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…

November’s American video game sales data from the NPD is in, and like almost any month the past year, it shows an unchanged result: A Nintendo system on top, this time the DS and DSi handhelds outsold everybody else. NPD analyst, Anita Frazier, had this to say about hardware sales: “All hardware systems realized an…

Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) announced what new PlayStation Network downloadable games, expansions, demos and videos were released for PlayStation 3 and PSP this week in America and Europe. The big news this week is that with the PS3′s Firmware update 3.15 that went live yesterday, some PSP Minis titles are now playable on PS3! On…

Mass Effect 2 has garnered some heavy star power in terms of voice-acting announced publisher Electronic Arts and developer BioWare. Joining the voice cast for the upcoming sequel, and second part in a planned trilogy, is Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Martin Sheen (The West Wing, Apocalypse Now), 2009 Emmy Award-winner Shohreh Aghdashloo (House…

Splinter Cell: Conviction will be getting a demo next month in January 2010, as confirmed by Hiphopgamer and an Ubisoft Montreal developer. The actual game itself will be releasing on February 23, 2010 for Xbox 360 and PC. And is the latest game in the long-running Splinter Cell steal action series. Which will be the…

Dantes Inferno: The Animated Movie will be released on February 8, 2010 announced publisher Electronic Arts. It will be released on DVD and Blu-ray. The compilation of anime short films was developed by Starz Media, which also did the Dead Space: Downfall anime film, so you can probably expect the same kind of treatment from…

THQ has announced pre-order goodies for Darksiders on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The goodies for those who reserve the game will be different depending on what country you pre-order it from. Find the list of offers below: NORTH AMERICA * Amazon offers those who pre-order the PS3 version a “Ruin Head Mask”…

Looking for an Xbox 360 Elite and PS3 Slim comparison buyer’s guide? This page gives a direct system-to-system comparison, where you can see the strengths of both systems when compared to one another. These include the areas of: what you get in the box when you buy the console, what features separate them, what system…

Mega Man 10 has been revealed by Nintendo for WiiWare in the latest issue of Nintendo Power! The reveal comes as Nintendo Power celebrates its 250th issue! Here are the details on the game, and you can see the AWESOME cover artwork above. Mega Man 10 features include: * The goal for Mega Man in…

Sam and Max Season 3 is coming in 2010! It will see TellTale games returning to the classic franchise with an all-new season, following on the heels of their Tales of Monkey Island episodic series which just finished up. And now the duo are ready to head into the “final frontier”, OUTER SPACE! “In all…

Want to download Planet M.U.L.E. for free and play the classic on your Windows, OSX or Linux computer? Well now you can! A new version of the game has been released to the online masses and is available for zero pennies! “Planet M.U.L.E. is an economic strategy game for up to four players connected over…

Etrian Odyssey 3 has been announced for the DS from Atlus, according to Japanese magazine Famitsu, who got the official scoop on the upcoming RPG. For the third entry in the dungeon-crawling role-player, the setting has been switched from forest to the seaside town of Armolod. Where a massive earthquake has uncovered a giant labyrinth…