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Roll Metroid Prime Trilogy Box Art Up Into Your Life

Nintendo’s Metroid Prime collection for the Wii is due to land in North America on August 24th in a snazzy “collector’s edition” form that bundles up three games, a Metroid Prime Trilogy art booklet, special metal packaging and more. By more, we really mean a paper sleeve in which to slide the Metroid Prime Trilogy…

I’ve Been To Colorado, New Mexico, Texas…

To: Bash From: Crecente Re: About The Time I Had My Phone Blessed We left this morning on our two-and-a-half week road trip with Trish’s parents and Tristan. As is often the case, Trish drove while I worked on my laptop with the help of a cell card. The trip was pretty uneventful despite offering…

Gearbox Trademarks New “War Hero” Titles

Brothers In Arms and Borderlands developer Gearbox Software is either taking its World War II shooter series into the modern day or has designs on adding Guitar Hero controller support to military shooters. Or both. Or neither. Whatever its plans may be, Gearbox has protected a quartet of new, heroic trademarks, including “World War II…

The Screens of Gran Turismo PSP

In these new batch of Gran Turismo screens we get a look at how the Playstation Portable version of the game treats cars like the Enzo and GTR. Built from the ground up for the PSP, Grant Turismo PSP will feature more than 800 vehicle models, and more than 30 tracks. The game will be…

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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Preview: Pigs Might Fly

We get a new Zelda this fall, as Link gets a train, a phantom friend to do some of his dirty work and a new species of animal to enrage. This week, we played more. Announced at the Game Developers Conference in March, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks was first playable for us at…

Reminder: About Your Club Nintendo Status

Hey there Club Nintendo of America members, your status is about to reset! On June 30th, to be specific. If you want to reap the benefits (free stuff!) of elite status in Nintendo of America‘s customer rewards program, pay attention. You have until next Tuesday to rack up the required “coins” to ensure you’re of…

Megan Fox Will Kick Your Ass At Mortal Kombat

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen co-star Megan Fox isn’t just about playing Guitar Hero. In an interview with What They Play, Megan talks girl games, the Super Nintendo, and potentially kicking your ass. Okay, let’s be realistic…your ass is most likely never getting close enough to Megan Fox for her to kick it, but in…

Worms 2: Armageddon Crawls To Live Arcade Next Week

When Team 17 tells us that a game is coming out “real soon”, they mean real soon, with the proper sequel to 1991’s Worms Armageddon hitting Xbox Live Arcade a week from today. Team 17 passed along the first trailer for the game just week, shooting out a follow-up email afterwards teasing a release date…

Square Enix President Casts Further Doubt On The Last Remnant PS3 Release

Japanese role-playing game The Last Remnant was originally planned for a release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. As of today, only two of those releases have happened, with the third, the PS3 version, starting to look unlikely. While middling critical reception of The Last Remnant may imply that PlayStation 3 owners aren’t…

Mythic Employees Surprised By Jacobs’ Exit

Mythic General Manager Mark Jacobs sudden departure may have taken Mythic employees off-guard, according to at least one source close to the company. As reported earlier today, EA has restructured Mythic, placing it under the leadership of BioWare as part of a new RPG/MMO division of the company. BioWare’s Ray Muzyka will be heading up…

How Much Of New Mario Vs. DK Is Actually New

Some people who tried to download the Mario Vs. Donkey Kong game Nintendo recently placed on its DSiWare store might have been scared off by a pre-purchase warning about recycled content. Nintendo’s told us how much wasn’t original. In my review for Mario Vs. Donkey Kong: March of the Minis I made the educated guess…

Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! Goes PSN Exclusive

NIS America is dropping plans for a UMD release of Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?, opting to make the PlayStation Portable game exclusively a downloadable PlayStation Network game. Retailers began canceling pre-orders for the PSP game earlier this week, with online outlets like GameStop removing listings of Holy…

The Fighters Of Samurai Showdown: Edge Of Destiny

The Samurai Showdown series continues in North America this fall with Samurai Showdown: Edge of Destiny, and Ignition Entertainment has sent along a video so we can keep track of who is fighting who. Thirteen classic SS characters and eleven newcomers gather in this latest entry to do battle with the villainous Golba, rendered in…

Leipzig Gamescon Lands Former SCEE Head as Speaker

Gamescon may be only a letter off from Gamescom, but the Leipzig Games Convention Online is many miles and weeks away from Cologne’s massive gaming event. Taking place on July 31 and August 1 in the former home of the once-massive Gamescon, the convention will focus on the online aspect of gaming. Former CEO of…

Gaming online? DSL Just Won’t Cut It.

Trying to lead a raid on another clan with DSL is asking for disaster. Upgrade to Comcast’s High-Speed Internet and their advanced fiber-optic network, and you can kiss lag frag goodbye for good. With Comcast, get the fastest speeds available.

Rockstar’s Agent “Very, Very Different” From GTA

What do we know about Rockstar North’s PlayStation 3 exclusive title Agent? Not much, other than that Rockstar founder Sam Houser believes that Agent, set in the 1970s and full of delicious espionage, will be “the ultimate action game.” Take-Two CEO Ben Feder sheds a little more light on the mysterious PS3 game to Eurogamer,…

Free Realms Gets Guilds

Free Realms might have had a lot to offer players in terms of game play, but it lacked one major massively multiplayer feature, until today that is. Sony Online Entertainment today finally launches a guild system for Free Realms, allowing friends and like-minded players to unite under a single chat channel and head tag. Any…

id: Why We Sold To ZeniMax

In an interview with Kotaku, id’s John Carmack and Todd Hollenshead explained how changing circumstances with Activision and other studios spurred id’s sale to Bethesda parent ZeniMax. id Software is still a development studio that commands respect, but it’s one that had found itself not quite fitting in of late, its principals told us during…

What’s New In Dungeons And Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited

Not just about making the game free-to-play, the upcoming Eberron Unlimited upgrade for Dungeons & Dragons Online brings new adventures, a raised level cap, and a whole new class – Favored Soul. While raising the level cap to 20 and adding in The Plane of Battle and Crime Syndicate Adventure Packs to Dungeons and Dragons…