The city of Manhattan will be yours to explore once again.

Side quest, mini-game, and art direction details have been revealed regarding the upcoming Spider-Man game, The Amazing Spider-Man.

In response to a question regarding the number of side missions on the game's Facebook page, the lead designer revealed that players will once again be able to roam around the city as they choose.

Gamers in Japan can get another dose of Kirby next week.

Hoshi no Kirby 2, otherwise known as Kirby’s Dream Land 2, will arrive on February 15 on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in Japan and will retail for 400 yen. Originally released in 1995 and developed by HAL Laboratory for the Game Boy, Kirby’s Dream Land 2 is a follow up to Kirby’s Dream... Read more...

Despite some losses, Sonic Generations and Mario & Sonic provide good sales.

Sega's home video games division posted a 5.1%  loss for the nine month period, which ended on December 31.

In terms of earning, the company reported a net of 63.5 billion yen ($833 million in American dollars) in game sales, while its overall losses totaled 5.5 billion yen. In terms of sales... Read more...

Eight new songs will be coming as paid DLC to Theatrhythm.

The first set of downloadable songs for Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy has been revealed. The songs will be priced at 150 yen (approximately 2 dollars per song), and have been divided between battle and field stage songs. The songs are as follows:

Battle stage songs:

Final Fantasy II: Battle Scene 1

Square Enix's famous musical compositions get remixed by piano.

Square Enix has opened up an official portal for their Final Fantasy Piano Collections.

The Piano Collections feature classic songs from the Final Fantasy games re-interpreted as piano pieces. The new site lists all of their Piano Collections soundtracks. Some of these include Piano Opera Final... Read more...

The 3DS-exclusive title sold 75% of its initial shipment.

Resident Evil: Revelations sold 158,012 copies in its first week in Japan, according to ASCII.

This means that the game sold roughly 75% of its initial shipment since its release in Japan on January 26, 2012. The game is available now in North America, Australia, and Europe. You can read our review of the game here.

It appears that the new 3DS title is coming packaged with yet another bonus.

Kid Icarus: Uprising is coming packaged with six random augmented reality cards out of a currently unknown total when it launches on March 23.

Nintendo demonstrated at E3 2011 that the game uses AR cards to simulate fights between two characters, initiated when cards are placed directly against one another. Other cards feature various weapons and minor enemies. There is no word regarding other potential distribution methods.

Nintendo will be offering two talks, one on the creation of Super Mario 3D Land.

Nintendo will be offering two talks at this year's Game Developers Conference, which will take place on March 5 through 9 in San Francisco's Moscone Center.

The first of these sessions is "Thinking in 3D: The Development of Super Mario 3D Land." The talk will detail how the development of the hit... Read more...

If you don't like your misprinted cover, you can get a new one.

If you want a new cover for your copy of Resident Evil: Revelations, you can now call or e-mail Capcom to receive one, according to a post on their website.

The first production run of Resident Evil: Revelations featured an error on the side of the game case. Instead of "Revelations," the cover... Read more...

Nintendo is using social networking to conduct the promotion.

Facebook users can elect one piece of Xenoblade Chronicles artwork to be featured as a reversible cover when the game releases April 6.

Users can cast their votes by clicking "like" under any of the four images posted in Nintendo's Facebook album. One cover, featuring characters overlooking a mountainous area, is currently leading the vote by about two hundred.

Could the Fame Monster be getting her own game on Wii U?

Lady Gaga: The Experience could be coming to the Wii and Wii U later in 2012, sources speculate.

The rumored Lady Gaga game could be developed by Ubisoft and under the "Experience" banner. The first game in the franchise was Michael Jackson: The Experience which was released for the Wii, DS and 3DS, and in the case of the Wii version, used the Just Dance rhythm engine.

Slay zombies with the power of music!

UFO Interactive's upcoming eShop game is Zombie Slayer Diox, a rhythm-based, sidescroller game in which players take on the role of a samurai guitarist from the future as he kills hordes of the undead with his music.

The game will be developed and published by UFO Interactive and is set to be released in early 2012. Its eShop price hasn't been revealed.

The musical Final Fantasy game will have co-operative modes to participate in.

Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy will offer a multiplayer mode for up to three other players when it is released.

Four players will be able to take on several boss characters from across the series in a new mode called Chaos Temple, where players will be able to discover rare items and gain experience, all while the Song of Darkness plays throughout. Some of these bosses include Omega, Shinryu, and Ultima Weapon.

The two biggest 3DS releases could be expanded upon.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata mentioned the possible idea of paid DLC for their big-name releases at their Corporate Management Policy Briefing/Third Quarter Financial Results Briefing.

Iwata explained, highlighting Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7, how some existing titles could have potentially... Read more...

Skylanders Giants adds 20 new characters, including giants named Tree Rex and Alchemist.

Skylanders Giants, a sequel to the popular Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, is coming out this fall, Activision announced at Toy Fair today.

The biggest addition to the game are the giant characters, which are approximately double the size of regular characters and also light up when near or on the... Read more...

A brand new demo, a double Virtual Console update and burgers. That are this week's Euro downloads in a nutshell!

European gamers can look forward to six new downloads, ranging from a new 3DS demo to a Virtual Console game on both 3DS and Wii, hitting the various platforms this thursday.

On the Nintendo eShop, we begin our journey with a spanking new demo for Crush 3D! Crush 3D comprises over 50 levels of flabbergasting,... Read more...

Gamers in Japan can pick up where they left off from the demo.

The retail version of Denpa Ningen no RPG, the latest work from Genius Sonority Inc., will be able to incorporate save files from the recently released demo version. The demo, which can last from anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour, informs the user that upon saving, their data can be implemented into the final retail version if they decide to purchase it.

Nintendo has applied for rights to a previously-unannounced StreetPass feature... and it might just be in reference to Kid Icarus: Uprising.

A patent application that credits Masahiro Sakarai as inventor details a feature for an unspecified shooting game involving transmission between two systems (StreetPass) and a process for fusing pairs of in-game weapons together.

The application was published on December 29, 2011 and filed... Read more...

1.4 million unsold units and $80 million in potential sales are collecting dust in THQ's inventory.

THQ CFO Paul Pucino revealed that the uDraw performed $100 million below expectations in sales during a February 2 investor's Q & A.

According to the corporate officer, $80 million was lost from the 1.4 million units unsold in THQ's inventory, and the remaining 20 can be blamed on major discounting placed on many of the units that did sell.

The move is part of a "plan of restructuring".

THQ is initiating a 'restructuring plan' which will result in up to 240 job losses and a one-year 50% pay cut of company CEO Brian Farrell, as reported in a recent company financial document.

For the most part, many of the planned cuts will be implemented by March 31, with some being pushed to September,... Read more...