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  Kill Bill Actress Selling Xbox 360 Resident Evil 5

  Chiaki Kuriyama, Kill Bill‘s Gogo Yubari, will be appearing in Japanese TV ads for the Xbox 360 version of upcoming survival horror title Resident Evil 5. “I’ve played Resident Evil before,” says Kuriyama, “and I can’t wait for the upcoming entry in the series. I played it a little before we started filming the commercial,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 13, 2009
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  Nintendo Responds To January NPD Sales, Seems Pleased

  Blah blah blah Nintendo sold the most consoles for the month blah blah blah 679,200 Wiis blah blah blah 510,800 DSs blah blah blah. Man, this gets repetitive, doesn’t it? To you and I, maybe, but sure not to Nintendo, who continue to be pleased – no, very pleased – with the way the current…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2009
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  Monster Hunter 3 (tri-) Dated… Sorta

  Wii title Monster Hunter 3 (tri-) has been dated. The game will be released “this summer” in Japan. Capcom’s only provided a release window and has yet to release its pricing. Originally slated as a PS3 title, the game was announced for the Wii in 2007 due to high development costs. カプコン・辻本良三氏「『モンスターハンター3』は今夏発売」と発表 [Gpara]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 12, 2009
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  Sony: Big PSP Games Are Coming, We Promise

  The PSP keeps selling, but Lord only knows who’s buying it. It’s certainly not people playing games on it, because aside from a few notable examples, the handheld has been starved of quality lately. You know it. I know it. And Sony, Sony know it, SCEE’s Claire Backhouse telling MCV: Granted, perhaps there hasn’t been…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2009
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  Gamers Gang Up On Tiger Woods

  Pro gamers went up against athletes at the Gillette-EA SPORTS Champions of Gaming Global Finals in Florida last Tuesday. The result? Total domination by the gamers. Most of the star athletes were defeated in their own games. Tiger Woods went down before 52-year-old Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2009 world champ, Steven Ward. New Orleans Saints…

  By AJ Glasser Published February 12, 2009
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  Ken Levine and Todd Howard on Teddy Ruxpin

  Want to know what happened at that panel where their Stephen Totilo and Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal talked shop with Ken Levine and Todd Howard? They talked about Teddy Ruxpin. The actual topic of discussion was whether hardcore gamers should fear the Wii. The answer? Good luck getting a definitive one from this vid. You could…

  By AJ Glasser Published February 12, 2009
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  Square Enix: “Dragon Quest IX Delay May Affect Final Fantasy XIII”

  Dragon Quest IX is going to be delayed — blame fatal bugs for that! Is DQIX‘s postponement is going to affect another big Square Enix game Final Fantasy XIII? Square Enix president Yoichi Wada explained, “The next term’s schedule has been fixed yet. Presently, I cannot say what kind of effect we will experience from…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 12, 2009
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  Yup, Microsoft Are Opening Microsoft Retail Stores

  Last month, we took a tour of Microsoft’s “fake” retail store. Meant to show what it would look like “if” Microsoft ever decided to open a dedicated store. Like the ones they’re now actually opening. The company have announced that, yes, they’re going to follow Apple into the dedicated retail space, and will be opening…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2009
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  What Is Sega’s Project RINGO?

  Man, I don’t know. Why don’t you ask Sega? All we’ve seen so far is a simple teaser page, with an adorable animated silhouette of a clown-shoe wearing girl juggling an apple. That’s all Sega seems willing to divulge about “Project RINGO” on the recently opened teaser page at its Japanese web site. We can…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009
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  What Was ONM’s Delay Worthy “Exclusive Game Content”?

  Why were poor Official Nintendo Magazine subscribers made to suffer a delay in getting their latest issue? Blame Mario, Sonic and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The UK publication put a hold on its latest issue to give everyone else plenty of breathing room to announce Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games three…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009
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  Ditched Splatterhouse Developers Wish Namco “The Best”

  Earlier this week, Namco confirmed to Kotaku that California-based developer BottleRocket Entertainment is no longer working on the upcoming multi-platform Splatterhouse reboot. Namco showed up at the developer’s offices and took back the dev kits and Splatterhouse assets with the intention of having the Afro Samurai team finish the game. Regarding Namco’s decision to take…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 12, 2009
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  Harmonix Sues Konami Over Rock Revolution

  Rock Band developer Harmonix is turning the legal tables on Konami, slapping the publisher-developer with a lawsuit of its own. No, not for pain and suffering caused by Rock Revolution, but for patent infringement. Why does this sound eerily familiar? You may recall that Konami, who also developed the rhythm game Guitar Freaks for Japan,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009
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  Americans Still Buying Wii Fit At Alarming Rates

  As Nintendo president Satoru Iwata already revealed last week, Wii owners in the United States are still buying Wii Fit as fast as their chubby little frames will allow, moving at near holiday sales rates. The fitness software racked up 777,000 sales in January, a 22% drop from its December rate. Wii Fit‘s impressive sales…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009
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  Storytelling

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Eatin’ With The In-Laws (No, They’re Not Trying To Kill Me) Last week, while driving Tristan to his Math Club (he’s learning Vedic Math) he asked me to tell him a story. So I told him about Odysseus and the cyclops Polyphemus. I’m not really sure why that popped into…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 12, 2009
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  Nintendo Dominates US Hardware Sales Again With Big, Big January

  No one was expecting Nintendo to sell Wii and Nintendo DS hardware at the record-breaking rate it had in December, but January’s take was no drop in the pond, with the Wii dominating sales charts. Nintendo still managed to move over a million pieces of hardware to U.S. consumers in January, with 679,200 Wiis and…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009
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  PlayStation Store Update: Bloomin’

  Sony kicks off its “Spring Fever” promotion with the arrival of thatgamecompany’s Flower, this week’s most outstanding PlayStation Store addition. But if you don’t feel like opening up the wallet, there are plenty of freebies. Not much that’s playable, mind you, but plenty to download, including a slew of themes for your PlayStation 3 and…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009
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  Snazziest Art To Grace a Game Disc

  Crispy Gamer compiled a short list of what they think is the best art displayed on a gaming disc. The gallery of 20 discs starts with Grand Theft Auto III’s disc and wraps up by naming PaRappa the Rapper’s disc as the best bit of on-disc gaming art. The list certainly missed quite a few…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 12, 2009
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  Guitar Hero Metallica Comes With Slice Of Lemmy

  Metallica announced today that Guitar Hero Metallica will feature Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister as a playable character, presumably when one plays the band’s hit “Ace of Spades,” one of many guest tracks in the game. It should be a very profitable year for the English bassist, as he’ll also be appearing in the similarly umlauted Brütal…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009
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  World Of Warcraft Lead Moves To Blizzard’s Next Online Game

  World of Warcraft lead designer Jeffrey Kaplan has announced that he is leaving the team behind the popular massively-multiplayer online game in order to work on Blizzard’s next massively-multiplayer project. In a post on the official World of Warcraft forums, Kaplan, who goes by the forum handle Tigole, thanked the fans and the development team…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2009
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  Happy Darwin Day From Spore

  Happy Darwin Day! Two hundred years ago evolutionary biologist Charles Dawrin was born. Today Maxis points out that his theories are being put to good use in Spore. More than 35 million creatures are online on Spore’s Sporepedia, which is more than 22 times the current known number of species that existence on the real…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 12, 2009