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PlayStation Store Update: PSP Game sales and Inferno Pool (November 1 to 7, 2009)
This week’s first featured downloadable game is Inferno Pool for $9.99 on the PS3. But this isn’t the old school game of pool we all know and enjoy. In fact, this game takes pool to a whole new extreme challenge for up to four players. The next downloadable game this week is Zombie Tycoon for $7.99 for the PSP…
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Important Importables: 100 interesting games you must import to play
Important Importables celebrates its 100th column by listing 100 interesting games you can only play if you import them from Japan or Europe. Each game is accompanied by a brief description.
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EA’s Peter Moore says disc-less consoles a decade away
Everybody’s talking about digital download but EA Sports’ Peter Moore said the future of digitial download is not now…
Nintendo recompenses Wii Internet Channel buyers with free NES games
Back on September 1, 2009, Nintendo made a benevolent announcement. All Wii owners would henceforth be able to download the Internet Channel, which was previously $5/500 Wii Points, for free. It was a wonderful announcement, and all the people who didn’t feel like paying $5 for an internet browser, myself… Continue Reading »
Console Classix relaunch results in more gaming options for users
If you’re without a Wii, it also means you’re without Virtual Console, one of the few means of playing classic video games you may not be able to play anymore. Fortunately, websites exist online where you can subscribe to get access to these games and play via your computer, and… Continue Reading »
Important Importables: Celebrate Hello Kitty’s 35th anniversary with 35 Hello Kitty games
On November 1, 2009, Hello Kitty celebrates her 35th birthday. Funny, she doesn’t look that old. It’s also her twin sister Mimmy’s birthday too, but she’s not the famous one so nobody really cares about her. She’s just part of the entourage. Anyways, in honor of Hello Kitty’s 35th, Important… Continue Reading »
Netflix on the PS3, Nintendo Wii and (eventually) your brain
FROM GADGETELL - Netflix is already on the Xbox 360, lots of media players, and, of course, on your computer. It probably comes as no surprise that the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, says that he wants Netflix on the PS3 and the Wii one day. Eventually we want to be on all… MORE »
The 5 best Tales Of… games ever released stateside
Namco Bandai’s Tales of series hasn’t been developed in North America, Europe and other regions the way it has in Japan. We’ve never seen any of the DS entries (Tales of Tempest/Tales of Innocence/Tales of Hearts), didn’t catch the Game Boy Advance Narikiri Dungeon or Summoner’s Lineage spin-offs and weren’t… Continue Reading »
How To: A modern guide to Sega’s Dreamcast
In light of this year’s Dreamcast anniversary I’ve decided to write up a guide for many of you who either are just diving into Dreamcast or rejoining the Orange Swirl Society. I’ll try to cover as many aspects as I can about the system but if I miss some burning… Continue Reading »
Getting in the 9/9/09 mood with nine appropriately titled games
Today is one of those special days. It’s September 9, 2009. Seems ordinary enough, unless you look at it like this: 9/9/09. People are throwing special parties, the movie 9 opens in theaters today, Apple’s releasing the Beatles’ music catalog digitally today, Beatles Rock Band debuts and a select number… Continue Reading »
GameStop’s quarterly profits drop, company continues with planned expansions
The Ft. Worth Star Telegram reports that Grapevine, Texas-based retailer Gamestop’s quarterly net profit dropped 32 percent for the company’s second quarter. GameStop CEO Daniel DeMatteo blamed the recession and a so-so gaming lineup in the first half of 2009. “Due to the effects of the recession and strong prior… Continue Reading »
Comic Con 2009: Gettin’ telekenetic with Mattel’s Mind Flex
Have you ever thought you had telekinesis? Well it turns out everyone does! I didn’t believe it myself until I tried out the new Mind Flex game by Mattel at Comic Con this year. I was introduced to a nice man who told me I was about to play a… Continue Reading »
Open Plea: Sony, please drop the PS3’s price, the industry needs it
Contrary to what we were reporting this time a year or so ago, the game industry is not recession proof. Video games just took their biggest monthly sales drop in nearly a decade. Even GameStop, a company that has been able to do no wrong financially, is feeling it. In… Continue Reading »
Important Importables
Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.
