So what does the end of the world look like in the future? Well, thanks to the reporting of Chris Remo, we can get a feel for just what it was like as aliens consumed the world of Tabula Rasa.

It is probably safe to say that, despite decades of ever more spectacular Hollywood visions of extra-terrestial domination, humanity in its worst nightmares never imagined it would have to contend with spawn-camping aliens.

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Adding to further prove that the video game industry isn’t completely immune to the current economic climate, Midway may be looking to sell off it’s successful and iconic Mortal Kombat franchise. As reported over at Gamasutra, Midway has been seeing some financial turbulence over the past years that finally lead to a filling for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

It looks like nintendo has finally decided to offer a first-party solution to the ridiculous classic controller attachment solution. As of now there is no solid information regarding pricing, release date, or whether or not it is even planned to come to the U.S. One has to wonder why Nintendo has taken this long to release this sort of product seeing as how the Wii is over 2 years old now. Either way, this looks to me like a very solid design that should make it much more enjoyable when playing your retro games on your Wii. And seriously, barring first-party titles, is there anything other than classic games that get played heavily on the Wii nowadays?

Your kids played the crap out of Wii Sports years ago and they’re starting to get tired of Wii Fit, Raving Rabbids and WarioWare. Could Neighborhood Games be the mini-game collection to keep the kids happy until the next big Wii release? The answer may not surprise you. The answer is a resounding “NO!” Everything about this game is awful. Read the rest of this entry »

Today Capcom announced the start of it’s viral marketing with an update to the Resident Evil 5 Kijuju website. Here is the official announcement from Capcom. Are you really all that surprised that Resident Evil 5 has a “viral” marketing campaign? Umbrella Corp. must be watching you! Read the rest of this entry »

From the handful of reviews I’ve read, most would agree that the movie Hotel for Dogs is mostly harmless that will be loved by young, while anyone over the age of 12 will not be able to stand. I’m not sure if I can be that nice to the game.

Hotel for Dogs stars two orphan kids named Bruce and Andi who are running from the police. Why the police are chasing the kids in the first place is never explained in the instructions (and there is no way I’m going to watch the movie) so I had to assume they raped and killed an old lady. Ha ha, rascals. So the kids find a hotel full of dogs and say “Hey, let’s make a hotel for dogs.” Blah blah, insert stupid preteen love plot, blah blah, crap comparing stray dogs to orphans, blah! Read the rest of this entry »

Based on some newly released news, it looks like we will have to wait for 2010 at the earliest to get to finally play the highly anticipated Final Fantasy XIII. “Square Enix’s highly-anticipated Final Fantasy XIII won’t launch outside Japan until 2010 at the earliest, says Square Enix president Yoichi Wada.” While I am not surprised to see that Japan once again will get this title before the U.S. as it has with every other previous franchise release, I would like to note that it has been 3 years as of this March since Final Fantasy XII released. Read the rest of this entry »

It would appear that the old Infocom/Activision adventure game classic Zork is being reborn as a casual browser based MMO. While I never really played the original Zork titles when they were first released (due to the fact that I was not even born till 1983), I did dabble in a variety of text based adventure games including Zork as I grew up, including some of it’s graphical releases during the 90’s. Read the rest of this entry »

It looks like Funcom will be dramatically reducing the number of servers for its latest MMO release, Age of Conan. Based on the merge list released it looks like the number of available servers will shrink from 49 to 18. Although Age of Conan was amazingly well recieved, it has struggled to maintain it’s playerbase for a variety of reasons. Even more interesting is this is the global list and only 6 of the remaining 18 are U.S. servers. Read the rest of this entry »

In a continued effort to move toward community building, we have decided to add a forums section to the page. Please feel free to swing over and check them out, register, and get started posting. As demand increases we will be implementing a wider variety of forums based on what users tend to feel necessary. In addition, we are always looking for new contributors for the site and becoming active in the forums community is a great way to start getting involved. Enjoy!

As of this posting, the official Final Fantasy XIII Japanese site is up and available. Although there aren’t any new trailer’s posted there are a good number of screenshots available and character sections for three of the games characters. Having been fortunate enough to attend the E3 when they first unveiled Final Fantasy XIII some 3 years or so ago, I must say that I am relieved to see that they are actually making some progress in getting the game ready for release. Read the rest of this entry »

As if we hadn’t already had a good enough chuckle regarding outlandish patents this week; Jumping into the pool of generally outlandish and ridiculous patents is Nintendo, who recently filed for a patent “Computer-readable storage medium having game program stored therein, and game apparatus.” For the rest of the world that aren’t fluent in “overly complicated and unnecessarily specific and ridiculous patent terminology and idea transfer methods (read: language),” this basically means that they are trying to patent the idea of pre-recorded in-game walkthroughs. Read the rest of this entry »