Using an enhanced Tomb Raider: Legend game engine, the new graphics, technology and physics in Tomb Raider: Anniversary bring Lara’s adventure and pursuit of a mystical artifact known only as the Scion right up to today’s technology standards and will offer gamers a completely new gameplay experience. Did you know? The original Tomb Raider from…

Outside of Guitar Hero 3′s 11 initial songs Activision will have the bands Queens of the Stone Age and Velvet Revolver in the game, and say they’ve “got a lot of songs and artists still that we would love to have. In particular, we’ve been trying to get Metallica, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin.” Guitar Hero…

Race to your PS3 this Thursday as Sony Online Entertainment will offer Midway’s Championship Sprint, for download on the PlayStation Store. Originally released in Arcades in 1986, Championship Sprint is a simplistic 2D sprint-car simulator with an overhead perspective that supports up to four simultaneous racers, either locally or online. Championship Sprint will cost $4.99…

Has your Naruto videogame quota not been filled this year? If not, then I’ve got great news for you! Tomy and D3 today announced the fall 2007 release of Naruto: Path of the Ninja on DS. It’ll be the first Naruto RPG to be released in America and will offer original content and scenarios that…

Japan currently has these DS Lite colors: Crystal White, Ice Blue, Enamel Navy, Noble Pink, and Jet Black. These will be joined by Nintendo Japan‘s new colors Metallic Rose and Gloss Silver, which the original launch DS was, on June 23rd, 2007.

The first original Resident Evil game for the Wii, Umbrella Chronicles takes place from the first person as your characters move through a fully 3D mansion. The on-rails shooter (similar to Sega’s House of the Dead) will be between 15 and 20 hours long and reveals the back story behind the fall of the Umbrella…

Yesterday we posted the first in a series of interviews with the developers of the Nintendo Wii, where they discussed the creation of the Wii Remote. Today we present the second part of the interview where Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata has his employees discuss the Wii Hardware itself. Among the discusses therein is the overall…

The Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection has crossed two huge milestones within just days of one another. Worldwide, since its launch in November 2005, Nintendo’s wireless gaming service has now connected more than 5 million unique Nintendo DS owners, and those gamers have racked up more than 200 million game-play sessions. Worldwide, nearly 65 games can be…

Games publisher Ubisoft was one of the first third parties to recognize the potential of Nintendo‘s Wii console as they saw and demoed the controller before E3 2005. Back then Ubisoft Paris took their idea directly to Nintendo head honchos Iwata and Miyamoto, and were given the go ahead to make Red Steel. Since Ubisoft…

With the Fantastic Four superhero film and game from 2005 getting a sequel starting June 15th 2007 called Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. With the film also comes the game to PS3, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, PC, Wii, DS, GBA, GameCube, and Xbox. Marvel’s first family of Super Heroes faces its greatest challenge…

The latest issue of Japanese magazine LEVEL has an interview with the director at Square-Enix who’s working on the Final Fantasy XIII series of games. Big thanks to Ceb who graciously translated the most interesting new bits to English. About Fabula Nova Crystallis in general: Motomu Toriyama: “The development of the three games was started…

From today, May 30th at 9AM GMT (2AM PDT), you can play Load Inc’s Mad Tracks on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. Mad Tracks will be available worldwide (except in South Korea) for 800 Microsoft Points (that’s $10 / €9.60 / £6.80) and is rated E for Everyone. Players can race through 15 challenges…

Thanks to Vincent for linking us to this great Games.net list of “The 49 Best Sequel-Less Games“. It’s intention is to include great games that not only did not get a much deserved sequel, but also aren’t extended like Pirates! and Riddick’s game or remade as Pitfall Harry and Conker’s Bad Fur Day were. Definitely…

DK Jungle Climber was recently revealed as a new Nintendo DS title. Famitsu has the first screenshots of the game and say it’s an action adventure game with puzzle elements where you control Donkey Kong’s right and left arms separately to climb with the left and right shoulder buttons on the DS, by pressing both…

It’s rare that you get to read an interview with the guy calling the shots at one of the big three companies. Be it Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo. And it’s even rarer when you get to read an interview not of, but by, said President. That’s exactly what Nintendo did right after the launch of…