Electronic Arts is letting you play Sim City Classic for free as an online application called Sim City Live Online! The original game has been retooled for internet functionality, so all you need to play is your browser. It only seems to work in the Internet Explorer web browsers (and not all except for Netscape…

Update January 10th 2007: Readers with keen eyes spotted an error in what Bernd Diemer, senior game designer of Crytek, said. He was quoted in our original newsitem as saying: only DirectX API, which will ship along with Windows Vista, allows the game to run as it was intended. Now it turns out, both Windows…

Prince of Persia: Rival Blades was submitted as a multiplatform action game with an Australian Mature rating. But Ubisoft mentions to Futuregamez it wasn’t the real title and clarified by saying: “It was an alternate title for Prince of Persia: Two Thrones at one stage. We’re flagging a DS version coming out in the future….

Late on Thursday, a Nintendo DS owner logged onto Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for the first time. That person unknowingly became the 2 millionth unique player to use Nintendo’s wireless gaming service. To put that number in perspective, the population of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection users now surpasses the population of 15 different U.S. states, including Montana,…

Throughout E3 in May 2004 Charles Martinet, AKA the voice of Mario and crew, did Nintendo DS introductions for the November launch that year. But before he got on stage to show the games Nintendo had lined up (like Super Mario 64 DS and WarioWare Touched) Mr. Mario did some chatting with the crowd waiting…

For those that don’t know, in 2003 Joy Ride Studios released a Samus Aran (the heroine from the popular sci-fi Metroid series of games) action figure onto an unassuming public. This is the only official action figure for the Samus character to ever be produced! (so far anyway). Originally sold for $10-$12 dollars, and made…

At the Penny Arcade Expo, Flying Lab Software unveiled the addition of avatar combat to its MMORPG Pirates of the Burning Sea that is set in the Caribbean during the 1720s. The game has an estimated release date of June 2007. “We already brought intense real-time tactical ship combat to MMOs,” said Producer John Scott…

According to 1UP.com’s Jeremy Parish in reply to Red Draco’s LiveJournal, it would seem that the US version of Rockman ZX for the Nintendo DS will lack a localized voiceover, instead rendering the included anime cutscenes with subtitles over the original Japanese dialogue, perhaps not entirely unlike Mega Man X6 (not including the Mega Man…

Saturday night during the Penny Arcade Expo concert, Jerry Holkins called guitarists from The Minibosses and MC Frontalot to the stage to face off on the Guitar Hero 2 demo they had running. According to Kotaku The Minibosses ending up winning. MC Frontalot said defensively, it was their bassist.Here’s the song list so far! *…

Konami announced new details for Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops on PSP. You can read all about that below, but if you’re already familiar with MGS, watch this great new trailer.Redefining tactical espionage action on handheld gaming systems, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops will feature online play that will let gamers recruit their own comrades…

There is nothing that gets your blood primed and pumped for the game ahead like a really good intro or opening. Anyone remember the first time you saw the glorious CG openings of some of Square’s best-titles? Such as those from the Playstation-era Final Fantasy titles (VIII & X are two of my favorites of…

Square Enix seems to be on a roll! Final Fantasy fans are set to be getting portable re-releases of every classic game in the groundbreaking and beloved Final Fantasy series, as Square continues to update and release them for Game Boy Advance & Nintendo DS. After previously releasing Final Fantasy IV Advance last year and…

Microsoft has had extreme success with their Xbox Live Arcade service on the 360 since the console launched last November. Microsoft has said it hadn’t anticipated the popularity of the service, which allows gamers to download retro games and smaller-scale new titles to their system for about $5 or $10 typically. Now Microsoft will be…