RedOctane today announced they will release official wireless Guitar Hero controllers in America on November 7, 2006, at a price of $59.99. The new controllers will be compatible with both Guitar Hero 1 & 2, and are due for release next month when Guitar Hero II comes out in America & Europe. The controllers will…

Yay, the Halloween demo for Loco Roco has arrived in time for this weekend. America and Europe’s yourpsp.com sites now have the haunted version of the puzzler available online. In the demo, you get to play a version of the cheerful game with new scary ghosts and other spooky characters plus super-scary music! IGN mentions…

In July, Microsoft said it had shipped 5 million Xbox 360s. Microsoft on Thursday said it has shipped 6 million Xbox 360 video game consoles worldwide since releasing the unit about a year ago. Apparently MIcrosoft is “confident” it can meet its target to ship 10 million of its next-generation game consoles by the end…

As you can tell from the Sony’s losses and Nintendo’s profits, both companies have their own approach in the gaming industry. One invests, one wants a direct payback. For example take the new PlayStation 3 Playb3yond website. While I don’t trust the voiceover Bishop from the Alien movies, I have to say those are some…

Sony’s profit nose-dived 94% for the July-September quarter as a global battery recall (costing 51 billion yen or $430 million) and red ink in its video-game business (CELL development & PS3 launch costs) battered the Japanese electronics and entertainment company. Sony Corp.’s group net profit for the fiscal second quarter totaled 1.7 billion yen ($14…

This is the 13th video of the Angry Nintendo Nerd. On Friday the 13th on Screwattack, the 13 minutes long review was released, but we didn’t find it on youtube until 13 days later, and it will take you about 13 seconds to read all this, must be a cosmic thing. The latest in a…

Sony’s Phil Harrison told Eurogamer he has no regrets at all about not including rumble functionality in the PlayStation 3 SIXAXIS controller. Without a second thought he said: “I think that the next generation interfaces that can be created built on SIXAXIS motion sensitivity give tremendous gameplay benefits that far outweigh a reactive vibration function….

Sony has announced the official PSP’s PSone emulator titles for late November in Japan. In total there will be 9 available at the launch of the service at the end of November. These will be available on the Playstation Store under the section “Game Archives”. Here’s the PSP’s PSone games list: 1. Bio Hazard Director’s…

It looks like we missed a little big announcement in the financial report from Ubisoft yesterday. SEVEN additional games will be available on the Wii, including one non announced new brand, bringing the total number of games available to 14 by the end of March 2007. “Ubisoft managed to take full advantage of Microsoft’s Xbox…

A lot of this interview was already written down by NOE a month ago. But the 1UP interview with Castlevania series producer (since 2001) Koji Igarashi (or IGA, as he is commonly known) is still really interesting to see and his answers are different in places. They talk about Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin on DS,…

DLTV gives a 5 minute review of the new Family Guy game for Xbox, PS2 & PSP. This new game from Take-Two’s 2K Games will introduce the Griffins to gamers everywhere. In the game, being developed as a third person action/adventure, players will take on the role of multiple characters such as Stewie, Brian the…

World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade beta testers keep making new discoveries in the upcoming WoW expansion. It turns out the new Blood Elf Mounts look a suspicious lot like the Chocobos from the Final Fantasy series. Outside of Blizzard maybe getting sued by Square-Enix because both overgrown chickens share similarities, oh sorry you’re a fan,…

Back in 2003, after Microsoft & Tecmo announced they’d add a life-size inflatable Kasumi cushion to Dead or Alive Ultimate Xbox bundles in Japan, they caused a lot of controversy, because what were these supposedly innocent gamers going to do with a hump pillow? Anyway, after that debacle Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 (DOAX2) fans…

A guy rolls a ball around in costume, ala Katamari Damacy, hilarity ensues, but sometimes people get angry at Prince.

Phil Collins, the 80′s superstar, is lending his face and voice to the upcoming PSP exclusive Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. As you can see in the video below, Phil Collins will be a main part of Vice City Stories’ single-player campaign helping protagonist Lance Vance who is apparently a “big fan”. But as…