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  Lord Of The Rings: Conquest Launch Trailer Appropriately Epic

  With Pandemic’s Middle-Earth take on the Star Wars: Battlefront series heading to stores as we speak, EA has an unleashed the official launch trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. The trailer covers just about everything you need to know about the game. Choose good or evil, play through massive battles for the fate…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2009
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  See Space Garriott Live In Austin

  Gaming legend Richard “Lord British” Garriott’s trip into space has come and gone, leaving the Ultima creator nothing but fond memories and stories, which he’ll share live on stage in Austin Texas later this month. Fresh from his historic trip to the International Space Station, Richard Garriott is making a slightly less historic trip to…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2009
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  Andrew Lloyd-Webber Video Games In The Works

  The Phantom of the Opera is now…inside your Wii. Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Really Useful Group is apparently working on video games based on the famed composer’s magical works of musical theater. Just when I thought the music genre couldn’t get any stranger, this news hits. The group is looking to turn Lloyd-Webber’s body of work into…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2009
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  U.S. Army Buys Drunk Driving Game

  The U.S. Army is funding improvements to a drunk driving game developed at the University of Calgary, in hopes of reducing what they say is a growing drunk driving problem among soldiers returning from war zones. Booze Cruise allows users to enter their weight and a number of drinks, then attempt to drive home using…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 13, 2009
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  The Maw Opens On XBLA Next Week, Castle Crashers DLC Tides Us Over

  After a couple weeks of casual releases, Xbox Live Arcade heats up this month with this week’s release of the Castle Crashers: King Pack followed immediately by Twisted Pixel’s The Maw next week. The Castle Crashers: King Pack hits XBLA tomorrow, with it gobs of new content for all the good little boys and girls.…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2009
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  New Fable 2 Screens Celebrate Knothole Island’s Release

  The eagerly anticipated Knothole Island DLC for Fable 2 is now available via Xbox Live Marketplace, and to celebrate, Lionhead has released a set of six new screenshots showing off the new content. The new content will cost you 800 Microsoft Points and 500+ megs of hard disk space, but considering yesterday’s news there’s no…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2009
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  Mirror’s Edge DLC Dated

  Along with the news that the PC version of the critically acclaimed first-person adventure Mirror’s Edge is now shipping to stores, EA delivers a late-January release date for the eagerly anticipated time trial DLC. When EA says late January, they really mean late January. In this case, January 29th is the planned release date for…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2009
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  FusionFall Launches Tomorrow, Retail Version Packed With Extras

  Cartoon Network’s first foray into the massively-multiplayer online role-playing world is set to launch tomorrow, as FusionFall for PC and Macs heads to stores with special retail-only goodies packed in. The Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall Victory Pack for PC and Mac should be arriving in stores tomorrow courtesy of a partnership with Majesco. For $19.99,…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2009
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  Fallout 3 Bug Fix Update Hits PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 Today

  A patch to fix quite a number of bugs in Fallout 3 hits all versions of the role-playing game today, Bethesda says. The update is available for the English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish versions. The patch will also be required to play the downloadable content, Operation: Anchorage, coming to the Xbox 360 and Games…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 13, 2009
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  Wii Music Coming to Classrooms

  Nintendo is teaming with The National Association for Music Education to get the Wii and Wii Music into schools, the two announced today. The collaboration will have music teachers in 51 cities using Wii Music to help children with rhythm, temp and song structure. “The goal of Wii Music is to inspire people of all…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 13, 2009
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  Vir2L Goes Medieval On The Wii

  Vir2L Studios is bringing the sights, sounds, and smells (hopefully not) of the Middle Ages to the Wii with Medieval Games, which might have been more accurately titled Ye Olde Mini-Game Collection. Medieval Games will have you and up to three of your closest friends compete in a variety of medieval activities. There’ll be the…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2009
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  NY Bill Seeks To Shield Children From Racist Sterotyping In Games

  New legislation under consideration by the New York Assembly seeks to keep games that promote “racist stereotypes” out of the hands of the state’s children. Crafted lovingly by Assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright, measure A01474 would prohibit underage sales of games that promoted racial stereotypes or negative actions towards specific groups. The wording, exactly: Prohibits the…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2009
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  Indiana Jones Canned [Update]

  The last time we heard about the Indiana Jones game was back in March when Vanity Fair mentioned it would use the same engine as The Force Unleashed. There’s probably a good reason for that. IGN is reporting that multiple sources both inside and out of LucasArts have told them that the game has been…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 13, 2009
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  So I Hear This Season’s 24 Is Good… So Far

  To: Crecente From Bash RE: All A Twitter Damn, Jason Chen at Gizmodo was telling me last night that this season’s 24 is g-reat. Do you watch 24? I always watch them on DVD here. Mrs. Bashcraft lurves 24, so we wait until the discs hit the video store — complete with Japanese subtitles so…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 13, 2009
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  British Console Sales Figures: Wii > 360 > PS3

  In a rare act of charity, British sales outfit ChartTrack have teamed up with retailer GAME to provide total lifetime sales figures (ie all sales, not just GAME sales) for this generation of hardware. And GUESS WHAT? The Wii is on top. Followed by the 360. Followed by the PS3. Shocking, surprising, the works, we…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2009
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  Left 2 Dead Figures Were Built To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse

  Over the holiday season, Global420 was bored. Global420 likes toys, and he likes Left 4 Dead. So he combined the two, and threw together some custom Left 4 Dead figures. There are nine zombies (including a Hunter in DYNAMIC ACTION POSE), along with two survivors: Bill & Louis. Louis is almost perfect, barring an uneasy…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2009
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  What The Hell Did Dead Rising Wii Do To Isabella’s Face? [Update]

  That’s the Isabella in the original Xbox 360 version of Dead Rising — the one we know and love. The Isabella in the upcoming Wii version looks different. Want to see? Drumroll please… There you go, Dead Rising: Chop ‘Til You Drop Isabella. Now, there’s nothing wrong with having four (or five chins). Orson Welles…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 13, 2009
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  British Sales Charts

  Nintendo games at the top. So let’s move on. Get a look at the bottom of the charts! Halo 3! Call of Duty 4! Let’s party like it’s 2007, Britain. OK, back to the top now. See the two versions of FIFA? Now tell me how many versions of Pro Evo are up there. The…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2009
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  Mold Some Lady Into A Sweat Mopping Bar Hostess

  As with the previous titles, one of the key backdrops in Yakuza 3 is the night life — namely, hostess bars. Players enter into this business — known as the “water trade” in Japanese — and try to create the numero uno cabaret club lady. Here’s how it works: After “scouting” a girl, dress her…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 13, 2009
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  EA Sports Gets Into The Sneaker Business

  Game sneakers? Old news! But it’s new news for EA Sports and the Skate series, with skate company Etnies unveiling a new sneaker designed to cash in on the impending launch of Skate 2. They’re called the RVM Skate 2, and should be out in the US later this month at Zumiez stores, with an…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2009