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Explore MLB 2K10's Total Control Pitching and Hitting

2K Sports' Major League Baseball 2K franchise hasn't been good in a few years, so developer Visual Concepts knew it had to up the ante if the game was going to compete with Sony's stellar M...

Fans petition for 'classic' Sonic in Sonic the Hedgehog 4

Fans. They're never happy with anything, are they? Sega announces Sonic the Hedghog 4, a 2D retro experience that people have been clamoring for since the move to 3D, and people still manage to f...

Greg Hastings Paintball 2 announced for consoles

Because the 2004 Xbox title Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball needed a sequel, it's getting one this year, thanks to Majesco. The publisher has announced that Greg Hastings Paintball 2 will be h...

Level 5 developing PS3 and Wii titles

Ah, Level 5. I like those guys. I'd like them to make more games. Less portable ones would be nice. Oh, and U.S. releases would be fantastic. You know. Just whatever. If you're listening. They ar...

Nintendo blames piracy for late Aussie release dates

We all know by now that Australia gets the short end of the stick when it comes to Nintendo releases. The country can wait up to a year after the North American release before getting a sniff of ...

Nintendo awarded $1.5m over New Super Mario Bros piracy

A person in Australia fudged with the wrong game maker. He ripped and uploaded New Super Mario Bros. Wii a week before it was even available in that country. Naturally, he was busted and was take...

Holy (foot)balls: FIFA 10 has racked up 9.7 million sales

While it's true that about 100 million people watch the Super Bowl every year, soccer is easily the world's most beloved and most watched sport. Madden might be tops in America, but EA Sport...

Stinky socks are no match for THQ's All Star Karate

If cheering wasn't your thing, you might want to consider All Star Karate by THQ. It's the publisher's new title in the "All Star" franchise, following the popular (no, really) All Star Cheer Sq...

EA has two console Need for Speed titles in the works

It's already been confirmed that Burnout developer Criterion has its hands in the Need for Speed franchise. But if Burnout's fast pace and twisted steel isn't your thing, don't worry -- Electroni...

EA reveals release info for Dead Space 2, next Dragon Age, and more

If you're an avid Electronic Arts fan and just have to have everything they own, you might want to tighten your belt for the next year. There's a lot of games, and in the publisher's fiscal earni...

Analyzing No More Heroes 2, part 2: The bosses, part 2

[These posts on No More Heroes 2 are purely speculation. I have no idea what the team at Grasshopper Manufacture intended for the game to mean; I can only speak to what I've taken away from it, s...

BioShock and motion control? Only if it's 'subtle' enough

We've been chatting with 2K Marin creative director Jordan Thomas ahead of our upcoming BioShock 2 review, as you may have guessed from the truckload of stories we've posted. We had to ask the qu...

LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars announced

Did you think that Traveler's Tales had done all it could do with the LEGO Star Wars franchise? If so, you have no idea how the videogame industry works, my friend. LEGO Star Wars III has just be...

Shocker: Miyamoto making a MotionPlus games

In amazingly shocking news, it's been discovered that a game designer is designing games! Shigeru Miyamoto, the Nintendo genius who's gone off the rails a bit, is making a new MotionPlus game. Of...

Nintendo DLC: Blaster Master, Tomena Sanner, Fieldrunners

It's another week, another set of Nintendo downlo--oh my God... Blaster Master Overdrive!!WiiWare Blaster Master Overdrive (Sunsoft, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points) Tomena Sanner (Konami, 1-4 player...

Can I get a hand-clap? Blaster Master: Overdrive video

We got the news yesterday that a remake/sequel to Blaster Master called Blaster Master:Overdrive would be hitting WiiWare this Monday, but all we had to go on were some small, blurry screenshots...

Developers not developing as many Wii games

While this holiday season and past month saw a solid resurgence in high quality games landing on the Wii (with the likes of New Super Mario Bros. and No More Heroes 2 be released), it appears tha...

New Blaster Master game coming to WiiWare this Monday?!?

Jesus, where the hell did this come from? Did someone at Sunsoft forget to do PR for the past few weeks, or did they think that the less time we have to anticipate a game, the more likely we are ...

Analyzing No More Heroes 2, part 1: The bosses

[These posts on No More Heroes 2 are purely speculation. I have no idea what the team at Grasshopper Manufacture intended for the game to mean; I can only speak to what I've taken away from it, s...

Rumor: Sonic the Hedgehog playable in Mario Galaxy 2

In what will probably be the strangest rumor this weekend, a new slice of gossip is claiming that Sonic the Hedgehog will be a playable character in Mario Galaxy 2. In a way, that's very plausibl...

