Archive for January, 2009
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 2 for Wii might have both casual and hardcore play modes
Some very interesting new details have emerged from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 2 or whatever Nintendo intends to call the next new Zelda 2 Wii game. The details were revealed in some patents filed by Nintendo with Shigeru Miyamoto credited as the inventor. The patents are extremely detailed and come with some crude…
Top 5 game sales per system worldwide in week 1, 2009
What are the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe (UK, France, Germany) this week? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the games that are the most popular right now. Nintendo Wii North America: 1. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo), 2. Wii Fit (Nintendo), 3. Wii Play (Nintendo), 4. My Fitness Coach (Ubisoft), 5….
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 3: Explorers of the Sky coming to Nintendo DS
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 3 will be a new Nintendo DS game. Developer Chunsoft has been working on the next dungeon RPG in this Pokemon spin-off series. The third installment in the series was announced in the January issue of the Japanese magazine Coro Coro. While almost no information is known about the game at this…
First Final Fantasy XIII in-game screenshots out
Final Fantasy XIII has finally truly been unveiled with the first in-game screenshots of the title being released. Most of the screenshots for Square’s next opus are from the game’s token battles and give us an early glimpse into the battle system and how it will look. Which I’m glad to see that it looks…
Rock Band 3 release not until 2010
Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos spoke a CES 2009 conference, saying that the developer won’t be releasing a Rock Band 3 game in 2009. To quote him, the developer has deliberately chosen to “break out of the annual release cycle for Rock Band this year.” He continued: “[This is] partly because the annual cycle places limits…
Giant EPA battle-mech reigns down bullets in new F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin trailer
Tickle me confused. A new trailer for F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin reveals a walking EPA battle-mech that players can get inside to reign down fire and brimstone . . . err, bullets and missiles, upon your foes with ease. The mech allows for maximum destruction as the world lights up with flashes from an endless…
Killzone 2 CES 09 trailer blowout
Guerrilla Games upcoming PlayStation-exclusive epic first-person shooter, Killzone 2, has made a huge splash at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show 2009 (CES ’09) with no less than five all-new trailers and videos of the game in action. Killzone 2 promises to be one if Sony’s biggest titles of the year with intense action and combat…
44 video games being made into movies
It is almost a staple of Hollywood in this day and age to mine the video game industry for “popular” properties that they think would make good films . . . or rather, that they can make into a film so they can MAKE MONEY. Naturally. Here is the HUGE list of video games that…
New WET screenshots from A2M
Developer A2M and publisher Sierra Entertainment has released some all new screenshots from their upcoming action game WET, which is in development for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The game stars a female character named Rubi and seems similar to a Prince of Persia or Tomb Raider style action game where the protagonist…
On the PAL Wii Virtual Console today: Donkey Kong 3 and Enduro Racer
Today Nintendo of Europe and Australia added new classic games to the popular Wii Shop Channel. The games went live at midnight CET. 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 UK (Card)….
PlayStation 3D gaming works only with HDMI connection
Can’t wait to play your PlayStation 3 games in glorious three dimensions? Well that day may soon be upon as, as Sony was demonstrating their new 3D technology at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. Although the 3D effect will only work with an HDMI connection. Although Sony didn’t offer any kind of real specs on…
LittleBigPlanet sells 1.3 million. PSN matches XBL with 17 million accounts
At the Computer Electronics Show 2009 (CES) Sony head hancho Kaz Hirai marked the occasion with some pretty surprising figures for the PlayStation Network and PlayStation 3 in general. Sony announced that Media Molecules “Play. Create. Share.” user-generated content meta-platformer LittleBigPlanet has sold over 1.3 million copies worldwide. I’m glad to see that the game…
On PlayStation Network today: Lord of the Rings: Conquest demo, Cuboid, Mahjong and Qore ep 8
Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) announced what new PlayStation Network downloadable games, expansions, demos and videos were released for PlayStation 3 and PSP today in America and Europe. AMERICA PlayStation Store for PS3 Qore Qore Episode 08: January, 2009 ($2.99) Episode 08 of Qore: Presented by the PlayStation Network travels to the Netherlands to go inside…
Cowabunga! Do you want a TMNT game from the Batman team? I do! 
I woke up thinking about playing Dance Central. I just want to dance. I just want to dance my life away.
