Today Nintendo adds three new classic games to the popular Wii Shop Channel. The games go live at 9AM Pacific time. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at stores like Amazon (see to your right)….

“Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors” is developed from the ground up to take advantage of the Nintendo Wii and its motion sensing technology. Dragon Quest is a worldwide phenomenon that has captivated more than 41 million players across the world for more than 20 years and now slashes its…

The fantasy-themed RPG Gothic 3 was released on November 14th 2006 and since then Pluto 13 (the new name for the series developer Piranha Bytes) and publisher JoWooD have not come to terms regarding the development of Gothic 4, the collaboration has come to an end. So who will be making Gothic 4? JoWooD confirms…

Earlier this month Namco Bandai Holdings announced details of the company’s full year 2006 results (that’s between April 2006 till March 2007), which showed net profits growth of 71% to 24.2 billion Yen ($201.9 million), despite net sales growth of less than 2%, and slower than expected PlayStation 3 sales. The company’s bestselling game of…

Ubisoft announced that it will develop and publish the video game based on Paramount Pictures’ Beowulf, the upcoming feature film from Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis. The game is expected to release at the same time as the Beowulf movie’s planned opening in November 2007. Groundbreaking director Robert Zemeckis offers a vision of the Beowulf…

The LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga compilation pack is now confirmed by LucasArts for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. It will be released in the fall of 2007. The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of The Complete Saga will have drop-in and drop-out online multiplayer, while the Nintendo DS and Wii versions get…

Here’s the list of new PlayStation 3 features that the Firmware 1.80 update (out now) will give you: * You can now upscale the video content of PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 format software to HD resolution. * You can now upscale video content of DVDs to 1080p HD resolution. It only works if you…

The ESRB Ratings website is a great sneak peek into what games we can expect to be released in the near-future. This time a search has dug up some Xbox Live Arcade results. Sometimes I think there’s a rule written in stone at Sega Headquarters: “The original Sonic shall be reproduced for every game-playing system…

While Europe traditionally sees retail releases weeks, months, sometimes years (Animal Crossing) after Americans got their gaming thumbs on the latest games. This is to translate them into multiple European languages according to game companies. This past week, however, there were a few retail games that came out in Europe first like Buzz! Junior: RoboJam…

This week it became clear that the Windows Vista version of Halo 2 has been delayed due to an obscure error message that includes partial nudity (i.e. a Bungie employee mooning you, in all their glory). That has since been removed and the game arrives next week if anyone still cares. In the wake of…

Square-Enix is hard at work on Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers for Wii, not to be mistaken for another new game in the series for DS called Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates. The Wii game is claimed to be a sequel to the DS game, other reports say it’s actually a…

Mario Strikers Charged Football on Nintendo Wii is the sequel to the GameCube title Mario Smash Football AKA Super Mario Strikers, the action sports series returns with an all-new roster of features. This time around you use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk Controller to win the ball, score goals with the help of loads of…

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja is exclusively developed for the Xbox 360 from the ground up and for the first time ever, gamers will experience Naruto starting from the series’ beginning. Re-live the hit anime and manga and experience Naruto’s transformation from noisy ninja-academy dropout to respected ninja. The cel-shaded fighting/RPG game is set for…