During Shigeru Miyamoto’s keynote speech at this years Game Developer’s conference, the gaming guru took the time to show off Mario’s newest adventure, Super Mario Galaxy. The video for the highly anticipated sci-fi departure from the mushroom kingdom still shows Mario jumping from planatoid to planatoid, with various uses for the Wii controller displayed throughout. [...]

In honor of last summer’s blockbuster smash hit movie, How to Eat Fried Worms, Microsoft and Team 17 have decided to release Worms for Xbox Live Arcade.  Combining the aiming mechanics of Scorched Earth and the terrain morphing of Lemmings, Worms brings out the classic struggle of overly armed invertebrates.  The game (800 MS points) [...]

Before Resident Evil, before Dead Rising, before Maximo, Capcom had another series that revolved around mankind’s eternal struggle against the undead. Today, Nintendo returns us to a simpler time, when knights struggled to keep their clothes on while fighting against hordes of zombies, ghouls and other ghosts. Take a look at what Nintendo has up [...]

The website for the next big release in Rockstar’s crime themed series launched recently. While there are no real details on the site at the time being, a trailer for the game will be released on March 29th. This will provide a first glimpse of the game, which was announced at last years E3. For [...]

After a dry spell last Wednesday, Microsoft is finally providing the goods on Xbox Live Arcade.  Similar to the recent PS3 download, FlOw, Aliend Hominid HD began life as an internet flash game and later received a cult following when it was released on home consoles.  The game follows the misadventures of a mellow, yellow [...]

Once again, Nintendo has decided to release a single epic game for their Monday update of the Virtual Console. Once again, that game is from the Legend of Zelda series. Today you can own a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo Wii. If you didn’t managed to get a [...]

Nintendo’s Japanese plans for the year have been updated to include games from two new classic platforms, Neo Geo and MSX.  It has been announced that titles from these two platforms will be appearing on the Japanese download service later this year.  There has been no news whether or not North America and Europe will [...]

It’s President’s Day here in the States and Nintendo has decided to celebrate the Executive Branch of Government by releasing four new Virtual Console games.  Actually, I think that they would have done this anyway, but whatever.  Still, Nintendo has a nice crop of games available today, including a classic SNES game by Rare. Donkey [...]

Something scarier than the Darkstalkers are brewing in Sabertooth Games’ Universal Fighting System CCG. While perusing eBay, I stumbled across several new promos, each featuring a disturbing connection to the last. Read on to find out what that connection is.

Gamers were saddened last year when the announcement was made that Clover Studios would be closing its doors. Luckily, former CEO of Clover Studios, Atsushi Inaba, is creating his own development company named Seeds. In addition to other former Clover staff taking up positions as artists, composers and character designers, Capcom’s own Hideki Kimaya and [...]