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...

First, a confession:  I don’t like Monster Hunter.  I did spend some time with Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, but issues with the battle system along with obscurity regarding what I needed to do to advance made the game tedious and difficult to enjoy. My feelings about the Monster Hunter franchise...

Square Enix announced today that their latest attempt to cash in on the Final Fantasy brand will be ready for release on April 19th when Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection makes its way to the US. The latest PSP release of the Super Nintendo classic will skip the 3D graphics of the recent DS title...

Like it or hate it, Japan has been a portable-driven market over the last few years. HD consoles have been relatively ignored by the masses, while the DS and PSP have gobbled up the lion’s share of hardware and software sales. There has already been a lot of discussion among both Eastern and Western...

The Sony NGP has gotten under our skin (of course it has — we’re gadget whores), and we’re looking forward to playing PSP games on it as well as whatever new stuff developers and publishers can create for it. Sony would like it to be backward compatible as well, which means that the UMD...

Those unfamiliar with the Square Enix tax probably aren’t purchasing titles on the DS from the Japanese publisher. Square Enix tends to “value” their games above other releases on the handheld, and thus prices them accordingly between 34.99 and 39.99 as opposed to...

A Square Enix press event held today in Japan has opened up a floodgate of new information concerning the high profile publisher/developer’s upcoming lineup of titles. Although a recent trend has seen SE put a focus on their newest (and largest) subsidiary THQ, this press event was pretty much...

When Final Fantasy XIV, the sequel to Final Fantasy XI, was announced at E3 09 there seemed to be a little ‘friendly’ competition between the development teams of XIV and XIII about whose title would be superior. Surprise! Looks like Final Fantasy XIII won. Square-Enix announced that the...

A few times during each generation, a game comes along that leaves a real impression on me.  Generally, these kinds of games fly under the radar. A game with no hype to its name, and no marketing push to speak of. Perhaps the game happens to be in a genre that is not considered exceptionally popular at...

Gamers everywhere were intrigued when they first heard the concept behind Kane and Lynch. There is nothing like a good crime game and the multiplayer modes seemed extremely promising. You and your buddies try and rob a bank with one of you being a snitch. The robbers had to rob the bank while trying to...