The celebrated film director discusses the creation of Boom Blox.

Boom Blox is a game franchise overseen by Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg, who has forged an impressive partnership with game giant Electronic Arts. This new trailer feature the directing legend talking about Boom Blox's creation and what has been added to the sequel.

Boom Blox Bash Party is available now.

Nintendo's CEO talks about the company’s fiscal prudence despite its incredible success.

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata is at the helm of one of the biggest videogame companies in the world. He's overseen revolutionary hardware and software launches that have changed not just the industry, but its consumers as well, and his company has just posted record financial results in the wake of a... Read more...

Wii Remote to be integrated into the gun itself.

Penguin United has announced the Crossfire Remote Pistol, the first Gun controller that builds a Wii Remote into its design. Hoping to alleviate the button placement and Wii Remote integration issues found in other controllers, the Crossfire Remote Pistol re-positions the A and B buttons and the D-pad for better and more comfortable control.

Proceeds to go to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

On June 5 The Returners will host a 48-hour gaming marathon featuring all three Super Smash Bros. games. The event will raise money for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. During the events the participants will collect as many trophies as possible, and will take challenges for every 5 dollars that are donated.

EA releases a bunch of Wii games, Nintendo's Punch-Out!! hits, and 25 more songs get added to Rock Band 2's Wii Music Store.

The Wii gets a lot of love this week with the releases of Nintendo's Punch-Out!!, EA's Boom Blox Bash Party and EA Sports Active.

The DS gets a few release of its own, such as the delayed release of Empire Interactive's Jagged Alliance and Koei's Puchi Puchi Virus.

Guitar Hero: World Tour gets another three songs from European bands, and Rock Band 2 adds a whopping 25 songs for the second week in a row.

The Grudge will haunt your Wii this October.

XSEED has announced that they have partnered with AQ Interactive to secure the rights to bring JU-ON: The Grudge to North America. The game is inspired by the horror movie The Grudge. Billed as a “haunted house simulator” due to its focus on scaring players, it also tries to keep the game accessible so that anyone can play. The director of the movie, Takashi Shimizu, is serving as creative director for the game.

Nintendo's Australian branch details the price and launch dates of the upcoming game and peripheral.

Nintendo of Australia recently announced the price and release date of Nintendo's latest peripheral, Wii MotionPlus, and Wii Sports sequel Wii Sports Resort. The standalone peripheral will be released on June 11 with a price of $29.95 AU or $39.00 NZ.

Wii Sports Resort will be available on July... Read more...

Last September's musical WiiWare title is getting a full-blown retail disc release with new features and content. There will also be an iPhone version.

Zoo Publishing recently announced that Groovin' Blocks, a rhythm puzzle game that originally debuted on WiiWare, will be available for purchase in stores, later this year, in both Europe and North America. To entice owners of the WiiWare version, the retail release is slated to include all new levels and music.

Nintendo bundles all the Metroid Prime games into one Wii-controlled package.

Today, Nintendo announced that they are planning to bundle the Wii versions of Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption this August.

Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, originally for the GameCube, will be enhanced with precise Wii Remote controls, a widescreen presentation, and other enhancements like they were in the Japanese Wii de Asobu Metroid Prime

Harvest Moon: Animal Parade for Wii and Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands for DS add new features to the Harvest Moon series and will both be playable at E3.

Today, Natsume officially announced two new Harvest Moon games that will be released before the end of the year. Harvest Moon: Animal Parade for Wii will be released in the fall, while Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands for DS will be released this summer. Both games will be playable at E3 in June.

Sega shows off the MotionPlus-enhanced controls in Virtua Tennis.

Sega's Virtua Tennis 2009 will be the first Wii title ever to support Wii MotionPlus. To show off the new controls, Sega has released a new trailer that shows off the MotionPlus-enhanced controls and how it affects gameplay in real time.

Virtua Tennis 2009 will be released in early June.

The reinvention of the Tony Hawk franchise will feature a new peripheral.

After almost two years of absence from the industry, Tony Hawk returns to the gaming world in Tony Hawk Ride, which promises to reinvent the franchise with bold new controls.

Players will now be able to physically interact with the game thanks to a new wireless peripheral that is currently being... Read more...

Sega's safari-themed arcade game returns in updated form.

Today, Sega announced that Jambo! Safari Animal Rescue will be arriving on the Wii and DS late this year. In 1999, Jambo! Safari was first released as an arcade title powered by the NAOMI arcade board, which is based on Dreamcast technology. Players will once again find themselves in the role of a safari park ranger who must rescue and care for animals, except this time with updated graphics and more depth than its arcade predecessor.

The publishers of Oblivion and Fallout see the potential on Wii.

According to GamesIndustry.biz, Bethesda is planning to bring more Mature-rated titles on Wii.

"We are going to make an announcement on a really big Wii game this year," said Bethesda's European managing director Sean Brenan. "We've got a couple of other things in the pipeline, and it's a format we're really looking at with the right approach."

Over 70,000 copies sold in the title's second month of release.

According to NPD sales numbers, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has enjoyed a healthy second month of release. The game sold 74,000 copies in April, which is slightly smaller than the title's March debut of 89,000.

The announcement of Chinatown Wars'first month sales surprised many fans and... Read more...

Despite all the copyright issues, the big Capcom fighter will invade America.

Today, the official Capcom blog confirmed that Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars is coming to North America. The July issue of Nintendo Power will have an article about the title and more information will be revealed at E3 next month. For those keeping score, this is the first of two mystery games that will be at E3.

Majora's Mask becomes America's 300th Virtual Console title, an Art Style game arrives on DSiWare, and WiiWare gets both a tower defense sequel and a chess game.

North America has just received its 300th Virtual Console title, and in that landmark title you have just three days to save the world.

However, those who've played The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask on the Nintendo 64 will remember that those three days are revisited and replayed over and over... Read more...

A video on Nintendo's Japanese Wii website reveals two more sports for their upcoming game.

According to a video on the Japanese Wii website, Table Tennis and Golf will both be featured in Nintendo's upcoming MotionPlus-featuring game, Wii Sports Resort.

Golf was previously available in the first Wii Sports, and Table Tennis was featured in Wii Play. Both games will be improved by Nintendo's new peripheral Wii MotionPlus.

Famitsu reveals Dragon Quest Wars, a strategy game developed by Intelligent Systems.

Famitsu recently revealed a new entry in the Dragon Quest series, Dragon Quest Wars. Unlike the main entries of the series, Dragon Quest Wars is a mixture of a board game and a strategy game. It is being developed by Intelligent Systems, who are known for developing strategy games such as Fire Emblem and Advance Wars.

Wii gets Guilty Gear, Help Wanted, and more while Konami's Magician's Quest Mysterious Times leads the charge on DS. Twenty-five songs hit Rock Band 2 and three more get added to World Tour's store.

This week's Wii lineup is headlined by Akysys Games' fighting game Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus and Hudson's mini-game collection Help Wanted.

On DS, Konami's Magician's Quest Mysterious Times, THQ's Desktop Tower Defense, and more see release this week.

Rock Band 2 sees a whopping 25... Read more...