Project Offset is a fantasy third and first-person action game in development by “Offset Software”, founded by Sam McGrath, Travis Stringer and Trevor Stringer, all winners of the 2004 Independant Games Festival for their title Savage: The Battle for Newerth. Offset uses their brand-new “Offset Engine” which was built from the ground up for use…

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for the Playstation 3 is easily one of that systems most anticipated titles, and one of it’s biggest exclusives. While Konami remained tight-lipped about the series for a long-while, they have finally been opening up recently, both with the new extended trailer from E3 2007 and the…

Bleach: Blade of Fate is an upcoming 2D fighter for the DS (also coming to the Wii) developed by Treasure and published by Sega, with a release date of October 9th in the U.S The game is based off the extremely popular Shounen Jump Bleach manga and anime series. It features 28 selectable characters (With…

The other day I posted the old Resident Evil: Extinction teaser trailer from February, and while that definitely gave us a taste of the new movie, finally a new trailer has hit that gives a very in-depth look at the upcoming Resident Evil flick. I really like this new trailer, looks like this movie will…

You know that a video game has gone truly mainstream when libraries, of all places, start using them in their facilities. And that’s exactly what has happened at the Humboldt Public Library in Humboldt, Iowa (USA). As part of a Teen Advisory Board program, the library sets up a Guitar Hero game for visitors to…

Here’s a list of this weeks US game releases. Popular are Mario Strikers Charged for Wii and Picross DS. On the downloadable games front we’ve got today’s awesome Wii Virtual Console download releases, and Marathon Durandal and Spyglass Board Games are coming to Xbox Live Arcade (updates Wednesday). No word on any PlayStation Store games…

Dragon Quest IV, V and VI will join Dragon Quest: Monster Joker and Dragon Quest IX on the Nintendo DS! Enix’s classic RPGs are being remade for the DS. Incase that isn’t big enough news for you, it seems like they aren’t just straight ports from Square Enix, but complete remakes. If you look at…

At this year’s Leipzig Games Convention, from August 22nd to 26th in Germany, a new FPS game THEY will be unveiled with the slogan “THEY” are huge – “THEY” are different – “THEY” are hostile! The next generation mysterious first person shooter is for PC and next-generation consoles (likely Xbox 360 & PS3) due sometime…

Back in February Microsoft Game Studios boss Shane Kim hinted “A Kameo or a Viva Pinata on a DS makes a lot of sense in a lot of ways from a franchise perspective.” Last weekend Microsoft confirmed at Comic-Con 2007 that Rare is developing their new Xbox 360 franchise Viva Pinata for the portable DS….

You might know Nielsen’s data from the American in-home TV polls they do to show how many millions of people watched your favorite TV show. Well now they have the Nielsen GamePlay Metrics that uses console data collected from the Nielsen’s People Meter TV sample combined with Nielsen GamePlay Metrics’ proprietary audio signature library that…

Welcome to the latest edition of the VGB Week in Review, your one stop shop for easy access to all of last week’s articles. And in case you missed it, give last week’s VGB Week in Review a look. MONDAY – JULY 23RD * Koei announces Dynasty Warriors 6 for PS3. * The creators of…

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)….

At the Comic-Con 2007 last weekend, Kotaku asked Konami‘s marketing VP Anthony Kraus about Konami USA bringing over the Metal Gear 20th Anniversary Collection from Japan. Mr. Kraus’ reply confirmed that they’re “considering it” with the sales team talking to retailers about potential interest in selling such a package. When asked if it would be…