Taking a break from celestial construction, the King of All Cosmos takes the royal family on vacation to a tropical island paradise, where they become tasked with the responsibility of creating new katamari islands for homeless animals. An epic undertaking of this time, earthly proportions, the King calls upon his pint-sized son, the Prince, and…

“Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories” is the title of GTA’s next PSP outing. Rockstar publisher Take 2 has filed three patents in America last week with that same name. The first covers a future “GTA Vice City Stories” game, the second secures associated rights for t-shirts, headgear and assorted merchandising. Most intriguingly of all,…

Blizzard Entertainment announced plans to focus the company’s console-development efforts on the next generation of console platforms. The biggest news to come with this announcement is the indefinite postponement of production on StarCraft: Ghost, the console title first revealed to the gaming media back in 2002 for Xbox, Playstation 2 & GameCube to dismay of…

World of Warcraft is experiencing lengthy downtime. The virtual world, with over 6 million users, also announced emergency maintenance outages overnight on a large number of game servers (known as “realms”). Since both the game & website are hosted by the same provider, here’s an updated chart of the WoW website’s performance, so you can…

Wired is running an interesting article on the realization of past predictions with regards to online gaming and where we are headed for the future. The author predicts that the separation between online worlds like Ultima Online and World of Warcraft may be headed out of style, making your in-game persona as pervasive as an…

Sega SuperStars for EyeToy, developed by Sega’s Sonic Team studio, leverages the camera control-method featured in EyeToy to bring a new level of interactivity to the company’s core brands such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Samba de Amigo, House of the Dead, Virtua Fighter and more.

For our first classic game review, we have the 2D side-scrolling action masterpiece, Ninja Gaiden. If you are to understand the influence behind Team Ninja’s recent Xbox Ninja Gaiden masterpiece, then you simply must play the original games that inspired it. And for those who have never played a Ninja Gaiden title, or for those…

The PlayStation 2-exclusive EyeToy Play 3 is the third game in the EyeToy Play series. Up to four players can play just like the previous games. There are many new mini-games such as beach volleyball and bowling. But does it live up to the series’ name for ease-of-use?

The original Playstation finally retires. After 11 years of existence as one of the most popular consoles of all time, the PSone is finally getting some well earned rest from Sony. The PlayStation, through its original and PSone iterations, has sold over 100 million units worldwide! Luckily Sony is working on a PSX emulator for…

At Game Developers Conference 2006, SNK Playmore confirmed that the PlayStation Portable will be receiving a new compilation pack in the shooter series Metal Slug. Metal Slug Collection features six games from the series. The PSP version will also feature 2-player wireless co-op play. The collection is planned for release this November. The included games…

Gabe Logan returns in this exclusive PlayStation Portable mission. Gamers assume the identity of Gabe Logan, a highly-trained Precision Strike Operative, commanding a black box United States Agency that legally doesn’t exist. As Gabe, players will have to strategize quickly, as he is responsible to infiltrate, recon and execute decisively. Once inserted, Logan is his…

At the Game Developers Conference, the President of Sony Worldwide, Phil Harrison showed a trailer for God of War (2): Divine Retribution to the audience. It wasn’t supposed to be filmed, but it was, get the shaky result by clicking on “more…”. Please only watch it if you have finished the first game, as this…

Just announced: A 3D Zelda game on the DS, 2D perspective, but 3D graphics, loads of touch-screen controls. It’s called “The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass”. The game uses the celshaded WindWaker engine and is being worked on by the Aonuma team. Here’s the first trailer: