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Mega Man: Dual Override Announced
A brand-new Mega Man is now (kinda) on the horizon, slated for 2027, we will finally see the return of the series ...
Marvel Cosmic Invasion PS5 Review — Shines Like An Infinity Stone
Marvel Cosmic Invasion brings the classic 2D beat 'em up full of bright and colorful Marvel characters to modern systems with the most evolved gameplay yet ...
Katsuhiro Harada Leaving Bandai Namco At The End of 2025
Katsuhiro Harada has made the decision to leave Bandai Namco at the end of the year after a whopping 30 years ...
Canceled Debut Deviation Games PS5 Exclusive Leaks Online
Draconis, the "groundbreaking AAA new IP" from Deviation Games has seen some footage leak following getting canceled ...
Rare Tips Their Hat To Banjo-Kazooie Dreams Fan Game
Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbomania might not be a new official entry, but this Dreams fan game got the attention of Rare... and got complimented ...
Top 10 Greatest PS1 Game Openings
The PS1 was home to so many great games, but it feels like everyone forgets one defining thing; great intros ...
ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN Gets a Release Date
Romeo Is A Dead Man is launching early 2026, with its official release slated for February ...
Is It Still Worth Collecting for PS1 in the UK in 2025?
One of the key factors that has ensured the longevity of video games is collectors. As the hobby has become more popular, a market has risen to accommodate the growing interest in retro video games. With collecting being more popular ...
How Cryptocurrency is Reshaping Global Finance
Cryptocurrency has evolved from a niche investment into a global financial powerhouse. As governments, businesses, and consumers integrate digital assets into everyday transactions, crypto’s role in shaping economic systems continues to expand. In 2025, crypto is influencing multiple industries, from ...
Tips About Esports Betting on Competitive Video Games as a Beginner
Esports betting merges the excitement of competitive gaming with strategic wagering. To get started, choose a reliable betting platform that offers a variety of esports markets and quick payouts. Understanding the different bet types, such as match winners and exotic ...
Why Risk-Free Gaming Is Exploding in 2025
In 2025, gaming is undergoing a significant transformation towards risk-free access and experimentation. Players seek more freedom and control, leading to an increase in short session and skill-based games. Trust becomes vital, as players prefer platforms that allow them to ...
BALL X PIT Breaks More Sales Numbers Than It Has Monsters In A Month And A Half
BALL x PIT has broken a new sales number, additionally a roadmap for its trio of free updates and support through 2026 ...
Reviews
Marvel Cosmic Invasion PS5 Review — Shines Like An Infinity Stone
She’s Leaving PS5 Review
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Demonschool PS5 Review — Addictive But Disjointed
The Outer Worlds 2 Is Aggressively Mid [PS5 Review]
Ninja Gaiden 4 Is Bloody Great… As Long As You Ignore The Story
Codemasters Offers Cool Download
Codemasters is offering gamers something to toy around with as they await the launch of the psionic thriller Second Sight. An e-toy based on Second ...
The NPD Group has released its monthly sales chart for July 2004. Madden should shake up the August chart when it's released next month, but ...
Here they come -- the fall game season always kicks off with sports games leading the charge. The past few weeks, it was ESPN NFL ...
Blockbuster has sent along its list of top renting games for the week ending August 15, 2004. The top 10 were: 1. Madden NFL 2005—PS2—Electronic ...
Sega has announced that they've shipped Astro Boy for the PlayStation 2 and Astro Boy: Omega Factor for the Game Boy Advance. Based on Osamu ...
Namco has shipped its third-person action/adventure, Ghosthunter, to retailers nationwide. The PS2-exclusive follows the story of rookie Detroit cop Lazarus Jones and his partner Anna ...
Street Fighter Controller At Blockbuster
NubyTech today announced a deal that will see Blockbuster exclusively launch one of four series of Street Fighter Controllers for the PlayStation 2. This special ...
Internet-based videogame rental company GameFly has released its list of top renting games for the week ending August 16, 2004. The top 10 were: 1 ...
SCEE And Evolution Join Forces
SCEE and Evolution Studios have announced a new partnership that will see the developer of World Rally Championship (WRC) series develop games exclusively for SCEE ...
ESPN College Hoops Cover Athelete Announced
ESPN Videogames announced that Josh Childress, former Stanford University guard-forward and first round pick of the Atlanta Hawks, has been selected as cover athlete for ...
Media Create Top List for Week Ending 08-08-2004
Media Create has released its list of top selling video game software and hardware (in Japan) for the week ending August 08. No surprises. The ...
Classic Mortal Kombat Games Coming to PS2
Like the classic Mortal Kombat games? Midway will re-release the first three games in the series this fall as bonus pack-ins or as parts of ...
Cheap PS2 Games At Toys ‘R’ Us
Word on the 'net is that Toys 'R' Us brick-and-mortar stores have marked down all clearance video games by 50%. (e.g. you won't get the ...
