That computer-generated screenshot is from the upcoming 1-minute TV ad that’s scheduled to air next Monday, December 4th, during Monday Night Football on ESPN in the US or in the UK on Channel 4 on Friday December 15th at 22.45 or in Europe on Xbox.com at around 02.15 GMT on Tuesday December 5th. The CG…

2K Games has put the original Railroad Tycoon online as a free download! It’s part of a promotion for their new game Sid Meier’s Railroads! After you go to the page, look for the “RAILROADS! DEMO & FREE FULL GAME RAILROADS TYCOON” button near the bottom that says they are now available to download. Once…

To celebrate the launch of Need for Speed Carbon, Men’s magazine FHM has teamed up with EA Games to give one of ten ladies the chance to become queen of the pixels, although looking at the blurry pictures some of them are already pixelated! The winner will be flown to Electronic Arts in the USA,…

Translated by Kotaku are the latest Pokémon Battle Revolution details for the upcoming Nintendo Wii game. These are the newly uncovered game options: * Free Battle – Duke it out in a a Coliseum battle. Players can save data to their Wii-mote and then upload it to the software on a completely different Wii. *…

Nintendo promised 30 American Virtual Console retro games by the end of the year. Europe will be getting 31 (plus Donkey Kong Country) this year. But Japan takes the cake with a total of 50 classic downloadable games for the Virtual Console in 2006! Prepare to get steaming jealous. Famicom [NES] (all 500 points each)…

The second episode of Sam and Max, “Sam and Max: Situation: Comedy“, will be released by Telltale at a price of $8.95 on January 5, 2007. The story goes like this: Talk show host Myra Stump has gone berzerk! Sam & Max head down to the WARP TV studio to find out why she’s holding…

An interview about the video game incarnations of Star Wars, now that the movies are done, has revealed some great future LucasArts lineup details. Nextgen got Nancy MacIntyre, VP of global sales and marketing, to talk about how LucasArts sees the Star Wars future. Turns out that aside from planned TV projects they take upcoming…

An accessory even harder to find than the PS3 console. Guess what? That’s right, the PS3 Memory Card Adapter. The PSone and PS2 memory card adaptor can copy the save data onto a virtual memory card on your PS3 hard disk, so you don’t have to start all over in your old favorite games when…

Check out what Photoshop, a Wacom Art Tablet, and some imagination can do in this game mashup painting titled The Super Metroid Brothers. It’s not perfect though, Mario’s nose must be killing him! From Thedailydrawing, via Joystiq

We listed the top 10 Wii facts, then the top 12 other Wii facts, continued with 16 secret Wii facts. All facts you might not have known, so it’s only fitting we continue this trend with 21 very handy tips and tricks for Nintendo’s Wii. Console related: 1. Press the home button on the main…

The Wii game Heroes has been renamed to No More Heroes. Maybe to prevent confusion with the popular TV series? Developed by Grasshopper Manufacturer and directed by Goichi Suda, the game will be published by Spike in Japan. Yes, these are the developers of Capcom’s stylish Killer 7 GameCube & PS2 game. This cel-shade-loving team…

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 is considered one of the biggest upcoming game releases, despite the delay to summer 2007, since it will also include the long awaited Team Fortress 2 and their puzzle shooter Portal. FiringSquad got a chance to chat with Valve‘s director of marketing Doug Lombardi to find out more about Episode 2….

The American PlayStation website mentions the PS3 system software version 1.11 update includes the following: * General o You can now use PlayStation Network services. o You can now use the single tap text entry method on the on-screen keyboard for English and other European languages. * Settings

Ubisoft has a job posting on their France website, which asks for a Senior Game Designer who will take part in “the continuation of the Red Steel Project”. Interestingly enough, the job posting asks for “RPG experience”. Codenamerevolution reports a trademark was also made by Ubisoft in the United States of a game called “Fighting…

On Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays Microsoft releases a new game weekly, but not this week, instead they announced they’ll today give Texas Hold ‘em a full-featured update. “We’ve listened to our community and as a result, a host of features and improvements have been added to Texas Hold ‘em to speed up game-play, eliminate cheating…