Montreal, hiring 30 staffers to help develop Mass Effect 2, Gamasutra reports. “Our new presence… will be located within the existing EA Montreal facilities,” BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka tells Gamasutra today. “It’s great that we have a strong foundation to build out of.” The developer is…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 2, 2009
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  Relive Matt Hazard….before you Eat Lead

  Eat Lead goes old school. Play the 16-bit flash game that D3’s dug up from the past of their quintessential 90s video game star Matt Hazard: Matt in Hazard Land Extreme Alpha Advance. Ever since the announcement of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard back in October people have been asking whether or not…

  By Chrissie Lamond Published March 2, 2009
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  Ubisoft VP Bolts To Head Jerry Bruckheimer’s Game Company

  Ubisoft lost publishing bigwig Jay Cohen last week, a key decision maker for the French mega-publisher. Kind of a big deal? Yes, especially since Cohen has since reportedly jumped ship to Jerry Bruckheimer‘s game label. According to Variety’s The Cut Scene, the former Ubisoft vet is now gainfully employed by Jerry Bruckheimer Films, the production…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2009
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  Is This The Perfect PS3 First-Person Shooter Controller?

  mLani Studios is gearing up for a spring release for the MoBi, a wireless PlayStation 3 and PC controller that’s one part mouse, one part analog stick. The MoBi basically takes a PlayStation 3 controller and splits it in half. Movement is controlled by the analog stick on the bit held in the left hand,…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 2, 2009