Tweet The winners of our first ever “Review Then To You” contest have been selected. Sorry this is being posted so late. You could say I was on a bit of a warpath over being falsely accused for destroying all of mankind. Anyway, the games up for grabs in case you forgot or simply don’t [...]

Tweet Remember when I said that the EA Sport’s NBA JAM remake coming exclusively to the Nintendo Wii in 2010 wouldn’t look like the Photoshop image I worked up above? Well, boy was I wrong. Check out the sneak peak screen from the latest Nintendo Power issue.

Tweet You may not have heard of Bloober. You’re forgiven if you haven’t, because before now, neither had I. Looking at the smalltime developer’s website, I’m not even sure if they’ve released a game yet, but they’ve got a few promising irons in the fire. But it was the above comment that caught my eye.

Tweet The NPD numbers for December 2009 have finally been released and they’re quite impressive, besting last December by 4 percent from $5.32 billion to $5.53 billion, becoming the best single sales month on record for the video game industry. Compared to last year’s sales, hardware sales rose from 16 percent to $2.19 billion and [...]

Tweet We here at Ripten are a rather silly bunch of folks. Sure, we save the world, defeat robot villains, and fight wars in the middle east- but that’s all in a day’s “work”. We can do those things multiple times a day- but for now, we need to get serious. Unfortunately, it’s hard to [...]

Tweet A proud member of the Ripten extended family and fellow Ripcaster, Beau Baxter Rosser, was nice enough to share some offscreen footage of Heavy Rain gameplay he captured at CES a few days ago. Have a look at the three videos below and let us know what you think in the comments section.

Tweet After a nine month hiatus, the Ripcast is reborn! Join Jon Zungre, Beau Baxter Rosser, Sean Mitchuson, and Sam Naylor as they sit around the virtual campfire and share what they’ve been doing since the last podcast. Is the same naked girl still sleeping in Beau’s bed? Will Zungre demand that we start calling [...]

Tweet The pointless jumbo version of the DSi that was released in Japan in November is coming to Europe on the 5th of March, EDGE reports. It will be available in “wine red” and “dark brown” upon release, ensuring that even less people buy it. The DSi XL comes bundled with Dr Kawashima’s Little Bit [...]

Tweet Valve have unveiled that they will be accepting contributions of custom items and avatars from the community. If you’ve got any modeling skill or creative talent, you can create an item and submit it to Valve for them to look over. If it meets standards, it’s in the game for everybody. Head to the [...]

Tweet Despite all the rumors that Nintendo is planning to release a new Wii, referred to as the “Wii HD”, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has been adamant in his denial of any such thing. That hasn’t stopped the speculation, though, and Reggie has spoken up again.

Tweet According to Robbie Bach, the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft, around 70 – 80% of the publishers in the world are already working on games for Project Natal.

Allow me to begin this review by addressing two crucial audiences. The first would be the open minded gamer that isn’t out to crucify a game because it borrows successful elements from titles that have come before it. If you fall into this category …

Tweet It is almost criminal how little King’s Bounty: Armored Princess was talked about when all was said and done in 2009. Then again, it’s predecessor found itself in much the same pirate ship so it shouldn’t be all too surprising to fans of the games that the sequel was so overlooked. Armored Princess, and [...]

Tweet My first impressions of Assassin Creed 2  gameplay was during Ubisoft’s presentation at PAX last September. Several new features were promoted then, such as the capability of swinging around corners, poisoning guards, and tossing money or smoke bombs to distract anyone who might be tailing your hide. Ezio was also capable of swimming in [...]

Tweet According to a corporate email that Sony sent to Gamestop stores, God of War III will be released on March 16th in the US. A Sony Computer Entertainment Europe rep told VG247 that they should be able to confirm a UK release date in “the next few weeks.” The game hits Japanese shelves on [...]