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Japanese Hardware Sales Go Down, Down, Down

With little in the way of new software releases charting in Japan, console and handheld gaming system sales take a dip across the Pacific. Nintendo DSi sales were way down, but one console actually saw a boost. That would be the Xbox 360, which is a little bit odd, considering there were no new major…

Flock Gets Spring Update, Fan-made Shoes

Flock! is getting a PC update tomorrow called “Spring” that features six new levels, a new animal and special objects that “change the way you herd.” To go with this announcement, Capcom has also blogged a fabulous pair of fan-made shoes. Flock! for those of you sheeple who haven’t gotten into it, yet, is an…

So, How Many People Actually Buy Stuff Over XBLA Or The PSN?

Digital delivery of games and gaming content is the inevitable future. But how prevalent is it in the present? The NPD Group estimate that, as it stands, digital downloads on a console are doing…OK. The retail tracking firm reckon that, of all Xbox Live “Gold” subscribers, 18% of them “regularly download from Xbox Live Arcade”.…

More Duke Nukem Forever Footage, If You Want It

Still morbidly curious about the bloody twelve-year-long pileup that was Duke Nukem Forever? Then the Jace Hall Show has you covered with new gameplay footage of the indefinitely on-hold 3D Realms game. If screen shots, artwork, rough video and legal shenanigans weren’t enough to satisfy you, perhaps off-screen footage—no direct feed here—of the unbelievably delayed…

Sam & Max Save The World Next Week

Telltale Games is releasing the first season of Sam & Max on Xbox Live June 17 as Sam & Max Save the World. The six-episode collection of Sam & Max’s 2006/2007 adventures features Achievements, tweaked gameplay controls and HD graphic support. The compilation used to be called Sam & Max: Season One, but I guess…

PlayStation Store Update: Little Big Heavy Thunder

It’s a big, big, big week for the North American PlayStation Store, as new downloadable content for Killzone 2, Call of Duty: World At War, LittleBigPlanet and Burnout Paradise bombards the PlayStation Network. And there are games! Plenty of games, as Heavy Weapon, Gunstar Heroes and Bomberman ULTRA lead the list of playable titles. There’s…

NPD Instant Analysis: Things You Should Note

A fighting game blow-out. An EA surprise. As always, some notable omissions. And an NPD-PD PlayStation bump! For your May NPD gaming sales armchair analysis, consider the following: Killzone Leads Infamous For Biggest 2009 PS3 Original: The PlayStation 3 push for original first-party games gave the world Killzone 2 in February, which managed 323,000 units…

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UFC 2009 Is May’s Undisputed Bestseller

THQ’s mixed martial arts brawler crushed the competition in May, when more than a million copies of UFC 2009 Undisputed were snapped up by gamers looking to snap some joints. The Ultimate Fighting Championship game moved 679,600 copies on the Xbox 360, 334,400 on the PlayStation 3, making it May’s bestselling video game. It beat…

Nintendo Tops U.S. May Hardware Sales Once Again As Sales Drop

The U.S. video game industry took another hit, right in the sensitive hardware region, as May sales show another month-to-month and year-over-year decline. Despite drops, Nintendo remains the hardware champ thanks to continued Nintendo DS and Wii sales. Both the DS and Wii saw sizable hits from the previous month. April was boosted by the…

Nintendo: Wii Vitality Sensor Targets Gaming Hold-Outs

Nintendo’s announcement of the Wii Vitality Sensor was one of the most mystifying product announcements at the show. We asked for more information. Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata unveiled the Wii Vitality Sensor at E3 and has since explained in interviews that the Wii add-on will use light to measure bloodflow and therefore certain bio-rhythms for…

Peggle For The iPhone Goes Cheap

Need a little EXTREME FEVER on the go? The iPhone version of the highly addictive Peggle is just 99 cents today via iTunes. Like other versions of Peggle it packs in awesome gameplay and comes highly recommended. Buy it! [iTunes]

Pac-Man Employed As Indicator Of Our National Debt

Good news for the economy came today when U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich of Ohio used the iconic Pac-Man to illustrate the United States’ nation debt, which currently stands at more than $11.38 trillion. Where’s the good news? It’s not in the ever-increasing “Federal Debt as percentage of GDP” ratio. Because that looks bad. The…

The Best Game Death Innovation At E3?

One of the odder things about video games is all the work that’s put into new ways of killing virtual enemies or having one’s own character meet their doom. Atlus’ Demon’s Souls showed a new twist at E3. I was given a quick demo of the dark upcoming PlayStation 3 third-person action game Demon’s Souls…

Rise Of The S-Word In T-Rated Games

In the first minutes of the T-rated Infamous, players will hear the curse commonly associated with manure and stepping in it. A new report examines how much profanity makes it into T-rated games. A few weeks ago, I e-mailed John Davison, a games journalism friend, who runs the parental-guide video game site WhatTheyPlay.com. I’d been…

Bayonetta’s Scarborough Fair: How High Heels, Herbs Influenced Weapon Design

I really dig PlatinumGames’ Bayonetta, especially after being able to finally go hands-on with the game at E3. I also really appreciate the insight the developer is providing into the game’s design, which today focuses on Bayonetta’s guns, Scarborough Fair. PlatinumGames designer Muneyuki “Johnny” Kotegawa illustrates how the ornately designed guns, which Bayonetta can also…

Persona PSP Packed With Persona Soundtrack

The Atlus Spoils customer appreciation program continues to live up to its name, with the announcement that every launch copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona for the PSP comes packed with a two-disc soundtrack. That’s right, two-discs, not just half the soundtrack, like the disc that shipped with Persona 4 for the PlayStation 2. The…

Nintendo’s Reggie Finds Natal ‘Ironic,’ Talks Facebook, Virtual Console

In an interview with Kotaku, the president of Nintendo of America discussed the Wii’s new motion-control competition, and an array of topics that included some E3 rumors that didn’t come true: Wii Netflix and DSi Virtual Console. Reggie Fils-Aime was his usual confident self during Kotaku’s interview with him in a Nintendo meeting room this…

Green Day Officially, Exclusively Comes To Rock Band

Punk rock trio Green Day is bringing its catalog of music to MTV Games and Harmonix’s Rock Band, confirming the news dropped by the band itself earlier this week. While details about just how much of the band’s back catalog are still to be revealed, the partnership will kick off on July 7th with three…

Video Games Live Has Its Own MP3 Player

The Video Games Live concert tour kicks their merchandising up a notch with this new VGL-branded VIVO MP3 player, loaded with unreleased recordings from Kingdom Hearts, Halo, and more. The 2GB MP3 player is now available for sale at the Video Games Live online store, and will also be making appearances at the merchandising tables…