Last week, we posted a story about how Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata regretted not teaming up with other companies when marketing the Wii. We thought he meant advertising tie-ins, but according to Nintendo’s official translation, Iwata was actually talking about the Wii’s online capability. Iwata was regretting the fact that Nintendo did not team up with [...]

News keeps coming in on the Sony front. The PSN still isn’t up, but more developments in the case of what may be the largest identity theft in history keep popping up. Here are some news stories that managed to make headlines over the weekend. Sony Considering Compensating PSN Subscribers Sony had previously said that [...]

Across Japanese websites, community forums, and the ever-present Twitter, Capcom superstars Christian Svensson, Yoshinori Ono, and Ryota Niitsuma have been discussing Capcom’s current game line-up, and what will come in the future. Here is a short run down of what they had to say. Ono Street Fighter X Tekken characters are being built with their [...]

Madden Accidentally Outs Bills New Uniform EA recently released a youtube video teasing the new Madden NFL 12. Now, I’m not a big sports fan, but I was able to tell that something was a little off about the Buffalo Bills’ jerseys. Turns out that the Bills had a new uniform design change coming up [...]

A surprising amount of news today was centered around games getting new DLC packs either now or sometime in the near future. We aren’t sure who made today DLC day, but we aren’t complaining. Here are some of the new things you can download within the next few months. Portal 2 DLC Coming in a [...]

Well the Playstation Network is still down, and it has been one hell of a roller coaster ride since last Thursday, when the outages first began. We went from minor annoyance to the biggest identity theft case in the history of the internet, in a mere few days. The personal information for all PSN users [...]

The Conduit was largely regarded as one of the first and only good shooters on the Wii. However, it still missed the mark in certain aspects. The characters weren’t really believable, the story was less than thrilling, the enemy encounters felt like something out of an N64 era shooter, and overall the game lacked polish. [...]

One of the big goals of Rockstar’s new L.A. Noire was to get film buffs that aren’t necessarily video game fans to play the game. Of course, this means that the difficulty had to be moderated at points. Since the game wouldn’t have the constant threat of death to keep players on their toes, the [...]

Namco Bandai Unveils New Countdown Clock OK, so we generally dislike countdown clocks because they are mostly artificial hype. However, Namco Bandai’s new clock on their official site is actually not that bad. It’s a gently turning book, with a candle nearby, and it’s a kind of relaxing, honestly. Above the book is a short [...]

What many fans thought was just an attack by anonymous has become the world’s biggest case of identity theft. The personal information of over 77 million Playstation Network subscribers was leaked shortly prior to the global network outage. Sony comments on the events on their blog. Although we are still investigating the details of this [...]

SOCOM 4’s Lead Designer Quits Lead Designer for SOCOM 4, Travis Steiner, has left Zipper Interactive. The shooter mastermind plans to start his own company, which will most likely also develop shooters and other action games. Rumors say that Steiner was planning this for some time, but was delaying his departure until after SOCOM 4 [...]

Wasn’t Portal 2 an awesome single-player game? I mean the co-op was pretty cool too, but it paled in comparison to the awesome single-player campaign. Its brilliant writing and thoughtful puzzles kept you playing right up until the end without any interaction from anyone other than the psychotic machines that were trying to kill you. [...]

So who here remembers American McGee’s Alice? My guess? Not a whole lot of you. The game was a Gothic retelling of Alice in Wonderland, and its screwed up environments were enough to give anyone nightmares. Controlling an older, more stab happy Alice who has gone quite insane, you go to Wonderland to find that [...]

Telltale is known for its episodic games. Sam and Max, the new Monkey Islands, and the recent Back to the Future games are all products of Telltale’s design. In the future, they will also be doing episodic games based on Jurassic Park , The Walking Dead, and now they have picked up another property to [...]

Well everyone, we finally have some actual substantial claims from Ninteno about the Wii’s mythical successor. Today in Japan, Nintendo confirmed that the still unnamed console will in fact be coming out in early 2012. More than that, they also confirmed that a fully playable model of the new system will be available to be [...]