Steve Schardein

Rock Band 2 Wii – More tracks released; Nirvana week!

Any Wii owners out there who also happen to be Nirvana fans?  We thought so. Today, you’ll be pleased to know that seven more Nirvana songs were released as DLC for Rock Band 2 Wii owners.  Check it out: Nirvana – Breed Nirvana – Lounge Act Nirvana – On a Plain Nirvana – Polly Nirvana – Something in the Way Nirvana – Stay Away Nirvana – Territorial P...[Read More]

Dragon Quest V – In stores today! (Celebrate with a massive number of screenshots and videos)

Dragon Quest V is in stores today, and to celebrate, we're posting all of the media we missed before our news section kick-started and became, er, awesome. As such, please find attached an unreasonable amount of screenshots, and an increasingly varied selection of video clips (more available throughout the day, right here in this article). Also, click through to the full version to read the full ...[Read More]

GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned – Special Report News video

Stupid motorcycle gangs, always the source of all the problems.

Starmen.net: Earthbound unlikely to ever see Virtual Console release

Just in case you’ve been waiting to see Earthbound on Nintendo’s Wii Virtual Console, you might want to stop holding your breath.  According to hardcore series fan site Starmen.net, it probably just ain’t gonna happen.  Why precisely is that?  Well, you can blame the same thing you might be able to blame for a lot of America’s problems these days: lawyers. Okay, yes, yes; I...[Read More]

Guitar Hero: Metallica – New screenshots

All-new screens of Activision’s upcoming thrash-fest were just released.  Check them out by clicking through to the full article and then clicking on the image.

God of War 3 – New HD Video Trailer and six massive screenshots!

Massive megaton here: we’ve got all-new, hi-res screens of God of War III.  Plus, we’ve also bagged the HD trailer, and it’s not even available to the general American press yet (this is the European version).  Kick-ass!  First, check out the full screens by using the direct links just below this paragraph. God of War III: Screenshot #1God of War III: Screenshot #2God of War III:...[Read More]

Halo Wars toys: Risk, Mega Bloks, and action figures, oh my!

(picture unrelated – source) I’ll let the press release speak for itself here. Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising Takes Halo® Franchise To Next Level With New Toy Deals Unveiled at Toy Fair CENTURY CITY, CA – (February 16, 2009) – The highly anticipated release of “Halo Wars“, the newest video game in one of the most successful entertainment fr...[Read More]

Nintendo: ‘Surprise’ coming to Wii Shop Channel; Plus, one new VC and WiiWare game

Nintendo announced today two more downloadable games coming to the Wii Shop channel at noon EST.  One of them is Life Force, a classic shmup for the NES developed by Konami.  It's actually a spin-off of sorts from the Gradius universe of games, which already by default makes it awesome.  What puts it over the top is typical of most Konami titles—the soundtrack.  It plays somewhat frequently on my ...[Read More]

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon releases for Nintendo DS today (don’t miss our review, too)

In case you missed it, our huge, in-depth Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon review just went up last night (and this one's written by yours truly, making it even better). For everything you wanted to know about the game, give it a short read. On the other hand, I didn't waste a lot of time fooling around with specifics about the basic gameplay (as it's assumed you know what a tactics game is about if yo...[Read More]

Empire: Total War – Superior Tactics HD Video Trailer

Over the weekend, SEGA released another trailer for their highly-anticipated upcoming RTS title.  The original download was actually huge, so don’t expect to be seeing this on a lot of sites. This trailer is a short walkthrough of a battle hosted by the Battle AI Programmer, which seeks to give you a better idea of how much thought and planning went into implementing proven, historical battl...[Read More]

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

In this remake of the classic NES title, Intelligent Systems seeks to successfully integrate the spirit of the original with nearly twenty years of subsequent gameplay refinements.  Fortunately, what they've come up with is enough to please nearly any tactics fan.

Capcom’s Kawata-san: Personally I would like to create something on Wii in the Resident Evil family

If you’re a Wii owner and incidentally also a zombie-lover, you might be feeling a bit left out, what with all the other console-owners always killing zombies in style, while you’re stuck with the likes of Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop.  Well, don a smile, as there is light (er… dark?) at the end of the tunnel.  Eurogamer got to speak with Capcom producer Kawata-san about the p...[Read More]