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PAX East Swag Contest Winners
Thanks to everyone who entered the contest, and a big thanks to Juan for donating all the extra swag. Since we have so many items to giveaway, we’ve picked out 6 winners. The first few winners on the list will get a chance to pick out an item they want from the PAX swag, the […]
Review: Hot Springs Story
Hot Springs Story is Kairosoft’s follow-up to one of my favorite iOS titles, Game Dev Story. I loved Game Dev, and everyone who even tried the game became instantly hooked. My friend Roski had to delete it from his phone because it was too addictive. Suffice it to say, the game was really good. However, […]
Takashi Tokita Discusses Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection, RPGs
From Parasite Eve to Chrono Trigger, Takashi Tokita is a well-known and revered name among Square-Enix fans. He’s also supervising the restoration of one of his earliest career titles, Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection. The PSP port is set for an April 19th release, which marks the 20th anniversary of the original title’s release. […]
Leaked Screenshot Reveals Complete Mortal Kombat Roster
As much as the creator of Mortal Kombat Ed Boon and developer NetherRealm want to keep secrets about their latest title, it sure is hard to do with this leaked screenshot of the full roster. The image appears to come from the PlayStation 3 version, although it hasn’t been confirmed as legit. For those who […]
Machinarium Branching Out to PS3, Tablets
Machinarium, a darling indie adventure game of the point-and-click puzzle variety, has been relatively successful thus far on PC and Mac (it was even included in the original Humble Indie Bundle). However, Jakub Dvorský, game designer and founder of Amanita Design, revealed that he plans to take the game to other platforms, including PS3. While […]
MLB 11 The Show: Challenge of the Week #4 Chapman vs Braun
This week’s matchup is an NL Central battle with the hard throwing phenom Aroldis Chapman from the Reds going up against All-Star leftfielder Ryan Braun from the Brewers. Though he only appeared at the end of 15 games last season, Reds pitcher Chapman wowed fans with his 100mph pitches and darting slider, but command remains […]
Media Molecule Auctions Off Original LittleBigPlanet Art for Japan Relief
More and more video game companies are pitching in to help raise money for the Japanese relief fund. Media Molecule of LittleBigPlanet fame has decided to offer rare framed artwork of everyone’s favorite Sackperson. The four different sketches showcase the development and evolution of Sackboy. Included with each of these is a special and extremely […]
More Evil Than You Can Shake A Stick At: Capcom Announces RE: Operation Raccoon City
Slant Six, the development team behind SOCOM: Confrontation, is currently working on Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. The title has been confirmed by Capcom through its community blog and will be available on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this Winter. Capcom has set this game in September, 1998, between Resident Evil 2 and 3, and […]
Nintendo Responds to 3DS Error with System Update
Many early 3DS adopters were disappointed to discover a bug in the game-suspension system that resulted in the game crashing and a brief (but vague) error message appearing, directing you to restart your system. The bug doesn’t seem to be linked to any particular game, with users reporting the error with basically every launch title, […]
Nintendo Update: March 28, 2011
Nintendo must assume that everyone is busy playing with their new 3DSes this week, because this week’s downloadable games are few, with only two for DSi and nothing new for WiiWare, but you do have two demos. For those of you without a 3DS, however, check out this week’s new goodies below. WiiWare Dart […]
Pokémon Black & White Sell 2 million in 2 weeks
After selling over a million copies on launch day, it looks like the money is still rolling in, as Nintendo of America revealed via twitter that the two games have sold a total of 2 million copies in the first two weeks of availability. With five million units already sold in Japan, that means 7 […]
Giveaway: SOCOM 4 Beta Codes
Alright SOCOM fans, for those who have been trying to get into the SOCOM 4 Beta for a few weeks now but just never got your hands on a beta code, well here’s your chance. We’ve got 5 codes to giveaway and all you have to do is follow us on Twitter and retweet this […]