Red Dead Redemption has shipped 6.9 million units and counting

Red Dead Redemption has shipped 6.9 million units and counting

Red Dead Redemption has been a bonanza for Take-Two, with the company announcing this day that more than of 6.9 million units have been shipped to retail. Take-Two said a couple months back that the title had already become profitable after the western shipped over 5 million units and allegedly ...

Source: Military-based GameStop stores will not carry Medal of Honor

Source: Military-based GameStop stores will not carry Medal of Honor

EA’s upcoming Medal of Honor reboot has attracted some controversy due to the inclusion of Taliban fighters in the game’s multiplayer mode. A source has informed Joystiq that, in response to the backlash, GameStop stores in Army and Air Force bases will not stock the game. According to the notice ...

Super Scribblenauts preview: Maxwell’s house

Super Scribblenauts preview: Maxwell’s house

From what we have seen, it seems safe to state that if you liked Scribblenauts, you will love the sequel. It’s got a refined and updated version of the original’s wordplay, along with plenty of fun extras like a level editor with deep scripting capability, and a “merit” achievements system ...

Final Fantasy Legend 3 remake on the way to DS

Final Fantasy Legend 3 remake on the way to DS

Last year, for the 20th anniversary of the SaGa series, Square Enix released a DS remake of the Game Boy’s SaGa 2, which we knew as Final Fantasy Legend 2. This year, Square Enix is remaking SaGa 3: The Ruler of Space and Time (our Final Fantasy Legend 3), though ...

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock gets a bump from Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock gets a bump from Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine

Worried that Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock had forgotten about one of rock and roll’s primary warriors, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine? Fear not! Megadeth — and a new song made just for Warriors of Rock, titled “Sudden Death” — will be present when the game ships on September 28. Continue reading ...

Adrenalin Misfits brings body waggle to Kinect

Adrenalin Misfits brings body waggle to Kinect

We’ll be honest, we somehow let the Kinect title Adrenalin Misfits — known as Crossboard7 outside of North America — slip by during both E3 and Gamescom. We’re not sure how it happened, because the trailers are priceless. They instantly evoke the memories of Wii launch titles, starring incredibly enthusiastic ...

God of War: Ghost of Sparta special edition PSP revealed

God of War: Ghost of Sparta special edition PSP revealed

PlayStation Blog released a few images of the special edition PSP, seen above, included in the God of War: Ghost of Sparta bundle. It just … looks angry, doesn’t it? Like, we rarely imbue inanimate objects with human emotions, but that thing looks like it wants to cut us while ...

Monday Night Combat patch, free DLC pack incoming

Monday Night Combat patch, free DLC pack incoming

Uber Entertainment has announced that a huge Monday Night Combat patch has entered testing and will soon be ready for certification. The title update is set to fix several issues with the game, notably the capability for players to damage Moneyball shields, and host migration problems. Several classes will receive ...

Yamauchi: Gran Turismo 5 has optional 10GB install

Yamauchi: Gran Turismo 5 has optional 10GB install

Yesterday, while answering Gran Turismo 5 fans’ questions via his Twitter feed, series creator Kazunori Yamauchi made a fairly startling announcement. Though the game will only require a 256MB pseudo-install on the PS3 hard drive in order to be playable, Yamauchi suggests players reserve 10GB of HDD space for the ...

Epic Mickey Collector’s Edition will cover your belongings in paint

Epic Mickey Collector’s Edition will cover your belongings in paint

Does your plain white Wii look like a blank canvas in your mind’s eye, just waiting to be mussed up by a few splashes of darkish blue paint? Your bizarre outlook can be brought to life by purchasing the Epic Mickey Collector’s Edition, which was recently revealed by Toys ‘R ...

Gaijin Games teases Bit.Trip Fate, coming to WiiWare this fall

Gaijin Games teases Bit.Trip Fate, coming to WiiWare this fall

Put your thinking caps on, friends — it’s time to get to work on dissecting the image seen above. The pic in question was recently emailed to fans of indie dev Gaijin Games as a teaser for the next entry in its musically-inclined series, Bit.Trip Fate. The email accompanying the ...

Dell offering deals on Xbox 360, Wii and Band Hero this weekend

Dell offering deals on Xbox 360, Wii and Band Hero this weekend

In the market for a fancy new Xbox 360, Wii, or … um, a new Band Hero bundle? All three have received discounts as part of Dell’s Weekend Deals, which also cover a few TVs, cameras and a Blu-ray player. It sounds perfect for folks who are just getting into ...

Final Fantasy XIV ‘Answers’ trailer asks some truly bizarre questions

Final Fantasy XIV ‘Answers’ trailer asks some truly bizarre questions

Regardless of whether or not you are looking forward to Final Fantasy XIV, you really owe it to yourself to watch the new trailer posted after the jump. Not because it reveals the game’s theme song (“Answers,” as performed by pretty-voiced vocalist Susan Calloway), and not because it contains a ...

Left 4 Dead born from Valve’s killed ‘flying fairy’ game

Left 4 Dead born from Valve’s killed ‘flying fairy’ game

“We stabbed it,” Valve project manager Erik Johnson tells PC Gamer of the studio’s apparent “flying fairy game,” as Gabe Newell puts it. The conversation with Valve, which includes marketing director Doug Lombardi, provides revealing insight into the creative process of one of the most respected developers in the industry. ...

PSA: LA Noire still expected this year … officially

PSA: LA Noire still expected this year … officially

At this moment, in this wibbly-wobbly dimension we know as time, LA Noire is still officially expected to launch sometime in the next two months. Given that we have not seen the game beyond some magazine mentions earlier this year, the release can be considered in doubt — or the ...

Microsoft executives delivering keynote at TGS 2010

Microsoft executives delivering keynote at TGS 2010

CESA, the group responsible for planning the annual Tokyo Game Show, has announced the parties responsible for delivering one of the event’s two main keynotes on its opening day, September 16. Microsoft entertainment exec Takashi Sensui and Microsoft Game Studio vice president Phil Spencer will take the stage as TGS ...

New Portal 2 trailers defy physics, drop jaws

New Portal 2 trailers defy physics, drop jaws

A lot has been made of the fact that Portal 2 will be significantly longer than the original. Having watched the latest instructional trailers, we think we have discovered how. While both trailers illustrate puzzle solutions in under two minutes, we are guessing it would have taken our top Joystiq ...