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Spyro Eternal Night also on portable systems, phones

November 9, 2007

Sierra's The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night is also available on Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance and select mobile phone platforms. "With massive worldwide appeal, the 20 million-unit-selling Spyro franchis...

EA’s team play is a go

John M. Guilfoil

November 8, 2007

EAâ€™S online Team Play launched today for FIFA Soccer 08 on 360 and PS3, letting 10 people on 10 different consoles play at once.

Playstation 3 firmware upgrade

John M. Guilfoil

November 7, 2007

Sony's firmware upgrade ads PS3 remote start via PSP, easy updates to the XMB screen, custom XMB themes, photo and music playlists and new Playstation Network category icon

SNK: World Heroes Anthology out next spring

John M. Guilfoil

November 6, 2007

SNK Playmore announced today a compilation of the popular fighting game series, World Heroes. World Heroes Anthology will debut next spring on Playstation 2. "World Heroes Anthology is a complete compilation...

Professional Bull Riding game coming, that’s right

John M. Guilfoil

November 4, 2007

Yee-haw bitches!

EA’s portable titles for the holidays

John M. Guilfoil

November 1, 2007

Portable games are hot right now. With the growing popularity of the Sony PSP and the more than 50 million Nintendo DS systems on the market so far, the odds are good that someone on your list is asking for gam...

Konami: Metal Gear Solid 4 delayed

John M. Guilfoil

October 31, 2007

Kojima Productions announced today that, in an effort to finalize the game, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, will be delayed to Q2, 2008, putting yet another strain on the struggling Playstation 3 plat...

Rock Band tracks announced

John M. Guilfoil

October 29, 2007

MTV Games and Harmonix announced the set list for the highly anticipated Rock Band, which will feature 58 Tracks including songs from Rolling Stones, Metallica, The Police, The Clash, Foo Fighters and Radiohead.

PAX 2008 date set

John M. Guilfoil

October 26, 2007

Penny Arcade Expo 2008 dates announced after PAX 2007 attendance made it the number 1 video game conference in North America

Rock Band release date pushed up

John M. Guilfoil

October 24, 2007

Originally announced as November 23, the well-anticipated Rock Band will hit stores November 20, before Thanksgiving and Black Friday, Harmonix announced. Rock Band picks up where the amazingly popular Guita...

Battlestar Galactica release date set

John M. Guilfoil

October 18, 2007

Action-packed, space combat game based on the popular TV series coming to stores Oct. 23 and Xbox Live Arcade Oct. 24

Sony’s holiday titles and the future of the PS3

John M. Guilfoil

October 18, 2007

Sony keyed us in on their upcoming titles. Below is a listing of what's coming for PS2, PS3 and PSP for the holidays. There are some beauties coming out for the rest of the year, but scroll down and look at ...

Update on Penny Arcade Adventures

John M. Guilfoil

October 17, 2007

"Nerdcore" rapper MC Frontalot will record an original song for Penny Arcade Adventures

Nintendo reveals holiday game lineup

John M. Guilfoil

October 11, 2007

And we'll try to review them all!

Avencast demo released

John M. Guilfoil

October 11, 2007

Download the Avencast demo here! (309 MB) We also have the latest info and screenshots!

SNK will fire off two more this fall

John M. Guilfoil

October 11, 2007

SNK Playmore USA announced The King of Fighters XI and Neogeo Battle Coliseum for PlayStation 2

Bejeweled, PopCap hits to debut on Xbox and PS2

John M. Guilfoil

October 9, 2007

PopCapâ€™s casual video game hits coming soon for Playstation 2, Xbox 360. PopCap Arcade Vol. 1 and PopCap Hits Vol. 1 arrive in stores November 15

Bust-A-Move coming to mobile

John M. Guilfoil

October 6, 2007

Taito brings multiplayer version of bubble-busting puzzler to mobile phones in Bust-A-Move: Mobile Mania.

Cooking Mama coming to mobile phones

John M. Guilfoil

October 1, 2007

Cooking Mama, the popular Nintendo DS and innovative Nintendo Wii game that lets you grapple with your cooking and coordination skills is coming to mobile phones next year: September 28: Test your cooking sk...

Study: Video games don’t cause violence

Torrey Meeks

April 1, 2007

In the last five years, video games have risen to prominence as the whipping boy of choice in the culture wars. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was Hollywood. At that time, the movie industry was under...