Fifty different versions of the classic board game Monopoly

Before they can battle Tekken, the Street Fighter characters must brawl to be number one.

Halo. The most prestigious, the most loved, the most grandiose shooter franchise of all time. It is said that console shooters would be nothing if it weren’t for Halo. Halo: Combat Evolved is to console shooters what Half Life is to PC shooters.

When EA first announced that it would begin to charge $10 for gamers that bought their titles used and attempted to play online, it apparently started something that may now become the future of online gaming, at least in Sony’s camp.

Some clever person in Portland has decided to paint Mario Kart iconography into one of the citys bike lanes. The mayor should give that person the key to the city.

IndieCade, the annual festival of independent games, has announced the finalist titles for its 2010 event, taking place from October 8-10 in Culver City, California.

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PSP bounced back to the top of the Japanese hardware chart during the week ended August 29, according to data from sales tracker Media Create.

Boosted by the launch of the software chart-topping Monster Hunter Diary, which was also released as part of a new PSP hardware bundle, weekly sales of Sony’s portable doubled to 50,000.

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The Federal Court of Australia has issued a permanent injunction ruling that the PS Jailbreak modchip for PS3 can’t be sold or imported into the country.

The ruling follows a temporary injunction enacted last month. Defendants OzModChips, Global Solutions International, Ryan Emmanuel and Ken Tolcher have now been forced to remove the device from sale.

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The Army and Air Force Exchange Services have requested that upcoming shooter Medal Of Honor be pulled from sale at retail stores operating on United States military installations worldwide.

The move was made after it came to light that Medal Of Honor’s multiplayer mode will allow players to assume the role of Taliban soldiers fighting against US ones.

The retail outlets affected include 49 GameStop stores located on military bases in the US.

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Format: Wii Release: Out now Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Nintendo / Team Ninja Screenshot gallery

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Stéphane D’Astous, general manager of Eidos Montreal, discusses the development of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and how the fledgling studio was able to staff up and tackle such a challenging project.

Unsure if Google Docs is the right way to manage online collaboration with your video game team? This article takes a hard look at its strengths and weaknesses, offering examples, praise, and criticism.

Telltale designer Dave Grossman says gaming’s limited appeal could come down to “some very basic assumptions we make about the audience versus the actual thought processes of that audience.” So he tested Sam & Max on his mother-in-law.

Does the Golden Ratio have application in game design? These two trained artists — Rob Kay, lead designer of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and Andy Tudor, lead designer on Need for Speed: Shift, follow classic art training — so they may know what they are talking about.

Following Atlus’s announcement of a merger into its parent company Index Holdings, you may have been concerned about the state of the developer and publisher. “But what of our RPGs about super-stylish high school students?,” you may have asked. “Any news about my beloved sci-fi surgery simulators?” “Will I still have dungeons in which to crawl?” Atlus USA president Shinichi Suzuki issued a statement today to allay our fears. ” We want to assure our fans and affiliates that Atlus remains in operation and will continue, as always, to support our beloved community with the finest quality game experiences possible,” Suzuki said. You can read the full statement after the break, then take a sigh of relief and get back to your everyday life of wondering when Atlus USA is going to announce a localization of Catherine.

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There are a total of 630 products being shown at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, nearly 40 percent more than the 456 products shown last year. However, while there’s a lot more on show, it’s surprising to see which genres are dwindling down. For example, there are half as many RPGs this year as last (dropping from 52 to 26). Japanese publishers are showing significantly fewer sports and puzzle games this year, as well. On the upside, there’s an increase in shooters (from 10 to 19) and a shocking number of peripherals: 157. Certainly, the release of PlayStation Move, Kinect and the upcoming 3DS must have something to do with that figure! Most exciting of all is the mysterious “Other” category, which has dramatically increased from 103 to 226. Does this mean we’ll see more innovative, genre-bending titles out of this year’s TGS? Or, will it mean we’re going to see a lot more Square Enix perfumes? See the full rundown of genres for this year versus last after the break.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 is little over a month from launch and during my time playing it here at PAX, it was pretty obvious how far along the game has come. LucasArts has shown the same area of the game both at E3 and Comic-Con, but now it’s been fleshed out and, more importantly, we were finally able to play it.

