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By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

By Ludwig Kietzmann Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, TGS

By Jason Dobson Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360 Despite originally listing the ability to share Netflix movie rentals among the New Xbox Experience's list of features, it looks like any cross-Xbox Live watch party we had planned for the fifth season of Hawaii Five-O will have to wait.

By Ross Miller Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 An article purported to be from the Associated Press has been floating around today that very casually dates PlayStation's Home for November 19 -- coincidentally, the same day as the New Xbox Experience launch. The origins of this vers...

By Griffin McElroy lt;p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ds/" rel="tag">Nintendo DS</a>, <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag">PC</a>, <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps2/" rel="tag">Sony PlayStat...

By Griffin McElroy Yes, we already knew that there would be a demo for Valve's upcoming co-op zombie survival sim, Left 4 Dead. Therefore, we're not terribly surprised by Gabe Newell's comment to Edge that the demo (which will allow one to four survivors to play through an early part of the game's campaign) wo...

By Griffin McElroy Very few details about the title were shared in the press release the company just dropped, though it was revealed that the story and level design will be crafted by former Creative Director for Naughty Dog, Daniel Arey. Parties who are interested in taking a few bullets for our Commander i...

By Andrew Yoon Filed under: Arcade, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Fighting, TGSFighting games have made a big comeback, and the evidence was clearly seen at TGS this year. Tekken 6's announcement for home consoles is one of the bigger stories on the show floor this year. (Probably because ther...

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By Christopher Grant Shortly after learning that the Flood would be making an appearance in Halo Wars, we were whisked away to a meeting with Ensemble's Graeme Divine where we immediately asked: "Is the Flood a playable race?" As quickly as we asked it, we were answered: no. With an emphasis on the story-driven...

By Christopher Grant Nestled comfortably alongside major content partners like Capcom, Electronic Arts, and Square Enix is the Microsoft booth - a bright white oasis of relatively line-free gaming. Seriously, our wait in the Resident Evil 5 co-op line at Microsoft's booth this morning: approximately fiv...

By Christopher Grant For the first two and a half years of the Xbox 360's lifespan, owners eagerly looked forward to regular "spring" and "fall" updates, packing more functionality into their consoles through (what Microsoft marketing would later call) the "magic of software." With the absence of a spring u...

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By Alexander Sliwinski Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida said in an interview with GI.biz that he'd like the Xbox 360 to succed in Japan for the sake of pushing HD gaming. Yoshida would like to see the PS3 and Xbox 360 be more successful in Japan and getting consumers moving beyond the Wii's dated tech...

By Jason Dobson Those fixes promised for the upcoming PS3 version of Alone in the Dark are substantial. So much so that Atari and developer Eden Games have decided to rebrand their survival horror romp through Central Park with a fiery subtitle, Alone in the Dark: Inferno. Set for release on November 18, th...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online, Rhythm Rumor becomes reality as Mötley Crüe's 1989 album Dr. Feelgood will be available as Rock Band DLC starting next week. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

By Ross Miller Note: Not an actual pirate Before it had been announced as being certified gold, it appears a leaked copy of Fallout 3 for Xbox 360 (and, somewhat surprisingly, not PC) had appeared on the internet and torrent sites. Gamasutra speculates that the leak may have come from the manufacturing p...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 Microsoft has released an official statement stating that the New Xbox Experience will require 128MB of free space (a hard drive is recommended to "take advantage of some new features"). The company also said that "a small percentage of Xbox 360 owners do n...

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By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360

By Jason Dobson Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Fighting Not only does it have Shazam, but Ross as well. No, not that Ross, the other one. Midway announced that the upcoming "Kollector's Edition" of Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe will feature cover art by legenday comic painter, Alex Ro...

By Christopher Grant It will be a standalone disc sold in stores in boxes next Fall. It's also going to include some multiplayer maps.""It is a first-person shooter still ... It's not a squad-based shooter.""As an ODST, compared to playing as in invulnerable Spartan, you are going to have to sort of pick and choose yo...

By Majed Athab Filed under: Features, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, TGS Another TGS means another Closed Mega Theater from Square Enix. So what does the house that Final Fantasy built have hiding behind the curtain this time? It's mostly a long line of Kingdom Hearts titles and the entire know...

By Christopher Grant Were you worried your procrastination would be irrevocable when you learned that Rocky & Bullwinkle - an Xbox Live Arcade title you'd flirted with for months - could have been summarily "delisted" from the 360's Marketplace for no reason other than a horrible review average and a no...

By Randy Nelson The past several weeks have seen a lot of updates concerning the Xbox 360's upcoming interface redux, the New Xbox Experience. Yesterday, we learned that it will launch globally on November 19. We've had the opportunity to take it for a test drive in its current state (Microsoft says that ne...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

By Randy Nelson Hey there, Blu-box. We suppose you've heard by now that Microsoft has denied your existence yet again? It's true. This time, it told Edge Online, "As we've said before, Microsoft has no plans to introduce an Xbox 360 Blu-ray add-on." Now, now, Blu-box. Don't cry. We know that just yesterday it s...

