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Alawar sent a brief message this morning: We’re offering 25 of our games at half price (which makes them less than $10 apiece). Several well-received games are on the list, including Traffic Jam Extreme, Ballz3D and Treasure Machine. The stack contains games from every category, including arcade games, shooters, platformers, puzzle offerings, a Mah Jong … Read more

A report on Cubed3.com says that Resident Evil 5 could still possibly see a Nintendo Revolution release, despite being only announced for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by Capcom. According to Cube3: Nintendo of America has stated RE5 may be announced for the Revolution when the system’s details are revealed later this year and … Read more

The House of Representatives voted Monday night to back an investigation into Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The bi-partisan vote tallied at 355 to 21 (click here to see how your Congressman voted). Representative Fred Upton, a Republican from southwestern Michigan, authored the resolution. A press release from Upton read: …the Federal Trade Commission should … Read more

Today, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) sent us a press release, announcing a lawsuit against an Illinois law preventing children from buying violent and sexually explicit video games. Apparently the ESA values the money made from violent games more than keeping them from children. The law requires parental permission, with fines to those caught selling … Read more

Surrounded by parents and pre-teens in a public library in Aurora, Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today signed the landmark Safe Games Illinois Act, making Illinois the only state in the nation to ban the sale and rental of violent and sexually explicit video games to children. HB 4023, sponsored by State Sen. Deanna Demuzio (D-Carlinville) … Read more

Electronic Arts has been granted the rights to develop games based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Since 2001, EA has developed games based exclusively on New Line’s Academy Award winning theatrical productions of The Lord of the Rings, as depicted by Peter Jackson. The expansion of the rights allows EA to introduce … Read more

Funcom, developer and publisher of top video game titles like Anarchy Online and The Longest Journey, has once again broken away from the pack to bring a bold new direction for advertisement in videogames. By working in conjunction with Massive Incorporated, creator of the world’s first video game advertising network, Funcom is now offering dynamically … Read more

Total sales of the top 100 titles amounted to 914,627 units. Driven by an array of new titles, sales increased by about 153,000 units to 120.06% of last week’s figure. Twelve new releases slid into the top 100, contributing 60.10% of sales. Here are this week’s software winners: 1. PS2 Jikkyo Power Pro. Baseball 12 … Read more

A message from Anarchcade: Anarchcade strives to be the premiere 21st century game arena on the east coast. We will provide a communal atmosphere with a competitive edge. Allowing for that thirst of acknowledgment from peers to be met with prizes and notoriety. You will have to come back. The owners of Anarchcade are gamers … Read more

Webzen today announced the company has started development of Endless Saga, a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for the PlayStation 3 (PS3). Webzen unveiled a first look at the colorful new MMORPG at the Annual PlayStation Meeting hosted by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan. Produced by Webzen’s D-Studio, Endless Saga is slated for release … Read more

We’ve posted the first screenshots of ToCA Race Driver 3 from Codemasters. The game is to be available on the PC, PS2, and Xbox this fall. Last year’s ToCA 2 was one of the best racing releases of the current console generation. For our review of ToCA 2, click this link.

The #1 videogame specialty store today announced that they will drop the sale of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. All games have been removed for the PC, PS2, and Xbox versions, from retail location and from their website. The decision came as a result of the new Adult Only rating from the ESRB. GameStop intends … Read more

Following hot on the heels of the successful release of the Codename: Panzers, Phase Two single-player demo, CDV and Stormregion today released a multiplayer demo for the game. The 375 MB demo, available at http://www.panzers.com, will give gamers a taste of the online multiplayer gameplay in Phase Two as they do battle on two maps … Read more

After today’s Adult-Only rating announcement, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC, PS2, Xbox) will no longer be sold at national retailers. Wal-Mart said today that it was pulling the game from their shelves, as did Target. “We are removing the game from our shelves as soon as possible, and will block purchases of the game … Read more

Rockstar continued to deny, in a press release today, that “Hot Coffee” was in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ (PC, PS2, Xbox) code, despite the fact that cheat codes can unlock “Hot Coffee” on the PlayStation 2 version. In a press release this afternoon, they called “Hot Coffee”, “an unauthorized third party modification that alters … Read more

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has a new rating. After intense scrutiny from politicians and media watch groups, the ESRB changed the rating of the game today from Mature to Adult-Only. “After a thorough investigation, we have concluded that sexually explicit material exists in a fully rendered, unmodified form on the final discs of all … Read more

On the same day that President Bush named his first nominee to the Supreme Court, CBS News ran a story about violence and sex in videogames. Included in the story were several references to the recent controversy over ‘Hot Coffee’ in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC, Sony PlayStation 2, and Microsoft Xbox), and the … Read more

Europeans might not be able to enjoy the wide-screened PlayStation Portable until this September, but one alternative gave gamers in PAL regions some relief. Importer sites are fairly common on the net, but that’s stopping for at least one online importer. So common in fact, that Sony decided to take action. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe … Read more