“When death smiles, lolis smile back”…again.  Welcome to Hell’s Merry Christmas. The original DeathSmiles was one of the first games from Japanese developer CAVE to make the trip overseas with a full localization, courtesy of niche publisher Aksys Games.  It was also the first game...

It’s that time of the year.  Flowers are blooming, rain is falling, and hardcore gamers are once again whipping themselves up into a frenzy over the industry-wide hype train known as E3. Here we go again. This year’s E3 should be interesting for a variety of reasons.  The industry has seen...

Microsoft finally owned up to the fact that Games for Windows Live is absolute rubbish. Anyone that has been gaming on PC in the last decade knows that Valve’s Steam rules the roost for digital distribution and GFW rolled around a few years after Steam with the release of Vista. Both Vista and GFW...

One thousand bullets:  not in the game itself, mind you – but on the screen all at once.  Welcome to danmaku. Danmaku, literally meaning “bullet curtain,” is a type of arcade top-down or side-scrolling shoot-em-up that pits a player against wave after wave of screen-filling orbs of doom,...

You read that headline right folks!  George Hotz, otherwise known by his notorious hacking moniker Geohot, is getting his legal fees against Sony covered in large thanks to a few friends in Seattle.  But before we dive to much into those details, lets take a look back on all that has transpired on the...

The NPD Group, the group responsible for tracking sales and revenue data for the video game industry in the United States, has expounded upon their earlier top 10 selling games of 2010 list by providing platform specific top ten lists for the past year. While no concrete sales numbers accompany the lists...

What I previously reported as rumor has now been confirmed; A remake of Halo: Combat Evolved is coming this holiday season. Joystiq has learned that the game is being handled by Saber Interactive, whose previous credits include TimeShift, and the upcoming Inversion. The remake will feature an updated...

In a press release sent out this morning, Valve revealed some details about the upcoming cross platform launch of Portal 2. The game will be available on PC or Mac via Steam, the company’s flagship multiplayer and digital distribution platform, as well as the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. In an...

Rumors are flying that a new, old Halo is in development. In a title that would come ahead of the impending sequel to Halo 3, a remake of the original entry in the series is being murmured about as currently in development at Microsoft internal developer, 343 Industries. While no concrete details or...

Against my better judgment, I now own a Kinect. I didn’t intend to buy one, exactly.  It was a perfect storm of a need for a 360 Slim to replace my aging first-generation Elite and a coupon I received in the mail for a $50 gift card from a certain electronics retailer.  I’ve spent the better...