Taito fans will be happy to hear that many of the company's most popular franchises, including Rainbow Islands, Space Invaders, Bust-A-Move, and Arkanoid, are heading to DS and WiWare with brand new features and stages.

Yesterday, Taito announced that Arkanoid Plus!, Bust-A-Move Plus!, and Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure! are heading to WiiWare. In addition, the company finally announced that the DS games, Space Bust-A-Move and Space Invaders Extreme 2, will be released in North America.

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A ton of new information about Guitar Hero 5 was recently unveiled including the release date, names of many of the musicians providing songs, and the ability to play a single song with four different drum sets simultaneously.

Activision revealed on the Guitar Hero 5 official website that the upcoming rhythm game is debuting on September 1, which is about a week before MTV Games and Harmonix's The Beatles: Rock Band. The site also provided new information on the gameplay and some of the 85 bands participating.

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Sonic and friends return to the racing genre in a new game that features online play, and special power-ups and weapons.

Sonic the Hedgehog is no stranger to racing games, having appeared in Sonic R on the Saturn and the Sonic Riders series. Today, Sega revealed that Sonic is ready to race again in the new game, Sonic & SEGA All-Star Racing, which is slated to appear on all major platforms including Wii and DS.

The two new trademarks hint at possible future releases, one of which could be the follow-up to Wii Fit.

With E3 2009 a week away, two new Nintendo trademarks have appeared that may indicate what Nintendo will reveal at their press conference.

The first of these is Wii Fit Plus. While the sequel to Wii Fit has been rumored for a while now this is the first time concrete proof has been shown in the form of an English logo.

The world's a stage in the sequel to the hit Balance Board-enabled snowboard game.

Ubisoft has announced that they have once again partnered with Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White to release Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage, the sequel to last year's hit Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip, a title that has sold over three million copies worldwide.

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The Conduit developers are working on a Left 4 Dead and horror film-inspired online cooperative first person shooter.

Earlier this week, High Voltage Software unveiled a brutal fighting game called Gladiator A.D. Last night, they revealed their other major Wii project, The Grinder.

The Grinder is a cooperative first person shooter where a team of four people fight hordes of enemies, similar to the popular game... Read more...

A crazy new platformer that features five distinct worlds, music from the composer of Earthworm Jim, and world-rotating high jinks.

Majesco recently announcedFlip's Twisted World, a new platformer developed by Canada's Frozen North Productions. In the game, players will need to rotate the game environment in order to solve puzzles and open up new pathways.

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While this will be the first game in the series on Wii, both versions of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter will share the same colorful universe and the new Action Drawing tool that can be used to create useful objects out of thin air.

In February, THQ CEO Brian Farrell stated that the company wished to "extend [the Drawn to Life] brand to Wii in the future" because of the robust sales demonstrated by the original game.

This dream became a reality today when THQ revealed that Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter will be released... Read more...

LucasArts and n-Space are bringing the popular series to DS this fall with Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron.

LucasArts announced today that Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is heading to DS and is being developed by n-space.

Elite Squadron will feature the same squad-based gameplay as previous titles along with a handful of new features. The series will have multi-level battles where players can start on land, commandeer a vehicle and take it to space, and then come all the way back to the ground.

Ubisoft Vancouver will bring action-packed soccer fun for the whole family to the Wii this fall.

Ubisoft recently announced its newest addition to its Wii sports repertoire, Academy of Champions.

Created by Ubisoft Vancouver, Academy of Champions will have players improve their soccer skills, recruit new members, and create the strongest squad in order to defeat the rival Academy in the... Read more...

The Conduit developers are working on a brutal Wii fighting game that uses MotionPlus and is set in ancient Rome.

Last month, High Voltage Software said that they had a few announcements on the horizon. The first of two game announcements, Gladiator A.D., was recently revealed to IGN.

Gladiator A.D. is a brutal fighting game for the Wii that takes place in ancient Rome. Featuring two-player split-screen,... Read more...

Two classic franchises make their way to WiiWare; Clay Fighter invades Virtual Console; American Popstar and Photo Clock make the DSi flashy.

WiiWare gets two classic revivals this week as Taito brings Bubble Bobble Plus! and Hudson launches Adventure Island: The Beginning. Interplay brings the Sega Genesis version of Clay Fighter to Virtual Console. DSiWare has two releases this week, American Popstar: Road to Celebrity from Gameloft and Photo Clock from Nintendo.

Hudson Soft celebrates the long weekend with new trailers for Help Wanted.

What do you want to be when you grow up? That's the question Hudson asks gamers in their recent trailers for Help Wanted, available now for Wii.

Help Wanted lets you participate in over 50 wacky jobs as you attempt to earn enough money to save the world. The two new trailers show off some of the madness you can expect in the final game.

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.

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