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Nintendo World Store Gets A New Coat Of Paint

The Nintendo World Store in New York City has just reopened after its first major refurbishment since opening back in 2005. While both floors of the store have been given a facelift, as you can see via these photos from Wired.com, if you’ve ever been there you might need to have some of the changes…

SingStar Dance

Capcom Japan Says Mega-Man Creator Quit To Create More Games

Keiji Inafune of Mega-Man and Dead Rising fame made no secret that he hated his job. Late last week, the game designer finally left Capcom, a company he worked at for 23 years. The developer’s Osaka headquarters says why. “Due to the sudden upheaval in the market, it seemed necessary to drastically reform our game…

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Michael Jackson’s Glove, Reduced To A Game Freebie

Michael Jackson’s white glove, which he first wore when performing the moonwalk for the first time, became a trademark symbol of one of the greatest musicians to have ever lived. And it’s now free for purchasers of a Wii game! Ubisoft, the publishers of Michael Jackson The Experience on Wii, will be bundling a replica…

A Week In Comments

I Can Explain This Comment by: Adhominem Nominated by: Walter Kurtz After you have unprotected sex with your virtual wife, do you unlock Milo? GameStop Robber Shot Dead By Police Comment by: Fauxcused Nominated by: Optimistic Prime Let me take care of the obligatories: 1.) Would have been epic were it a headshot. 2.) Did…

New Xbox 360 Bundle Includes Forza 3 and Alan Wake

Microsoft yesterday revealed a new Xbox 360 bundle for the holiday season, one which packs a 250GB console in with two games. It’s the same one as we’ve already shown you for the Canadian and European markets; namely, one that also packs in a boxed copy of Forza 3 and a token for a downloadable…

Indie Devs Not Happy With New Xbox 360 Dashboard

The new Xbox 360 dashboard is clean. It’s very white. It’s also got a lot of indie developers for the platform upset with Microsoft, accusing the platform holder of putting their baby in the corner. Xbox Live Indie Games used to be somewhat easily found in the “Games Marketplace” section of the dashboard. Now? They’ve…

Ready For Battle

The United States Supreme Court building, Monday night. We’ll be inside on Tuesday, covering the Court’s first case about video games. It pits California against the game industry over a law that would make the sale of very violent games to kids illegal.

Timesplitters On The Comeback Trail

When Far Cry developers Crytek bought shuttered British studio Free Radical, many wondered how long it would be until we saw the return of the Timesplitters franchise. That time may be soon. According to a report on Eurogamer, Crytek UK – as Free Radical is now known – is “talking with various publishers about the…

Take A Peek At God Of War III’s Gorgeous Art Book

Got a knock on the door this morning. Was the postman with my God of War III art book. Let’s take a look at the thing, eh? The book is available from Ballistic, and comes in three variants, one for $65, one for $129 and the one you see above for USD$300. [God of War…

Two StarCraft II Players Look To Obama For Hope, Change

The Zerg and Protoss player base uses Comedy Central’s Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear as a platform to bring sanity to StarCraft II multiplayer. He’ll get to it, guys, just like getting Arrested Development back on TV. Thanks, Jordan!

Super Jonas Bros.

What’s this? A video game thing in my nightly off-topic post? Don’t worry, dear reader with an interest in things not just video game related. This post is still for you. We’ve got sports too! I’m sure you’re just dying to talk about the World Series, so have at it. Flip over a car in…

The Week In Games: No, *You* Are The Controller!

Get your lean on this week when Microsoft finally unleashes Kinect on the Xbox 360 owning populace. But if you’re not a fan of motion-controlled games that make you sweat, there’s plenty of Bond, Kratos and Pikachu on tap! Monday, November 1 PokePark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure (Wii) Monopoly Streets (Xbox 360) Tuesday, November 2 God…

Valve’s Take On Dota Explained By Its Creator

The makers of Half-Life, Team Fortress and Portal are taking popular Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients and making it their own. The man behind it all gets into the nitty-gritty of the all-new Dota in a new Q&A. Icefrog, the man tasked with overseeing development of the original Dota, explains on the official…

Ash, You Have Four Hours To Respond

To: Ash From: McWhertor Re: Don’t Press The Toilet Buttons! I’ve been wondering. Do you ever read my day notes, Ash? I bet you read the ones from Crecente. To test you, I’m going to ask you to say the codeword “Rosebud” when you get into work. If I don’t hear it by 10pm Pacific…

Rumor: Resident Evil In The Hands Of SOCOM Team

Following in the trail blazed by Dead Rising 2, the next Resident Evil game may come from the Great White North. SOCOM developer Slant Six Games could be the latest studio tapped by Capcom to create its games. A document forwarded to Kotaku indicates that a new, team-based Resident Evil game is currently in development…

DirecTV Unplugs Video Game Channel G4

X-Play is on pause for DirecTV subscribers. The satellite TV provider has dropped video game-centric network G4 from its line-up today, with DirecTV saying it has “no plans” to bring back the cable channel for its 18 million U.S. customers. DirecTV said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly that rising costs are partially to blame…

Here they Are, The Winners of An Autographed Copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops

Here it is the last giveaway for the month of October: Two North American copies of the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige Edition signed by Treyarch. We randomly selected the lucky two winners from our list of newsletter subscribers. If you were subscribed, you were entered. It’s something I’ll be…

Frankenreview: Fable III

If there’s one thing compiling the Fable III Frankenreview has taught me, it’s that even the most powerful monarch is subject to the court of popular opinion. In this case the court of popular opinion features the opinion of the assembled video game reviewers, who seem to have mixed feelings when it comes to the…