Following its reveal during Satoru Itwata’s GDC keynote, here’s the first HQ teaser trailer for the Nintendo DS game Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.

Square Enix is bringing more Final Fantasy to the Wii, a lot more. Originally announced in Nintendo’s GDC keynote, but just announced via press release, Square Enix will be releasing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, and the original Final Fantasy on the Wii through the [...]

Ripten TV’s Jonathan Zungre gives his impressions of Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Warioware Snapped and other cool stuff talked about at the Nintendo Keynote at the Game Developers Conference ’09. Also, check out the photos Joystiq snuck while at the press conference — one below.

SCEA has big plans for downloadable games on the PSP this year. SCEA director of hardware marketing, John Koller, tells us that it’s one of Sony’s “big pushes this year”. Downloadable games include downloadable versions of key UMD games. Even though retail is important, “the idea of digital distribution fits into the world as we [...]

Naked Sky Entertainment has released the first set of screenshots for their upcoming XBLA/PSN downloadable title, Star Trek D.A.C.. The game is an 12-player online shooter, allowing gamers to play as Federation or Romulan. A single-player option is also available. The game will not follow the movie’s storyline. The first screenshots can be seen at [...]

There’s always more than one side to an image, Super Paper Mario showed us that. That was just step one, however. Polytron’s Fez is taking that innovation to a whole new level. It’s showing us that there’s WAY more than one side to any image. It also shows us rotation is a hella lot of [...]

Over at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, a developer has confirmed that PlayStation 3 firmware v2.70 will be releasing this week, saying that developers have just gotten it in their hands yesterday. “PS3 Firmware 2.70 definitely this week. Developers got it yesterday.” Expect an announcement within the next few days. Source

Want maxed out Crysis quality graphics on your computer or television without having to buy the game up front, or better yet, dump thousands of dollars into a PC that can support it? Well, the team at Rearden Studios promises that “OnLive” will be just that. The brainchild technology is the result of seven years [...]

Ooooooh!!!! Not just cool — very cool! Yeah, the fellas over at Official Xbox Magazine are tweeting away making me wish my console wasn’t out of commission (I’m too lazy to ship it back to MS for red ring repair) because there is apparently some pretty darn cool stuff in store for us all tomorrow. [...]

GDC09 has started, and Ripten’s Emily Balistrieriand Jon Zungre will be there covering the event for our readers. Let us know if there is something specific you would like us to take a peak at while we are there.  Full press release after the jump.