PlayStation Banned in Sweden’s Prisons
Here's some news out of Sweden... Swedish papers are reporting that the Swedish Prison Service has banned PlayStation and other computer and video games in ...
Sony is adding seven new games to its equivalent to the "Greatest Hits" line in Japan. The following games will be available for $25 or ...
Ben Wallace, ESPN NBA 2K5 Cover Athlete
ESPN Videogames (formerly Sega Sports) announced today that it has selected Detroit Pistons center Ben Wallace to adorn the cover of the upcoming ESPN NBA ...
Paul Oakenfold to Supervide GoldenEye Music
It seems like every announcement from Electronic Arts this week has been about music. Here's another... EA announced today that world-famous DJ and musician, Paul ...
Rentrak has released its Top 10 list of video game rentals for the week ending August 7. No big surprises here. Next week's list should ...
Vivendi Universal Games announced today that the epic film Scarface, is coming to game consoles worldwide. Developed by Radical Games and published by Vivendi Universal ...
Colin McRae Not Coming To PS2?
It looks like Colin McRae 2005 won't be coming to the PS2 after all. According to multiple websites, Codemasters' own site is saying the game ...
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection Preview
Scheduled release date: August 31, 2004 Greetings fellow game-o-philes, let's re-ignite this previews section by taking a look at Capcom's upcoming Street Fighter Anniversary Collection ...
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced today that Getaway 2: Black Monday, the upcoming sequel to 2003's Getaway, has had its US release date pushed back ...
Kingsley, Loken Cast for Bloodrayne Movie
Director Uwe Boll believes strongly in game-to-movie adaptations. Boll recently directed "House of the Dead," based on the Sega video game, and the upcoming "Alone ...
Well, knock us over with a feather... Namco announced today the upcoming U.S. release of Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut and Böse (pronounced boo-zuh) ...
Ubisoft Announces New Ape Escape
Good news for fans of good games--Ubisoft has announced that it will release the third installment in the Ape Escape series this October. The last ...
EA Announces Music Line-up for FIFA 2005
Electronic Arts today announced the in-game soundtrack for the 2005 edition of FIFA Soccer, the world's best selling football video game franchise. FIFA Soccer 2005 ...
NBA Live 2005 Will Have 3 Cover Athletes
EA Sports confirmed today what many of us have suspected for weeks (thanks to an EB Games gaffe)--Carmelo Anthony will appear on the cover of ...
Sony to Put PS2 Chips Into TVs
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, one of Japan's most respected business papers, is reporting that Sony plans to install PlayStation 2 game console chips in flat-panel ...
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 Event in SF
Atari (formerly Infogrames) will be holding a special event to unveil the latest installment in the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai franchise -- Dragon Ball Z: ...
Signaling the start of football season, Electronic Arts today announced that Madden NFL 2005, the flagship EA Sports videogame and the largest-selling franchise of all ...
Conspiracy To Publish PS2 Games
Conspiracy Entertainment today announced that it has received its Playstation 2 Licensed Publisher Agreement from Sony Entertainment Europe. The agreement will allow its newly founded ...
GameFly has released its list of top renting games for the week ending August 9, 2004. The top 10 were: 1. Spider-Man 2—Xbox—Activision 2. Spider-Man ...
Gran Turismo 4 PSP To Be PS2 Quality
The PSP isn't due out for at least another 9 months, so it's not like we can verify when a developer makes lofty claims about ...
Media Create Top 10 for Aug 1, 2004
Media Create has released its lists of Top 10 Weekly Software Sales and Console Sales for the week ending August 1, 2004. Software 1. GBA-Final ...
Midway Games CEO David Zucker, speaking at RBC Capital Markets' North American Technology Conference, stated Wednesday that Midway plans to release a seventh installment in ...
Gamesindustry is reporting that Lara Croft creator Toby Gard joined Crystal Dynamics to work as a senior designer on the next Tomb Raider title - ...
Free Premium Content for Madden NFL 2005
EA Sports announced today that purchasers of the upcoming Madden NFL 2005 football game will receive a free subscription to EA Sports' Premium Pass. Right ...
Here's one from the morbid file... London's Daily Mail newspaper is reporting that interest in and sales of Rockstar's ultra-violent Manhunt have skyrockted, likely due ...
Sonic Mega Collection Plus game list
Sega released for the GameCube nearly two years ago. The PlayStation 2 version of the compilation, called , is slated to come out this November ...
Home Video Essentials (a division of Rentrak Corporation) has released a preliminary list of the top renting videogames for the week ending August 1, 2004 ...
Some industrious person has gone and made themselves a portable PSone unit called the Palm PSone . This guy actually took apart a couple of ...
