Archive for November, 2009
Gamer T-shirts Store grand opening today!
Welcome to Video Games Blogger’s grand opening of our Gamer T-shirts Store! For the past month we’ve been working hard together with Splitreason to get our very own gaming merchandise created by them, and late last week the first classic game T-shirt designs got printed. These are the first two shirts out of seven ideas…
New video game releases week 47, 2009
Here’s the list of this week’s game releases. The most popular titles are: Tekken 6 on PSP and Scene It? Twilight on Wii. On the downloadable games front we’ve got today’s Wii Shop and DSiWare titles Super Mario Kart, A Boy and His Blob, Bit Trip Void, Harvest Moon, Little Tournament Over Yonder, Castle Of…
On Wii Shop and DSiWare today: Super Mario Kart, A Boy and His Blob, Bit Trip Void, Harvest Moon, Little Tournament Over Yonder, Castle Of Magic, MyNotebook Blue, more Electroplankton
Nintendo downloads this week: Race-loving Mario fans will thrill to see the original Super Mario Kart make its Virtual Console debut alongside the imaginative A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia. BIT.TRIP VOID is a riveting new installment in the extraordinary retro-arcade series for the WiiWare service. You’ll also find some remarkable kid-friendly fare…
Spec Ops 3 series reboot underway at 2K
Spec Ops 3, a reboot of the series for next-gen consoles, has been revealed by 2K Games. This is the first world-exclusive reveal of a game that we will learn more about during the Video Game Awards 2009 from SpikeTV, and was released in promotion of the upcoming awards show which will be broadcast on…
Pilotwings, Super Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros. 1 coming to Wii Virtual Console in America this holiday 2009
Nintendo is set to give gamers many classic gaming presents this holiday season, as they’ve announced that Super Mario Kart for SNES, Pilotwings for SNES, and the original Super Smash Bros. 1 for N64 are all coming to the Wii Virtual Console before Christmas. And the love starts today, with the release of the original…
Gaming News you might’ve missed in week 46
Machima.com‘s Inside Gaming covers game news you might’ve missed last week. They do it in a nice, brief video format. The Dead Pixel details the latest news, reviews, and trailers in his own irreverent style. In week 46, 2009, he talked about: Brutal Legend selling 250,000 copies, BlizzCon moving, God of War HD, and then…
GameStop earnings top $1.8 billion for third-quarter 2009. Modern Warfare 2 is their best-selling game in history
GameStop has revealed their third-quarter numbers as well as details on the massive success that is Modern Warfare 2. Modern Warfare 2 is officially the best-selling game in GameStop’s history, selling over 2.5 million copies worldwide in GameStop stores within the first three days! This is only the one of many records that the game…
Modern Warfare 2 outsells Call of Duty 4 on PC. Becomes best-selling PC entry in the series history
The outrage from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s PC version not supporting dedicated servers in which 100,000 angry fans signed a petition against the game (which ballooned to 220,000+ in the end); telling Activision to reconsider adding dedicated server support back to the game . . . ended up not amounting to much in…
PSN has 33 million registered users. 25 petabytes of content downloaded every month
Sony has revealed some staggering new numbers for their PlayStation Network PS3 and PSP services, which allow users to digitally download or purchase games, demos, movies, TV shows, various video content, themes, game add-ons and more. This information was released to prove why the PSN is to be used as the basis for Sony’s upcoming…
Sony Online Service challenges iTunes. Puts all Sony online products and services for all devices (PS3, PSP included) under one umbrella platform
The Sony Online Service has been announced. This ambitious plan will challenge Apple’s iTunes service by taking Sony online media beyond gaming and make it uniform, under one banner and one umbrella, for all Sony devices. This includes the PlayStation 3 and PSP Go, but reaches much further beyond Sony’s gaming platforms and includes Sony-branded…
PSN premium paid subscription service coming in 2010. Online play, Netflix, other current services to remain free
Sony is going to offer a paid, premium PlayStation Network subscription service in 2010, announced the publisher at an investor conference. This is a big deal because Sony’s online service with the PlayStation 3 has always remained free (with paid content coming in the form of certain DLC for specific games or for video rentals/purchases)…
Stereoscopic 3D PS3 support will start in 2010 via firmware update
Sony has officially announced its full support for the stereoscopic 3D PS3 experience. Announced at their latest media and investors briefing, Sony plans to have full support of the 3D technology by way of the PS3 by 2011 or 2012, with integration beginning next year. And instead of having to release a 3D upgraded PS3…
Games Weather Report of Week 46, 2009
What are the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe this week? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the games that are the hottest right now. Think of it as a games weather report. What follows is a listing of the Top 50 bestsellers per region, for all systems combined. North America’s Top…
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.
