Check out this really neat, touching and sad (but also funny) music video from albinoblacksheep.com. Created by Jack Bliss, he had this to say about the video, “This is my very first sprite movie starring the characters from Super Mario World featuring the music by Coldplay. This is a movie that speaks against racism, discrimination,…

Today, Ubisoft announced that it is bringing its popular World War II franchise Brothers in Arms to the PSP. The new game, Brothers in Arms D-Day, is being developed by Ubisoft Shanghai (Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent) and Gearbox Software, makers of the console and PC installments in the series. Brothers in Arms D-Day…

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness for the PS2 was a huge cult-classic that blew open the doors for American releases of Japanese strategy role-playing games. Released in 2003 for the Playstation 2, the game would go on to gain lots of popularity via word-of-mouth and solid-to-great reviews that exceeded the developer’s expectations. Eventually calling on the…

Budding video game developers can now sign-up for the public beta for Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Express. You can download it at the official web-site here. Using the development platform, small developers, game enthusiasts, and students can use the easier technology to make games for either PC or Xbox 360 using a standardized set of…

GameSpot recently posted a new interview with the project lead, Brian Eddy, on the upcoming John Woo action game Stranglehold, which is the video-game sequel to his action-cinema masterpiece Hard-Boiled. Chow Yun-Fat returns complete with authentic voice-acting and in-game likeness, making the game literally feel just like a new movie . . . except this…

The latest issue of Famitsu gives the first details of Yakuza 2 (Ryu ga Gotoku 2) on PS2, which is set one year after the original and takes place in Kamurocho, Osaka and other places in Japan. Sega is bringing the same voice cast back (in the Japanese version anyway). And thus Kazuma Kiryu (and…

Electronic Arts announced that Fight Night Round 3 is still on the way for the PS3′s launch window, November-December 2006, and will include these PS3-exclusive gameplay features: a first-person mode called “Get in the Ring,” and a new damage system that wasn’t present in the Xbox 360 version. EA Sports new ESPN Integration feature has…

Codemasters is on a roll, yesterday they sent Cannon Fodder to PSP and today they announced TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge, a new game in the motorsport series, coming to PSP in the winter of 2006. Set to launch exclusively in PAL territories, TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge is being designed from the ground up…

Thanks to Ken for the tip. The Spanish site Ultimagame visited Ubisoft and where they got the first look at Far Cry Vengeance for Wii. They mention it adds improvements over the game Far Cry Instincts Evolution on Xbox. In these first images they say you can see some of the modifications that the gameplay…

Epic and Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment announced their upcoming PC Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) Stargate Worlds will use the Unreal Engine 3 technology. Players will be able to play as part of the SGC (Stargate Command) or the System Lords (the evil Goa’uld) and also features the Tok’ra and the Ori. And all will look…

Tentatively titled “Sim City DS”, the PC game Sim City 3000 is going portable on DS. Perfectly suited for touch-screen controls, Electronic Arts will be porting the simulation game to the Nintendo DS sometime Winter 2006 in Japan. No word on releases in other regions. But what’s for sure is that you’ll be able to…

Capcom’s Dead Rising has become a surprise summer hit for the Xbox 360 by shipping half a million copies to stores. The Dawn of the Dead-influenced action game has received rave reviews all over, not surprising cause zombies rock. This all despite Dead Rising only being released in America so far. The European launch is…

Tecmo, the maker of the Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden series announced as part of a financial report issued on August 28th, that the company will support the Wii’s Virtual Console “aggressively.” Specifics were not revealed to IGN. Other areas mentioned in the financial report, are a worldwide simultaneous launch for Dead or Alive…