Gallery: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2

Fluidity, the new WiiWare game Nintendo is showing off at PAX, looks a lot more interesting than you’d expect from a game about tilting containers to let water flow. For one thing, the containers in question are whole rooms set inside a comic book, filled with puzzles that require you to squirt, freeze, melt or otherwise manipulate water to complete them. For another, the water animation is mesmerizingly pretty. PAX attendees have the opportunity to swish around in Fluidity for themselves, but the rest of us will have to be content with the trailer after the break and the screens in our gallery.

Gallery: Fluidity (WiiWare)

While demoing Retro City Rampage, one of the PAX 10, its creator Brian Provinciano revealed to Joystiq that the game would likely launch in December of this year. Up until now, all we had was a tentative Q4 2010 window — Provinciano nailed the last month of the year as being an optimal time to subject the world to his experiment at seeing how many inside jokes he could fit into a single game. WiiWare is currently the only platform, though Provinciano noted that he was currently “in talks” with Microsoft on bringing the game to XBLA. PSN was also on the table, he offered. A PC version would be out of the cards for “at least a year.” Provinciano began the game as Project Grand Theftendo, where he sought to create an 8-bit version of Grand Theft Auto 3 that ran on the NES. We’ll have a preview of the game soon.

Gallery: Retro City Rampage (WiiWare)

PAX 2010: Former GameSpot editor-in-chief, Red Alert 3 producer, and 2K Games publishing producer talks about the interaction between the three game-industry factions.

 

Who was there: Former GameSpot editor-in-chief, EALA line producer, 2K Games publishing producer, and current Super Giant Games creative director Greg Kasavin.

What he talked about: Greg Kasavin gets around. GameSpot’s one-time editorial leader, Kasavin left the games journalism beat after 10 years in 2007 to join Electronic Arts’ LA studio, first ushering Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars to the finish line and then contributing to C&C: Red Alert 3’s development. With EALA’s operations in flux following Red Alert 3’s lukewarm reviews, Kasavin left the publisher in 2009 to join 2K Games publishing arm, overseeing teams that included Yager’s Spec Ops: The Line.

Just this week, Kasavin moved onto his new role at startup Super Giant Games, which is developing the action role-playing game Bastion. Nonetheless, he took the time to take the 2010 Penny Arcade Expo stage to recount his experiences in a session titled “Memoirs of a Triple Agent.” After giving a brief rundown of his various roles in the game industry up to this po. […]

Check out the second movie in the Auto Log series for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

 

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Check out the latest trailer for The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood .

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Check out this trailer showcasing Rock Man in Mega Man Universe

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Check out this gameplay movie for Mega Man Universe.

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Inversion (X360)The spiritual successor to TimeShift under the spotlight.

Inversion (PS3)The spiritual successor to TimeShift under the spotlight.

Castle Crashers (PS3)The four knights finally make their PS3 debut.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (PSP)Unravel the aftermath of the Keyblade War in this engaging prequel.

This year NBA Elite 11 introduces a singleplayer “Become Legendary” career mode. The crux of your advancement seems to be outperforming the best player on opposing teams, according to this video examining the mode’s matchups. More »

It’s late at night, and it seems the logical time for news of a free to play Tribes-alike shooter to appear in our inbox. It’s Firefall. It’s being shown at PAX. It’s got a beta sign up over on the official site. It’s looking pretty good. There’s ten minutes of game footage embedded below. More […]

I can’t think of a more charming way to hawk HAWX 2, much as I’d be enormously surprised if the upcoming combat flight simette sequel had anything like the sense of humour of this 8-bit official demake. Or maybe 16-bit. I don’t know. The number doesn’t matter: it’s HAWX re-imagined as a vibrantly silly vertical […]

UPDATE: CONFIRMED! And due for release next year. Wowsers. Initial picture proof (Thanks to these chaps.) And here’s more. And more. And more. Honestly: it’s real. Video stream on the ongoing PAX announcement below, including attendees actually playing it with their actual hands. Pigs flew after all. ORIGINAL:The hot word on the hot street is […]

Dungeon Siege III reveals its first in-game footage today, and you can see it below. The game being developed by Square Enix and Obsidian asks you to “rebuild the once great Legion and stop Ehb from falling into darkness.” And ohmygosh, it looks a bit brilliant. I really want a party-based hack-n-slash just now. Especially […]

I’ve figured out why I’m playing StarCraft 2 online. It’s for the rush. Not the Abrupt-Wave-Of-Units kind of rush. What I mean is that a match of StarCraft 2 will have my heart performing drum solos, and it’ll pluck my taut nerves like violin strings. The game’s been designed for this. What’s forgotten in the […]