After just one year and ten months on sale, Nintendo DS has become the fastest games console in European history to sell 10 million (sell-thru to customers) and with 1.7 million units selling in December 2006 alone it is also by far the best selling handheld games console across Europe. By comparison: estimates put the…

The PS3 game flOw, developed by thatgamecompany, wasn’t available for download from the PlayStation Store in December, won’t be in January, now it’s late February. After a call to Sony, IGN was told “We’ll be posting a trailer at the end of January or the beginning of February. As for the game itself, we’ll be…

VGB was invited by Buena Vista Games this Wednesday at the Kingly Club in London, UK, and this is the first hands on review on what will be “another” Tetsuya Mizuguchi classic. I arrived at the venue at about 7.25pm to be greeted with “Hello Alan, nice to see you again” from the promoters! Nice…

The Xbox Live Arcade file size was given a maximum size of 50 MB to accommodate people who bought an Xbox 360 Core set that does not come with a 20GB hard drive. Those poor souls had to use one of Microsoft’s 64MB memory cards (and in the future might get a 512MB memory card)….

The latest issue of Games Master has revealed new details about Sega’s Sonic and the Secret Rings game on Wii. The game will feature 10 levels, only 5 are named so far, them being: Sand Oasis, Dinosaur Jungle, Evil Foundry, Levitated Ruin, Pirate Storm. – Each level has 10 missions such as stealth attack, rampage,…

Next Gen Books announced the release of The Sword of Oz for PC, Wii, DS, PS3, PSP and iPod. Written by best selling fantasy author Darren Reid, The Sword of Oz is an epic fantasy prequel to L. Frank Baum’s masterpiece The Wizard of Oz and explores the Oz’s tragic past. The Sword of Oz…

An Orbital Media (of the GBA/DS game Scurge: Hive) team member over at their Orbital Forum commented in a discussion about where Pirate Battle’s GBA version was. It turns out it’s been cancelled an moved to DS instead. He said: “The only thing I can say is that there will be no GBA version of…

ZootFly got in the news this week when their Ghostbusters revival on Xbox 360 became public. An interview with them revealed another game by the developer. The downloadable game Toy Wars will be available for both Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade) and PS3 (PlayStation Store). ZootFly CEO Bostjan Troha said: “We’re working on an Xbox…

Bonnie Kubas made a wish, that the treatments her son Ryan received to combat a brain tumor would eventually result in a clean bill of health. After extensive surgery and a series of more than 30 radiation treatments, it appears that wish has been granted. Somewhere along the way, Bonnie also submitted her son’s name…

This holiday, 2006, was a great time for gaming. Hopefully everyone got all the games and systems they wanted and are all now eagerly anticipating the new years releases. There was a little gem of a web-game released by Nintendo and developer Extra Toxic during Dec. that was sadly missed by a lot of people….

Gamerscoreblog says good things come in threes, and next week’s Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday release is no exception to that rule. Three new packages of Lumines Live! content will be available for download on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360 beginning Wednesday, January 24th, at 9AM GMT (1AM PST). Two of the add-on packs will…

Jeffrey Kaplan (34) is the lead designer responsible for the World Design of quests, outdoor zones, dungeons, raids and more in World of Warcraft. MTV had an interview with the Blizzard staffer about the recently released World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade. Because we enjoy Nintendo’s Animal Crossing, we picked out a quote of him talking…

As has been noted previously, video games sales overall for the year of 2006 have broken records all over the place, from the U.S. to Europe to Australia, and while the numbers released for the U.S. earlier accounted for video game console, game and accessory sales, they DID NOT account for PC sales. So finally…

Microsoft’s new mega-ton franchise, Gears of War, the brainchild of Quake-developer Cliffy B. and the team over at Epic, has set the Xbox 360 ablaze by selling over three million copies worldwide, since it’s release last Nov. The gritty first-person shooter reached this milestone only ten weeks after it’s release. And it was the top…

In the latest issue of Japanese magazine Dengeki, Square Enix confirmed that a Final Fantasy XIII demo will released at the new E3 now called “E for All Expo” that runs from October 18 to 20, 2007. They need to make this playable demo of the highly anticipated RPG sequel a PS3 Store download stat!…