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Here’s How Rock Band 2 For The Wii Catches Up This Week

This week’s Rock Band 2 catch up session for the Wii brings an impressive fourteen new tracks to the Rock Band Music Store. Most important are Wii owners first taste of downloadable Metallica. …And Justice For All‘s “Blackened” and the title track from Ride The Lightning lead the week of Wii re-releases, further showing that…

A Sad Passing

To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Has Spring Started Yet? Over the weekend I learned that someone I knew from work died as the result of a bicycle accident. James Meadow was a talented, charming writer and a genuinely nice guy. I’d hesitate to call us friends, I didn’t know him that well. But I always…

The Conduit’s Dropping Of Wii MotionPlus Explained

The Conduit‘s contribution to the Wii library is exciting. It’s easy on the eyes, seems like a smart publishing decision by Sega, and planned for Wii Speak and Wii MotionPlus support from the get-go. For better or worse, Wii MotionPlus support has since been dropped from The Conduit, a seemingly curious decision for a first-person…

GamePro Is Now A Video Game Publisher Too

With GamePro magazine on the cusp of its 20-year anniversary and having already trailblazed the magazine-editor-as-action-figure space, it’s expanding its reach to actual video game publishing. Get ready for GamePro Labs. The venture, according to a report from GameDaily, will see games published for the iPhone as well as through Microsoft’s XNA initiative. Telling GameDaily…

Stranglehold Getting Movie Treatment

Midway’s John Woo-backed shooter Stranglehold may be turned into a movie, according to Hollywood Reporter. The 2007 video game is a sequel to John Woo’s 1992 Hong Kong action flick, Hard Boiled. The game stars Chow Yun-Fat, who played inspector Tequla Yuen. The video game was the first project the two had collaborated on since…

Rare Teases Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Expansion

Rare is planning on lifting the lid off an expansion for Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, potential downloadable content it hopes to announce sometime this week. That announcement may even herald a new promotional logo! That last part probably isn’t all that exciting, except to sales and marketing types, but Rare’s Lord of Games, the…

The Extremely Limited Edition UK RE5 Watch

The creators of the limited-edition Metal Gear Solid 4 watch that UK fans went crazy over last year are back, with a Gamestation-exclusive limited-edition Resident Evil 5 timepiece. The designer of the watch himself, Adi Wells, sends us the scoop on the Resident Evil 5 watch, which will be available for pre-order through UK retailer…

Castlevania Cake

We don’t really write about cakes that often anymore, but this one is pretty amazing. The sides of the cake show a typical level in the early days of side-scroller Castlevania. Happy birthday Matt!

US Drug Czar Targets Gaming Skills In Anti-Pot Ads

The United States government is going after gamers in its latest “Above the Influence” anti-drug ads, warning potential pot smokers that their gaming skills may suffer if they choose to get high. The ads warn that “many of the skills required for winning a background, defeating an opponent, [and] beating games” can be hindered by…

Sony Ponders Suing Over UK Early Death Ad

The UK’s Change4Life campaign, which links playing video games with obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, could draw legal fire from Sony for using a PlayStation-like controller in their print ad. The magazine ad in question features a young boy obviously not enjoying himself while holding a dual analog wireless controller, similar to that used…

PC Game Featured in NY Contemporary Art Show

The New York Times has an interesting story up about the art of the computer generation. In it they talk about the opening, next month, of the New Museum of Contemporary Art and how one of the exhibits there will be Flywrench, a sort of puzzle game meets art creation by Mark Essen. The images…

Edge Picks “The 100 Best Games To Play Today”

The latest issue of Edge—which happens to be the magazine’s 200th—not only features 200 different magazine covers, it lists “The 100 Best Games To Play Today,” compiling the best of what’s still extremely playable. This isn’t a “These Are The Best Games Of All-Time” list, nor a rattling off of the 100 most influential. It’s…

Warhammer Online Offers Prizes For Your Friends’ Lives

Warhammer Online is turning up the heat on their refer-a-friend program, offering free in game pets and items to players who pull their friends into the conflict. Warhammer has had a pretty standard refer-a-friend program up until now. Simply drag a pal into the game, and get 30 days free game time. Now they up…

id: No Rage In 2009, Come Back Next Year

id Software has a lot on its plate. The developer has its fingers in Wolfenstein, Quake Live, Doom 4 and Rage, maybe even some Wii development. So it’s no surprise that Rage won’t make 2009. Todd Hollenshead, the ponytailed co-owner and CEO of id Software, drove that point home in the most recent episode of…

Enter for your chance to win a signed copy of VALKYRIE PROFILE!

Square Enix was good enough to provide us with a signed prize package in honor of the newest installment of VALKYRIE PROFILE: Covenant of the Plume. Click through for your chance to win! A lucky first prize winner will receive a copy of the game signed by Square-Enix Chief Director Yoshinori Yamagishi, a poster signed…

The Art of War

War is a theme that has always been found in the video game medium; leaps in game presentation have typically corresponded to some kind of combat themed game. In the more than 15 years since the introduction of the first-person shooter genre, and nearly 10 since tactical shooters came on the scene, the progressive immersion…

Starbreeze Talks The Evolution Of Dark Athena

The Chronicles of Riddick developer Starbreeze explains how they went from polishing an old title to creating an entirely new game in this first developer diary for Assault on Dark Athena. Swedish developer Starbreeze obviously loves the Riddick property, and not just because the first game, Escape from Butcher Bay, put them on the map.…

Burn Zombie Burn! Ignites PSN This Month

The undead burst into flames this month, as Doublesix announces a March 26th release date for their PlayStation Network exclusive shooter, Burn Zombie Burn! Rack them up and knock them down. That’s the core strategy behind Burn Zombie Burn! – gather together as many zombies as possible, killing them en mass, amassing the highest score…

Burnout Paradise Boost Specials Drop This Week

Burnout Paradise gets a boost this week with the release of the Boost Specials Collection, featuring two “ultra-performance boosting machines” to add to your collection. Two cars make up the Boost Specials Collection. The first, pictured here, is the Carson Extreme Hotrod, which Criterion calls the fastest car in Paradise City. It features a new…

A Closer Look At God of War III

In this pop-up video treatment of the God of War III trailer we get a few new tidbits of information. The trailer was shot in-engine and was edited down to be much less violent than the video game; expect spilled entrails in the game itself. We also learn that God of War III will be…