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Free Realms Enters Closed Beta

Sony Online Entertainment‘s free-to-play, family-friendly massively multiplayer online game Free Realms enters closed beta testing today, with early registrations for April’s open beta now being accepted. Sony Online Entertainment welcomes the closed beta players into Free Realms today, where they’ll be able to explore the whimsical virtual world, raise pets, socialize, fight monsters, race cars,…

A Close Look at the Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360

Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb shot this quick video of an unboxed Xbox 360 Elite Limited Edition Resident Evil 5 version to show off the red console and the goodies it comes with. Besides the red Xbox 360, matching red Xbox 360 controller and black headset, you get a copy of Super Street Fighter Turbo…

Creative Assembly: Fighting Piracy Is Pointless

What’s the point of fighting PC game piracy? According to Stormrise developer Creative Assembly Australia’s communications manager Vispi Bhopti, there isn’t one. Speaking in an interview with VideoGamer.com, Bhopti revealed that Creative Assembly had no plans for additional copy protection for the upcoming PC release of their new real-time strategy game Stormrise, explaining that pirates…

EA Talks Wii Tiger Woods and Tennis Game Details

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis will be the first EA Sports games to feature Wii MotionPlus, Electronic Arts confirmed in a press release detailing the games. “On the Wii, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 and EA SPORTS Grand Slam Tennis bring the authentic motion and excitement of championship golf…

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Nintendo’s 120 Game Line-Up, Punch Out, Excitebots Dated

Nintendo today released a list of 120 games headed to the Wii and DS. The extensive list includes dates for Punch-Out!! Excitebots and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. Excitebots: Trick Racing uses the Wii Wheel and builds on the Excitebike and Excite Truck franchises and will be out April 20. Punch-Out! hits May 18 and is…

Don’t Plan On Playing Quake Live Just Yet

How live is Quake Live? So Live. But just because it’s live doesn’t mean you can play it. You can register, sure, but after that, you gotta get in line. See, the game is proving a little popular. Maybe too popular. I jumped on this morning to test it out, and instead of playing, instead…

Dragon Quest IX Delay Was At The Last Minute

Earlier this month, Japanese game maker Square Enix announced that eagerly anticipated role-playing-game Dragon Quest IX would be delayed. The delay was a blow to Square Enix stock prices, and it was made right down to the wire before it’s previous March release. Square Enix executive Yoichi Wada explained, “The decision to delay Dragon Quest…

Large, Girly Ken Statue Is On Fire

With two games released since Christmas, Street Fighter is on fire. The kids at SOTA toys have probably taken it a bit too far, though, with this burning Ken statue. Not only does it look like he’s wearing a fluffy, fire-coloured mink coat, but he also looks like a 12 year-old girl wearing a moppish…

Another Brain-Age-Doesn’t-Work Study

Did you hear for the umpteenth time Brain Age doesn’t really help your brain? No, really. While Nintendo does not claim the game can reverse the effects of aging, the game’s instruction booklet states, “Training can help consolidate memory and creativity and may hopefully help develop a resistance against decline in later life.” Consumer site…

Penny Arcade Writing “Anniversary” Book, Out In 2010

It’s testament to the lasting popularity of Penny Arcade that we can write a headline like that. After all, how many of the site’s readers would have expected to still be reading them in 2010? That’s, like, flying cars/robot helpers territory. Yet the site/comic, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik, has gone…

World Of Warcraft In Beer Stein Form

Let’s get trashed! Why not, you are looking at World of Warcraft: Rise of the Lich King beer steins. The stoneware steins with sculpted pewter lids feature artwork from Italian illustrator Alex Horley. They’re not cheap by any means (US$89.99), and there are even limited edition, hand signed ones as well for nearly double the…

The Great Capcom Bond Purchase Bungle

Swiss bank UBS (stay with me) placed an order of 3 trillion yen (US$31 billion) for Capcom bonds. Make that, mistakenly placed an order. The bank intended to place an order for 30 million yen bonds in Capcom, but instead a substantially larger order was placed. UBS does not describe the mistake as “human error.”…

Midway Dev Explains Why PS3 Development Is “A Pain In The Ass”

The PS3 is a powerful, powerful machine, but harnessing that power isn’t easy. There are confusing, technical ways of explaining just why this is, but we like Midway developer Shaun Himmerick’s explanation better. Interviewed by This Xbox Life, Himmerick – who served as Executive Producer on the upcoming Wheelman – speaks at length on the…

Street Fighter HD Designer: Wha? Street Fighter IV Ain’t Simple

You got issues with Street Fighter IV? Backbone’s David Sirlin – one of the designers who worked on Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix – got issues with Street Fighter IV. Writing on his own blog, Sirlin takes objection to everyone banging on and on about how easy and accessible Street Fighter IV is:…

Librarians Investigated For Playing Rock Band

We know that libraries are getting into games, libraries know they’re getting into games, but somebody needs to tell the Nebraska State Auditor, Mike Foley. You see, after a video clip appeared on YouTube showing some Nebraska Library Commission employees engaged in a spot of Rock Band, a complaint was made to Foley from a…

Liveblogging The Chun-Li Movie

On Friday, Hollywood flick Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li opens in theaters across the United States. We were given a screener copy of the movie by the movie’s distributor. Lucky us! The cinematic event of, well, this week deserves a proper liveblog. Beware. This post is wall-to-wall spoilers. So if you plan on seeing…

Somebody Got Wayne’s World In My Lost & Damned

To those who have GTAIV’s expansion pack, Lost & Damned: you seen those cars that look like they’re the ones Wayne drives in Wayne’s world? Their presence is no coincidence. As the below video shows, there’s more than one tip of the hat to the classic comedy skit/movie franchise going on in Johnny’s Alderney. GTA4:…

Persona 4 Teddie Figure, So Cute, So Round

Comic relief character Teddie (“Kuma” in Japanese) from Japanese Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 is getting his own figure. Lucky him! Pre-orders are currently being taken taken for the 3.5 inch figure, which is slated for an August release. Looks neat, but does his head come off? Kuma PVC [Hobby Search via Tomopop]

Nintendo Unveils New Wii Controller

It’s not like the Wii was ever short on control pads, but hey, if Nintendo feel we need another one – in this case the Classic Controller Pro – then we’re not going to argue. There’s no word yet on price, or a firm release date (just that it’s coming in the Summer). The Classic…