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Saint’s Row 2 Hits Steam

The nice folks at Valve have just informed us that THQ’s open-world gangbanger simulation Saint’s Row II is now available to download and play on your PC via Steam. Yes, along with your local PC game dealer, Saint’s Row 2 is now available for download on the Steam Service for the low price of $39.99,…

Ubisoft Makes Grey’s Anatomy Game Official

Though most likely perturbed by having their fun ruined by the ESRB last month, Ubisoft has gone ahead and made Grey’s Anatomy for the Nintendo Wii, DS, and PC official. The Grey’s Anatomy games sounds like a cross between Trauma Surgeon and a an adventure game, with players taking on the roles of their favorite…

Creat And Tikgames Bring Cuboid To PSN

Creat and Tikgames are combining gamers’ craving for puzzles with their deep-seated love of geometric shapes, resulting in Cuboid, a new puzzler coming soon to the PlayStation Network. In a post over at PlayStation.Blog, Creat Studios producer Olga Sokolova discusses the new 3D puzzle game, available “soon” on the PlayStation Network for $9.99. Cuboid is…

iPhone, DS, Touch and Kaossilator Make Beautiful Music Together

In this video you see jetdaisuke jamming with an iPhone, two DS, iPod Touch and Kaossilator. The iPhone has Bloom on it and the iPod touch has Mokugyo. He’s using one DS to run Electroplankton and another to run KORG DS-10. The whole thing is backed up with the touchy Kaossilator. This is where chipmusic…

50 Cent Takes Cover In New Blood On The Sand Clip

Isn’t he supposed to be Bulletproof? A fresh new video and screens from THQ’s 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand show off the game’s cover system, which involves Fiddy shouting expletives between firing weapons. At first I was a bit taken aback by the cover system, which as I said revolves around calling the enemy…

Bioshock Could See Upwards Of Five Sequels, Story Willing

While wary of “cashing in” on the franchise, Global President of 2K Christoph Hartmann suggests that Bioshock could follow the Star Wars saga, generating sequels as long as the story holds out. Now of course he isn’t guaranteeing five more Bioshock games, but Hartmann says that if the innovation is there and the storyline is…

Mad Catz’ Hits CES With Street Fighter, HAWX Controllers

Mad Catz is unveiling their new controllers for Street Fighter IV, a HAWX compatible flight stick and their latest PC flight stick at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. The Saitek Aviator Flight Stick comes in an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 model, but both are fully PC compatible. The controllers include an oversized flat base…

Champions Online Cares Where Your Force Beams Come From

In the latest edition of their Champions Online Q&A feature, developer Cryptic details how powers in their upcoming superhero MMORPG can be tweaked by players for a more customized hero. A big issue for me in City of Heroes, which was also developed by Cryptic, was the fact that I had a superhero with a…

Square Brings Disgaea 3 To Europe In February

For the Disgaea fans to cheap to import or too unversed on the English language to read this article, Square Enix is delivering Disgaea 3 to European PlayStation 3 owners next month. Squeenix plans on liberally distributing the latest Nppon Ichi prinnyfest, Disgaea 3, throughout PAL territories come February 20th. The latest game in the…

Rock Band Branded Memory Cards Come to the Wii

SanDisk today unveiled a Rock Band branded 2GB memory card for the Wii. The SD cards will sell for $13 a pop and are set to hit the U.S. this spring. With songs taking as much as 50 megs each and the Wii only sporting 512MB of onboard stoarge, extra external memory seems like a…

MySims Line Expands With Inevitable Kart Racing And Party Games

EA begins to slowly work the MySims brand into the ground with the addition of two all-new and completely predictable games for the Wii and DS – MySims Party and MySims Racing. Yes, the adorable little MySims are ripe for exploitation, so here comes a mini-game compilation and a kart racer! MySims Party features more…

Skate Early With The Skate 2 Demo

Skateboarding fans eager to experience the second game in EA’s Skate series will find satisfaction in the coming week, as the company announces a Skate 2 demo for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Skate 2 demo features both single player modes as well as two of the game’s online party play modes –…

IGF Finalists Include PixelJunk Eden, The Maw, Cortex Command

Increasingly, the Independent Games Festival is where smart game publishers go to find tomorrow’s big hits. Games like Braid, World of Goo, flow and Everyday Shooter all had their start here. So it’s worth checking out which games have piqued the interest of the judges for this year’s festival. The list of finalists includes five…

Tough Times

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Beat to Hell As you know, rough night for the folks at EGM/1Up. Really hope everyone there is able to pull through okay and come out on the other side better, faster, stronger. What you missed last night Rumor: NiGHTS Sequel Was Originally An Xbox 360, PS3 Game New X-Blade…

PC Sales Charts

Two charts in one week! What a treat. Monday’s were for the week ending December 20, and were late thanks to the holiday slow-down. These are for the week ending December 27. NPD Sales Charts December 21-27 [via Shacknews] 1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe 3.…

In Defence Of Prince Of Persia

Ah, Prince of Persia. You either love it for what it tried, or hate it for what it tried. We love it, though, and Tom Cross at GSW does a good job of explaining why. Mostly because he takes everything the haters hate and breaks it down, then points out the game’s most endearing legacy…

Gundam Senjou no Kizuna Is PSP Bound

Rumor confirmed! Japanese arcade title Gundam Senjou no Kizuna is getting a PSP version — minus the cockpit display complete with 180 degree screen. Besides the obvious screen differences, the number of players per multi-play team has been halved. Instead of the 8 player vs. 8 player arcade set-up, the PSP version will be 4-on-4.…

British Sales Charts

Looks like lots of people in Britain got Wiis for Christmas. And lots of people also got a second controller to go with it. Least, we reckon that’s what happened. After all, Wii Play isn’t going to top the charts on the strength of that escalator game, is it? No. No it is not. [British…

Sony Exec Wants More Thrilling Episodic Content

Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios Europe (SCEWSE?) exec Michael Denny is not thrilled with episodic content. He wants it to be more exciting, you know, more cliffhangery. For me, true episodic gaming needs to be more than just selling a traditional game split into chunks. It needs to be games that are specifically designed from…

Wii Fit Sells Three Million In Japan

Wii Fit was released in Japan in December 2007. Proved to be, despite its liberal use of the word “fit”, a hit. So much so that it’s now sold three million copies. Yup. Three. Million. Which is up 200,000 from the last round of numbers we saw (gotta love those Christmas sales!) Think Iwata &…