By Alexander Sliwinski Good day, Vault inhabitants. We're happy to report that Fallout 3 has gone gold for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. For those of you currently not stealing the game -- yup, it's up on torrent sites according to many tips, which can stop being sent now, thank you -- the actual release will be the week of Oct. 2...

By Alexander Sliwinski Lionhead announced today that the Fable 2 online co-op patch is locked and loaded on its end for day one of release -- now the developer just needs to get through Microsoft certification. This means when gamers try to enter Albion for the first time in their respective regions (beginning wi...

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By Justin McElroy Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

By Randy Nelson It may be taken off-screen and, as such, not the best quality, but here it is: the first public look at gameplay from Bayonetta, the PS3 and Xbox 360 action title Devil May Cry director Hideki Kamiya is working on for Sega. And ... it looks like it plays a lot like - ready for it? - Devil May Cry. Check o...

By Kevin Kelly Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Fighting, Online, Strategy, TGS Stop your speculating, the Tokyo Game Show gives us all sorts of goodies, like the fact the the Flood is going to be in Halo Wars, which is coming "sometime" in 2009. Our own Chris Grant, esquire is jaunting off to a mee...

By Kevin Kelly Filed under: Arcade, Retro, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Fighting, TGS, Casual Hot from the Microsoft keynote at the Tokyo Game Show comes more retro arcade action. Been jonesing to play more Arkanoid ever since that thing came out back in 1986? It was Breakout on steroids, and ate quarter...

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action No, seriously! We're not sure who exactly was demanding it (we'd like to have a nice, long chat with them, by the way) but a follow-up to actioner 99 Nights -- 99 Nights 2 -- is coming to the 360.

By Justin McElroy You might want to add space trunks to your Christmas lists this year, because according to the Microsoft press conference at Tokyo Game Show, you'll be taking a dip in the Star Ocean: The Last Hope on Mar. 3, just a couple of weeks after our friends in Japan on Feb. 19.

By Randy Nelson Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure If the question were "What would Lara do," the answer would be simple: climb things, flip around, and shoot stuff. Oh, and activate switches. All while looking very pretty, of course. The question posed by Tomb Raider:...

By Jason Dobson Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Driving Jiggers, fellas! It's the cops! Need for Speed Undercover, EA's latest attempt at pulling its arcade racing stable out of a seemingly never-ending tailspin, will allow players on both sides of the law to size each other up...

By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 Pictured above is the Target Chalet [tar-zhay sha-ley], the swanky home of Winter X Games athletes doing business in Aspen and just one of many couture extras to be found in the special "Target edition" of Shaun White Snow...

By Xav de Matos As one of the most anticipated titles of the year, Dead Space is enjoying quite the moment in the sun. Releasing next week for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and later in the month on PC, we had a chance to go hands on with a near-final build of the PlayStation 3 version at the Sony Holiday event in...

By James Ransom-Wiley The drives are rumored to retail at around $100 to $150 in an attempt to cut into PlayStation 3 sales (combine a $150 drive with the Xbox 360 Arcade, for example, and the total cost would be $350). X-bit labs speculates Microsoft may ...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, TGS. click to enlarge. These are terrible. One isn't even of the building, but of the street in front of it! Clearly, after visiting Microsoft's Japanese Xbox HQ and providing you ...

By Justin McElroy As if it wasn't enough to get the chance to spend today playing a fake game of big-head stickball, Microsoft is adding two -- count 'em, two -- additional games to the XBLA service today. First up is Tenchu: Shadow Assault, a multiplayer ninja game of some sort based on FROM Software's long-r...

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, RhythmThe New York Times is reporting that MTV has signed a deal with AC/DC to add an expansion pack with 18 of the band's songs exclusively to Wal-Mart stores in support of the group's new album "Black...

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By Griffin McElroy Update: You're incredibly fired.] DS Lite: 61,242 2,617 (4.10%) Wii: 29,921 235 (0.79%) PSP: 28,674 1,482 (4.91%) Xbox 360: 13,777 14,411 (51.12%) PS3: 8,156 103 (1.28%) PS2: 7,720 51 (0.67%) Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business Update: Gladly. Hey, the Xbox 360 outsold the PS3 for the second week in a row. Looks like Microsoft finally ... developed a ... strategy to ...]

By Joystiq Staff Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360With the industry resting on the edge of the impending holiday, news seems to be a mix of rumors and (this week, at least) unexciting Xbox Live Arcade releases. Maybe everyone figures we deserve a little downtime before the real onslaught begins. D...

By Joystiq Staff Xbox 360 Fancast 083 -- Totally Boned A new buzz word is bornAsk X3F: Microsoft Game Shenanigans edition Is Microsoft Game Studios in trouble? (No.)X3F TV -- XBLA in Brief: Domino Master, Feeding Frenzy 2 If you don't wrangle zombies, who will?Permalink | Email this | Comments

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360

By Alexander Sliwinski It wasn't so frightening when the Xbox 360 outsold the PS3 for a week back when Tales of Vesperia came out, but now that it's sold more than the Wii during the week ending Sept. 14 ... well, now we're stricken with panic. According to Enterbrain, the Xbox 360 sold 28,861 units during the week, while...

