The highly anticipated fighter gets some box art; enjoy.

The Tournament of the Iron Fist comes to the 3DS -- a bunch of screenshots were released by Namco at Gamescom, check'em out...

The Ridge Racer franchise rolls on with Unbounded.

The screenshots do not do the game's difficulty justice, I think it's safe to say :)

Namco released a lot of new media for Gamescom, here are some new SoulCalibur V screenshots for your enjoyment.

Screenshots for Inversion that were released by Namco this week.

Enjoy...

Namco has released these first screens of Ace Combat 3D, enjoy.

When this arrives I probably will never see my Macintosh again, as my kids will have it taken over.

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Namco's upcoming third person action title is looking quite good...

Namco released some new screenshots for Ace Combat: Assault Horizon today at TGS.

Namco announces its step into the world of Kinect with Body & Brain Connection, screenshots en-tow.

Sega's upcoming Kinect-exclusive Sonic title gets some new screenshots at TGS. Enjoy!

Okay -- so the Kinect is growing on me...

The Mega Man franchise continues to expand -- look on with these new screenshots from TGS.

I still can't decide if I'm comfortable with the 'new' Dante or not... hrm.

Well... count me officially interested in this game!

Is anyone not looking forward to this game??

Some new screens for the sequel to the very popular downloadable remake...

The upcoming NDS title is looking nice -- check out these new screenshots of Okamiden.

Your weekly dose of Nintendo Download is waiting for you below:

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Official details are below:

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All you One Piece fans should be excited -- if you're on PSN, of course. Check out the new art and screenshots for Namco Bandai's PSN exclusive One Piece: Pirate Warriors. Enjoy the pics to the right and below:

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Ohhhhhh.... this is gonna be good, hopefully. Check out the screenshots to the right and the info below. Enjoy.

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Get those wings flapping, Kid Icarus fans.

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Official details are below. Enjoy.

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The second episode of Sonic 4 is available now on PSN, XBLA, and Steam with the iOS version coming out May 17th.

It's already that time of year again. FIFA Soccer 13 has some new things in the works. Official details are below:

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More delightfully delicious screenshots from Theatrhythm Final Fantasy. Enjoy.

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A nice set of additions to the library. Official details are below:

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I like the look of this game. Check out the pre-order incentives. Official details are below:

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Enter the world of DARK...

Now this is badass box art. Enjoy.

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I'm going to have to pick a DSi XL up now. Enjoy the official news of the price drop.

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Your official Nintendo Download is ready. Enjoy the read.

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One of the most hotly anticipated games this holiday is going to be delayed until late February next year...

Sony's innovative multiplayer shooter, evolved from Warhawk, has arrived.

Can't wait to play this game. Saw it demo'd two E3s ago. Official details of the demo is below:

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Official details are below. Hopefully we can get this sucker and get it reviewed.

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Raptr Rewards looks to be a very nice 'rewarding' project. Gamers should take note and read the official details below:

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Well, well, would you look at that: Sony's posted updates to the driver download page for a yet-to-be-announced-in-America Vaio VPCZ1390X notebook PC.  That would be the update to the venerable Z-series (last seen as model Z12), as I'm sure all you wealthy gamers out there are already aware.  This is Sony's no-compromise ultraportable that has seen rave reviews (and just a few criticisms) in years past.  Hopefully we'll also see some pricing drops on items such as SSDs, but seeing as this is Sony we're talking about, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Full specs follow (as we've seen thus far from the drivers page):

Ntreev Announces Big Content Update For Trickster Online - The Wedding System

Official MLG news below!

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I attended a Q&A conference call regarding Bioshock 2 yesterday with several members of the game's development team. On the call were a lot of media outlets like Digital Chumps, and these folks from 2K and Digital Extremes:

Jordan Thomas – Creative Director, 2K Marin
Zak McClendon – Lead Designer, 2K Marin
Hogarth De La Plante – Lead Environment Artist, 2K Marin
Mat Tremblay – MP Art Director, Digital Extremes
Jesse Attard – MP Lead Programmer, Digital Extremes

As most of you know, 2K Marin is handling the single player portion of the game, while Digital Extremes is putting their strong multiplayer experience to work in adding a multiplayer component to Bioshock for the first time. Dozens of questions were asked and answered, and following is a breakdown of the notes I took during the call. Enjoy, and be sure to come back for our full review of the game in about a week!

