We scoured and scrutinized. We sifted and searched. We sorted and strained. Finally, after hours of debate (and some help from google analytics) we were able to assemble a list of our favorite gaming articles from the past several months. We know we enjoyed them, and we’re hoping you will too. Is Final Fantasy Dying? [...]

Well fans, many of you may have noticed the news has been coming in a bit slower these days. No, you aren’t just delirious from the PSN being down for three weeks straight now. 30Ninjas is actually closing up shop soon, and Max, Julina, and I (and all your other favorite ninja writers for that [...]

A while back, we reported that Activision was going to take a break from its Guitar Hero franchise and the music game genre in general. We thought that the entire music game market would be run over by Harmonix and Rock Band, but it appears as if they too are taking this chance to take [...]

Mass Effect 3 Delayed The first trailer for Mass Effect 3 pegged Holiday 2011 as its release date. Unfortunately, it takes time to craft sci-fi epics, and an update to the Mass Effect 2 official Facebook page has said that the game has been pushed back to early 2012 instead. Space farers be patient, it [...]

In 2009 Nintendo announced the Wii Vitality Sensor. This strange little peripheral clipped onto your finger and took your pulse as you played a game. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said that it would be used for the purpose of making a relaxing interactive experience that can relieve a gamer of the stress he feels after [...]

New York Subpoenas Sony Over PSN Breach According to Bloomberg the New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently subpoenaed Sony as part of a consumer protection inquiry. He is seeking information on what Sony told PSN subscribers and when. If a safety guarantee was made, of any sort, or if consumers were not adequately [...]

New Guilty Gear Confirmed … Eventually SiliconEra recently had an interview with Daisuke Ishiwatari, creator of the Guilty Gear franchise. When asked whether or not we would see another Guilty Gear, Ishiwatari said “yes” we definitely would. When asked when we would see the new Guilty Gear, Ishiwatari was a little less forthcoming. “Let’s just [...]

Though we provided a PSN news update today, this particular tidbit of info was important enough to warrant its own article. Hazuo Hirai, chairman of the board of directors for Sony Computer Entertainment of America, recently wrote an eight page letter to congress detailing the circumstances behind the PSN breach. It appears as if we [...]

Sony Hires Three Companies to Catch Hackers Sony is not sleeping until they find the people who are behind the PSN hack job. To aid them in their search, they have hired two teams of private investigators, and a third team of consultants. Joining Sony in the hunt is Data Forte, a P.I. company led [...]

For a long time, the Wii 2 (otherwise known as Project Café) has been advertised as “more powerful than both the PS3 and the Xbox 360.” However, we are now getting conflicting reports that say this may not be the case. The guys over at Kotaku have received new information from, once again, an anonymous [...]

Mortal Kombat DLC Coming This Week Excited to get a chance to play with Skarlet and Kenshi, the latest Mortal Kombat Kharacters with a K? Well, all that delightful partially-on-disc DLC content can be yours, tomorrow! Joining the club, are seventeen on disc DLC character skins. Personally, I can’t wait to play with classic Reptile! [...]

Just when you think things are finally going to get back to normal, Sony comes out with another press conference telling us how screwed we all are. Previously Sony said that there was no evidence that credit card information had been stolen as part of the PSN security breach. They warned us to be vigilant [...]

The other day I saw a link that said “Adult Horror Game Catherine Unveils Special Edition”. That should have been fair warning that the link was NSFW. I thought they meant “adult” as in “rated M” not “totally sexy.” So yeah, now I have to worry about my job … wait a minute, this is [...]

Dragon Quest is one of the coolest RPG franchises out there. While Final Fantasies and Mass Effects get their release dates revealed at press conferences, the next Dragon Quest‘s release date was announced at a concert … of Dragon Quest music! Kick ass! Last Friday, in Fukuoka Japan, Dragon Quest series composer Koichi Sugiyama mentioned [...]

We are coming back online! Not only that, but we are getting compensated for the downtime! New posts on the U.S. Playstation Blog go into detail about new developments regarding the Playstation Network outage. First of all Sony made absolutely certain that no cases of identity theft have yet been reported. To Sony’s knowledge, the [...]