Since we’ve all seen that the DS Lite can indeed print money, Nintendo has finally decided to cash in by announcing several new US release dates for upcoming DS, GBA and Wii/GameCube games. The quick release list goes like this: Nintendogs: Dalmatian and Friends (DS) – October 16th Pokemon Rangers (DS) – October 30th Elite…

Sony‘s Greatest Hits program, where top-selling older titles are rereleased with new packaging and a budget price tag, was officially introduced to the PlayStation Portable today. Effective immediately, five of Sony’s first-party PSP games–Wipeout Pure, Twisted Metal: Head On, Ape Escape: On the Loose, ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin’ Trails, and Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee–are…

The insanely popular Halo series is about to get one more medium to add to it’s growing list. One that already includes: video games, an upcoming film, books & novels, a recently released Halo graphic novel (also by Marvel), toys & action figures, and music CD‘s (among other things). Marvel has just announced that a…

Eidos has announced that they have picked up the publishing rights for the upcoming Action single player/MMORPG (first 20 hours or so of the game is single player, before you head out online for the rest of the game) Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, which has now been delayed until March or May of 2007….

The latest Official Nintendo Magazine is out in the UK and comes a 5 page article about Sonic Wildfire for the Nintendo Wii. Gonintendo gives a summary of the important info from the interview with Ogawa Yojiro, Director of Sonic Wild Fire. Here goes: * Development for Sonic Wild Fire has essentially been going on…

Suda 51 describes Contact as an action RPG based around the search for pieces of a crystal, but that’s the simple explanation! On the surface, it’s about an alien professor who crash-lands on Earth. The crash also sucks in Terry, a young man who is recruited by the professor to help him find the crystal…

Developed by Evolution Studios, in MotorStorm players choose their vehicle from a massive range including: dirt bikes, ATVs, sand rails, rally cars, monster trucks, and everything in between. Then you can hit the ever-changing track in a no-holds-barred sprint to the finish line. Looks like this’ll be singleplayer only. Off-road in-game trailer here:MotorStorm is scheduled…

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, coming late 2006, is the second game in Konami’s long-running Castlevania series to be developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS. Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi was at the San Diego Comic-Con last week and answered some questions. When asked about Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin’s wireless features, Iga explained that the game will…

Windows Vista’s updated DirectX 10 API promises better-looking & better-playing games on your PC by allowing game developers to get more performance out of your system. Microsoft will also (or rather, finally) update Windows’ collection of casual games in the Start menu. Old games in a new skin:

As we draw closer to the release of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (Oct. 15), more of the secrets shrouding the draenei and blood elves are being revealed. In the upcoming expansion, players will finally be able to play classes that were previously unavailable to their faction. The blood elves have harnessed the power…

Rockstar just showed their new boxart and announced release dates (listed below). On the box you’ll see some PS2 GTA: Vice City characters returned for the PSP game… Umberto Robina and “Big” Mitch Baker. The guy with long hair and a handlebar mustache is Umberto Robina, the Cuban gangster voiced by actor Danny Trejo (Heat,…

Here’s a list of this weeks US game releases. Monday: The Ant Bully (PC, GCN, PS2, GBA) CivCity: Rome (PC) Civilization IV: Warlords (PC) Nancy Drew: Danger by Design (PC) Painkiller: Hell Wars (Xbox) Warpath (PC, Xbox) World War II Combat: Iwo Jima (PC, Xbox) Tuesday: Battle B-Daman (GBA) Hot Wheels Compilation (GBA) Sprint Cars:…