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Street Fighter Club Punches San Francisco Right In The Face

With the game so close week can taste it, Capcom has decided to ditch the secrecy concerning their national Street Fighter Club events, with the latest event hitting San Francisco this Friday. The Street Fighter Club is an invitation only event that allows fans of Street Fighter IV get a taste of what’s to come…

Analyst Pegs December Wii Sales At Record-Breaking 3.2 Million

Nintendo’s seemingly insurmountable lead in the U.S. became less “seemingly” in December, if EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich’s figure of 3.2 million Wiis sold last month is spot-on. “Simply put, Nintendo saved Christmas,” Divnich said. In a note to investors, the EEDAR analyst also estimated U.S. Nintendo DS sales at 3 million last month, naming Wii…

UDON Wants Your Darkstalkers Fan Art

UDON is giving Capcom’s classic horror fighting franchise the royal treatment with Darkstalkers Tribute, a giant-sized art book celebrating the franchise’s history, and your artwork might just make the cut! Now until March 1st, UDON is accepting fan submissions for artwork to be included in the definitely Darkstalkers art book. If chosen, they get to…

Fable II’s Knothole Island Brings Good Things To Life

Without spoiling more than I already have, a post over on the Fable II dev blog indicates that players disappointed by their particular ending can find solace at Knothole Island’s mysterious resurrection shrine. Before you continue on, I warn you….this post could very well ruin the ending of Fable II for you, but it wouldn’t…

Best Buy Starts New Year Off With $9.99 Deals

Did you pass on Ninja Gaiden II, just like me? With Best Buy blowing the game out at just $9.99, it’s going to be hard to pass on now. And the deals don’t stop there. The electronics retailer is ringing in 2009 with some serious price reductions, including a ten dollar asking price on Facebreaker,…

The Wii Holiday Grey Market 3: When Supply Meets Demand

Nintendo’s apparent ability to meet demand this holiday season seems to have flattened the turbulent Wii grey market, with eBay sales of the console going for far less than in previous years, according to eBay sales data analyzed by Kotaku. Wii Fit resales, a popular add-on for the console, also seemed relatively flat, according to…

CES 09: The World’s Tiniest Video Game Guitar Controller

Like regular sized Guitar Hero and Rock Band guitar controllers, but far, far daintier, the USB ready Riff Rocker adds hand cramping as an extra difficulty modifier to your rhythm gaming. While the lil’ device has been available commercially for a few months now, it has been so at some of the more, let’s say,…

Golden Tee Joins the Navy, Ships Out on Supercarrier

Arcade and bar golfing sensation Golden Tee recently made it’s way to aircraft carrier USS John C Stennis, thanks to the company behind the game. Incredible Technologies sent a brand new machine to the aircraft carrier after Lt. Mike Hall wrote a letter to them about his love of the game and his longing to…

Rosenqueen Rocks The Prinny Bundles

Fans looking to get a little more with their copy of Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? for the PSP next month need look no further that NIS’s official online store, Rosenqueen. Along with the standard retail edition of Prinny, which comes in a box with the soundtrack and a special Penny Arcade Prinny…

Robbie Bach: Next Xbox Still Quite A Ways Away

After the first-generation came and went in a relative blink of an eye, Microsoft’s Robbie Bach says that the company isn’t in quite as much of a hurry to upgrade the Xbox 360. Speaking to The Mercury News, Bach explains that in today’s economy especially, persuading consumers to upgrade is becoming more and more difficult,…

Nifty Ottoman Hides Your Rock Band Instruments

Much to the delight of my wife, a good third of our game closet is filled with Guitar Hero and Rock Band instruments. Which means this sexy storage device is a must have. The AK Rock Box Gaming and Storage Ottoman with Drum Lift may sound a bit pricey at first, ringing in at $185,…

Congressman Calls For Health Warnings On Violent Games

Do violent video games need health warning labels? California congressman Joe Baca thinks so, and he’s introduced legislation that would make them mandatory. Citing research studies that show a link between violent video games and child aggression, Baca believes that the Consumer Product Safety Commission needs to institute a rule that all games rated T…

Petric Convicted Of Halo 3 Inspired Matricide

Daniel Petric, the Ohio teen who shot and killed his mother over a dispute involving Halo 3, was convicted today of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, and other charges related to the heinous crime. As reported previously, Petric had purchased a copy of Halo 3 following his parents’ Mark and Susan had forbid him to…

Resistance: Retribution Video Shows Off Infection Mode

It looks like that PS3 to PSP connectivity will add quite a bit of features to those of you who own Resistance 2 for the PS3 and buy Resistance Retribution for your PSP. This video walks you through some of the features which are broken down into two different modes: Infected mode will allow you…

Nintendo: Children Afraid Of Math, Math Trainer Can Help

A survey conducted on behalf of Nintendo to help market Personal Trainer: Math for the DS finds that one in five children believe they’re more likely to become famous than excel at math. The study, conducted by Wakefield Research on Nintendo’s behalf, basically comes to the conclusion that about 20% of the nation’s school children…

Binary Tweed’s Political Puzzle Platformer Clover Looks Delightful

If you think this screenshot from Clover, a “political platform puzzler” coming soon to Xbox Live Community Games from independent developer Binary Tweed, is lovely, you should see their managing director’s mustache. One of the more promising games to come out of the Community Games program so far, Clover is a plot-driven puzzle platformer with…

Game Addict Swallows Saw Blades to Commit Suicide

A 23-year-old Beijing game addict was rushed to a hospital after swallowing five pieces of saw blades in an attempt to commit suicide, the Beijing Legal Times reports. The man “kept talking incoherently about how to win his favorite computer games, even after being sent to a Beijing hospital ICU” on Sunday. According to the…

Nintendo Could Have Done Worse Than “Wii”

Nick Dawson and a friend are trying to put together a web humor series, and have decided that we haven’t yet stopped beating the "Wii" horse yet. The video depicts a fictional Nintendo exec being interviewed Conan O’Brien-style by someone who for some reason is in Halo Spartan armor. The Nintendo rep introduces the next…

Weekly Wii Update: Jungle Cards, Alucards, And Laser Pachinko

It’s Monday number 2 of 2009, and Nintendo is delivering the second weekly batch of downloadable content to the Wii console, with two new WiiWare titles and one good old-fashioned vampire whip-fest. Two titles hit Nintendo’s WiWare service today, both which take time-tested concepts – card-games and pachinko – and give them a right twisting…

Tomb Raider Underword DLC Was Meant To Be In Original Game

Two apparently disgruntled former Crystal Dynamics employees have confirmed the rumored lay-offs at the studio and dished a little inside information about the development of Tomb Raider Underworld, including how the DLC came to be. A poster who says he is Eric Lindstrom, the creative director for the game, said that the downloadable content coming…