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Fez Coming to Xbox Live Arcade Early 2010

Of course, it was already obvious that the Xbox 360 was going to be at least one platform of choice for Polytron's upcoming title Fez due to the ickle A buttons displayed on past screenshots.
Now Phil Fish has announced that their incredible-looking platformer will be coming to an Xbox near you early... Read more

Marvelous May Bring Its Wii Games To PS3, Xbox 360 [Marvelous Entertainment]

Japanese publisher Marvelous Entertainment hasn't seen the success on the Wii that it might have envisioned. Releases like No More Heroes, Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Arc Rise Fantasia haven't captured the Wii audiences attention just yet. What to do?
How about porting some of your Wii misses to the... Read more

New Astro Boy Game, New Screens, New Impressions [Impressions]

The Wii version of the next Astro Boy game showed up in New York a couple of weeks ago. As of July, we can cover it. Click the thumbnails. Look at the screens. Read my notes. All at once.
(Really, click to expand. I'm trying something new here by doing a preview as a series of captions.)
The next Astro... Read more

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Jul 2 The Video Game Yearbook [High School]

When I graduated from High School I didn't do anything worthy of compliment or insult, not true of our favorite video game characters.
Game Daily has compiled a list of what moniker's our favorite video...

Jul 2 Wii Sports Resort Jet Skis Past The Competition In Japan [Sales Get!]

You may already know that Nintendo's sequel to the best-selling game of all time, Wii Sports, is already on its way to being a blockbuster in Japan. It sold 360,000 copies week one, five times more than...

Jul 2 Nintendo Buys A TV Show [TV]

You've played Nintendo games. Now get ready for a Nintendo television show, as the Japanese gaming giant have bought themselves a British gaming show.
And that show is called "Britain's Best Brain". While...

Jul 2 Mother Sells Nintendo Wii Her Son Stole, Now Arrested [Crime]

Three teens swiped a neighbors Wii and enlisted the help of a mother to pawn the stolen loot.
Joshua Carter (18), Patrick Early (16) and Derrick Henson (13) have all been arrested on felony charges for...

Jul 2 Learn StarCraft From A "Full Blooded Korean" [Oddities]

There's lots to learn about in StarCraft. The entire nation of South Korea seems fixated on the game — with tournaments and TV programs. You could say it's the country's national (digital) pastime...

Jul 2 Xbox 360 Game Creation Tool Kodu Now Live - Got Any Ideas? [User-generated Games]

Microsoft's picture-based 3D game programing tool was launched yesterday. Tell the world what you're making.
During the Game Developers Conference, I had a chance to try Kodu, a programming tool created...

Jul 1 Independent Games Summit @ GDC Austin Reveals First Speakers

[We're starting to announce the content for the first-ever Indie Games Summit @ GDC Austin, and though this is only about a third of the total lectures, you can see it should be a hopefully interesting...

Jul 1 So Why Didn't Wii Ghostbuster Copy The Cartoon? [Important Question]

For anyone growing up in the 1980s, cartoon The Real Ghostbusters was quality Saturday Morning television. It seems like it would be perfect fodder for the Wii version of the Ghostbusters game.
When asked...

Jul 1 The Great Xbox 360 Robbery [Canada]

Last Sunday, the city of Mississauga in Southern Ontario, Canada was the scene of a mass Xbox 360 theft.
A truck carrying over 1,300 Xbox 360 consoles was stolen from a trailer yard at 4 AM. The total...