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OSAKA — There weren’t many Western games on display at Games Japan Festa this year, and of those that were, nearly all had already been released in the United States. A notable exception was Avatar , the game based on the James Cameron film that is coming to theaters in December ...
Gaming
Ubisoft
PS3
OSAKA — The Samurai Shodown series was one of SNK’s biggest successes back in the 1990s, adding medieval weapons to the crowded 2-D fighting genre with a cast of characters rooted in Japanese history and mythology.
The newest game is called Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny ( ...
Gaming
Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny
Xbox 360
On the latest installment of 1up.com’s podcast Retronauts, I join Jeremy Parish and Ray Barnholt to discuss the 16-bit era of Mario games.
Join us as we talk about why Super Mario World was a pivotal moment in the series’ evolution, why Mario and Wario was the best Mario game ...
Gaming
Mario
Wario
Yoshi
Nintendo
Did Penn and Teller ever imagine that the unreleased Sega CD game bearing their images would raise nearly $100,000 for charity?
On Friday, the masochistic sketch comedians from LoadingReadyRun will play one of the must punishing videogames ever created: For the third year running, Desert ...
Gaming
Desert Bus
Child's Play
Sega CD
MTV Games and Harmonix released the second major batch of downloadable content for The Beatles: Rock Band on Tuesday.
Each one allows you to complete one of the albums that is partially represented on the disc already. Last month, they added the rest of the tracks from Abbey Road , and ...
Gaming
The Beatles: Rock Band
The Club
Harmonix
Adding Twitter and Facebook to game consoles is a good idea, but both Sony and Microsoft are missing the point.
These social networks are tools that can be used for all kinds of things. Their usefulness to gamers doesn’t spawn from the ability to learn in real time that your best ...
Gaming
Sony
PS3
Microsoft
OSAKA — Why isn’t the Metal Slug series as well-known as Contra in the United States? Sure, Contra came first but Metal Slug took that basic gameplay concept and threw in wonderfully animated sprite-based graphics as well as a sense of humor.
Perhaps it’s simply a case of ...
Gaming
Contra
DS
PSP
OSAKA — It’s entirely forgivable if you’ve never heard of Umihara Kawase before.
This cult classic Japanese action game is a bit like Bionic Commando , only your character is a little girl and instead of killing Nazis you battle overgrown fish.
Umihara Kawase first ...
Gaming
DS
Kevin McKidd, the actor who provides the voice for Modern Warfare character “Soap” MacTavish, says there’s a Call of Duty movie in the works.
“There are talks of a feature film,” McKidd told the New York Post .
The actor joked that he wasn’t Infinity ...
Gaming
Call of Duty
Infinity Ward
Activision
The Movies
Role-playing giant Square Enix and casual gaming juggernaut PopCap unleashed their first collaboration this week.
Gyromancer , available on the Xbox 360 for $15 and on PC through Steam , looks a lot like the megahit Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords at first glance. But the ...
Gaming
PopCap Games
Square Enix
Xbox 360
Steam
Activision Blizzard may create a Call of Duty MMO, the Los Angeles Times said Wednesday.
“ One person close to the company said it also was considering adapting Call of Duty as a massively multi-player online world,” Times reporter Ben Fritz wrote in a story on Modern Warfare ...
Gaming
Call of Duty
Activision
Modern Warfare 2
Blizzard
Infinity Ward
Don’t let the name fool you. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is actually a little old. This traditional, 2-D action game brings back everything you loved about classics like 1991’s Super Mario World .
Hey, it’s the totally ’80s, totally radical Koopa Kids! Fire Chomps ! ...
Gaming
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Mario
Nintendo
Wii
Remember those nifty Brütal Legend T-shirts we mentioned earlier in the week? They’re now officially in play. And if you want to win one, it’ll help if you love heavy metal.
Three websites — Metal Insider , Metal Sucks and Metal Injection — will be giving away the ...
Gaming
Brutal Legend
On Thursday, Microsoft made a handful of new social and entertainment features available to Xbox 360 users: Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm and Zune Video.
Twitter and Facebook can be accessed in the My Community category, Last.fm resides in the Music Marketplace and Zune Video can be found in ...
Gaming
Xbox 360
Xbox
Microsoft
You can’t see me. I’m there in the shadows, crouched down on the roof above you, dangling on the ledge below you. Maybe you know I’m nearby. Maybe you’re afraid for your life. You should be. Because by the time you realize where I am, you’ll be dead.
...
Gaming
Xbox 360
PS3
Ubisoft
Much of the wailing and gnashing of teeth coming out of last week’s videogame sales reports seems centered around the music game genre and its failure to stay on the charts.
Let’s not confuse the decline of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band brands with the death of music games as ...
Gaming
Music
Guitar Hero
Rock Band
Harmonix
Activision
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NEW YORK — Remember when you bathed in Super Mario bubble bath, or carried your PB&J in a Nintendo lunch bag? A ...
Gaming
Mario
Nintendo
New Super Mario Bros Wii
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NEW YORK — Remember when you bathed in Super Mario bubble bath, or carried your PB&J in a Nintendo lunch bag?
To ...
Gaming
Mario
Nintendo
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Nintendo may have stumbled with the release of Wii Music , but it’s not done with the game yet.
Speaking with the United Kingdom’s official Nintendo magazine for an upcoming issue, Wii Music producer Shigeru Miyamoto speculated that the company could release an enhanced version ...
Gaming
Wii Music
Nintendo
Shigeru Miyamoto
Wii
Music
Dust off your favorite PC gamepad. The new platformer Dungeon is going to take all the precision movement and patience you can spare.
Indie game designers Cactus and Arthur Lee created Dungeon for Ludum Dare , a regular two-day programming jam that tasks designers with making a game from ...
