Men might say this commercial is an attack on their masculinity, women might say it’s too cutesy for them even without the pink DS Lite. But everyone can agree the original SNES Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island was one of the best 2D platformers ever made, and while it’s sequel wasn’t directed by Shigeru…

You know that when you close your DS (Lite) your game automatically goes into suspended animation AKA your DS falls asleep and wakes up again when you open it to play later on. Well, the Wii’s Virtual Console downloadable games have a similar feature! This is especially handy because most old games don’t have a…

Yes it’s true, the people you love to hate, those waiting in line not to play PS3 games – but to profit from its sale – strike again. A simple search on eBay shows that 22,860 PS3′s have been sold through their auction site, and another 23,604 PS3′s are being offered for sale right now….

Tomonobu Itagaki of team Ninja officially announced Dead or Alive 5 today. The developer at Team Ninja (of Tecmo) said this at a press meeting in Tokyo (Japan) that celebrated the 10th birthday of the series. Mr. Itagaki already has the first play concepts in mind, one of which is that the fifth game in…

With about an hour left to go at Times Square in New York City, the Nintendo Wii launch is imminent in America. The Wii launch party there has attracted over 1,000 people (and eventually ended up being thousands of gamers waiting in line to purchase a console, hit the corner of the street and wrapped…

Nintendo of America put out a list of new game releases for the first quarter of next year on the Wii, DS, and GameBoy Advance. No word yet if Wii Play will include a Wii remote controller like it does in Europe and Japan when the Wii launches there on December 2nd & 8th. Wii…

Various PS3 riots in America were caught on camera yesterday, including people trampling eachother to be the first to get a short-in-supply PS3 to sell on eBay, plus an interview with the mayor of Boston about the theft and shootout surrounding the launch of Sony’s new console. ABC’s the Boston Channel reports in this over…

Here’s an interesting quote from Phil Harrison taken from the official PlayStation magazine November 15 issue. Is there any way players could record their own gameplay footage on the hard drive and then share it online? “[Laughs] We’re actually already working on it now. There are two ways to do it. One is as pure…

Games magazine Famitsu reported on the latest sales chart information from Japan. For the sixth week in a row (since their launch in Japan) Pokemon Diamond and Pearl are on the number one spot! Together the two Nintendo DS games have sold nearly three million copies. You can tell how big of a hit they…

Id Software‘s Kevin Cloud said in an interview that the company and Raven (who already collaborated on Quake 4) “are working together to take advantage of all the graphic capabilities that the Xbox 360 has to offer, and what we’re doing with Wolfenstein is creating this one, large empire that is seamlessly loaded to the…

Solid Snake doesn’t seem to get much time off in his adventures to stop the Metal Gear. So you’d think a trip to the grocery store would be to get some food, well not exactly…

20 coming to PS3, 10 listed below, 5 more unannounced from Rockstar, 5 more unannounced from 2K Games. Take-Two announced they have 20 games in development for the PS3. These include more than seven titles from Rockstar Games, including: Grand Theft Auto IV which is expected to be in North American stores on October 16,…

Gamasutra asked game developers, educators and students which next-gen console they’ll buy today (PS3) and Sunday (Wii) and why. Specifically, the question was: As a video game professional, are you buying a Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo’s Wii or both? The result was 8 pages of both well-known and anonymous developers responding. It’s surprising how many…

In Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas you can map your face on to a character with the Xbox Live Vision Camera. When playing online, you can customize your character using the Persistent Elite Creation tool. That allows you make to a 3D model of yourself, and can add accessories, clothing, armor, and weapons. Followed by…

Here’s the new Mass Effect trailer from the MTV website. This BioWare game looks to be one amazingly big Xbox 360 exclusive. According to the preview in Mass Effect you travel across the galaxy, engage in real-time combat, and have conversations so lifelike you’ll forget you’re playing a game. Thanks to Pie from getting this…