Archive for February, 2009
On the Wii Shop today: Evasive Space and Life Force
Today Nintendo adds 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 Card above). We’ve included videos…
How to unlock all Street Fighter 4 secret characters (guide)
How to unlock all secret Street Fighter 4 characters? That question will be answered in this guide that shows you who to unlock to get the full roster and how. Below we’ve listed the 9 secret Street Fighter IV characters in alphabetical order. Take the following steps — either by reading or watching — to…
Competition time: Win Blue Dragon Plus and a Nintendo DS Lite
Update: The winner of our Blue Dragon Plus and a Nintendo DS Lite competition is announced here. Welcome to our “Blue Dragon Plus and Nintendo DS Lite” competition where you have the chance to win Ignition Entertainment’s new Blue Dragon Plus tactical-RPG along with a brand new Nintendo DS Lite handheld to play it on!…
Official WWE Legends of Wrestlemania character list
42 Playable characters have been confirmed for the roster of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 fighting game WWE Legends of Wrestlemania, that will be released in America on March 24th, 2009. The professional wrestling game focuses on arcade-style gameplay. It allows you to relive, rewrite, or redefine fights between legendary wrestlers who have appeared…
World of Warcraft patch 3.0.9 out now
The latest World of Warcraft Patch 3.0.9 has been released for download by Blizzard. This is the most recent patch for World of Warcraft updating the popular MMORPG from version 3.0.8 to version 3.0.9. Please note that this update doesn’t add dual specializations and the new raid instance Ulduar, those will be added in WoW…
Baldur’s Gate III to be revisited for 2010 development by Atari
It all started in the January 2008 issue of PC Gamer UK, where the editor claimed that Baldur’s Gate III was being worked on, a statement that was repeated a year later in the January 2009 issue of the magazine. With a note that any more information is unlikely to surface until later in 2009,…
Top 5 game sales per system worldwide in week 6, 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. Wii Fit (Nintendo), 2. Rock Band 2 Special Edition (Electronic Arts), 3. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo), 4. Wii…
Street Fighter 4 on the Wii and iPhone is possible says Capcom producer
Street Fighter 4 producer Yoshinori Ono was interviewed back at the Leipzig Games Convention 2008, which brought up an interesting proposal. After the Arcade, PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Street Fighter 4, it could come to Wii and iPhone! Here are some choice quotes from that interview. 1UP asks: There’s been some…
Half-Life 2 movie short shows Escape From City 17
The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half-Life 2 computer game saga by Valve Corporation. Directors The Purchase Brothers originally envisioned it as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi-part series. Filmed guerilla style with…
Killzone 2 debuts on Dutch National News
The number one Dutch TV channel RTL4 visited Guerrilla Games in its Amsterdam base to report with fitting pride about the PlayStation 3 blockbuster Killzone 2. The reporter remarks the shooting game has a budget in the millions that rivals that of big Hollywood blockbuster movies. As well as showing how the games industry will…
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 announced with debut teaser
Electronic Arts has released the first trailer, a teaser trailer, for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10. The video teases with the phrase “Feel the Drama” but doesn’t exactly explain what it means. It’s expected however that a major new feature will debut with this, the 2010 entry in the legendary golfing sports sim. Tiger Woods…
House of the Dead: Overkill launch trailer
The House of the Dead: Overkill is now available for the Nintendo Wii in North America and Europe (and in Australia on the 19th). As we’ve been reporting, the game is a rebirth of the House of the Dead franchise that seeks to put the franchise to a place it hasn’t been in quite a…
UK university developing PC games emulator for classics from 1970 till now
Researchers at Portsmouth University are developing a massive, universal games and data emulator that will preserve every video game ever made from 1970 until the current day in a database of epic, planet-crashing proportions. The program is part of the Europe-wide KEEP project (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) with the objective to “develop methods of safeguarding…
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.
