Reggie Fils-Aime, chief marketing officer of Nintendo, was asked to talk about Nintendo’s new strategy in the video games market. So in his own words, we quote: “In the mid-70s, two blockbusters changed the nature of movie-making: Star Wars and Jaws. Each was competently written, acted and directed, but what set them apart, in the…

Poor guy, this mayor’s zero-tolerance policy went above common sense. The Associated Press reports on story about a New York City employee who got fired after mayor Michael Bloomberg noticed a game of Solitare on the employee’s desktop at work. From the article: “Greenwood, who earned $27,000 (€22,718/£15,523) a year and had worked in the…

Gamasutra reports that Ralph Baer, the man whose work inspired the game Pong, will be honored by President Bush in a White House ceremony on February 14th. He is to receive the National Medal of Technology. To quote: “The award, which is America’s highest honor for science and technology, goes to those who ‘have helped…

If you want to check out some Prey movies in 720p quality. The folks at Xboxyde are showing the gameplay of in the multiplayer environments. Take a look here.

There are two new trailers available for Battlefield 2: Modern Combat on Xbox 360. The trailers can be downloaded via Gametrailers.com. The first trailer, is a couple of days “old”, and can be found here, and the newer second trailer can be seen here. The game will be in stores March 14th. There seems to…

Mid-2005, an issue of the Japanese gaming magazine, Famitsu, reported that when the Revolution launches, it will have every Nintendo first party-published game up for download on the Revolution’s online service. While this obviously wouldn’t include GameCube, nor any Nintendo handhelds. That, however, definitely means NES, Super NES, and Nintendo 64 games at launch. With…

This just in: EA RTS Community Manager Aaron “Apoc” Kaufman sent along this message to PlanetCnC. He asked to pass to the fans who’ve picked up the “Command & Conquer: The First Decade” pack and had troubles with multiplayer and the Soviet videos not playing properly in Red Alert: “I wanted to let you all…

Penny-Arcade reports, Star Wars: Empire at War Real-Time Strategy game from the ex-Command & Conquer team, hits the PC on the fifteenth. “There is a pre-order tchotchke you can get with it, a Death Star desk ornament ball, and at Gamestop they are intent on letting the customer know that this is not the actual…

The Nintendo DS will receive New Super Mario Bros, or as we like to call it Super Mario Bros 4, sometime in 2006. You may have seen a scan from the Japanese games magazine Famitsu here and there last year. Now they are showing two more pages of New Mario screenshots. I don’t know if…

4CR just showed a link of a 3D view of the upcoming DS Lite from the Japanese Official Nintendo page. The three new colors Japan will be getting are: Crystal White, Ice Blue and Enamel Navy. Available accessories for the DS lite are the new AC adaptor (which will only work with the DS lite),…

The D.I.C.E. Summit concludes annually each year with the Interactive Achievement Awards. This year Sony’s God of War dominated, taking away 7 awards, including Game of the Year. It also won: Console Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Animation, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design, Outstanding Character Performance: Male,…

Nintendo’s executive vice president of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime, arguably the most intimidating corporate video game exec. of the console big-three, spoke at the D.I.C.E. Summit (which stands for Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) about Nintendo’s way of doing things. Which you can read about yourself here. However the most important info to come out…

Bungie has announced what everyone had expected when a posting for PC-related jobs was listed on Bungie’s web-site. It turns out that hunches were correct, Bungie announced yesterday that they will be porting Halo 2, with the included Multiplayer Map Packs, as well as a an editor to build your own maps and levels, to…