I’m honestly a bit surprised. I figured Nintendo would take the opportunity, with Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver out, to try to find some way to further exploit the name on the Virtual Console. I’m not even sure what other older games they can release at this point, but I expected either a Pokemon game, or [...]

I’m going to let our readers in on a little secret: trying to do these things in a reader-friendly manner is a pain in the ass.
I do two weekly wrap-ups: this one, and the Nintendo Wrap as well. Each one carries it’s own set of issues. The Sony piece usually gets done in a timely [...]

Under normal circumstances, we would at least have a large-name Virtual Console release this week, notable for it’s name and it’s supposed rarity. At least the name – a big one – got heads to turn. However, a closer inspection shows that the VC update is just like the rest of this week’s Nintendo update: [...]

I use Apple products often. I own an iPhone, mainly because the alternative – the Blackberry – doesn’t really appeal to me. The fact that I already had AT&T as my wireless provider greased the skids. Therefore, I run iTunes on my PC, mainly because it’s mandatory for me to sync my iPhone, but also [...]

This hasn’t been a good week for Sony. First, the paid DLC from Heavy Rain wouldn’t work; they fixed that literally as I started typing this. Then, they had a bug come about in their older, “fat” model PS3 systems that makes the system think 2010 is a leap year, which rendered any game with [...]

Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
Developer: Omega Force
Publisher: Koei
Genre: Hack ‘n Slash
Release Date: 2/16/2010
Koei is good for nothing if not ensuring that we will always, without fail, have a copy of Dynasty Warriors to play. They are developing a bad habit of releasing a game, then releasing that same game for another system with “additions”. Dynasty Warriors 6 [...]

Sometimes, being a Nintendo fan gives that person something to cheer about, especially if they’re dealing with fans of the other two consoles. From innocuous things like “We have Mario and Zelda!” to obscure musings like “Hey, nice of your entertainment divisions to finally be seeing a profit!” to low blows like “We didn’t just [...]

Last week’s PSN update was dominated by one big name: Yakuza 3. The demo was good, though the fighting engine pissed me off some. Since then, there’s been a spot of bother about the game, with the word that Hostess Clubs, as well as a couple of other cultural items, were removed from the game. [...]

Hustle Kings
Developer: VooFoo Studios
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Genre: Realistic Sports
Release Date: 1/28/2010
I love playing pool, but when it comes to actually getting to play, I have two choices: either go to a crummy bar and pay $1 a table on crooked tables with warped house cues, or go to a place called US 1 Bar [...]

Though there’s still no set release date – just a vague promise of a release slated for this year – Castle Crashers is going to have one leg up it’s XBox Live counterpart when it does release: a new Volleyball minigame that will be available to play online or off.
Emil from The Behemoth posted the [...]

Cave Story, also known as Dōkutsu Monogatari or 洞窟物語, will be seeing a release on WiiWare on March 22nd. Designed by Daisuke Amaya (aka: Pixel) in 2004, Cave Story was a freeware PC game with gameplay reminiscent to Super Metroid that became popular enough to warrant a freeware patch by fan translation group Aeon Genesis. [...]

United States based developer Southpeak Games (OTC:SOPK) was hit with another blow in UK High Court recently, losing a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against them by German distributor CDV Software Entertainment.
The Hon. Mrs. Justice Elizabeth Gloster ruled in November of 2009 that Southpeak had been guilty of breach of contract in when they failed to [...]

Looks like we changed the name of this column just in time.
For the first time that I or any of us can remember, there is no Virtual Console game to look at. As a writer, this makes me somewhat happy – after all, smaller articles are less work to put together – but as a [...]

Last Friday, I reviewed the new PSP game SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals Fireteam Bravo 3. I gave it a fairly positive write-up, and had no problems getting into the online component of the game, even if there was a sparse number of people due to my review going up before the game’s release. With that [...]

I consider myself a professional. I feel that I can get past whatever comes to me, get past it, and get my job done properly.
The Winter Olympics are one of the few times when I decide to hell with professionalism. They have hockey on literally all day! I just watched Canada beat the Swiss in [...]

In the two plus years that we’ve been doing these wrap-ups, whether just for the Virtual Console or for the entire service, just about every article has had a lot of comments about whatever the Virtual Console has put out. When we started profiling the other downloadable titles on the WiiWare and DSiWare, most of [...]

I don’t really think I can lead this off with a “witty” lead-in this week. We all know what the big elephant in the room is. There’s no sense in beating around the bush: the Heavy Rain demo is the only PSN release this week that actually, truly matters. This is the first PSN update [...]

SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3
Developer: Slant Six Games
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Genre: Tactical Third Person Shooter
Release Date: 2/16/2010
AUTHOR’S NOTE: We received word about Sony’s registration policy for PSN play after this review went up, and after the game was released. For our full stance on this, please refer to my Unbranding the Sheep [...]

First off, let me begin by apologizing for the tardy nature of this piece. D.J. Tatsujin, the normal writer of this article, had a personal situation that had to be handled immediately. Therefore, I’m pitching in relief this week, and trying to fit this in with an already loaded schedule. So to steal a line [...]

Physics Lab
Developer: Danthekilla
Publisher: Microsoft Indie Games
Genre: Physics Simulator
Release Date: 1/20/2010
Price: 240 Microsoft Points/$3
The Indies service on XBox Live is hard to gauge. Some of it’s games are flat-out steals, such as the $1 Robotron-inspired I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 and the $4 College Lacrosse 2010: The Video Game, the latter of which is a [...]