OnLive to test WiFi support, extends free year offer and sale on all games

OnLive to test WiFi support, extends free year offer and sale on all games

We’ve had a good time with OnLive’s “instant-play” game streaming service so far, but if there is one thing we had change, it would be the fact that it only supports wired world wide web connections. Thankfully, there are enough similarly minded folks out there, prompting the service to single ...

Nintendo of Japan releasing Mario collection for Wii in October

Nintendo of Japan releasing Mario collection for Wii in October

Nintendo’s Japanese release calendar includes a currently unannounced game called “Super Mario Collection Special Pack.” This coincides with the rumored announcement of just such a thing from a Nintendo retailer conference in Japan. Andriasang translated a Game Jouhou report of leaked information from this event — normally we had put ...

Super Scribblenauts features a reprogrammed Maxwell

Super Scribblenauts features a reprogrammed Maxwell

Upon playing Super Scribblenauts, it becomes readily apparent why you’d want to use the d-pad to manipulate the game’s hero, Maxwell. So why was not that an option in the first game? Joystiq asked 5TH Cell Creative Director Jeremiah Slaczka, and were told that the original touch-screen input did not ...

Give Grasshopper your ideal ‘pew pew pew’ for a Sine Mora t-shirt

Give Grasshopper your ideal ‘pew pew pew’ for a Sine Mora t-shirt

To celebrate its collaboration with Digital Reality on Sine Mora, Grasshopper Manufacture printed up some shirts. To celebrate the fact that Grasshopper’s handling the sound for the new downloadable shooter, the developer is giving those shirts away in exchange for shooter sounds … made with your voice. Continue reading Give ...

Final Fantasy XIV open beta postponed due to ‘critical bugs’

Final Fantasy XIV open beta postponed due to ‘critical bugs’

No arrow, blade or strongest Firaga seems to be capable of ridding the on-line world of Final Fantasy XIV from its most daunting foes — the dreaded “critical bugs.” Square Enix announced earlier this day that the game’s open beta testing, which was scheduled to begin later today, will be ...

’999′ to ensnare North America this November

’999′ to ensnare North America this November

999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, a graphical text adventure released in Japan last December, will challenge North American audiences this November. Aksys Games confirmed last month that the uncommon DS title would ship across the ocean, but did not offer a release window at the time. With a ...

New studio ‘Detune’ announces Korg M01 for DS

New studio ‘Detune’ announces Korg M01 for DS

The developers of Korg DS-10 (who originally worked at Cavia and AQ Interactive) have formed a new studio called Detune, and are continuing the work of emulating Korg synthesizers on the DS. The new software, Korg M01, is designed to replicate the functions of Korg’s best-selling synthesizer, the M1, which ...

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero delayed in Japan

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero delayed in Japan

Dead Rising 2′s standalone playable prologue, Case Zero, has been delayed in Japan. According to Andriasang, the delay may have been prompted by some inappropriate content presented in the free trial portion of the game (which can be fully unlocked for 400 Microsoft Points). Capcom assured Famitsu that Case Zero’s ...

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is bolstering its ranks

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is bolstering its ranks

While compiling this week’s menagerie of gaming-centric webcomics, we suddenly realized — man, a ton of gaming-centric webcomics have fallen off the map this past year. Regular contenders like Dipswitch, 2P Start, Slackerz and Sidescroller have either stopped updating or formally shut down entirely. We need to fatten up our ...

L4D2′s next Mutations: Gib Fest on PC; Chainsaw Massacre on 360

L4D2′s next Mutations: Gib Fest on PC; Chainsaw Massacre on 360

Valve has announced the latest Mutations for Left 4 Dead 2 and it looks like the Survivors will have a leg up on the undead hordes. It’s good to know that even in the apocalypse, humans can sometimes catch a break. In the PC version, players can check out Gib ...

Cryptic not yet sure about pricing plan for new Neverwinter title

Cryptic not yet sure about pricing plan for new Neverwinter title

You D&D buffs out there were undoubtedly excited to hear that a new Neverwinter game is coming to life, but just like the real D&D, it might end up laying a critical hit down on your wallet. In an interview at Gamasutra, Cryptic CEO Jack Emmert admitted that the game ...

Violent video game case gets its date in Supreme Court on Nov. 2

Violent video game case gets its date in Supreme Court on Nov. 2

It’s been a long road for the California bill backed by Governor Schwarzenegger that seeks to keep violent video games from being sold to minors. But the end is finally in sight: The Entertainment Consumer Association has announced that the case, known as Schwarzenegger vs. EMA (Entertainment Merchants Association), will ...

Tsunoda, Harmonix address Kinect player limit, but questions remain

Tsunoda, Harmonix address Kinect player limit, but questions remain

It seems like Microsoft’s Kinect has been dogged by rumors of its limitations since day one. Some rumors have been busted — you can play Kinect while seated, for instance — but others are still nebulous just two months out from launch. Speaking to Kinect boss Kudo Tsunoda, VideoGamer attempted ...

‘Dragon Age: Origins — Ultimate Edition’ rated by OFLC

‘Dragon Age: Origins — Ultimate Edition’ rated by OFLC

Dragon Age Origins – Ultimate Edition has yet to be officially announced, but it has now been rated by Australia’s OFLC. Previously popping up as a GameStop listing with a $60 price and an October 12 release date, the re-release once again prompts us to blankly stare in EA’s general ...

You must watch this teaser video for a Mega Man game you will never play

You must watch this teaser video for a Mega Man game you will never play

Rockman Online is a side-scrolling on-line game that mashes up the Mega Man and Mega Man X worlds. It’s also only being released in South Korea. Luckily, then, this anime-style teaser video is cool enough for us to enjoy as a standalone work, because for us, it might as well ...

Yakuza ad hints at a violently renovated Tokyo

Yakuza ad hints at a violently renovated Tokyo

An ad for the new, untitled PS3 Yakuza game suggests that some huge changes are in store for the game and its Kamurocho locale. The ad, in this week’s Famitsu, shows the main entrance to the Kabukicho-like district totally wrecked — with street lights bent out of shape, vehicles smashed ...

Describe Team Fortress 2′s hats in the TF2 Hat Describing Contest

Describe Team Fortress 2′s hats in the TF2 Hat Describing Contest

Are you the player in your Team Fortress 2 group known not just for proficiency in a certain class, but in the special skill of hat storytelling as well? If so, you are a shoo-in for Valve’s latest contest. “Fans have been mailing us for some time now,” Valve stated ...