Electronic Arts today revealed Dead Space Extraction, an all-new (prequel) chapter from the EA Redwood Shores studio that delivered the award-winning action-horror Dead Space game. The survival horror rail-shooter Wii game is scheduled to ship in fall 2009. Built from the ground up and developed exclusively for the Wii, Dead Space Extraction is a prequel…

You might remember Masahiro Sakurai as the creator of Nintendo character Kirby or more recently as the designer and director on Super Smash Bros. Brawl on Wii. It turns out that despite going freelance a few years ago, his affiliation with Nintendo has become permanent again. It was announced today that as of January 22nd,…

From today, at 9AM GMT (2AM PDT), you can play Snowblind Studios’ Death Tank on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. Death Tank will be available worldwide for 1200 Microsoft Points (that’s US$15 / €14.40 / £10.20 / CAN$18.60 / AU$19.80). Through Xbox LIVE, up to eight tanks can simultaneously enter the Death Tank arena…

With the Tecmo-published original (and funny) Robocalypse on DS becoming a critical success as it finally unleashed Real-Time Strategy on the handheld, the sequel Robocalypse 2 is set to do the same on the Wii! While it’s unclear if the Wii game will have the same or similar story to the DS game of “A…

Can the Mega64 trio bring rhythm to peoples’ everyday lives? With hair like that, they’d better be able to evoke some sort of reaction. Watch the below skit to find out if the “people in need of help” respond favorably. Our resident Elite Beat Agents (on DS rated 10/10) freak Astro is going to flip…

Players who collect pieces of Helghast intel (in the form of briefcases) that is scattered throughout Killzone 2′s single-player campaign will be able to use it to earn some “real-world” rewards in a development that is really unlike anything anyone has done before. So what do we mean by “real-world” rewards? Well one example sighted…

The long-awaited first episode of Downloadable Content for GTA4, The Lost and Damned, has finally been released today. As we’ve been reporting on for quite a while now, the new DLC features an all new main character and storyline that intersects with the award-winning story of Grand Theft Auto 4 and it’s main character Niko…

Wanted: Weapons of Fate is the upcoming video game adaptation of Wanted that is a sequel to the film but based on the same comic-book franchise that the Wanted movie was based on. In these two developer diary’s give gamers a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming project including a look at the comics and how…

The hype for Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 couldn’t be more deafening. And with trailers like this new 2009 video, it’s with good reason. Resident Evil 5 isn’t setting out to re-invent the wheel (necessarily, although the game does take place much more in light than in darkness, a polar shift for the franchise) but it…

Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope is getting set to launch exclusively on Xbox 360 with a release date of February 23rd in America and April 24th in Europe. The game is the fourth entry in the Star Ocean series and the follow-up to Star Ocean: Till the End of Time which was released for…

Here’s a list of this weeks game releases. The most popular titles are Street Fighter IV on Xbox 360 & PS3, Dawn of War II on PC, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned on Xbox 360, and Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride on DS. On the downloadable games front we’ve…

The first gameplay footage from God of War 3 has dropped on the masses and it reveals some fantastically brutal combat that is exactly what you’d expect from the developers at Sony’s Santa Monica Studios. After God of War, God of War 2 on PS2, and God of War: Chains of Olympus for the PSP,…

The Resident Evil Retrospective Part 2: The Fall of Raccoon City details the background and history behind Resident Evil 1.5, Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3. The first part directly follows the first Resident Evil Retrospective Part 1: Horror Survives by going into the early details of Resident Evil 2′s development. This includes a…