Advanced Motion Controls Arrive June 8; Wii Sports Sequel to Follow
REDMOND, Wash., April 14, 2009 – Nintendo is setting the stage for a blockbuster summer with the announcement of two hotly anticipated product releases. The new Wii MotionPlus™ accessory will hit U.S. retailers on June 8, taking the motion-sensing controls of the popular Wii™ system [...]

UBISOFT® SAYS RABBIDS GO HOME
Raving Rabbids Break Out with First Standalone Title
SAN FRANCISCO – April 9, 2009 – Today Ubisoft announced that the Rabbids will receive their own standalone brand with the Holiday 2009 release of the comedy-adventure Rabbids Go Home. Developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, the team behind Beyond Good & Evil®, Peter Jackson’s King [...]

An in-depth interview with the father of videogames, Ralph H. Baer. The man that started it all gives his opinion on violence in videogames, the media’s coverage of the gaming industry, the Nintendo Wii, and his honest feelings toward Atari’s former President Nolan Bushnell.

This month marks the 9 year anniversary of Sega’s swan song to the console race. Join us as we look back at the history of Sega Dreamcast and celebrate the games that we feel prove why the console should have lived on well beyond its years.

Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action
Genre: Trivia Based Game Show
Developer: Screenlife Games / WXP
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Release Date: 11/06/07
Ever hear of the DVD brand board game Scene It? If not, it’s understandable. It’s pretty obscure. Since it released in 2001, only a mere 10 million board games were sold.

Back in 2003 a group of gamers came together in the spirit of rebellion with the set goal of raising the bar for themselves and the entire gaming industry. Armed with nothing more than their computers, ideals, and arrogance this eclectic band of gaming journalists originated from what many would consider the most unlikely of [...]

Advance Wars: A series well known for its long standing quality. Odds are if you’ve bought one you’re in for a treasure trove of Turn-Based Tactical goodness. But, uh oh, what’s this? Things have changed, in some ways drastically. Did the gambles pay off or did Nintendo royally screw up one of its most respected [...]

Greetings! I’m Bebito Jackson, Director of Marketing & Public Relations here at Gamefan. It’s my job to pick up the pieces after the staff inevitably alienates companies due to honestly reviewing games or by prank emailing them or by saying or doing something stupid in general. I also write and help out with a variety [...]

Well, at some point and time we had to come to an agreement on all of this. After much blood, sweat, and tears we’ve finally made our decisions. Join us as we show what Gamefan collectively picked as the best (and worst) of 2007.
The staff here at the new Diehard Gamefan is wildly diverse. For [...]

A comprehensive look back at what we individually deemed the best of 2007. So that means even Madden has a shot of being recognized! Maybe…
We’ve done a collective Gaming Awards for 2007, but that represents us as a whole. If you were to ask each member of the staff independently what floated our boats for [...]

System Spotlight: Saturn Controllers

Saturn Feature Index:
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Many would argue that one of the Saturn’s finest aspects was its controllers. The basic controller was the Final Evolution of the Mega Drive/Genesis pad; it took the overall shape of the 16-bit version, added an extra row of three [...]

System Spotlight: Sega NetLink

Saturn Feature Index:
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Before Xbox 360. Before Xbox. Before PS2. Before Dreamcast. As early as the 32-bit generation, Sega became the pioneer in the console online gaming revolution with the Sega Saturn. In 1996 Sega released the NetLink (or Seganet as known in [...]

System Spotlight: Internal Memory

Saturn Feature Index:
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OK.. You’re launching one of the first consoles on a completely new game medium. Veteran gamers have all grown accustomed to battery back-ups on their cartridges, a luxury which CD-format games cannot manage. The main option is some [...]

System Spotlight: Cartridges Galore!

Saturn Feature Index:
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You know, it’s one thing when a system comes out and you find an expansion port on it. Ah, can’t you remember the one you found on the bottom of every Nintendo system you’ve ever had? Or the one [...]

Ahhh the Sega Saturn. My beloved, underappreciated 32-bit Sega Saturn. In time, it would become the first truly successful CD based gaming console to market, although not without its growing pains. Rushed to stores just a few weeks ahead of its rival, the Sony PlayStation, the Japanese Saturn was released on November 22nd, 1994. Following [...]

Publisher: Microsoft / Developer: Bioware / Genre: Role-Playing / Release: 04-14-05
Jade Empire is BioWare’s latest massive Action RPG set in ancient China for Microsoft Xbox. With gameplay supposedly as deep as Morrowind or KoTOR and letting you have over 30 different fighting styles, Jade Empire has created a lot of buzz before it even [...]

The Sony PSP Launch Guide
On March 24th, the handheld gaming world changes forever. With the masses used to handheld graphics and power closely resembling games from a few generations back, Sony seeks to change all that with the Playstation Portable (PSP), a powerful new handheld that comes extremely close to the performance of modern home [...]

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Genre: Sports
Release: Launch Title
For those of you who feel the need to have a Tiger in your pocket have I got news for you! EA Sports is supporting the launch of Sony’s PSP in a big way, bringing many of it’s biggest guns to the party. One such gun is [...]

NBA Street Showdown
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Genre: Sports
Release: 04/25/05
If you haven’t gotten enough of NBA Street after playing Volume 3, get ready for NBA Street Showdown for the PSP! EA Promises to deliver the same arcade-style action games have grown accustomed to on console versions, with a few extras to keep fans satisfied.
The NBA Street series [...]