Much turmoil has ensued surrounding Seagate's drives this year, with many claiming that they're outright unreliable in the face of (seemingly) hundreds of thousands of them exhibiting a specific "click" and "freeze" behavior on various laptop models in which they happen to be installed (including, but not limited to, MacBook Pros and Dell Studios).

Now, today, Dell has released firmware updates for the drives to supposedly fix the issue.  These fixes pertain to the following notebook models, per Dell's update site:

If we could figure out how to link directly to the Dell download page, we'd do so.  But until we figure that out (as apparently it's dependent upon session IDs, or maybe I'm just stupid), here are the direct links to the downloads.  Please keep in mind you will need to burn the firmware update to a CD and boot to it to install it.

There are two different fixes; one for the models with the G-Sensor, and the other for drives without the sensor.  This confirms that the sensor has nothing to do with the problem (as was previously theorized by some):

For drives WITH G-Sensor:

Firmware 4SDM1 or 5SDM1 fixes clicking noise on Seagate 2.5" 7200RPM HDD's Model #'s:

80G - ST980412ASG DP/N FC63Y
160G - ST9160412ASG DP/N C384R
250G - ST9250410ASG DP/N C385R
320G - ST9320423ASG DP/N C386R
500G - ST9500420ASG DP/N D111N

For drives WITHOUT G-Sensor:

Firmware 4SDM1 or 5SDM1 fixes clicking noise on Seagate 2.5" 7200RPM HDD's Model #'s:

160G - ST9160412AS DP/N J423T
250G - ST9250410AS DP/N K556T
320G - ST9320423AS DP/N F729T
500G - ST9500420AS DP/N G629T

We are attempting an install now and will report back with our findings.  Meanwhile, does the fix solve the problem for you?

I attended a conference call today with Erick Boenisch (Lead Feature Designer) and Rob Jones (Gameplay Director) who have been working hard on the 10th anniversary edition of 2K Sports' NBA 2K series. NBA 2K10 is set to take the court next week and will once again be facing rival franchise NBA Live from EA Sports, although the 2K series has been the champ for several years now. Numerous questions were posed and answered by Erick and Rob today, and following are the highlights that I took note of during the conference call.

Kotaku has got some gameplay footage of Diablo III, from Gamescom in Germany. Still no word on a release date for is going to be a huge PC title.

The link: http://kotaku.com/5340525/thirty-seconds-of-diablo-iii-gameplay

We've spent some time this week with the new Map Pack for CoD: WAW. Adding three new multiplayer maps, a new zombie survival challenge, and ten new Trophies/Achievements, this is a fairly substantial update for the continually popular WWII action game.

Following the (effective) death of the Wii verison of the game, we were interested in what exactly Tecmo's upcoming Tecmo Bowl iteration for Xbox Live Arcade might include.  Upon inquiring as to whether it'd merely be an updated port of the NES original or instead a remade version with enhanced presentation (as per many of the Live Arcade games), Tecmo had to say to us:

"...we’re not sharing details yet, but given the target audience and platform, Tecmo realizes that many of gamers would like to play the NES original as well as an updated version of it."

They also warn that they won't be announcing anything on the title at E3, so we'll have to wait for a while to hear more.  We'll keep you updated.

Such is the risk of saturating your library with non-games meant for grandmothers and gifters.  Tecmo confirms the latest casualty in the Wii WIP camp: Tecmo Bowl Wii.  Previously known to be in development for the console and expected as a 2009 release, a Tecmo rep has now confirmed to G4 that the project has been mutated into the considerably less-interesting Family Fun Football, a game that--preconceptions be damned--has "shovelware" written all over it.

"As much as we’d like to say this [Family Fun Football] is a completely different game, it did start out as the 'Tecmo Bowl Wii' project," a Tecmo spokesperson told me this morning. "However, given the recent trend on the Wii and its target audience, Tecmo made a business decision to switch the project into a family oriented football game. So then what happens to Tecmo Bowl? For now, we're focusing on bringing Tecmo Bowl to the Xbox LIVE Arcade [in] early 2010."   [G4]

The (only) good news is that we'll now be seeing Tecmo Bowl on Xbox Live Arcade.

We'll have more on this development as it takes place.