Nintendo downloads this week: An eye-popping new installment in the Art Style series and a pair of The Tales of Bearsworth Manor action-puzzle games. Hand-held gamers can choose from five new games for the Nintendo DSiWare service, including the puzzle fun of Spin Six, the undersea amusement of Puffins: Let’s Fish! and the prehistoric adventure…

What were the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe the past week? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the games that are the hottest. Think of it as a games weather report. What follows is a listing of the Top 10 bestsellers per region, for all systems combined. North America’s Top 10…

What are your personal favorite E3 2010 games that were shown or revealed at gaming’s biggest expo this year? There is plenty to choose from, and chances are that no two gamers will have a list of titles that exactly matches another person’s list. That is why these Opinion Editorial lists are “personal”. So right…

Welcome to the first entry in our VGB “Op-Ed” series, which are simply opinion pieces or articles written about a particular topic relating to videogames. Articles that fall outside the categories of news/features/reviews/cheats/walkthroughs, etc. These articles will generally be written by contributers, although sometimes me, Ferry or Jester will also post our own opinion pieces…

Infamous 2 was one of the highlights of Sony E3 2010 Press Conference. Where they revealed the first footage of the upcoming sequel in the form of an all-new trailer. The sequel to the million-selling original is once again being developed by Sucker Punch and will plunge gamers into an open-world comic-book-style adventure. This time…

Gran Turismo 5 has a release date of November 2, 2010! This was announced at the Sony E3 2010 Press Conference, where the long-awaited date was FINALLY set in stone! And this is for Gran Turismo 5 PROPER, none of that Prologue crap. This the real deal. The latest game in the long-running “Real Driving…

Sony copped a few more PS3-exclusives as announced at their Sony E3 2010 Press Conference. PS3 owners will be happy to see that they have put another feather in their cap, to join previous announcements of a Medal of Honor: Frontline PS3-exclusive remake and Dead Space: Extraction PS3 with Dead Space 2: Limited Edition, by…

Final Fantasy XIV was one of the biggest surprise announcements of the previous E3 2009 expo, where Sony announced the game at their press conference. This went a ways to blunt Microsoft’s snagging of a multiplatform release for Final Fantasy XIII as the game was previously unknown. This year, there were no surprises regarding the…

Portal 2 + Steamworks is coming to the PlayStation 3! This was announced by none other than Gabe Newell himself (head of developer Valve and online PC games platform Steam) at Sony’s E3 2010 Press Conference in what is no less than a megaton announcement. The PS3 version of Portal 2 will be the only…

Dead Space: Extraction PS3 is an exclusive pack-in if you buy Dead Space 2: Limited Edition, which will be available exclusively for the PS3 version. Extraction was the previously Wii-exclusive rail-shooter game (a prequel to the series) which was praised critically but commercially bombed. So this will be a great way to get the highly-praised…

Medal of Honor 2010 – Special Edition exclusively for PS3 was announced by Electronic Arts at their E3 2010 Press Conference. Those who purchase the upcoming FPS on the PS3 will get exclusive content, including an updated HD copy of Medal of Honor: Frontline! Frontline was the third game in the series and was released…

The PlayStation Network is a major success, touted Sony at their E3 2010 Press Conference by revealing some pretty staggering numbers. Most important of all, Sony says that the PlayStation Network, or PSN, now has over 50 million registered users across the globe for both the PS3 and PSP versions of the service. Fiddy million…

Killzone 3 will be released on February 22 2011 and not only will be 3D, but will also be compatible with the PlayStation Move! This will add some motion-sensing fun to the high-octane shooter thrills. Continuing from Killzone 2, players find Emperor Visari, the viscous dictator of the Helghast, dead at the feet of Sev…