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Mario & Luigi Knock Out Ken & Ryu In Japanese Sales

The newest entry in the Mario & Luigi RPG series, excitedly titled Mario & Luigi RPG3!!!, beat out Capcom’s Street Fighter IV by an impressive margin, with the DS title securing this week’s top spot. Of course, some may contend that Street Fighter IV sales would have benefited from more readily available stock, but that’s…

Dragon Rising Screens Rise To The Occasion

Codemasters has released the box art and news screens for their upcoming sandbox shooter Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, due out this summer for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. Codemasters seems to have stripped out the number 2 from the follow-up the 2001’s Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis from developer Bohemia Interactive, perhaps in…

Live Action Legendary Cars Plug

Criterion had way too much fun making this video, but that’s OK it’s pretty fun to watch too. Certainly makes me want to buy one or two of those Legendary cars.

Original DSi Design Had Two DS Slots, Was Disliked By Nintendo Dev Team

The Nintendo DSi, recently announced for a North American release in April, was almost a very different, very curious beast. According to a new “Iwata Asks” interview, it originally featured two DS game slots. The original design for the digital camera-enabled Nintendo DSi, according to one of its designers, wasn’t well received by the software…

Frankenreview: Street Fighter IV

Twenty-two years after the first installment of the game hit arcades, Capcom releases the latest and possibly greatest version of the fighting game that kick-started the genre with Street Fighter IV. Capcom isn’t one to pull out a new number without meaning it, and they definitely mean it with Street Fighter IV. The game is…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Oh, my God! February is insane! Not only do I have to try to finish Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon for an upcoming review, but try to play through 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. That doesn’t even include my personal interest in playing Street Fighter IV and Noby Noby Boy, both of which hit this…

New Riddick Trailer Part Of This Complete Space Epic

The latest trailer for Starbreeze’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena contains everything anyone could ever want in a Vin Diesel-fueled space epic, including mech suits! And yes, the mech suits look lovely, but they aren’t really Riddick, now are they? Riddick is about skulking, stabbing, and interacting with little children, each of…

Quake Live Open Beta Next Week

ID Software‘s browser-based competitive version of the classic first-person shooter Quake is nearly ready for the public, with the Quake Live open beta kicking off next week. Statistics are being wiped and inactive players from the closed beta culled as Id prepares for the launch of open beta testing on Tuesday, February 24th. Announced in…

Xbox Live Hacker Attacks On The Rise

Are Xbox Live users taking out contracts against their opponents? Microsoft is investigating a rash of attacks on Xbox Live users by hackers using data flooding tools to kick them offline. It’s the same sort of attack that’s been targeting PC users for years. Hackers get a hold of the IP address players use to…

iPhone’s Metal Gear Solid to Feature Sniping, MGS4 Story

The official website for the iPhone’s Metal Gear Solid Touch updated today unveiling a bevvy of new details about the upcoming Konami title. Looking through the site, it appears that Metal Gear Solid Touch will be a rail-shooter of sorts based on the storyline of Metal Gear Solid 4 which will also offer up unlockable…

Empire Total War Demo Exclusively on Steam

The official demo for Sega strategy title Empire: Total War is now available for free download on Steam. The demo gives gamers a chance to take on the American Army and the French Navy playing as the British Empire in the Battle of Brandywine Creek and the Battle of Lagos. Historically, the Battle of Brandywine…

DiRT 2 Displays High Level Of Polish

New screens show off just how pretty a little mud can be in Codemasters’ DiRT 2, the sequel to 2007’s acclaimed off-road racer. DiRT 2 shows up the original DiRT in several different ways, featuring more cars, more real-world locations, and enhanced graphics courtesy of an enhanced version of the EGO game engine, as seen…

Namco Puzzles DSiWare With Mr. Driller and Katamari

In this week’s edition of weekly Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, Namco Bandai reveals two new games with familiar faces coming to Nintendo’s DSiWare: Mr. Driller and Korogashi Puzzle Katamari Damacy. The DSiWare version of Mr. Driller is a new version of Namco’s popular drilling actio puzzler, with three game modes and seventeen different stages to…

Overlord II, Dark Legends and Minion Screens and Trailers

Can’t get enough Overlord? Your problems will be solved come this June when three new Overlord games land on the DS, Playstation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. Overlord II is due out on PS3 and 360 in June 2009, on the same day that Overlord: Dark Legend hits the Wii and Overlord: Minion comes out…

Aion Aims For Fall Launch

A letter to fans posted on the official website for the eagerly anticipated massively-multiplayer game Aion: The Tower of Eternity reveals plans for a fall 2009 release in North America and Europe. New Aion U.S. community manager Lani “Liv” Blazier answered some of the biggest questions North American and European fans had regarding the release…

Disney Sends Spectrobes Wii-ward

Spectrobes makes the leap from two small screens to one large one, as Disney Interactive Studios takes their original science fiction adventure series to the Nintendo Wii with Spectrobes: Origins. Planetary patrol officer Rallen returns the in the next evolution of the Spectrobes franchise, continuing his adventures from the first two titles on the DS…

American McGee Has a Blank Canvas for Alice Sequel

Deadly jumping jacks, a vivisected dormouse, and a suicidal Alice were the products of famed designer American McGee’s first trip through the looking glass. There’s no telling where his second will take us. “We’ve given him a blank canvas to go where he would like,” said David DeMartini, Electronic Arts Partners chief. “There is nothing…

Alright, Tea Or Coffee?

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Deadly Halo Sand Yeah, I know. It’s not exactly a fair question — I drink both. It’s like asking if people like Elvis of The Beatles. Still, I’m gonna ask you, do you drink tea or coffee? Luke was saying he drinks a lot of peppermint tea. (Yes, this is…

Sony: Unique Controllers Are Great For Business

Americans may not be fully up to speed on the details, but know that nearly half of all PlayStation 2 consoles sold have been sold in Europe. A big part of that popularity has been down to what’s now known as Sony’s “Party Starter” lineup: SingStar, Buzz! and EyeToy. These were all developed by first-party…

David Hayter Back On Metal Gear Movie?

Yeah, David Hayter is the voice of Snake in Metal Gear Solid, but his day job is Hollywood script writer. You’d think, then, that he’d be a lock to write the Metal Gear Movie. But no. Originally, Hayter teamed up with cashed-up producer Avi Arad to pitch an idea for a Metal Gear movie to…