The Wii is getting a special blue edition to mark the European release of Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Nintendo is certainly no stranger to releasing alternate color versions of their hardware. They've already released the Wii in white, black, red and now we can add baby blue to the Wii's color spectrum.
Epic did a bad, bad thing...
Players have discovered a serious glitch in Gears of War 3, that is reportedly freezing Xbox 360 consoles. It occurs while trying to enter a horde match in split screen with two different gamer profiles. Not only will the console freeze, forcing the player to restart their console, but afterward one of the profiles will be altered, prohibiting that player to enter a match. The "loading game mode" screen is when the glitch appears to be happening.
Larry bringing sleaze to HD.
Starting in 2012, Replay Games will release HD remakes of the original Leisure Suit Larry games. 2012 also marks the series' 25th anniversary.
Video shows his attacks and a match.
Super Smash Bros Brawl for the Wii was released in 2008 and is one of the premiere multiplayer games for the console and it should come as no surprise that some gamers try to improve upon what is already there. Modders have now included an additional character into the game, Waluigi.
Titled "Redefining Team Play", this trailer shows the team at Ubisoft Singapore discuss what they wanted to accomplish with this new Free-to-Play title.
Games plus SWAG makes us happy.
Ubisoft will be bringing the big guns with it to the New York Comic Con later this week. In addition to showing off some of their hotly anticipated titles, Ubisoft will also be running a series of promotions and incentives for their key franchises.
A brief look at the gameplay of the newest iteration of the Hitman series, Hitman Absolution, that will be released sometime in 2012 for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
It may not be perfect, but it's a shame this unique Picross game never made its way to America.
Picross is hands-down my favorite pick-up-and-play puzzle title of all time. I've played nearly every game based on nonograms I could get my hands on, including flash ones online. However, due to being Japan only releases, there were two big Picross titles that eluded me for a while, Picross 2 and Mario's Super Picross. After scouring eBay for an available copy of either title I was delighted to see that both games were relatively inexpensive as far as imports go and impulsively purchased them both. After their very long journey to my house across thousands of miles it was only right to play them immediately, and since Picross 2 arrived first, it received the honor of the first playthrough.
Looks like you won't be saving the world alone after all.
It looks like multiplayer is coming to Mass Effect 3 if the Australian gaming mag PC PowerPlay is to be believed. According to their website, the magazine’s November issue, which goes on sale on October 19th, will blow the lid off of what may be one of the biggest video game announcements of the year.
Qwikster is dead, long live Netflix!
Earlier this month Netflix shocked its user base with the announcement that they would be splitting off their physical DVD/Blu Ray rental operation into a new service called Qwikster which would also feature a video game rentals to compete with companies like GameFly. This meant that if current Netflix subscribers wanted both digital and physical subscription models, they would have to have accounts with both services.
