Square Enix announced they have shipped 2.4 million copies of its DVD/UMD movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. I bet they are pretty happy they continued their animation studio after the less than stellar Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within success. Me? I personally liked both. Here is the breakdown per territory (with the release date…

Are we witnessing the birth of the DDR God? Ryota’s Move is a video of an amazing 5 years old Japanese kid playing DDR. I’m envious, he’s probably better than me. Via Kotaku

Here’s a short clip from the second season of the MTV show Run’s House, where “Saria’s Song” from the Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (N64/GameCube) was shown. It’s so random I had to post it… Spotting game stuff on TV is fun, I remember watching the comedy Friends and often seeing a N64…

Bandai Namco has announced three new PSP releases and one PS2 release in the Tales RPG series for Japan. PS2: A remake of the classic PSone RPG Tales of Destiny for PS2, as you can see on the screenshot above, the PS2 remake will have revamped battle system, 3D graphics and a large number of…

BreakOut is still a great arcade classic where you must keep a ball in the air until the entire wall above it is destroyed. Break ‘Em All for the Nintendo DS is a $20 budget game in the same vain with loads of extra modes, some with touch control. The game’s out today and here’s…

Starting today GameTap is having “Sonic Week: The furry blue hedgehog with an attitude turns 15 this year and we’re celebrating his birthday by debuting three unique Sonic titles featuring SEGA’s “Lock-On” technology. Revisit Sonic 1, 2, and 3 playing as Knuckles the Echidna and access new areas, bonus levels, and special powers that weren’t…

Here’s a interview C&VG had with Cory Barlog Sony’s in-house Game Director & Derek Daniels, Senior Combat Designer. What were your main ambitions for the sequel in terms of extending and building on the experience? Cory Barlog: The main goals have always been to maintain and surpass the level of quality we set for ourselves…

Tony Hawk’s Project 8 incorporates the series’ most popular features, enhanced for the Xbox, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 & 3. Due for November 2006. Here’s a list of the key features: Gameplay: Tony Hawk’s Project 8 is built from the ground up with an entirely new engine for Sony and Microsoft next-generation consoles and…

The latest Nintendo Power (NP) interviews Bryan Walker (Retro senior producer), Mark Pacini (Retro director) and Kensuke Tanabe (Nintendo producer) about “Metroid Prime 3: Corruption” for the Nintendo Wii. I put the most pressing question up front NP: Will Corruption be a launch title? Bryan Walker (BW): Yes. NP: Can you tell us a bit…

ArenaNet (developer) & NCsoft (publisher) announced that they have sold two million copies of Guild Wars and Guild Wars Fractions combined, worldwide! Take that! You 6,5 million World of Warcraft fans Guild Wars Fractions even topped the U.S. sales charts for PC games in May. “ArenaNet continues to take chances in both game design and…

MasiveUNCfan at the Xbox Forums was nice enough to type out the preview of Call of Duty 3 from EGM’s July issue. The Call of Duty 3 campaign takes place during the real campaign called Normandy Breakout. This is after D-day when the troops are moving inland to move the Germans back and liberate Paris….

According to reports in Electronic Gaming Monthly nine months ago, the first God of War sequel would come to PS2 (announced for February 2007), while another sequel will come to PS3 at some point in the future. God of War game director Cory Barlog will be telling C&VG in an exclusive interview later today, that…

Ever since World of Warcraft was released by Vivendi, EA has looked on in envy as the genre has expanded and racked in millions of dollars for Vivendi, whose game has gone on to become a best-seller and expand the online gaming market, especially for Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs (MMORPG). So now EA has gotten…

Japan’s largest online survey provider, Goo Research, today released the results of its Third Broadband Content Usage Survey. The survey was conducted in collaboration with Mitsubishi Research Institute and NTT Resonant Inc., and polled individuals regarding their online gaming habits. Of the more than 40,000 responses factored into the results, 37.9 percent said they had…

Recently Louisiana passed a video game law that would restrict games that met certain vague specifications from being sold to minors. The vague language used in the law includes: (1) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the video or computer game, taken as a whole, appeals to the minor’s morbid interest…