Trademark filings have become a great source of advanced industry information as of late – and videogame journalists like myself love to make use of them. Recently, industry giant Sony filed a new trademark for a product or service called… Read More »

Happy Cinco de Mayo from the land of classic videogames! This week’s Virtual Console update isn’t exactly the celebration of victory one might be hoping for, however, as it features a lackluster addition to a genre whose concept has been… Read More »

Wii Paint?

What else can the Wii do? That is one question that the brains behind Operation: Nintendo Wii seem to constantly be asking one another. We’ve already seen things like the Wii Wheel to mimic real-world driving, gun-shaped peripherals and realistic… Read More »

Valkyria Chronicles battle gameplay

For those of you who haven’t heard of it, Valkyria Chronicles is an action-oriented RPG from the same people over at Sega who brought us Skies of Arcadia for the Dreamcast. This PS3 game looks like a 3D moving watercolor… Read More »

Ubisoft has announced that the next Prince of Persia game will be hitting the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 in time for this year’s holiday season. It will not be entitled Prince of Persia Prodigy, as trademark information led… Read More »

The Guardian, a UK-based newspaper, available online, published an article yesterday in which author Richard Bartle sends a clear message to all the grey-haired, ancient-thinking, anti-gaming journalists and politicians in the world. That message is that gaming is here to… Read More »

Prototype gameplay montage

While everyone is gearing up for Grand Theft Auto 4, news about other games is being overshadowed by that mega-release (which, of course, drops tonight at midnight). Well here’s a look at another game set in New York City, or… Read More »

Nintendo must be hurtin’ for new (old) content, because we are again seeing a one-game update to the Virtual Console library. I am willing to let this one slide, though (I dunno what I could really do about it anyway),… Read More »

Valve’s Doug Lombardi recently told the gaming press that gamers shouldn’t be expecting more of the critically-acclaimed Portal in 2008. "In typical Valve tradition, it won’t be Portal with different colors. I think that when you hit something like that,… Read More »

Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer

There are a few certainties in life. One of those is the fact that whenever a Metal Gear Solid trailer is released, I will take the time out of my busy, busy schedule to increase my burning desire to play… Read More »