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The Ugliest Consoles Ever

The Sega Saturn was pretty unattractive. The NES was pretty much just a box. Compared to some of the consoles found on Pointless Banter’s list of the 10 Ugliest Gaming Consoles, they’re gorgeous. Take the Rollet Videocolor here. With it’s lovely bright yellow with blue accents, it’s the only video game console visible from space.…

By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009

Finally A DS Game About Puffins

Just when we figured that we were doomed to live life without a game about Puffins, Majesco swoops in like a mighty seabird to announce Puffins: Island Adventure for the Nintendo DS. Puffins: Adventure Island (P: IA to the cool kids) turns you into one of pelagic seabirds, learning to dive, fly, swim, and play…

By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009

My SAT Coach Barbershop Quartet Invades CES

Ubisoft’s My SAT Coach made a musical appearance at CES last week, thanks to the singing of Princeton Review’s Pedagogic Troubadour. The Vocab Minute podcast author sang this song about the game three times a day during the show. Kinda catchy. Now do Iron Man, ala quartet. (Click on the pic to play)

By Brian Crecente Published January 15, 2009

GTi Club+ Speeds Onto PSN

Konami proudly announces that the HD remake of the beloved 1996 arcade racer GTi Club will be available today for purchase on the PlayStation Network in the form of GTi Club+. GTi Club+ is a nifty little arcade-style racer that sees you and your opponents making your way through the tight city streets and winding…

By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009

Sumthing Else Releasing Halo Wars Soundtrack

Sumthing Else Music Works continues to release music for every big game Microsoft releases, with the announcement that the Halo Wars Soundtrack by Stephen Rippy will be available for purchase on February 17th. The entire Halo Wars soundtrack, composed by Stephen Rippy and performed by FILMharmonic Orchestra and Choir Prague is represented in the upcoming…

By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009

Nintendo’s Successes Spreads to Support Companies

How successful is Nintendo? So successful that even the cottage industry that supports the shipping, printing and manufacturing of their products are rolling in the dough. Duplium Corporation, the company North America’s largest Nintendo Certified packaging and printing facility, is doing so well that they’re planning on expanding into a number of new major North…

By Brian Crecente Published January 15, 2009

EA Partners To Distribute Wheel Of Time Games

Red Eagle Games have signed a worldwide distribution deal with EA Partners to distribute games based on Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels. Red Eagle first revealed plans for games based on the movie adaptations of Jordan’s books back in November, when they also revealed plans to create a massively multiplayer…

By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009

Extended Mafia II Trailer, Now With Commentary

Remember the Mafia II trailer that was release during last year’s Spike VGA Awards? Now it’s back, with an extended anding and a written commentary from 2K Czech’s lead animator, Tomas Hrebicek. Having received many questions regarding whether or not the Mafia II trailer was a real-time, in-game movie, Hrebicek clears the air in the…

By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009

Coraline Movie Game Features Coraline Movie Talent

D3Publisher is proud to announce that the main voice talent from the upcoming animated film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline will be reprising their roles in the video game adaptation. Dakota Fanning, Keith David, and Robert Bailey Jr will be voicing their characters from the film in the video game version, which is due out…

By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009

New Operation: Anchorage Screens Refuse To Give Way To Commie Bastards

There’s no way in hell General Chase is going to let those commie bastards cross Canada into the mainland, and we’ve got the Operation: Anchorage screenshots to prove it! Once again Bethesda gives us three teasing screenshots of the Operation: Anchorage DLC for Fallout 3, coming out January 27th for the Xbox 360 and PC.…

By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2009

Leaked Star Wars Battlefront 3 Gameplay Footage

More leaks springing from the now dead in the water Free Radical, it seems. We’ve already caught a glimpse at some pretty impressive TimeSplitter 4 and Star Wars Battlefront 3 art. Now we’ve got what is supposed to be early footage of Star Wars Battlefront 3. The footage, we’re told, was taken at an internal…

By Brian Crecente Published January 15, 2009

Welcome To the Family: A Letter From Playstation’s Peter Dille

Welcome to the Family is a series of three letters that will run this week from the heads of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. We asked each of the companies to write up a welcome letter to new owners of their consoles. They did the rest. We are running them in the order they were received.…

By Brian Crecente Published January 15, 2009

Being An Only Child…

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: How IS the baby? Hrm, yeah, having a second child is a ton of work, but five years separates Mini and Micro. We’re at the point where we can have Mini-Bash help out — save for when he runs away from the diaper changing. He will so not help out…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 15, 2009

Some Moody, Moody Heavy Rain Concept Art [Update]

People are really looking forward to Heavy Rain. And with good cause! Problem is, developers Quantic Dream aren’t exactly big on releasing assets for the game. So we’ll settle for concept art! These pics (via Superannuation) come from the portfolio of Morgan Yon, a concept artist who used to work for Quantic Dream between 2006-2008.…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 15, 2009

Dr McNinja’s Super Mario Bros. T-Shirt

Chris Hastings is the man behind the internet’s premier medical/ninjitsu soap opera, Dr McNinja. And you know what? He’s also the man behind this reasonably badass Mario Bros. shirt. It’s called Warrior Plumbers, and…well…you see what it does. It’s $19.75 plus shipping, but by the time you read this, they’ll probably all be gone. Sorry!…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 15, 2009

What Rock Band Can Help You Do Musically

The common gripe about Rock Band is that you’re not really making music. It’s just a game! Big whoop!! Well, let Harmonix boss Alex Rigopulos address that issue: First of all, in Rock Band the singing gameplay is really singing, and the game feedback on the singer’s pitch really does help people become better singers.…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 15, 2009

Guitar Hero Metallica Sort Of Dated For Europe

Guitar Hero Metallica still doesn’t have a firm release date in the US (though rumours suggest March). Doesn’t have one in Europe, either, but it does have a firm release month. And that month is May, Activision confirmed to Eurogamer yesterday. A two-month wait for PAL users seems a bit much, but then, with Kyuss,…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 15, 2009

This Guy Is Gonna Write DOOM 4

Id Software is working on a new DOOM — DOOM 4, actually. British Fantasy award winning author Graham Joyce will be writing it. While Joyce has NDA’d his life away, he does confirm to website CVG: “”I can say that ID have hired me to help develop the storyline potential.” Joyce has published fourteen novels…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 15, 2009

The Best $10 Game You’ll Buy This Week

If you find [insert rare game] on a shelf for $10 this week, go get it! You probably won’t, though, so instead, the honour of the week’s best $10 deal goes to Noitu Love 2. We’ve written about this game before – mostly because it’s a great, great game – but we write about it…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 15, 2009

Chun-Li’s Japanese Voice

That’s Kristin Kreuk. She’s Chun-Li in the upcoming Hollywood flick Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Next to her? That’s Riisa Naka. Today she was announced as the Japanese language voiceover dub Chun-Li. She’s a quarter Swedish and voiced the lead character in anime The Girl Who Leapt Through Time — and an episode of…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 15, 2009