Roger Wolfson, Bungie’s database programmer, reports today that we have officially surged over the four billion games played mark, a little under two years after the game’s launch. He also notes that Halo 2 is close to hitting the four million unique players mark, not too bad for a game released two years ago in…

What if… mankind is not the first… but the last to travel the galaxy? What if… we once had ten planets in our solar system, but one was destroyed by an alien race looking for technology? What if… the precursors of the human race had to defend their very existence, millions of years ago? What…

Majesco announced Cooking Mama: Cook Off for the Nintendo Wii. The game is set for release in early 2007. Cooking Mama: Cook Off is a follow up to the award-winning Nintendo DS predecessor that is being showcased in approximately 10,000 U.S. retail demo kiosks nationwide in November. “Since its introduction last month, Cooking Mama for…

When you order Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for the DS at Gamestop/EB Games, for $5 extra you receive a Castlevania 20th Anniversary Gift Pack! The gift pack will ship with your order on December 5. New offer good while supplies last. Includes: * Art Book: This 48 page book details the artwork of every game…

Remember those colored PSP variations Sony showed a while back? Well the most unlikely of the bunch, the cameo-colors PSP is being released in Japan on December 22! It comes in two PSP bundles that include Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, fancy pins, a nice PSP case, and more… Each package comes with a Camouflage…

You can now get Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner again as a reprint from Konami.com for just $19.99. Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner was made by Konami for the PS2 in 2003. The sequel to Zone of the Enders, the game was produced by Hideo Kojima. The game is based around…

Xbox Live users can download something special for FREE in November if they’ve enjoyed the Rare’s N64 FPS games. Microsoft and developer Rare have announced today that Perfect Dark Zero owners will be getting “Map Pack Two” that contains two classic map remakes, which will have updated, high resolution graphics. The “new” Perfect Dark Zero…

Capcom and Hyde Park Entertainment have decided to restart the Street Fighter movie series again, yes we’re talking about the live-action movie from 1994 that starred martial-artist Jean-Claude van Damme and singer/actress Kylie Minogue. This time they’re focusing on Chun Li. Justin Marks (Voltron) scripts and the movie is set for a 2008 release for…

Peter Jackson’s Wingnut films confirmed yesterday what many fans felt was inevitable: “As was previously confirmed, we deeply regret that both Universal and Fox did not choose to move forward with financing the Halo film under the original terms of the agreement,” it stated. “At this time Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, along with their…

‘Cops and Robbers’, created by McCann Erickson, San Francisco and directed by rising Australian director, Garth Davis, features three ‘robbers’ wearing ski masks running away from ‘cops’, holding what looks like a bag of stolen goods. They try to evade the cops by scaling the rooftops of buildings, taking desperate, gravity-defying leaps from buildings to…

Here’s a list of this weeks US game releases. All the websites are listed for you to check out. Now we’re talking, these are some amazing games! Monday: 1701 A.D. (PC) Children of Mana (DS) Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony (PSP) Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (PSP) Pokemon Ranger (DS) Rush (PSP) The Secret…

The Nikkei Keizai Shimbun morning edition reports today that due to component shortages, Sony will have only 80,000 units ready for the PS3′s November 11th Japanese launch. This cuts back by a fifth the initial launch target of 100,000. IGN mentions that minor number is even more staggering when you consider that the PS2 sold…

Pictures from today’s Microsoft Xbox 360 press conference in Japan surprisingly featured an 59.5GB Xbox 360 Hard Drive with a capacity of 60GB! 20GB really isn’t enough, so despite that this might be a developers unit, Microsoft should really come out with this if they want to offer more Xbox 360 movies, demos and video…

Microsoft today confirmed the Xbox 360 is going to get the “Fall 2006 System Update” tomorrow, October 31. The update is free and available to all Xbox Live members worldwide! The Dashboard update feature list has over 80 additional features: New Features: * HD 1080p video mode support over VGA and component cables. * Xbox…

Lorne Lanning and his studio Oddworld Inhabitants (creators of the… yes… Oddworld games) is set to make an ambitious return to interactive entertainment with Citizen Siege, a new original property developed from conception as a CG animated movie and videogame. Although no release date or game platforms were revealed yet. The movie will be produced…