What are the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe (UK) this week? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the games that are the most popular now. Nintendo Wii North America: 1. Mario Party 8 (Nintendo), 2. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Capcom), 3. Wii Play (Nintendo), 4. Pokemon Battle Revolution (Nintendo), 5….

Geometry Wars: Galaxies on DS and Wii returns the series to the big (and small) screens with Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved included as a bonus! Bizarre Creations hands its Geometry Wars franchise to developer Kuju, the team behind Battalion Wars. The game takes everything that made Retro Evolved the best multi-direction shooter around, and besides…

Contra 4 on DS returns the series to its co-op, side-scrolling roots with an all-new sequel that takes place two years after Contra III: The Alien Wars on SNES. Expect massive, two-screen bosses and lots of new weapons. It’s developed by WayForward and published by Konami. The developer showed off the first gameplay footage of…

Shinobi was given a rebirth in 2002 by Sega for the PS2 in a very difficult combo-killing action game in which you played the ninja Hotsuma. Unfortunately Shinobi was largely overlooked in the holiday shuffle of game releases. The game is known as one of the most difficult and thus critics weren’t always so kind….

You never know how many uses a simple device or mechanism or object can have until you see the crazy things people come up with! And this video is a great demonstration of that. Showing the versatility of the Wii and the Wiimote in all things cool, a club DJ hacks the Wii Remote and…

A number of new TurboGrafx-16 titles are heading to the Wii Virtual Console in the US for the month of July. A total of five to be exact, and they are: Dragon Spirit (a vertical-scrolling shooter), Air Zonk (A spin-off of Bonk’s Adventure), Devil’s Crush (an cult-classic pinball game), Silent Debuggers (Data East’s Early First-person…

Sega has announced that their upcoming RTS title, Universe At War: Earth Assault, which we previewed back in February, will be the first 3rd party “Windows Vista – Live” title. What this means is that PC players, playing the game on Windows Vista, will be able to battle in online multiplayer with their counterparts playing…

German games magazine Man!ac has revealed some new THQ projects. The third instalment in the Destroy All Humans series will be released on Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and PSP. Destroy All Humans 3 will be released before the end of 2007. The magazine also mentions THQ will be bringing The Blob game exclusively to…

RedOctane and Activision today showed the full list of songs included in the July 24th (U.S. release date) semi-sequel Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s on PlayStation 2. You’ll be able to rock out with your jock out in this 1980s edition of the blockbuster music franchise. After playing to mass audiences at sold out…

Rockstar Games has recently sent out an email to several fans for their support and concerns with the release of Manhunt 2. The game was recently refused certification in the United Kingdom, prohibited in Ireland, and denied a Mature rating and instead given an Adults Only rating in the United States. Rockstar thanks fans in…

You might remember our report earlier this year on SNK Playmore’s SNK vs. Capcom Card Fighters DS game for Nintendo DS (only in America) that had a game-halting bug that kept you from collecting all the cards. Of course if you bought the game you’ll remember for sure, now two months later all the copies…

It wasn’t really a matter of if (despite all the director’s console talk), but rather when, the sequel Supreme Commander 2 would be announced. And now it’s official. Publisher THQ has announced Supreme Commander 2: Forged Alliance, which is the follow-up to Gas Powered Games’ extremely successful PC strategic-zooming RTS that was released last holiday…

An all new hack and slash action game called Dragon Blade: Wrath of Fire has been announced for release this fall on the Nintendo Wii. Giving Wii owners a chance to play with dragons like their Playstation 3 counterparts, although this game isn’t quite Lair, but still it looks cool! Published by D3Publisher of America…

The oft-ported Dragon’s Lair is now coming to the DS with the eloquently named Dragon’s Lair DS. However this version has some unique features that might make it worth more than a passing look. And maybe even a buy for those who never got to play Dragon’s Lair or one of it’s many versions. In…