Ensemble’s upcoming Halo Wars real-time-strategy title doesn’t even release until March 3rd in the U.S., but already Ensemble is dreaming up ways on how they are going to add Downloadable Content (DLC) to the title and working out all the details internally on how that will work. Or at least, that’s what seems to be…

Banjo fans are in for a treat when Banjo-Tooie will release to Xbox Live Arcade this April the 29th, 2009. The game follows the release of the original Banjo-Kazooie on Xbox Live Arcade which was released on December 3rd, 2008 at a price point of 1,200 Microsoft Points ($15), so you can probably expect Banjo-Tooie…

Bethesda has released the first Downloadable Content update for Fallout 3 called Operation: Anchorage. The update is available now for purchase on both Xbox Live and Games for Windows – Live at a cost of 800 Microsoft Points. Operation: Anchorage focuses on a pivotal event in the Fallout timeline before the Great War took place,…

One of the most outrageous things Nintendo has ever done in their history is refuse to re-release the extremely popular EarthBound games in the West. Known as Mother in Japan, the series is made up of the original Mother for NES (a game that was never released outside Japan even though a port of the…

Japanese magazine Famitsu has revealed Sega’s upcoming WiiWare platformer “Pole’s Big Adventure”. The game is a satirical look at the classic video game platformer with lots of crude humor, in-jokes and 100 hidden gags that are a throwback to everything you know and love from your gaming childhood, although most of the game seems to…

Ubisoft has announced most of its release list for the first half of the year with a large swath of high-profile Ubisoft games hitting in March. According to Shacknews they’ll be releasing the flight combat title Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, the PC version of Tom Clancy’s EndWar and the Wii-exclusive…

Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop is a Wii version of the hit Xbox 360 zombie-killing-spree action game released by Capcom. The game is scheduled for release on February 24th. Although the game will be an enhanced version of the Xbox 360 game with new Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition-style controls, an over-the-shoulder camera, motion…

According to a Spaceworks‘ mocap studio, edit suites animation and production facilities profile, Microsoft hired them as part of the huge 80 million dollar budget for the Too Human video game trilogy. Microsoft obviously bet big on the first title and the question is if the 560,000 copies sold worldwide in 2008 are enough to…

From today, at 9AM GMT (2AM PDT), you can play Microsoft’s FunTown Mahjong on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. FunTown Mahjong will be available worldwide (except for Korea) for 800 Microsoft Points (that’s US$10 / €9.60 / £6.80 / CAN$12.40 / AU$13.20). Get FunTown Mahjong to play a traditional Chinese tile game! Compete against…

This is the sixty-second (no, wait, I guess I missed two cause its #64) in a series of bad video game reviews by the Angry Video Game Nerd. Watch as the Angry Nerd reviews Hudson Soft’s NES game Milon’s Secret Castle (1986) which is also available on the Wii Virtual Console download service. The single…

Activision has released a trailer for their upcoming video game based on the Dreamworks film Monsters vs Aliens, which will be the first film produced in real 3D and will mark a turning point for Dreamworks Animation in which all it’s future films will be produced in the stereoscopic 3-D format. The film and game…

A video game adaptation of Caroline is now available for the Wii and PlayStation 2. The game is based on the upcoming film that is in turn based on the hit horror novella by British author Neil Gaiman that was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and Harper Collins. The novel has been compared to Lewis…

Square Enix has announced that they will be releasing their tower-defense Final Fantasy-spin-off mobile (iPhone, iPod Touch) game, Crystal Defenders as a downloadable title for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and WiiWare in Japan on January 27th for 1,000 Wii Points. Crystal Defenders features 300 stages spread across three chapters of increasing challenge and takes…

Two Japanese companies who are dinosaurs of the video game industry have said goodbye for the last time as both of them have closed after things came to a head due to the economic downturn. The companies are Jaleco and Seta. Jaleco had been struggling for the past decade and only had a few well…

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has revealed their nominees for the 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards which will be presented at the D.I.C.E. Summit on February 19th at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas (hosted by Jay Mohr). Leading the charge is Media Molecule’s exclusive PS3 platformer LittleBigPlanet which is dominating…