Electronic Arts, MTV, and Harmonix will announce the Guitar Hero maker’s next game this Monday in an early-morning teleconference. In an email to media late Friday night, representatives of the companies said that MTV and Harmonix will also unveil a “first of its kind” partnership with major record labels and music publishers; representatives of those labels […]

All kinds of new Virtual Console announcements for all regions are coming down the pipe today, including the horriffic news that Europe is getting Punch-Out first. What gives? Does Nintendo of America know how much this hurts me? If there’s no Punch-Out on my Wii by Monday, I’m going on a hunger strike. Other news in […]

On this week’s episode of Retronauts, Jeremy Parish, Scott Sharkey, Ray Barnholt, Ryan Scott, and myself discuss that sticky situation called emulation. Obviously we all just talked in circles, since everybody has ROMs on their computer they don’t technically own, but that doesn’t make it right. Come listen to us ramble and reminisce.Retronauts Episode 17 [1up] Published by […]

There’s a new Reno 911 Shockwave game over on Comedy Central, and it’s bad, and you shouldn’t bother. I post this mostly because you might get tempted into playing it — after all, shouldn’t playing 3D paintball versus low-poly representations of your favorite crooked cops be awesome no matter what? But no, it’s totally lame and […]

Tastes Like A Dippy MP3 Player! [Gadget Lab] The best Easter gift ever: a crappy MP3 player in a chocolate egg. Eat the chocolate, then listen to like 40 megs of music on your new cheapo MP3 player that smells like chocolate and saliva. Stroker Serpentine, Second Life’s Porn Mogul, Speaks [Wired News]Regina Lynn interviews Second Life’s “pervert at […]

1up’s Jenn Frank makes a brief reference to Koyaanisqatsi in her blog about the GTAIV trailer, and the next thing you know, a great li’l discussion is going on about Grand Theft Auto and the anonymity of urban life: The city is its own mysterious character in the story—you need the Big City. “Grand Theft […]

Microsoft announced today that two new multiplayer maps for Halo 2, developed by Austin, Texas-based Certain Affinity, will be available April 17. The maps are both based on popular maps from the first Halo; "Tombstone" is a "reimagining" of "Hang ‘Em High" and "Desolation" is a deathmatch-oriented remake of "Derelict." The map pack will cost $4. Certain […]

Are you as desperate for more Phoenix Wright games as I am, that you’ll sit and watch a random promotional video with barely-animated teaser artwork and music? I know you are. I doubt the Japanese release of Ace Attorney 4 will have English text. We’ll just have to hope that Capcom is totally on the […]

All kinds of new Virtual Console announcements for all regions are coming down the pipe today, including the horriffic news that Europe is getting Punch-Out first. What gives? Does Nintendo of America know how much this hurts me? If there’s no Punch-Out on my Wii by Monday, I’m going on a hunger strike. Other news in […]

This is WiiGoBot, a robotic Lego contraption programmed to play Wii Bowling. It can bowl perfect games, which of course makes me feel woefully inadequate on a variety of different levels. Check the site for a bunch more pictures and how it was programmed… and in fact, here’s a video of the feat. WiiGoBot, The Perfect […]

On this week’s episode of Retronauts, Jeremy Parish, Scott Sharkey, Ray Barnholt, Ryan Scott, and myself discuss that sticky situation called emulation. Obviously we all just talked in circles, since everybody has ROMs on their computer they don’t technically own, but that doesn’t make it right. Come listen to us ramble and reminisce.Retronauts Episode 17 [1up] Published by […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM7cwLTSnkQ Imagine Mike Thompson’s surprise when, while watching a piece on Nightline about every gamer’s favorite lawyer, Jack Thompson, he recognized a cartoon that he himself had drawn of Thompson back in December of 2006. (See Jack in the noose? That’s his stuff.) Thompson, who currently writes for Gay Gamer, hadn’t been contacted by ABC at […]

Nintendo is hiring a Virtual Console coordinator! Everybody knows Virtual Console is screwed up, so maybe you can get hired to fix it. Ha ha! By “fix it” I of course mean “take the blame.” Here’s the job duties: Coordinates the production of Wii Shop Channel content, including Virtual Console and other digitally distributed titles Works primarily on materials […]

Gaming accessory maker Nyko has put their adapter that would have let PlayStation 3 owners play Guitar Hero on their machine on “indefinite hold” after finding out that, uh, it doesn’t actually work: Citing “limitations in the PlayStation 3 hardware” the company says it has been “prevented from releasing this product with support for Guitar Hero.” Given this […]

