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…

Stephen Colbert reports “This quite possibly is the most addicting video game… of all time!”

Sega today released Golden Axe and Ecco the Dolphin, two Sega Genesis classics available now on the Wii Shop Channel for download to play on Wii’s Virtual Console. They each cost 800 Wii Points. Wii Points can be purchased online or at retail at an MSRP of $20.00 for 2,000 points. Originally released in 1988,…

Double Dragon is a classic beat ‘em up released in Arcades in 1987. Developed by Technos and published by Taito, the game produced a ton of sequels on even more different platforms (GameBoy player here). Twenty years after its Arcade debut the game will be remade for download on Xbox Live Arcade in 2007! The…

What will happen? According to rumors, as soon as Microsoft notices that an Xbox 360 with a U.S. Live account tries downloading with an IP address from Europe, then in the future this account would be closed/deleted. That also applies to Gold account members. This is justified with legal and copyright regulations for films of…

After Nintendo announced they sold 600,000 Wii’s in one week, Sony couldn’t be far behind making total counts. According to Sony the PS3 sold out fast, which isn’t surprising with such long PS3 waiting lines. Sony said the following about the PS3 sales: “Sony Computer Entertainment America has been airlifting additional shipments of PlayStation 3…

Square Enix has terminated over 11,500 accounts held by players involved in the usage of 3rd party tools or cheats, or engaged in RMT (Real Money Trading) activities. The termination of these accounts has led to the removal of approximately 45 billion Gil from circulation. The violations of these PC, PS2 & Xbox 360 users…

Japan killed the PS3 when it was first launched there. Now we can blame Canada for a teardown of the Nintendo Wii conducted by Semiconductor Insights (SI). I’m a little bitter about them killing the Wii even after saying they thought it was “quite intuitive to use and surprisingly responsive”. Let’s hope a future Wii…

Ridge Racer 7 once again whips the racing series in a frenzy, with movie-quality visuals and a stronger online component from that of the Xbox 360 game, Ridge Racer 6. Director Masaya Kobayashi, assistant producer Hideo Teramoto, and sound director Hiroshi Okubo all worked on the successful PSP and Xbox 360 Ridge Racers, and are…

Here’s a list of this weeks US game releases. The PS3 had 13 games at launch and the Wii had 28 games at launch over a week ago. And that’s where the bulk of great games went to… not that I’m hating on Hamsterz, Horsez and Catz or anything. Tuesday: Brave: The Search for Spirit…

Let’s take a look at the humble beginnings of the boy dressed in green, Link, and the adventures he finds on his quest for greatness. This 50 minute in-depth video of The Legend of Zelda series goes on with a look at Link’s return to his roots, and his first handheld outing. Then shows Link…

Nintendo’s new Wii video game system sold through to more than 600,000 consumers in the Americas in just its first eight days of availability. That’s a rate of nearly one per second continuously since the November 19 launch. Including just first-party software and accessory sales, Wii instantly has become a $190 million business in the…