Bit.Trip RUNNER pays tribute to Vib Ribbon and Pitfall!

IGN just got exclusive video of Bit.Trip RUNNER in action, and I'm totally freaking out. As a huge fan of Sony's now abandoned rhythm platforming series Vib Ribbon, the original Atari 2600 versio...

No objection: WiiWare Phoenix Wright coming sooner

OBJECTION! ORDER! OTHER THINGS LAWYERS YELL IN COURT ROOMS! (OSCAR MIKE?) Capcom has announced that the launch date for the WiiWare version of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All has be...

Concept art from EA's canceled Road Rash and... Oliver Twist?

By all accounts, it appears that Electronic Arts had intended to bring the Road Rash franchise back from the dead. Whether or not that's still in the cards is unclear, the only true evidence we'v...

High Voltage bringing The Grinder to 360/PS3/PC next year

High Voltage Software's Wii-exclusive co-op shooter The Grinder has been set free! As revealed by president Kerry Ganofsky in an interview with IGN, the studio plans to make its newest game a mul...

Yeah, so Muscle March swim trunks showed up in the mail

I've never played Namco Bandai's WiiWare title Muscle March, so I don't know if it's a good game or not. But here's the game's "story," according to the publisher: "The all mighty protein powder ...

Wah wah wah Sonic the Hedgehog 4!

So, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 was announced at midnight. After much teasing, it was revealed that Project Needlemouse would become the official sequel to Sonic 3, continuing where the 16-bit game left...

Rock Band DLC: Megadeth's entire 'Rust in Peace' album

The blood, sweat, and tears of Harmonix's Rock Band 'Zine has hit people's email inboxes, and has revealed next week's downloadable content -- Megadeth's Rust in Peace. The entire track listing f...

The Who 'Super Bowl S-mashup' hits Rock Band this Sunday

The upcoming The Who DLC for Rock Band we reported on not long ago has been revealed, and it's probably not what you were expecting. During the Super Bowl Halftime Show this Sunday, The Who is sc...

Hudson's Wii game Calling goes so gold it's scary

Hudson has announced that its upcoming survival horror Wii-exclusive, Calling, has gone gold. That means that the game's scheduled ship date March 9 is locked, and you'll want to sock away $39.99...

War Machine invades Sega's Iron Man 2

There's an Iron Man sequel hitting theaters soon, and that only means one thing -- another Iron Man game. While Sega's first Iron Man title didn't exactly thrill, that's not going to stop them f...

Pre-order Madden NFL 11 at Wal-Mart, get a $20 gift card

(Seriously, if you’ve never been to peopleofwalmart.com, I highly recommend it. It is a fascinating slice of Americana, a rabbit hole from which it is difficult to escape.) Wal-Mart may no...

High Voltage reveals Tournament of Legends for Wii

High Voltage, those guys who made The Conduit, has announced another Wii game. This time it's Tournament of Legends. A 3D fighting game centered around gladiatorial combat, Tournament of Legends ...

Crack a femur: Trauma Team's orthopedics walkthrough

I was going to use a drill pun, but Atlus already took care of that. Hell, they took care of all the bone-related puns. Look: "Until watching this new video, a lot of Trauma Team fans may have ...

Sadness is bullsh*t: Nibris' official site closes

As if we needed any further proof that Sadness is complete and utter horsecrap, it has been discovered that the official site for the game has disappeared. The domain has collapsed and is now fre...

New Wii Zelda will be a Motion Plus exclusive

Have you bought the little Motion Plus doingle for your Wii remote yet? If you want to play the new Zelda, then you're going to have to. The next time we travel to Hyrule on the Wii, we will only...

Red Steel 2 speed drawing video is speedy

Red Steel 2 is finally coming to the Wii this March, sporting some fancy Wii MotionPlus support and pretty hand-drawn-style visuals. So what better way to get you excited than to show you someon...

NBA 2K10 sells 2 million, brings back Mike Wang for 2K11

2K Sports has retained its place atop the basketball simulation throne, and it looks like they’ll stay there for a while. The publisher proclaimed in a press release today that it has sold ...

Wizarding world in plastic: Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4

As far as fandom goes, I would have to say that Harry Potter, at least for me, reigns on top. I don't know what it is, but something about the world that J.K. Rowling created that stands out as a...

Iwata: Wii 2 needs more than HD

Despite Nintendo's endless denials, talk about a Wii HD refuses to settle down. Now Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has enterd the fray, claiming that even if a Wii 2 did release with hi-definiti...

