You are forgiven for thinking Guitar Hero and Rock Band had killed the music game genre forever.   With incessant updates, new games every month or so that have Coldplay or Aerosmith attached to them for another $50 price tag, it was almost too much to handle.   Rocksmith is different, and maybe that is [...]

PSP Power Controller Ver.5.3.0 for CFW 6.XX released. Japanese developer SnyFbSx has today released PSP Power Controller Ver.5.3.0. This is a PRX plug-in that gives you complete control of your PSP power, quick button combos for reset and even sleep/auto shutdown modes etc. PSP Power Controller Ver.5.3.0. Changelog: Ver5.3.0 : CPU clock setting “199/99? support.(“CFW6.XX [...]

Old-school gamers will recognize much of the inspiration behind Mage Gauntlet, an upcoming iPhone action role-playing game that pays homage to many Super Nintendo classics. Square Enix’s Secret of Mana might be the most obvious tribute in the beautifully scored launch trailer for Mage Gauntlet (shown above), which will be out next week. But creator [...]

  I’ve never trusted the Kinect. While the Wiimote sensor is content to hang out on top of my television, looking only for the signals from my Wii controllers, the Kinect has always sat like a silent, judging eye. Now that I’ve seen what Microsoft may have in store for the future, I think it [...]

  Court documents filed this week in U.S. patent courts have claimed that Nintendo Japan and Nintendo America have directly infringed the patent of UltimatePointers ‘Upoint’ with the unauthorized selling of its Wii remote hardware.    The filing also claims that large retailers such as GameStop and Best Buy have also infringed on UltimatePointers patents [...]

Team Wasabi are proud to present Wasabi 360 Ultra running on the Xbox 360! At this time we would also like to introduce you to a very unique, intuitive feature that is an integral part of the Wasabi 360 experience. We bring you the world’s first implementation of an Xbox 360 side on-screen menu navigation [...]

Photo: James Merithew/Wired.com TOKYO — Nintendo put the focus front and center on new Nintendo 3DS games at its press conference Tuesday morning in Tokyo, dropping the bombshell that the next Monster Hunter game is in development for the 3DS portable hardware. It did not talk about the strongly-rumored “slide pad” attachment for 3DS that [...]

GameStop is ready to challenge the iPad in mobile gaming? (Credit: Apple) Boutique game retailer GameStop is pushing its way into the tablet space, president Tony Bartel said in an interview published today with GamesIndustry.biz. According to Bartel, his company will be selling a “GameStop-certified gaming platform” in its stores. The tablet, Bartel says, was [...]

  THQ CEO Brian Farrell expects future iteration of consoles to ditch disc drives in favour of cloud gaming, a move which he predicts could benefit not just the developers and publishers, but also the paying consumers.   Speaking at the Cloud Gaming USA conference, as reported by GamesIndustry, Farrell said the transition from physical [...]

Remember back when the brick Game Boy didn’t have a backlight, so you had to carry around all sorts of unwieldy plastic contraptions attached to it? Looks like Nintendo’s going to bring out an attachment for the 3DS that adds a second analog stick. According to what looks very much like a page from the [...]