Maple story is a 2D Korean MMORPG. It plays similar to Castlevania if it were an MMO and without the undead and bad dialog. Maple Story is coming to DS and a U.S. release has been announced. You can check out the first footage courtesy of Game Trailers. Or check out the original game which [...]

In other, less important news, a Nights sequel has been revealed by Swedish Magazine Game Reactor. No confirmation from Sega yet. Given Sega’s recent Wii support, I humbly speculate it will come out for Wii. Maybe someone who knows Swedish can shed more light on this. Source: Kotaku

A relatively easy way to play import Gamecube games on your Wii has been discovered. This is great news for those like myself who have some Japanese Gamecube games but have unhooked their import-enabled Gamecube since getting a Wii. To play your import gamecube games: 1: Insert a normal gamecube game into your Wii. 2: [...]

One Life Left or OLL is a gaming podcast actually worth listening to. No, really. It’s an hour-long British public radio program filled with subtle wit and regular jabs at gaming and the games industry. What sets it apart from countless other podcasts is the paid talent and recurring features. The music they play is [...]

To tie in with the recent FF6 release, Player One Podcast has an interview with FF6′s translator, Ted Woolsey. The interview goes in depth and examines every quirk of the old SNES translation. Did you know he had only 30 days to do it and the dialog was all out of context? I’m new to [...]

Monster raising games are more common than disk read errors on a PS2. No that doesn’t sound right. More common than empty Mountain Dew cans in a WOW players room? No. More common than Nintendo fanboys on the gamefaqs forums? That’s terrible. Let’s just say there are a lot of monster raising games. Monster Kingdom [...]

In, Japan, Sqaure released the GBA version of FF6 as Finest Fantasy, and I can’t disagree. Read on for info on the changes that were made to the GBA version, initial impressions, and a special gift!

Universal Fighting System (UFS) is an incredible collectible card game made by Sabertooth Games. It takes licenses from fighting games such as Street Fighter, Soul Caliber, King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, and now Darkstalkers! This is a brilliant move for UFS, as Darkstalkers is as stylish and cool as fighting games come. Keep the videogame [...]

A cool programer known as Notch has made a java version of Super Mario Bros with randomly generated levels. Unfortunately, the games is rather simplistic and features little variety in enemies and powerups.  Still, it’s worth checking out as the control is spot-on despite the lack of a gamepad. Give it a try: Super Mario [...]

According to 4gamer, Korean developer Cyberstep is making Katamari Damacy Online for the PC. Initial reports are that it will take the vs. mode from the old Katamari games and make them online. Sounds like a terrible plan to me since the old vs. modes were never all that fun. But apparently you will also [...]