The Breath of Fire series is one of the longest standing RPG franchises today. The first installment debuted circa 1993 on SNES and is often considered a classic by many gamers, including myself. The second installment, while sporting a terrible translation, greatly improved upon the first in other aspects and held its own against Square Enix’s mighty Final Fantasy franchise. […]

Independent game designer Jonathon Blow today provided an update on the PC version of Braid, revealing that the acclaimed time-bending puzzler will hit the platform in early 2009. Right now, a February-March drop date is being considered. At this time, we’re looking at a window of February-March 2009 for the PC release. I know this isn’t good news for those […]

In tune with the holiday spirit, publisher Eidos has sent out another round of screenshots from its upcoming Batman title, Arkham Asylum. If the game plays as good as it looks, we’ll certainly be in for a real treat come summer 2009. Hit the jump for the remainder of the shots. Based on the DC Comics universe, Batman: Arkham Asylum […]

A multiplayer-focused shooter dubbed CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars is hitting Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network in 2009, publisher Ubisoft announced today. Players can wage war by utilize a host of telekinetic powers, which can be used to rip environmental objects and throw them at enemies or create bullet-proof shields by absorbing energy from foes. To be sold exclusively as a […]

Sony today announced that a plethora of Metal Gear Solid themed costumes and level pack will hit the PlayStation Store next week on Thursday. For $2 each, you can pick up costumes that dress up your Sackboy into Meryl Silverburgh, Screaming Mantis, Raiden, and even the legendary hero himself — Solid Snake. Alternatively, all four can be had in a […]

This week’s PlayStation Store update kicks off with the arrival of two brand-new downloadable titles, namely Crash Commando and Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rainslick Precipice Of Darkness: Episode 2. In addition to a $9.99 price reduction on Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, add-on content for this week consists of holiday-themed LittleBigPlanet levels and costumes, along with apparel for High Velocity […]

Earlier this year, mega-publisher Activision decided to auction off a considerable amount of IPs it held licensing rights to because they were deemed unprofitable for the long-term. These titles included Ghostbusters, which recently was picked up by Atari and is scheduled for a June 2009 release. Not hesitant to dish out a series of fighting words, Atari ringleader Phil Harrison […]

At this year’s annual SpikeTV Video Game Awards show, famed game designer Hideo Kojima was quizzed on that mysterious teaser plastered over on the official Metal Gear site. His response? While reluctant to drop any noteworthy details, he did let one tidbit of information slip, namely that a public announcement by Konami would be made within a few weeks, in […]

Still having trouble accessing PlayStation Home? We wrote last week that Sony was well aware of the issues people were having with connecting to the service and sure enough, a patch designed to rectify these issues will be out worldwide this Thursday, according to SCEE community manager TedTheDog: We’ll be patching Home this Thursday and part of this change will […]

Not content with releasing oodles of SackBoy character costumes each and every week, Sony will begin to offer exciting new LittleBigPlanet level packs on the PlayStation Store next Thursday. Each will be priced at $2.99, packed to the brim with new costumes, objects, as well as decorative items. The first level up for grabs will be a holiday themed one, […]

Patch version 1.1 for the PlayStation 3 flavor of Fallout 3 is now available to all North American and European owners of the game, Bethesda recently announced. This required update adds much-requested trophy support, along with a fix for friend notification issues, which prior to the patch caused random lockups whenever a buddy signed into PSN. Weighing in at 24MB, […]

Click through for a high-res version of the God of War III trailer that debuted at last night’s Spike TV Video Game Awards show. Although brief, gameplay footage is shown, depicting Kratos as he plunges his fire-lined gauntlets into the head of a giant beast and forces his way through legions of demonic foes. Exclusive to PlayStation 3, a release […]

Rockstar Games today announced that the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of its street racer Midnight Club: Los Angeles will receive a “massive” downloadable update early next year. The “South Central Upgrade Map” extends the Midnight Club experience with a whole new city area, which Rockstar proclaims is “about one-third the size of the original map.” Included are iconic […]

With PlayStation Home now officially out, some users are unfortunately experiencing connectivity trouble, as is typical for launches of a large scale online-based service. In a recent post on the PS Blog, communications director Patrick Seybold says Sony is fully aware of the issues and that work to meet the “incredible demand” for Home is ongoing. While we prepare solutions […]

Hoping to squeeze a bit more playtime out of your Call of Duty 4 purchase? Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but speaking in a post on the official Xbox forums, word from Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling is that future downloadable content is out of the question. That’s right, no more DLC will be offered for […]

Electronic Arts announced today that they have signed an exclusive publishing agreement with famed game designer Tim Schafer, head of Double Fine Production, to bring Brütal Legend to gamers worldwide. “This is awesome news!” stated Tim Schafer, President of Double Fine Productions. “The quality and creativity of the games EA Partners has been involved with make it a perfect home […]

This week’s PlayStation Store update is here, bringing with it an assortment of LittleBigPlanet costumes and downloadable PSN title PowerUp Forever. Additionally, all Resistance: Fall of Man Map Packs are now available free of charge. Rounding out this week’s lineup of offerings is add-on content for High Velocity Bowling, Tom Clancy’s EndWar, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Age of […]

The NPD Group has published its video game software and hardware sales figures for November. Without a doubt, Nintendo is the star of the show here, it shifted an incredibly remarkable 2.04 million Wii units, up from 981,000 last year. DS sales were equally as impressive at 1.57 million units sold. Yes, we knew Wii sales were going to be […]

The day legions of PlayStation 3 owners have been waiting for is finally here. Yes, Home is now officially open to the masses. Boot up your PS3 and you should see an icon for the service inside the PlayStation Network section of the XMB. From there you will simply be prompted to download and install the software itself — which […]

SCEA producer Tsubasa Inaba has announced that today will see the arrival of a trophy-enabling patch for the PS3 variant of perspective-bending puzzler echochrome. If that isn’t enough, a total of a 1,000 user-created levels will soon be available post-update. Said levels are chosen at random while playing on the “Freeform” game mode. Talk about replay value for a $9.99 […]