During his speech at Tuesday’s BMO Capital Markets Conference, Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime said that 200 games will be available for download on the Wii’s Virtual Console by the end of the year. That is an interesting claim, because at… Read More »

There should be more games like this. Poverty.com’s Free Rice game is a simple multiple-choice vocabulary test that donates ten grains of rice to the UN’s World Food Program for every correctly answered question.. To make the game more interesting… Read More »

After the conspicuous absence of 50 Rockstar Vienna employees in the Manhunt 2 credits, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has released a draft of their Game Crediting Guide, a document intended to help standardize the way contributers to any… Read More »

With Call of Duty 4 released two days ago in the US, yesterday in Australia and tomorrow in Europe, gamers everywhere are indulging in Infinity Ward’s latest shooter in the hugely succesful CoD series. Well, not exactly… Steam users will… Read More »

The PlayStation 3 has not been selling as well as Sony or developers would have liked. Eventually, repercussions are going to be felt. So it should not surprise anyone to hear Sony has decided to back out of a research… Read More »

With Unreal Tournament 3 only weeks away, there has been a flood of news covering everything from the supposed demise of the 360 version to the censored German edition. Here are some of the highlights: – The Xbox 360 version… Read More »

Dementium: The Ward Review

It’s hard to believe that Metroid Prime Hunters released almost two years ago and despite its flawless controls, there haven’t been many (if any) decent attempts by developers at releasing a first-person shooter game since then on DS. NST, who… Read More »

Earlier this week, Newsweek revealed the NPD Group would be reducing the amount of video game data and statistics they release to the public every month. So far, the response to the NPD Group’s decision has been mixed. One side… Read More »

What’s stranger than seeing a long tailed cat at a rocking chair convention? How about seeing Jack Thompson speaking at the Game Developers Conference? Well according to good old Jack, he’s been invited to speak before an audience of gaming… Read More »

Activision, in partnership with Pontiac and Hot Topic, are launching the first ever Guitar Hero III National Tournament. That’s right, if you’re over 16 you can take your living room duels to a national level and prove how good (or… Read More »