From today, June 27th at 9AM GMT (2AM PDT), you can play Sierra’s Carcassonne on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. Carcassonne will be available worldwide for 800 Microsoft Points (that’s $10 / €9.60 / £6.80). Play Carcassonne to become a master of medieval strategy. Own a fully featured version of the board game classic…

The PSP has just had one of its best months in the USA, selling 221,120 units in May. Gamedaily interviewed John Koller, Senior Marketing Manager for PSP, about the state of Sony’s portable business. The most interesting quote has to be that he mentions some of the key PSP games of 2007 are new exclusives!…

dtp entertainment announced they will publish their new PC adventure So Blonde worldwide under the Anaconda label, with a November release date set for German-speaking territories. Renowned adventure game writer Steve Ince (of Broken Sword fame) is responsible for the game’s unusual story… She is young, she is pretty and she comes from rich parents:…

The Darkness features a distinct blend of dark modern crime drama and supernatural horror with intense first person non-linear gameplay. The game is a dynamic first person shooter that allows players to call upon the forces of the evil underworld as they fight in gritty, urban environments. Armed with an arsenal of guns, gamers battle…

UK’s Data Design Interactive recently revealed they had 30+ Wii budget titles in development. Today 9 of them have been announced as coming to the USA via Conspiracy Entertainment Corporation. 1UP lists the games: 1. Action Girlz Racing — Data Design is doing a bunch of different racing games, but none of the others have…

Earlier this month Frederick Brown has been arrested and charged with 10 felonies after he was busted selling pirated games and modding consoles. His home was raided by the San Diego Computer And Technology Crime High-Tech Response Unit (C.A.T.C.H.), but he is now free after posting a $100,000 bail. In cases like these with huge…

The Darkness is is one of the big titles that are now available like Harry Potter 5 and Pokemon Battle Revolution in North America for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game is said to really captured the dark and gritty storyline of The Darkness comic books. But what features make this FPS game so…

Sierra today announced Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy, the first title in a global partnership with Ludlum Entertainment. Being developed by High Moon Studios, one of Sierra’s internal developers, the game combines seminal moments from the best-selling novel and hit film The Bourne Identity with all-new content developed in conjunction with Ludlum Entertainment. Robert Ludlum’s…

Last year’s Killer Instinct 3 rumors (and lord knows how long before that) just won’t die. So Rare answered yesterday’s Scribes (their Q&A column since 1998) reader question “Does Rare have any plans of making a new, edgier, and stylistically better Killer Instinct game, be it on a home console or on arcade machine?” that…

In a video interview with Gametrailers, they sit down with Shannon Lee, Bruce Lee’s daughter, to discuss her father’s gaming legacy. What’s interesting here is that the daughter of the late (but still great) Bruce Lee is asked if there’s a new versus-style game or game based on one of this movies coming. Shannon Lee…

Two months ago in April, Sony paid force feedback developer Immersion $150 million in the PlayStation suit, thus allowing Sony to continue using the rumble technology in their PlayStation and PlayStation 2 models. At the time of announcement all they’d say is that they were in talks about including rumble in the PlayStation 3 controllers….

The latest issue of American games magazine EGM has revealed that Bandai-Namco’s Soul Calibur IV will have online multiplayer when it’s released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2008. To quote: “What’s changed this time round is that the next-gen platforms have network infrastructure already in place,” says Soulcalibur IV Director Katsutoshi Sasaki. “We’ve…

Square Enix’s character designer Tetsuya Nomura was recently interviewed by the Japanese games magazine Dengeki Playstation about Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII. QJ has translated the most interesting quotes. He loves Sony hardware, saying the new console is very much capable of making their imagination as close to reality as possible: “It’s…

At the end of Halo: Combat Evolved on Xbox the Master Chief is shown taking his helmet off, which reveals his true “face”. Normally you just can’t see it as the camera pans out, but with a different camera view someone has managed to zoom in. The result is pretty funny! That last scene has…

See famous actress Nicole Kidman in a home setting, relaxing and training her brain. To any passerby she looks just as silly as the rest of us screaming “BLUE I SAID BLUE!!” into the original DS game Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?. She’s actually playing the sequel, More Brain Training from…