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 ...

Samus Aran and Chuck Greene Now Playable

Samus Aran and Chuck Greene Now Playable

Metroid: Other M has shipped exclusively for Wii and Dead Rising 2: Case Zero available only for download for Xbox 360. Metroid: Other M comes to us from Nintendo and Team Ninja; is available for $49.99US ($59.99CAN) and is rated “T” for Teen. Our review should be posted in ...

Daily Filter: August 31, 2010

Daily Filter: August 31, 2010

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you are eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to ...

Sega, Konami, Level-5 and Tecmo-Koei share TGS lineups

Sega, Konami, Level-5 and Tecmo-Koei share TGS lineups

Heading to Tokyo for the annual game show later this month, but your handmade convention center itinerary is sadly lacking ideas for how to divvy up time? No worries — Sega, Konami, Level-5, and Tecmo-Koei have announced their showings for TGS 2010! The highlight of, well, all of the listings ...

Puzzle Quest 2 embarks on a journey to PSP later this year

Puzzle Quest 2 embarks on a journey to PSP later this year

Aww, poor PSP — it’s like you have been sitting out in the rain, looking through the window at all of the other consoles, laughing and having a good time together with Puzzle Quest 2. Well, come on in, buddy! You’ve finally been invited to the party. IGN reports that ...

PRESS RELEASE: METROID: OTHER M TAKES PLAYERS DEEP INTO THE HEART OF A LEGEND

PRESS RELEASE: METROID: OTHER M TAKES PLAYERS DEEP INTO THE HEART OF A LEGEND

Classic Game Play, Immersive Graphics and Revealing Storyline Power New Metroid Game for Wii REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 31, 2010 – Samus Aran, protagonist of Nintendo’s Metroid™ series, is already known as one of the most iconic heroines in video game history. Now, with the launch of Metroid™: Other M for ...

PRESS RELEASE: Bay Area Men and Women Go Head-to-Head in Professor Layton’s Puzzle Challenge

PRESS RELEASE: Bay Area Men and Women Go Head-to-Head in Professor Layton’s Puzzle Challenge

Nintendo Visits Union Square to Find Out Who’s Better at Solving Puzzles – Ladies or Gents? WHAT:           Nintendo is hosting a puzzle challenge to help celebrate the launch of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future™, a new hand-held game created exclusively for the Nintendo DS™ ...

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 ...

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 ...

TRON: Evolution Collector’s Edition Announced

TRON: Evolution Collector’s Edition Announced

More and more games are getting the “Collector’s Edition” treatment as we get closer to the Q4 2010. And Disney Interactive announced this day a large box set that’s available for pre-order right now. For $129.99, gamers will receive alongside the game a “TRON light cycle collectible based on ...

Details of Epic Mickey Collectors’ Edition

Details of Epic Mickey Collectors’ Edition

It would have been odd to see Epic Mickey arrive at retail without a Collector’s Edition, so it comes as no surprise that Disney Interactive has provided details of the Collector’s Edition for the title. So, for $69.99 players will get “the full version of the game, a five ...

Worms Reloaded Review

Worms Reloaded Review

Worms Reloaded marks the series’ long-awaited return to the PC in 2D form, but is largely the same offering as the Xbox 360 release of Worms 2: Armageddon. The game sports full Steamworks-integration to handle multiplayer, stats, and achievements. Personally, I’m sad to report that the game could have ...

Rumor: Microsoft prepping new Xbox 360 controller with improved d-pad for the holidays

Rumor: Microsoft prepping new Xbox 360 controller with improved d-pad for the holidays

We’ve got it on good authority that sometime this Holiday season, Microsoft will launch a new Xbox 360 controller with a rather unique d-pad. According to our trusted source, when one rotates the d-pad ninety degrees on this new controller, it’ll raise up about a quarter of an inch — ...

Sony invites public to God of War documentary taping in Los Angeles

Sony invites public to God of War documentary taping in Los Angeles

If you live in Los Angeles and love God of War, you are in luck. Sony is getting the directors of all of the God of War games so far — that is David Jaffe, Cory Barlog, Stig Asmussen, Ru Weerasuiya and Dana Jan, for those of you keeping score ...