By Kyle Orland Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Reviews, Microsoft Xbox 360 The reviews are in for The Force Unleashed, and though the title promises unparalleled Force-based action, it seems that most of the praise being heaped on the game is for its story and how well it nails Lucas' universe.

By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 No one ever said paving Hell's Highway would be easy, but Gearbox has wicked the final bead of sweat from its brow, relieved to announce that the next Brothers In Arms is complete and will ship on September 23rd. Today's definitive confir...

By Griffin McElroy We find ourselves in a predicament, dear readers. As many of you already know, Included in Rock Band 2 is an online World Tour mode, allowing the widely dispersed Joystiq crew to form a musical supergroup the likes of which Xbox Live has never seen before. Unfortunately, we found ourselves a...

By Alexander Sliwinski Giant Bomb (5/5): "... With its large library of licensed master recordings and vastly improved approach to multiplayer play, Rock Band 2 is a terrific value at both ends. It's both a must-own for fans of the genre and a great place for new players to get started."GamePro (5/5): "It's more Rock B...

By Kyle Orland No matter how many times Rare tries to tamp them down, rumors about a continuation of the Killer Instinct franchise continue to surface periodically. This time the rumors come from fan site MundoRare, which received the above photo of purported Killer Instinct 3 sheet music from an anony...

By Kyle Orland Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action After so much hype and so many years in development, many were surprised by the lackluster critical reception for Silicon Knights' Too Human. Count among the surprised Epic Games' Cliff "Don't call me CliffyB anymore" Bleszinski, who de...

By James Ransom-Wiley Building on reports of an impending Xbox 360 price cut, which allegedly will drop the Arcade SKU below Wii to $199, comes the reemergence of Microsoft's elusive motion controller, now rumored to be included with the Xbox 360 Arcade this ...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Also allowed to open her mouth in the press release: Jenny McCarthy, who plays Allied commando Tanya. "What I realized is Red Alert 3 is not just a video game, it's absolutely an interactive movie. This is where the people at home get to move the story forward, and where seeing the plot thicken...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure, RPGs, Metareviews It's been almost ten years since we first saw Too Human at E3 1999, at that point reportedly a 4-disc action adventure for the original PlayStation. In that time, the game has jumped to GameCube and then to Xbox 360, re-...

By Joystiq Staff It really feels like this week belongs to Xbox Live Arcade. The whole month really, considering a slew of AAA titles are on the way. This week we got Bionic Commando Rearmed, which is everything a Bionic Commando fan could hope for. If you haven't already, definitely give it a try. You can check o...

By Jason Dobson Jonathan Blow's masterwork, Braid, has quickly become the water-colored poster child for indie game development. However, while both critics and players alike have been singing the game's praises since it was released a week ago, there are some things that Blow wishes would have turne...

By Joystiq Staff Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360Not a whole lot going down in Xbox 360 land this week. Oh sure, there are rumors of price cuts, but nothing really solid to latch onto. Except Braid. In short, Braid is an absolutely brilliant game. You should go buy it. Seriously. We'll wait. It is short, sweet and won...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360

By Ludwig Kietzmann IGN (88/100): "Xbox Live Arcade needs more games like Braid. Heck, gaming on all platforms needs more titles like this. Imaginative, innovative, and engrossing, Braid is a spectacular achievement. If only the experience lasted a little longer and there weren't as many puzzles with singu...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Adventure

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 Oh yes, we got to play Spore. The entire thing. With Will Wright providing backseat commentary. We also got some time with the Wrath of the Lich King's Death Knight, and DS Fanboy decided to play Homie Rollerz (so you don't have to)....

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 A multi-instrument Guitar Hero World Tour means only one thing: more plastic controllers strewn about our living room. So goes the life of the virtual rocker. Check out all of our impressions and reviews from t...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 The biggest event of this past week was Capcom's Captivate event, where they showed off a handful of games from the surprisingly good Neopets Adventures to the expectedly-good Bionic Commando....

By Ludwig Kietzmann IGN (92/100): "This is easily one of the best RPGs on the platform in recent years, delivering a terrific new universe, a fun blend of action and role-playing, and a deeply satisfying story. If you have any love of science fiction or space opera, then you owe it to yourself to check it out. Ther...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure

By Richard Mitchell It's time for the X3F Week in Review, kiddies. This week we've got yet another new batch of our recurring features. We suggest taking a look at the latest Community Content in particular, which features a Halo 3 map that has day and night cycles. Mix that with Ghost Town and the Infection game ty...

By Alexander Sliwinski Carjack a vehicle and call your favorite escort, it's time for the GTA IV reviews to start flowing in. The embargo on non "exclusive reviews" is over and media outlets are chiming in with initially glowing reviews. Here are some of the first we've seen, we'll add more after the break. GameInfo...

By Griffin McElroy Is it too early to say that we're beginning to see a pattern develop here? We know that a mere handful of reviews for Rockstar's latest opus have been published, but should the current trend continue, Grand Theft Auto IV could be the subject of more perfect scores than 1976 Olympic gymnast N...