Pixar and THQ today announced an exclusive publishing agreement granting THQ the rights to four upcoming Pixar animated feature films. Under THQ's existing agreement with ...
Silent Hill 4 Soundtrack To Be Released
Konami has announced that they will be giving away the soundtrack to Silent Hill 4: The Room for anyone who pre-orders the game. The soundtrack ...
At a funciton for Blu-ray Disc Founders, Sony announced that they will be using Blu-ray Discs in their next-generation console. Sony has invested heavily in ...
Shellshock: Nam ’67 Gets A Date
Shellshock: Nam '67 was delayed earlier this year, but Eidos has now announced new street dates for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC game. The ...
If you think you've got the skillz to pay the billz, then you might want to look into the 2004 EA Sports Madden Challenge, which ...
Koei has announced that Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires has gone gold for the PlayStation 2 and will ship on August 31. DW4: Empires is being ...
Graphics: 9.0 Gameplay: 8.7 Sound: 8.6 Control: 8.9 Replay Value: 8.6 Overall Rating: 8.7 Online Gameplay: Not Rated Publisher: Sega Developer: Visual Concepts Number Of ...
It looks like the theory that all ESPN videogames will be relesed at $20 is becoming a fact, as Sega has confirmed that the upcoming ...
It looks like 989's hockey franchise is shaping up as "The Great One," Wayne Gretzky, will be the cover athlete and spokesperson for an all-new ...
Cool Bonus for Shadow Hearts: Covenant Pre-orders
Midway today announced its official pre-order campaign for Shadow Hearts: Covenant. Consumers can now pre-order Covenant from selected retailers and receive a copy of the ...
Graphics: 8.0 Gameplay: 8.0 Sound: 8.0 Control: 8.0 Replay Value: 9.0 Overall Rating: 8.2 Online Gameplay: Not Rated Okay, look, I love baseball and happen ...
The show won't air until this Friday, August 6 at 8:00 PM ET, but you can see the 2004 G-Phoria (worst name ever) winners right ...
Online rental company GameFly has released its Xbox heavy list of top renting games for the week ending August 2, 2004. The top 10 were: ...
Eidos has announced that Championship Manager 5 will, for the first time ever, be released on the PlayStation 2. Championship Manager 5 will be available ...
Media Create has released its weekly list of the top 10 selling console software titles in Japan. Here is the company's full report, covering the ...
Gallop Racer To Hit Stores In August
All you horse racing fans that have been clamoring for another sim; it's your luck day. Tecmo will release the latest entry in its Gallop ...
Here are the top ten rentals for the week ending 7/25/04 as provided by Home Video Essentials, a product of Rentrak Corporation. Don't be alarmed ...
Midway announced that its sci-fi first-person shooter, AREA 51 is now scheduled to ship the first half of 2005. Midway decided to give AREA 51 ...
Manhunt Being Pulled Off Shelves In England
Many people speculated that it was just a matter of time before Manhunt caused a big stir in the general public, and it looks like ...
SCEA discussed some stats about online play in its PlayStation 2 title SOCOM II: U.S. Navy Seals. Sony stated that since May 1 of this ...
ELSPA has released the latest UK Leisure Software Charts compiled by Chart-Track. The table shows the top 20 selling software titles in the U.K., across ...
Sony Releases 1st Quarter Results
Sony has released their financial results from the first quarter of the current fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2005. If you like numbers, please ...
Gamedaily is reporting that Electronic Arts has agreed to buy Burnout developer and middleware provider Criterion Software Group Ltd. Under the proposed deal with Canon ...
Following the title announcement of the Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith; movie, LucasArts revealed today that it will release the Star Wars: ...
Electronic Arts announced today the development of NFL STREET 2, scheduled for release in early 2005. The title is being developed by EA-Tiburon for the ...
Backyard Wrestling 2 Soundtrack Information
Eidos has released their list of songs that will be included in the Backyard Wrestling 2 soundtrack. Last year's game was quite heavy on the ...
NCAA Football 2005 Selling Well
While they haven't said exatcly how many copies it has sold, EA says NCAA Football 2005 videogame sold 50% more copies in its first week ...
Bad Boys: Miami Takedown Announced
Seemingly going with the theory that "any license is better than no license", Crave Entertainment and Empire Interactive will team up to co-publish the videogame ...
Fix Coming for ESPN NFL 2K5 Online Problems
It looks like loads of people have taken Sega up on their sexy $19.99 price point for the recent ESPN NFL 2K5. The glut of ...
Delays for Monster Hunter and Street Fighter Anniversary
With little fanfare, Capcom has pushed back the release dates for two of their much-anticipated PlayStation 2 products. Monster Hunter , a squad-based shooter set ...
More Info On Playboy: The Mansion
Groove Games has announced that Playboy: The Mansion will feature celebrity guests Carmen Electra and Tom Arnold on its interactive game play roster, and that ...
