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NPD Instant Analysis: Things You Should Note [UPDATE]

EA finally gets the Wii, and not in a way that will excite hardcore gamers. Ghostbusters goes missing. PSP jumps. And more observations you can use at cocktail parties from today’s June NPDs. (Check out our software and hardware reports for June here… then read this analysis and add yours.) EA Nails The Wii, Thanks…

Prototype, UFC Beat Up The Competition In June

U.S. consumers liked what they saw in Activision’s Prototype making the open world action game June’s bestselling title by an impressive margin. Last month, its single-console sales doubled those of the game it was often compared to, Infamous. The same was true for THQ’s UFC 2009 Undisputed, which topped U.S. game sales in May. The…

U.S. Console Sales Take Another Big Hit In June

The NPD Group‘s sales figures for the month of June are in and they are not pretty. On the hardware side, sales dropped a painful 38% year-over-year, with nearly every console seeing a drop in sales from June of 2008. Month-to-month, things improved over May’s sales. But seeing big declines from the previous June were…

PlayStation Store Update: Summer Savings

North American PlayStation 3 owners looking for cheaper PlayStation Network games should run, not walk, to the online store. In addition to plenty of new stuff, the old stuff has been kindly marked down. Savings can be had for the next week on games like Wipeout HD, Savage Moon, PixelJunk Eden and more, some of…

New Pro Evo 2010 Screens: Liverpool vs Barca

While Konami are reluctant to show any gameplay footage, they’ve no such qualms about releasing in-game screenshots of the upcoming Pro Evo 2010. Here you’ll find some in-game shots, pictures of the new “card” strategy system, along with shots highlighting the improvement to the player models over last year’s version.

Is Team Fortress 2’s Soldier Trying To Tell Us Something?

Yesterday, Team Fortress 2‘s Soldier class took over the game’s official blog to inform players of new avatars and instruct them on the ways of military masculinity. Some speculative TF2 fans believe there’s something more substantive to that update. One theory currently running through the game’s Steam forums—a dark and dangerous place—is that the Soldier…

Resident Evil 5 PC Dated, Benchmarked

Capcom not only brings us the final September release date for Resident Evil 5 on the PC, but a benchmark program to see if we’re better off buying a console instead. New costumes, an improved Mercenaries mode, and support for NVIDIA’s new GeForce 3D Vision tech will have PC gamers lording their superior versions of…

Taking Tony Hawk For Another Ride

I came. I saw. I fell off the skateboard. Once. Gently. Not being known to be exceptionally skilled at video games, I play them anyway. But having limited athletic skill and no ability to roller-skate, I’ve never tried to skateboard more than a foot. Who better to try out the new Tony Hawk game played…

New Star Wars: The Force Unleashed DLC Spoiled By New Achievements

LucasArts may be ready to drop some new downloadable content for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, as five new Xbox 360 achievements have expanded not only the possible gamerscore, but the game’s character roster as well. Warning, spoilers ahead. The five new achievements boost the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed achievement count from 1220—220 of…

At Least Sega’s Monkey Ball Countdown Is Interactive

It may be another countdown clock, but Sega’s mysterious Jackpot page does have one thing most others don’t – a clickable button. Between that and the hidden Super Monkey Ball reference, we’re intrigued. It’s just a tiny difference, but we’ll take what we can get. The countdown page, located at www.Sega.com/Jackpot, features a circular tumbler…

And Now For The Games Inspired By Summer Blockbusters…

We took a look yesterday at the games based on Summer’s biggest blockbuster movies. Today, let’s switch things up, and look at the games inspired by the movies. There’s a key difference! Unlike licensed fare, which are forced to stick to the plot and characters of the film, these games simply take a motivational cue…

Sony Specs Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines PSP Bundle (Mostly)

Ubisoft’s wee Assassin’s Creed adventure is getting its own PlayStation Portable “Entertainment Pack,” a bundle that might make it worth your while to invest in Sony’s portable platform. What’s in the box? Obviously, you’re getting Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines when the PSP game ships this November. But you’ll also get the standard Entertainment Pack stuff, included…

Unbound Saga’s Lori and Rick In The Plastic Flesh

Unbound Saga hits the Playstation Network today for the Playstation Portable. To celebrate, Vogster sent along these amazingly-detailed figures. Unbound Saga is based on Dark Horse’s comic book of the same name. In it you play as Rick Ajax, a self-aware comic book hero, as he takes on “The Maker”. The game includes 20 levels.…

See How Easily Dragon Quest IX Outsold The Competition

Square Enix released Dragon Quest IX on the Nintendo DS in Japan last week to long lines, over 2 million in sales, and virtually no competition. Want to see how impressively the portable role-playing game outsold its competition? Dragon Quest IX‘s 2.3 million in sales over the course of three days bested its nearest competitor,…

The French Won’t Be Blocked From Enjoying Modern Warfare 2’s Goggles

In a bit of triumphant news for the French, word to Kotaku via Infinity Ward’s chief Twitterer is that the Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition will be available in the land of the Eiffel Tower. The tweet came out of the blue today from Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling: fourzerotwo @stephentotilo – good news,…

Kojima On Peace Walker: “This game is an MGS5-class game”

In a press release Q&A issued by Konami today, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima stresses the importance of the PSP installment of the Metal Gear Solid series, calling it, “a MGS5-class game.” While the PlayStation Portable is no stranger to side stories and throwaway tie-ins to otherwise major game franchises, that simply isn’t the case…

EA Mixes It Up With Club Fight Night

EA beats Acitivision’s DJ Hero to the punch, launching its own DJ game as part of Club Fight Night, the newly-opened addition to the EA Sports Complex in PlayStation Home. While the Club DJ mini-game looks rather entertaining, the real action is in the main ring, where two giant, player-controlled robots rock and sock each…

PSP’s Assassin’s Creed Will Have Free Running, Open World and PS3 Connectivity

In development by Griptonite Studio, Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines for the Playstation Portable promises to deliver the “core gameplay” of the original console title including free-running and an intuitive combat system. “As it was the case in Assassin’s Creed, Altair will get to explore various large cities,” Frederic Lefrancois, third party producer for the game, said…

Runes Of Magic: The Changing Face Of Taborea

September’s Chapter II update for Runes of Magic isn’t just adding elves to the game, but a rather large chunk of new real estate as well. The Elven Legacy free expansion for Runes of Magic adds several new areas to the Taborean map, from the Northeast’s Weeping Coast to the Savage Lands, a rainforest area…

Marvel VS Capcom 2 PS3 Coming In August

PlayStation 3 owners are going to have to wait a couple of weeks longer than Xbox 360 owners to get their hands on Marvel VS Capcom 2. At the time the July 29th release date was announced for the Xbox Live Arcade version of Marvel VS Capcom, the Capcom Europe website contained an image showing…