Accio brickus: LEGO Harry Potter out in May

Fans of bricks and Hogwarts, good news -- LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 is out this May. If you've got a Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, or Windows PC, you're in luck -- ...

THQ making Wheel of Fortune, JEOPARDY! games

THQ and Sony Pictures have signed a considerably huge multi-year licensing deal that grants the former full rights to create games based upon the ludicrously popular game shows JEOPARDY! and Whee...

Monster Hunter Tri bundle: Wii Speak, Classic Pro

What comes in the Nintnendo Wii bundle for Capcom's Monster Hunter Tri? First off, it's a black Wii. That's nice. Another nice perk: a black Classic Controller Pro. And to facilitate chat in onli...

MySims are possibly heading toward the skies

While third party publishers are having trouble selling in big numbers on the Wii EA has found a series that moves on Nintendo's systems. The MySims games are plenty popular and when a series get...

Chuck E. Cheese's Kart Racing coming to Wii

That right there is a photo of me celebrating my 27th birthday at Chuck E. Cheese's. It was a depressing, miserable experience, watching children mindlessly pump tokens into ticket redemption sca...

Lovely new Metroid: Other M official website up

Just like all other game teaser website launches, this new Japanese site for Metroid: Other M gives you little in the way of new information. But it's certainly peaceful to look at, with its pret...

Next Legend of Zelda on Wii, will be shown at E3

GoNintendo somehow managed to stay awake through Satoru Iwata's quarterly financial reports briefing, a feat I would probably not have been able to accomplish. Good thing, too, as the President o...

Here are some completely fake images of a new Zelda

Zelda Informer was sent these screens which are purportedly from an upcoming Zelda title making its way to the Wii. They're totally fake, as evidenced by the creator later popping up in the Zeld...

Do Want: Wii RPG Xenoblade also named Monado

Who cares what it's called? I still want it. If you saw our story about Nintendo's 2010 release schedule, you would have come across a Japanese listing for Xenoblade. Yep, that Xeno. This is a Wi...

Rock Band DLC: Going country for the third time

If you're wearing a cowboy hat or a belt buckle that depicts a bull over a waving confederate flag, next week's Rock Band DLC is for you. Yee haw! Here comes "Going Country Pack 03"! Kenny Chesn...

That Nintendo/Mistwalker Wii RPG: The Last Story

Mistwalker's Hironobu Sakaguchi has recently teased a couple of projects. One in particular was touted as a "blockbuster" project. He said that he and his team put his all into this. We were inte...

A better look at the stuff cut fromTatsunoko Vs Capcom

A while back, we got an obscured look at this image from Capcom's "Secret File" promotional mini-magazine focusing on Tatsunoko Vs Capcom. It showed blurry images of Ace Attorney's Phoenix Wright...

Reminder: European WiiWare demos end on January 31

The story goes like this -- Nintendo finally adds a few WiiWare demos to the Wii Shop Channel. After that, the five games that are graced with demos see a mild to extreme increase in sales. Peopl...

Take a tour through baseball in this MLB 2K10 trailer

I guess this isn't technically gameplay footage of Major League Baseball 2K10, but it's the first time we've seen video of the game in action, so check it out! Sure, it's easy to make a game loo...

February Guitar Hero DLC brings Sabbath and more

Are you ready to rock February people!?! Okay, good. Because I guess we're going to be doing that or something, because 30 Seconds to Mars, Breaking Benjamin, Black Sabbath, and Third Eye Blind a...

First-party titles: 47 percent of Wii sales in 2009

Who makes the best games for Nintendo consoles? We both know the answer to that. If you want something done right, you do it yourself, right? A whopping 27.5 million first-party games were sold f...

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood confirmed for Virtual Console

Here's the news many of us North America-based, Castlevania-obsessed freaks have been desperately waiting for: Castlevania: Rondo of Blood is finally making it Stateside thanks to a Virtual Conso...

Review: No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

At the time of this writing, I have just finished No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle after a 16-hour marathon play through, with occasional breaks to nap and go to the bathroom. This is not the...

Harmonix partnering with other devs on Green Day: Rock Band

Game development is a collaborative process, so it's no surprise that Harmonix isn't going into the upcoming Green Day: Rock Band alone.  The developer confirmed with us today that it has pa...

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Wii vs PS2 FIGHT!

A lot of people I know skipped the Wii version of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and went for the slightly cheaper PS2 port, assuming that the two games would look identical. Turns out that the...

Red Steel 2 arrives this March in the US and Europe

Ubisoft has finally confirmed the release dates for Red Steel 2 in the US and Europe. Americans will be getting the game on March 23 and Europe will get the game a few days later on March 26. Yo...

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