I hear some crickets outside… Monday: Prey (PC, Xbox 360) – Average score 88% Tuesday: Chromehounds (Xbox 360) – Average score 48% The Ship (PC) – No reviews for it yet Trailers for all three games:

1up interviewed Gregg Tavares, a US developer on the Japanese LocoRoco team. He gives his take on the differences of taste between Japanese and North American gamers, and gives more details on the PSP game Loco Roco. Great 20 minute interview! Here’s an intro/gameplay video: One day, some evil Moojas come and try to eat…

The PlayStation 3 could be backwardly compatible with pretty much every original PS2 and PSone game according to IBM’s Tom Reeves, the man who’s in charge of semiconductor and technology services at IBM. Speaking to Electronic News, Reeves, who was discussing the intricacies of PS3 chip design and manufacture, said, “Sony are very concerned about…

It sure looks like a lot of next-gen games are going multiplatform as a result of the high development costs. During a recent interview about Mercenaries 2: World In Flames, a Pandemic spokesperson said the developer is “definitely considering Xbox 360″ for the game! But continued that the PS3 version is the only outing that…

I love forum visitors who can spell, Titanio quotes an internal SCEE Q&A regarding the PlayStation 3, from E3, that has made its way onto the web. It’s an interesting read and in many ways they would have been better off just releasing this, it would have better communicated some of their points. The highlights…

On the official Japanese homepage for Super Smash Bros Brawl (SSBB), there was a request for Japanese fans to send in their comments and thoughts about the upcoming game. In a section called Toukou, the game’s director/creator, Masahiro Sakurai, updates the page with 10 emails from fans weekly and personally responds to one of them…

Of course the obligatory (aka lame) pee joke is included, but none the less they are very positive about it, so far as to say Nintendo is back in a big way. The press in the UK finally got their hands on the Wii after Japan, USA, and Spain. Entertainment Wise describes a hands-on with…

Because of the 4th of July celebrations in the US last week, the developer hasn’t been able to progress much in multiplayer testing for gameplay improvements. However, after a short but exciting single-player campaign test with lots of driving in it, Bungie did another interesting weekly update after something new became clear, to quote: “Our…

A group of role-players created U2 avatars, which they used for virtual concerts in MMOG Second Life. For a U2 concert not too many people showed up though. Via Kotaku

Regarded by many gamers as the greatest game of all time, Super Metroid is well-known as Samus‘ defining moment. A game which is so well designed that it’s held up as the ideal way to make a 2D side-scrolling action platform game, it has influenced everything from Castlevania to modern games where collecting new power-ups…

Day of Defeat: Source is the latest version of the WWII online action game from Valve. This weekend, everyone is invited to try Day of Defeat: Source for free. Join the ranks and fight as Axis or Allied troops located in Western Europe during the height of the war in 1944. 1. Install Steam for…

The first, July-August 1988, issue of the beloved Nintendo Power is scanned in as a complete PDF file for your viewing pleasure. You’ll need Adobe Reader to view the magazine on your PC. For the PDF file go to this magazine scan site and look for download. If you select the Mirror download you’ll get…

600 Nintendo DS download stations were added in stores around the UK in Europe this year. To get free demos, you go into a store, hit download play, choose the DS Download Station download, and choose a game! But since no-one actual knew where these were British Gaming Blog made a list of where the…

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Below is the Surgeon Dungeon clip from the upcoming PC game Dungeon Siege II: Broken world. Gas Powered Games’ lead designer on the game will explain what’s new and improved in this upcoming (August 1st) expansion. The story has you hunting down and attempting to destroy the Dark Wizard to the four corners of Aranna…