Scheduled release date: Fall 2004 A game from Activision that nobody knew much about, but one that ended up being pretty popular at E3 was ...
GameFly has released its traditionally Xbox-heavy list of top renting games for the week ending July 18, 2004. The top 10 were: 1. Spider-Man 2 ...
Stop the presses - or don't, EA Canada is currently developing the third game in its arcade-style basketball series, NBA Street. NBA Street V3 is ...
Graphics: 8.5 Gameplay: 8.0 Sound: 8.0 Control: 9.0 Replay Value: 8.0 Overall Rating: 8.3 Online Gameplay: Not Rated Publisher: THQ Developer: Volition Number Of Players: ...
Media Create Units Sold July 12-18 2004
Japanese tracking firm Media Create has release its sales numbers (units sold) for the previous week (July 12 through July 18). The list really doesn't ...
NPD TRSTS Video Game Sales Data for June
The NPD Group has released its monthly sales charts for June 2004. Top 20 Best Selling Video Game Titles June 2004 1. SPIDER-MAN 2: THE ...
Electronic Arts has renamed its NASCAR videogame series in order to reflect changes made on the NASCAR circuit as well as the “revolutionary additions” the ...
Electronic Arts has today announced the release of Catwoman for all platforms. The game is of course based on the Catwoman motion picture starring Halle ...
Top Renting Games from Home Video Essentials-Rentrak
Home Video Essentials (a division of Rentrak Corporation) has released a preliminary list of the top renting videogames for the week ending July 18, 2004 ...
Electroic Arts Announces Q12004 Financial Results
Electronic Arts today announced financial results for the fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2004. Highlights: Net revenue for the first quarter was $432 million, ...
NPD Reports Sales Down in First Half 2004
According to The NPD Group, retail sales of U.S. console and portable video games hardware, software, and accessories saw a decline of 2.5 percent during ...
Mod Chip Sales Ruled Illegal in UK
Wuh-oh! Looks like it's going to get tougher for Brits to get mod-chips for their PlayStations. Numerous UK sources are telling us that the British ...
Eurogamer.net is reporting that they contacted SCEE about Amazon.co.uk's listing for "NICO" the presumed sequeal to Ico, and were told the following: "SCEE has yet ...
Activision Releases Financial Details
Activision has released financial details from the first quarter of its 2005 fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2004. Net revenues were an all-time first ...
ELSPA has released the latest UK Leisure Software Charts compiled by Chart-Track for the week ending July 17, 2004. 1. Spider-Man 2—Activision 2. DRIV3R—Atari 3 ...
Take-Two Interactive has announced plans to publish a Spring Break-inspired game this summer under its Gathering label. The game is due out in August and ...
We have to thank NBC Affiliate, WAVE 3 , of Louiseville, and reporter Eric Flack, for introducing us to this story... A Louisville, Kentucky woman ...
Graphics: 7.7 Gameplay: 6.9 Sound: 6.9 Control: 8.7 Replay Value: 6.9 Overall Rating: 7.3 Online Gameplay: Not Rated If you've been a gamer for any ...
KOEI to Publish Samurai Warriors Xtreme Legends
KOEI today announced that it will publish SAMURAI WARRIORS XTREME LEGENDS in North America. The expansion pack, which can also be played without the original ...
Capcom has announced the release of Crimson Tears, a futuristic 3D action game for the Playstation 2. Gamers can operate three inhuman “biological war weapons” ...
ESPN Videogames has announced that they've shipped ESPN NFL 2K5 to North American retailers. The title will be available in stores on June 23 for ...
BAM! Entertainment, Inc. today announced that development on Bujingai: The Forsaken City is complete and that the game will be shipping to retail on July ...
Graphics: 3.0 Gameplay: 2.0 Sound: 1.0 Control: 1.0 Replay Value: 1.0 Overall Rating: 1.8 Online Gameplay: Not Rated Publisher: Conspiracy Entertainment Developer: Treasure Number Of ...
Tomb Raider VII might be coming summer 2005
Eidos has previously confirmed that a seventh Tomb Raider game was in the works. But no date has been set. Or has one? Top Cow ...
NCAA 2005 on pace to outsell NCAA 2004
Reuters is reporting that sales of EA Sports' NCAA Football 2005 are up 50 percent in the first week compared to first-week sales of last ...
Activision to publish games based on American Chopper
Activision Value Publishing, a division of Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), today announced a multi-year alliance with Discovery Consumer Products to develop and distribute video games ...
In last week's poll we asked, "what kind of gamer are you?" From your responses, we gather that most of the people that visit PSX ...
Graphics: 8.5 Gameplay: 7.5 Sound: 8.0 Control: 8.0 Replay Value: 7.8 Overall Rating: 8.0 Online Gameplay: Not Rated In the 90's, arcade basketball was big ...
