Nintendo downloads this week: With the arrival of the Super NES favorite Chrono Trigger on the Virtual Console service, Wii owners can liven up their living rooms with a classic time-twisting adventure. For the Nintendo DSiWare service, Big Bass Arcade invites players to cast away boredom by casting a line in search of mighty fish,…

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…

Rockstar Games first released Red Dead Redemption on May 18th, 2010 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. From Rockstar comes the spiritual successor to 2004′s Red Dead Revolver — this is a 3rd person action-adventure open world game where you play as outlaw John Marston. This Western epic is set at the turn of the…

Kazuo Hirai — Executive Deputy President of Sony — has made it official, PSN is coming back online. In a PlayStation Network Restoration Announcement he revealed online play is coming back to PlayStation 3 and PSP games starting today. The roll-out will not be everywhere worldwide at the same time, though, it’s a “phased restoration…

Here’s the Angry Birds Theme song, as covered by the fantastical Pomplamoose. This entire VideoSong was filmed with a Samsung Infuse 4G phone. Which they clearly used to play way too much Angry Birds with! The original Angry Birds song was written by Ari Pulkkinen. This cover is a VideoSong, which has two rules: 1….

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has been announced as the official title of the next game in the best-selling franchise from Infinity Ward and Activision. As previously revealed, the game will be released on November 8, 2011 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC (at least) and will deliver an experience that “engulfs a dozen…

Starhawk has been announced exclusively for PS3 as the spiritual sequel to 2007′s Warhawk from developer LightBox Interactive. It will be released in 2012. Starhawk will provide a fast paced third-person shooter experience set in the unruly frontier of space allowing players to instantly alter the battlefield by calling down offensive and defensive structures in…

Brink DLC will be released this June for FREE announced developer Splash Damage on their official web-site. Details on the upcoming downloadable content are scant, with the developers only saying that it will “offer additional maps and new content for players”. To be expected, but good news none-the-less. The developers have also just updated the…

The Witcher 2: Assassin’s of Kings release date is nearly upon us (May 17, 2011), and one way to get hyped for a game is to dive into its world. The video below explains the complex relationship that exists between the various countries, realms and factions in the title and will do much to get…

The hacker attacks continue, this time on a company that has nothing to do with Sony… That of Square Enix-owned Eidos via their Eidos Montreal studio’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution web-site and other related sites. And yes, information was indeed stolen. Although this time it was not credit card numbers but resume information, so while…

RuneSpell: Overture is a unique upcoming PC RPG that combines multiplayer card-based Poker gameplay with TCG (Trading Card Game) elements to create a truly interesting experience. The game features over thirty monster types, various kinds of cards (Ally Cards, Monster Cards, Collectible Power Cards) and will be released digitally via Steam and Impulse, with more…

The upcoming Alien film Prometheus (codename) from Ridley Scott (director of the original Alien) may be getting a new videogame that ties into the upcoming movie from developer The Creative Assembly; for consoles (Xbox 360 and PS3, no doubt). Creative Assembly is the development team behind the Total War series and will be making the…

The first Batman: Arkham City comicbook, based on the upcoming sequel to the original Batman: Arkham Asylum videogame, is out now both digitally and in brick-and-mortar comicbook shops. The comic book is the first part of a mini-series that will be six parts long and is being written by Paul Dini, who was the writer…