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Broken Street Date Or Not, Don’t Play DQIX Just Yet!

Square Enix role-playing-game Dragon Quest IX doesn’t go on sale until July 11 in Japan. That still hasn’t stopped at least one mail order retailer from breaking the street date — though, with a special request. The pictured notice thanks consumers for purchasing the title, which the shop has been able to ship a day…

Two New Maps, Two New Weapons For Killzone 2

Sure, the game’s not burning up the PS3 scene like it was probably hoped it would, but Guerilla are still banging away on updates for Killzone 2, the latest of which appears to take the form of some new DLC. Reader Corey sends us this list of trophies for the game, which were updated today…

Dragon Quest IX TV Ad Minus Boy Band Fishing

Japanese’s most famous boy band SMAP appeared in a much publicized commercial for Dragon Quest IX. Not everyone likes SMAP, though. For those folks, here are two SMAP-free ads. You could say they’re de-SMAPPED.

Battlefield 1943 A Hit, Server Problems Be Damned

Sure, the game has its share of problems. But they’re problems EA say are down to overwhelming popularity, and you know what? It looks like they’re right. The game has already been played by over 80,000 people in a single day, and that’s just going off the Xbox Live leaderboards. With the game now rolling…

From Arcades To PlayStation 2 Back To Japanese Arcades

Game centers dead? Ha! SNK still believes in them. The King of Fighters 2002 was released back in, wait for it, 2002 in arcades. This past February, SNK released a remake of the 3-on-3 fighter called The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match for the PS2. Unlimited Match won’t only be making its way to…

Scribblenauts, As Hilariously Explained By The ESRB

5TH Cell’s Scribblenauts is an amazing piece of E3 award-winning game design, letting the player summon almost anything they can think to write on the Nintendo DS touchscreen. Despite being rated “Everyone 10+” the game features some potentially objectionable content. Perhaps most objectionable are the things one can do in Scribblenauts when babies, steak and…

First Command & Conquer 4 Screenshot

First came the announcement, then came another announcement, and now we have the first screenshot for Command & Conquer 4, the game that promises to finally wind up the “Tiberium” storyline. Does the world really need another game where giant robots fight other giant robots? Stupid question. Of course it does. Click the above pic…

Reggie: Be Patient, The Wii Vitality Sensor Will “Wow” You

Nintendo’s announcement of the Wii Vitality Sensor at E3 was met with some amount of befuddlement and a heap of “WTF?” But Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime says, eventually, you will say “Wow, I get it.” Reggie tells Fast Company that the same confusion—and maybe even some mockery—followed the introduction of the…

Konami Says Let’s Walk It Out

The Wii is about to get another workout from publisher Konami, seeking a bigger slice of the console’s fitness hungry userbase with Walk It Out, the game that brings the thrill of walking outside to your living room. With a soundtrack that spans more than a hundred songs, players will… well, they’ll walk. But that…

Alien Breed Evolution Evokes Fond Amiga Memories Later This Year

Worms creators Team17 Software formally announced its plans to release Alien Breed Evolution, an Unreal Engine 3-powered remake of its Amiga top-down shooter. As the original Alien Breed is now 18-years-old, some of you may be too young to remember it. Think Gauntlet meets Aliens. Or, you know, think Alien Syndrome. (No, don’t think of…

A Gold Star

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: The new commenting system went live today bringing with it the ability to edit comments within a window of time and a super-class of user whose comments will hopefully be the most thoughtful, interesting among our vast pool of commenters. The idea is that thoughtful commenters will be recognized and…

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Goes Free

Bethesda Softworks is doing its fans a solid today by giving away one of its older games, the second in the Elder Scrolls series, via its web site. Enjoy The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall for the low price of absolutely free. The only thing it’ll cost you is 148 megabytes of hard drive space, a…

Why It’s Hard To Make Today’s Games Funny

Video games have been generating laughter since the days of text-based adventures. Can today’s more complicated titles keep up with the comedy of their beloved point-and-click ancestors? Comedy isn’t easy, especially in the medium of the video game. Injecting humor is more than simply having a character say something funny. It takes precise timing, a…

PlayStation Store Update: Go Robo!

You shan’t be wanting for downloadable games after this week’s North American PlayStation Store update, especially if you call yourself an XS Junior League Soccer fan. I know you’re out there! PlayStation 3 owners now have access to Buzz Jr. Robo Jam and Battlefield 1943, the latter of which we hope holds up! Two games…

Wii Sports Resort Sales Pass 500,000 In Japan

Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort is ensuring that Wii MotionPlus penetration is off to a good start in Japan, with the Wii game moving another 150,000 copies in its second week on the market. That puts the Wii Sports sequel at more than a half million copies sold, according to Media Create, a feat sure to…

Activision Renames Modern Warfare 2 Again, Slaps Call of Duty On the Box

Modern Warfare 2 has once more been renamed, shifting back to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 after ditching the franchise name for a few months. Why the back and forth? It’s not really clear. But this is what Activision has to say about the name game: “Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2 is the direct…

Disgaea 3 Getting Trophies In Exchange For Save Data

Disgaea 3 is finally getting trophy support next week, which means it’s time to dust off those discs and back up your save files, because once you patch the game, they’ll be completely useless. The Disgaea 3 trophy patch goes live on July 16th, adding in the ability for players to earn coveted trophy points…

Co-Op Metroidvania Anyone?

Yes, the lead developer of Shadow Complex entertained the idea of designing a co-op Metroid/Castlevania kind of game. But… One would think that with all the ambitions that Donald Mustard and his team at Epic-owned Chair Entertainment are trying to accomplish with their XBLA love letter to Super Metroid — 3D graphics, a huge world,…

Jack Black Has An Axe To Grind

There’s nothing quite as terrifying as Jack Black swinging around a giant battle axe, as evidenced by episode 4 of Brutal Thoughts with Jack Black. Eddie Riggs wields a battle axe with skill and grace in Brutal Legend. Jack Black, on the other hand, kills the boom operator. Are you kids out there getting the…

Think Of Dragon Age As A Massively Single-Player RPG

The appearance of Facebook and Twitter logos at the end of a recent Dragon Age promo video got me asking questions. And the answers are mysterious. As a Dragon Age: Origins demo I received in a rented New York City nightclub was nearing its conclusion yesterday, I was shown a video that teased more of…