Although many squawked about Phantasy Star Universe’s pay-to-play fee, I was fine with it. I had, after all, invested hundreds and hundreds of hours on the previous version of Phantasy Star Online, and thoroughly expected to do the same with Universe, so paying a bit extra to play each month didn’t faze me all that […]

The world “classic” gets tossed around a lot in the world of gaming, but completely appropriate and deserved when applied to one of the Eidos titles now available for download on Steam, Deus Ex. The graphics of Deus Ex won’t exactly make you long for the video cards of yesteryear, but its gameplay and plot […]

A Portuguese game magazine has a special feature on the upcoming Wii version of Nights, and sympathetic characters on NeoGAF have posted scans of the images and translated an interview with director Takeshi Iizuka: Q: Which new flight manoeuvers will this charismatic figure be able to perform? A: NiGHTS will have a considerable number of acrobatic movements, […]

April Fool’s Day is practically upon us, and so what better time to look back upon those instances when the joke was on us, the gamers? Pete over at 99 Lives has compiled what he believes to be the Top Five Hoax Game Consoles evar. Did any of us ever actually fall for any of […]

This pop-up ad just got all up in my face, just a minute ago. I’d have closed it, but I was laughing too hard and decided to share it with you. Also, I clicked on it and minutes later, a free Nintendo Wii System showed up at my house! Published by Chris KohlerContinue reading: Out-drink the […]

UK Home Secretary John Reid has banned PS3s from British prisons, but it’s probably not for the reason you think. One might argue that letting prisoners game their sentences away is a wee bit on the posh side, but that’s not the issue here; rather it’s the PS3s WiFi capabilities as well as its […]

IDC analyst Billy Pidgeon thinks that the arrival of Elite Xbox 360, with its sleek black exterior and whopping 120 GB hard drive, will do little to increase Microsoft’s market share. Pidgeon think that’s it’s software, not hardware, that will help Microsoft do battle against Nintendo and Sony in the year to come: The higher price […]

The long-rumored next entry in the Mortal Kombat film franchise won’t be a sequel or a prequel, but rather a fresh start a la Batman Begins. If it ever gets made, that is. At the rate the script is being developed, it seems like we’ll see a portable Xbox before we see this next Mortal […]

Desktop Tower Defense, one of the best and most addictive Flash games out there, just hit version 1.2. Bash towers! Spawn creeps! Fun mode! It’s a good thing this is my job or I’d have to call in sick. Desktop Tower Defense 1.2 [Hand Drawn Games] Published by Lore SjobergContinue reading: Browser Game: Desktop Tower Defense, Now […]

If you missed F.E.A.R. when it came out for the PC, and again when it came out for the 360, you’re getting one more shot when it comes out for the PS3 on April 24th. The game blends first person shooter gameplay with Max Payne-esque bullet time (but what doesn’t, these days?) and scares straight […]

Sony may be considering an 80 GB model of the PS3, if conclusions drawn from recently-filed papers are to be believed. Apparently, Sony recently filed documents with the FCC to let them know they were changing the Bluetooth module in the PS3, and the papers reference “The model CECHE01 to be added by the difference […]

Did you catch Chris Baker’s liveblogging of the Take Two shareholders meeting yesterday? No? Shame on you! Well, here’s hoping you were doing something extremely important instead, like curing cancer or getting Firefly back on the air. Here’s pretty much what you need to know: old board out, new board in, company not sellin’ nothin’. Other […]

If it were really a hard knock life, then the world wouldn’t be filled with singing, dancing orphans, it would look more like Crazy Flasher 3. Cops and robots and all sorts of other mean people would be after you, and you’d have to fight them to make money, and then you’d spend the money […]

IGG has announced its plans for April Fool’s Day events for players of Myth War. They don’t seem overly prank-worthy, but maybe you have to play the game to get the joke. Of course, announcing a prank before you play it is kind of counter-productive…but whatever. Here’s what’s happening: The event is in two parts. The […]

Nintendo of Canada and some supah dupah fly Canadian artists have teamed up to give away six custom-painted Wiis. Here’s the thing: you must be a resident of Canada and a member of My Nintendo to be qualified to win, but these things are so sweet, they’re practically worth moving for, anyway. How much […]

So did you see the GTA IV Trailer? Probably not. Don’t sweat it, though; give it a few weeks and you’ll be clubbed over the head with so much GTA news, screens, walkthroughs, hands-on, previews, reviews, and rooms with views that you’ll soon forget there was ever a time when you didn’t know what the […]