I will be one of the first to admit that when I heard about Pirates vs. Ninja Dodge ball, I was genuinely intrigued and interested.  Unfortunately, the game is very quick to disappoint on any expectations you may have had.  Which is unfortunate, as this game could have been a very fun Xbox Live Arcade title. The game, as the title suggests, features Pirates and Ninjas playing dodge ball against each other, as well as Robots and Zombies. It has 3 different modes in Singleplayer, Multiplayer and Co-op, each of which has its own game types. Read More...

DirectTV's new host for Blizzcon 08! - Becky 'Aktrez' Young! If you were not able to snag up a Blizzcon ticket in the first go around, you were most likely sad. Then there came the second boost of tickets that flooded the market and got snagged up in mere minutes. So I bet you were sad again. Then Blizzard responded with, "Well if you can't be there in person, then we will televise it for you, for a small fee." So then you could be a bit happier. But then they just announced something that should make this site a bit happier about that. Read More...

Yesterday, the 29th, was the 12th anniversary of the N64 and I completely forgot all about it. I wish I knew ahead of time so I could celebrate by playing all the great games I grew up with. But cheers to Nintendo for bringing 12 years of epicness into our lives and we the Nintendo fans hope to see another 12 years of great success. Read More...

PS3 owners who are desperatly waiting to play Bioshock will get a little taste of the action very soon. According to official word from 2K Games, Bioshock has officially gone gold and will be releasing a demo this Thursday in the Playstation Store. The full game hits retail in North America on October 21st and goes global on October 17th. Note that there are really no changes from the 360 version to the PS3, except graphics wise. Read More...

It's been about 10 years since we first saw Banjo-Kazooie on the N64. Now coming this November fans of the bear and bird will get to play through the game once again on the Xbox Live Arcade for 1,200 ms points. Banjo-Tooie has also been confirmed to hit the arcade sometime next year. Here the list of achievements if you're interested in adding 200 points to your gamer score.     Get Jiggy Collect 2 Jiggies 10 Mumbo Jumbo Transformed by Mumbo for the first time. 10 Knock out Nipper Come out on top in a dust-up with Nipper the crab. Read More...

LittleBigPlanet And The "Beta" Hype Let me warn you now before you read on, THIS IS A RANT. More than anything at least. But it should be a good one. <RANT> So I'm sure that most of you have heard about the "limited" "beta" keys that Sony is handing out for their new game LittleBigPlanet. If not, Check It Out Here. But for now I will assume that you have. Read More...

The latest installment of the popular Japanese RPG Tales series, Tales of Vesperia, has arrived on the Xbox 360.  The world of Terca Lumireis is one of which that depends on ancient technology known as Blastia.  Blastia is utilized to perform various tasks from helping to boost combat skills, using magic, dealing with daily activities and work, or even protecting towns from monsters.  The protagonist in Vesperia is a young man named Yuri, whom deviates from the J-RPG stereotype. He isn't whiny or immature, but instead has his own sense of justice and takes matters into his hands, but is very caring even though he tends to not let it show. Read More...

Jack Thompson Disbarred That's right, one of the main thorns in the side of the video game community/industry has just been permanently disbarred as well as having to pay hefty fine by the Supreme Court of Florida. All of this for inappropriate conduct when filing his flagrant charges against Game, TV, and Music companies for their "Questionable" material in their formats. Some of these of course being against South Park and Grand Theft Auto. Now, granted, he has 30 days to appeal this disbarment and such, but he still has the sanction of that he cannot submit this to the court himself. Read More...

The Bungie countdown has ended, and with it releases a new teaser trailer.  Set in a futuristic city, you are looking through a camera at various areas when pods drop from the sky.  When the cameras are brought back online, you see destruction and damage everywhere. Cut to "Halo 3" and after which the camera itself is hit by a pod, and the video cuts to "Prepare To Drop". According to Xbox Live Marketplace description, this appears to be a new Halo 3 Campaign Experience.  Look for more info as it is released. Read More...

Pokemon Platinum, the third game in the Diamond and Pearl series, was recently released in Japan. During the first days of it's release it sold nearly 1 million units. In one weekend it sold over 963,000 copies, all for the Nintendo DS. This made Pokemon Platinum the fastest selling Nintendo DS game ever. The Pokemon series has a long history of being extremely successful, especially in Japan. The game still has no confirmed released date in America. Read More...

The Punisher: No Mercy Coming Exclusively to PSN So there was a tease a week ago on the Marvel site about something with the Punisher franchise. I wasn't too sure what to make of it until I spotted this on the Playstation Blog this morning. There is going to be a PSN exclusive all about the Punisher called, Punisher: No Mercy. Totally awesome. From what they have released, so far, it is a FPS all driven through the Unreal Engine. Read More...

Everyones favorite badass is now making his way onto the Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 microsoft points. The game will feature 8 player co-op and "dukematch" over xbox live, User Clips where you can share, upload and post clips to the leaderboards, rewind time on death, unlockable concept art and more. Read More...

Age of Booty - " Fileplanet has opened the seven seas for captains and unsavory crew to brave the choppy waters and help test Age of Booty." There you have it, you can now start to plunder all the booty you want. This RTS is sure to be a hit, considering your able to go around as pirates and pillage everything in sight. Here are some system requirements so you can see if you can run the beta. Single player and multiplayer real-time action strategy from Certain Affinity, lead by Max Hoberman, designer of Halo 2 and 3’s multiplayer gameRaid villages, sink merchants, steal gold, and upgrade your pirate ship to help send your foes to the briny deepMaster twenty-five unique multiplayer maps or create your own and share them with friendsEnlist help from fellow buccaneers, with up to four players on one console, and eight players over LAN or the InternetCountless customizable options to make your ship and crew the most feared scallywags to ever fly the Jolly RogerMinimum System Requirements:ATI Radeon 9600 / NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800Windows XP sp2 or VistaDirectX 9. Read More...

Motorcycles Finally Implemented In The Wrath Beta This morning I woke and decided I was going to see if the WotLK Beta was up and running, servers were down last night, and got welcomed by a new patch for the Beta. Figured ok can't be much more than fixes that have been reported. Well I found out not to long ago of something that got implemented in said patch that has me raring to go home tonight. A Motorcycle as a mount. Yes, you read that. Read More...

LittleBigPlanet Trophies Revealed So here we go with another set of trophies for you PS3 users out there. Might I add, finally a game I will own that has trophies. Finally! But enough about me, lets continue forth with what the skinny on this is. For the most part, it seems pretty straight forward. Complete levels here, place stickers there. Even a dash of get a crazy multiplier. Read More...