The American videogame rating board ESRB has listed both the first Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne for Xbox 360. Making an Xbox Originals appearance likely very soon. This is good news for fans of third-person shooters, as the Max Payne series was highly rated in the genre on the…

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…

You might recall at the Game Developers Conference 2008, Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto joined Mega64‘s New Super Mario Bros. skit. Well, this year at GDC 2009 they pulled off a skit in the same vain. A skit that went great until someone made it all awesome. Watch Metal Gear Solid 4 in true HD,…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been given a release date on November 10th, 2009. Developer Infinity Ward has announced this in the premiere trailer for the sixth entry in the first-person shooter series. Like its predecessor Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, it will be set in modern times. No platforms were mentioned,…

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. My Fitness Coach (Ubisoft), 3. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo), 4. Wii Play (Nintendo), 5….

Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution on Wii carries a roster of 18 wildly caricatured cartoony boxers, all parodies of celebrities from the worlds of sports, music and movies who enter the ring as larger-than-life “Rumble-ized” versions of themselves. Players will step right up and see if they can knock these super-sized egos down a peg or…

This is the sixty-sixth in a series of bad video game reviews by the Angry Video Game Nerd. Watch as in this second part in the Atari Jaguar console review, the Angry Nerd reviews some of the games. The console was released by Atari Corporation in 1993. The discussed games are Tempest 2000, Alien VS….

At a Game Developer’s Conference 2009 panel called “Evolving Game Design”, the creative lead of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus at Team ICO, Fumito Ueda, discussed his new project . . . or rather, mentioned it but only briefly, refusing to answer anymore questions. He brought up the subject of the games his fellow…

Valve has stated that their new “Custom Executable Generation” makes standard DRM a thing of the past and “obsolete”. This follows on the heels of Microsoft announcing tougher anti-piracy themselves for Games for Windows titles. According to Valve, “Custom Executable Generation compliments the already existing anti-piracy solution offered in Steamworks. A customer friendly approach to…

The number of “gold-farmers” in China is estimated at over one million. Gold farming is the act of repeatedly collecting items of value in an MMORPG (usually by exploitative means) with the intention of selling them at a higher price. Large gold-selling firms can use up to 1,000 players to generate all their in-game products,…

A company called In2Games has created a Wii Remote-like “3-dimensional game control system” called the “Gametrak Freedom”, which mimics what the Wii Remote can do. The system tracks your movement in 3D with no time delay and is an evolution on a previous technology that the company developed that uses ultrasonic tracking technology for tracking…

Prototype Game Boy Advance and Game Boy’s were shown off at the Game Developers Conference 2009 where the project leader of the DSi, Masato Kuwahara, gave fans in the audience a special treat during his GDC panel appearance. The first device he showed off was a prototype successor to the Game Boy Color that was…

At GDC 09 Nintendo announced that Arcade games will be coming to the Wii Virtual Console. On the heels of the announcement Namco has revealed a HUGE list of arcade games that they will be porting over to the Wii Shop! Keep in mind that every region, including Japan, has different releases and a different…