Square Enix has launched it’s a new “Experience Points” system (a rewards system basically) that allows users to “level-up” their Square-Enix.com avatar’s when they buy new games. The first game to support this new system will be Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume for the Nintendo DS. Much like in the companies token RPGs, each…

Mass Effect 2 won’t launch until early 2010, and only on Xbox 360 and PC, announced developer Bioware. The game is the sequel to the award-winning 2007 hit RPG Mass Effect and will continue the trilogy with a dark second chapter where Saren’s evil army of Geth soldiers has just been defeated, and humans, who…

The Behemoth, makers of Alien Homonid and Castle Crashers, have revealed their third videogame which as of now, is simply titled “Game #3″. And as the below trailer reveal proves, the game looks absolutely AWESOME. There is nothing officially known about it at this point in time (outside of a 2010 release date), not even…

This week on Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee reviews a rapper shooting up the Middle East to find his prized jeweled skull in 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. Coarse language and inappropriate animation ahead.

Nintendo is getting set to host a Pokemon Platinum launch party this Saturday — March 21st, 2009 — at Nintendo World in New York. The celebration is in anticipation of the March 22nd release of Pokemon Platinum for DS, the latest game in the Pokemon series and an upgrade of Pokemon Pearl and Diamond. Platinum…

This is the sixty-fifth in a series of bad video game reviews by the Angry Video Game Nerd. Watch as the Angry Nerd reviews the Atari Jaguar console. It was released by Atari Corporation in 1993. The beefed up 32-bit core made it the first 64-bit gaming system, but it was also Atari’s last hardware…

Secret Agent Clank is heading to the PlayStation 2 with a May 26th, 2009 release date. The game is being ported over from the PSP by Sanzaru Games. Secret Agent Clank was originally released for the PSP and was developed by High Impact Games. The PS2 version will include some updates over the PSP version…

Valkyria Chronicles will be getting some new downloadable content (DLC) Sega has announced. The DLC will be released this Spring 2009. “The three new packs include Hard EX Mode, Edy’s Mission ‘Enter the Edy Detachment’, and Selvaria’s Mission ‘Behind Her Blue Flame’,” Sega told CVG, adding, “Each of the three new packs will supply players…

Namco Bandai has released some of it’s classic arcade games on FaceBook, the popular social networking site that has nearly eclipsed myspace in recent times. Among the Facebook-compatible J2Play versions of classic arcade titles are All-Star Pac-Man and All-Star Dig Dug. The applications are accessible from Facebook’s app page but don’t actually run within the…

Namco Bandai has purchased D3 Publisher at a price of $12.55 million in stock with Namco purchasing 95% in the company. D3 is the creator of the Onechanbara series and the “Simple” series of casual titles. The deal is done with Namco Bandai owning 19,990 shares, 95.02% of the outstanding shares. Each share was purchased…

Capcom has revealed that several of their PlayStation One classics are heading to the PlayStation Network soon for download on the PlayStation 3 or PSP. Via the official Capcom forums, Capcom’s Christian Svensson stated that several titles had already been submitted to Sony in the U.S. for certification, meaning that the games should go live…

From today, at 9AM GMT (2AM PDT), you can play Hasbro Family Game Night on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. You’ll need to download the free Hasbro Family Game Night game room first, from there you can download the following four games: Battleship, Connect 4, Scrabble, and Yahtzee. Content: Battleship Price: 800 Microsoft Points…

See Lisa Kudrow, aka Phoebe Buffay from Friends, and her friend solve two puzzles in the new Professor Layton and the Curious Village Nintendo DS commercial. At least now we know when she’s not singing Smelly Cat, she’s hogging the DS Lite.