After University, Nightlife, and Open for Business expansion packs for The Sims 2, here’s EA’s The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff for your PC. Due for release on April 13th it offers all-new collection of furniture, clothing, and décor. “Decorate the home with an assortment of cool new furnishings, including upscale living room items and…

I reckon this is where the expensive price of Xbox 360 games comes into play. Edge Online has a piece up talking about the success of Xbox Live Arcade. They wonder if the Live Arcade won’t end up being the most important next-gen platform in this round of the console wars. From the article: “Live…

Square-Enix has released a movie trailer for Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan, showing off the next expansion pack to their fantasy massively multiplayer online RPG. The trailer introduces the add-on’s setting, backstory & combat in 2,5 minutes of in-game footage. Game due April 18th.

EA’s Aaron “Apoc” Kaufman today announced that an official patch, patch 1.01 is available for Command & Conquer: The First Decade! Weighing in at 408 KB, this patch fixes the most pressing issue of missing movies from C&C Covert Operations, Red Alert 1, and the Red Alert expansion packs. Additionally, EA has officially confirmed that…

In 2013, the U.S. Army will implement the Integrated Warfighter System (IWS), evolving what we know as the modern soldier. IWS combines advanced weapon systems, satellite communication devices and enhanced survivability into one fully integrated combat system. The IWS program has been developed to meet these new threats head on. Now, it can be tested…

Gamespot has some slides from Wednesday’s PlayStation Business Briefing showing the announced PSP peripherals, like the USB EyeToy, the PSP-290 GPS receiver, and the Memory Stick you’re gonna load up classic PSone games on to. The EyeToy is due in September and the GPS receiver in October, so it would really have a nice ring…

Game Informer (GI) Magazine’s February issue, had an interview with Mortal Kombat series creator, Ed Boon. When Mortal Kombat: Armageddon was announced, some people cried out because it was for the current generation of consoles. What was the reason behind going with current-gen instead of next-gen? Ed Boon: The main thing was timing. We have…

The Guardian, had an interview with Mario/Zelda/Donkey Kong creator, Shigeru Miyamoto. Was redesign of the DS a belated recognition that how a product looks is as important as what it does? Can you explain the thinking behind the redesign? Shigeru Miyamoto: The main aim was to make it much more portable. This is the upgraded…

Sony’s Liverpool studio is releasing Formula One ’06 onto both PlayStation 2 and PSP in Europe this June. PlayStation 2 and PSP users have the ability to play against each other over the Internet, it’s the first time we’ve heard of this kind of cross-platform compatibility, very nice.

2.3 million copies of Final Fantasy XII were shipped for the launch. That’s a huge number… until you compare it to the 65 million copies of the Final Fantasy series Square Enix has already sold worldwide. 1up has coverage of the Japanese launch for Final Fantasy XII. The much-anticipated and very delayed game began sales…

Rare just announced their latest game called Viva Piñata for Microsoft’s Xbox 360. The game revolves around 62 breeds of living paper candy-filled piñata animals that will be featured this fall in a Saturday morning TV/3-D/CG 4Kids TV show on FOX, followed up by an Xbox 360 game debuting before Christmas worldwide.

Quick Recap of todays Playstation 3 & PSP news. PS3: Global release on November 11th, yes that’s 2006 60GB HDD 2.5″ harddisk with pre-installed Linux OS will be included Development kit specs fix as of today, sent to developers in June 2006 10.000.000 BD-ROMS manufacturing capability per month at a cost around same as 2-layer…

Awesome! Sony has a host of updates to the PlayStation Portable planned over the coming months, with an EyeToy camera, a video and voice chat service, a GPS receiver and the ability to download and play a range of PSone games all on the way. The EyeToy camera, which is silver and will connect to…