Few more screenshots of The Force Unleashed for all you Star Wars fans. The game - developed and published by LucasArts alongside Dark Horse Comics, Lego, Hasbro, and Del Rey Books - will be released mid-Septemeber, and the plot will focus on Darth Vader's secret apprentice.

"And to wrap things up today, here's "The ABCs of Gaming," from a t-shirt design contest at Shirt.woot.com. The contest closed this week. The latest on the site shows another shirt claiming 2nd place in this derby so, who knows, maybe it won. I'm sure the ordering information will follow.

For now, take a long look and see if you can name all 26. I can name about 19 offhand. There's a spoiler solution after the jump."

With it's low price and mass market appeal, the Nintendo DS is continuing to be the more popular choice in the portable gaming market. Sony shouldn't feel too bad, but I wonder how they can predict a turnaround at this point? Well, according to Sony Europe's president David Reeves, the PSP needs more games to be released for it here in the West. If Sony is ever going to gain ground on the DS, it needs alot more big name releases.

"Griffith said that CoD5 would be available on PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, and PC. That pretty much covers every platform but the PSP. Why this is, is anyone’s guess. Griffith also pointed out that CoD5 will be using the same game engine that was used in CoD4. As for the game’s setting, “We’ll bring the intensity of the recent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare title to a new military theater to engage our significantly larger user base which nearly doubled last year as new users came into the fran..."

The most popular pokemon games, Diamond and Pearl are not going to be the best within then next year or so. Nintendo has finally given evidence that their next game, Pokemon Platinum will be making a possible debut within the next 2 years. Although the evidence is slim, it's still has a little to make it true. Looks like Opal won't be happening until after Platinum.

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Remember the article a while back that talked about DS bling? It looks like a business has been made out of it. A Japanese company by the name of King is redecorating girls DSes. Too be honest I would refuse to link with someone who's DS looked like this. It seems criminal to me. That said I can't help but wonder what the rest of them look like.

"PC
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Ford Racing Offroad

PS2
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

PS3
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Xbox 360
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Wii
Castle of Shikigami III, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Deca Sports, We Ski

DS
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Drone Tactics, Myst"

"Pro skateboarder Tony Hawk has pretty much had it all his own way for years in the skateboarding videogame genre - that was until Electronic Arts sprung a surprise with Skate for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 last year. It’s analog control-focused trickery gave Tony a kick up the arse for once… but it’s biggest draw (the controls) meant it wasn’t suited to either the Nintendo Wii or Nintendo DS’ default input. Now, however, EA has announced Skate It, a Wii and DS spin-off, set..."

"BLEACH: Dark Souls is the next BLEACH game coming to the Nintendo DS from famed developer Treasure. This new BLEACH title features its own exclusive storyline that contains events that take place in between season's one and two of the animated series currently running on Adult Swim. With over 40 characters to choose from BLEACH: Dark Souls is the biggest BLEACH video game to date.

Dinosaur King is based off an animated series that will be returning for its second season on the CW network. ..."

"In Nanostray 2, Shin'en has addressed the most critical of the flaws that pulled down the original Nanostray, added a few new twists and turns, and produced a solid game that'll please anyone who digs this type of classic arcade shooter."

"NOTE : Original source not English. Quote is from alternate source

There it is, have a look, the cutest bus in Tokyo. To promote DS game Kawaii Koneko ("Cute Kitten"), the above bus was wrapped in cavity inducing sacchrine. The pet sim went on sale way back in January and lets players pick from eight different breeds like Russian Blue and American Shorthair. The bus ad features cutesy Japanese celebrity person Becky. See that old dude flagging down that pink bus? His teeth hurt."

Ah, this is a nice blast from the past. A batch of Ghostbusters concept art has been released, and they show some familiar ghosts that players will have to defeat as well as the good ol' Ectomobile.

With Ghostbusters getting positive previews already, it certainly looks like fans won't be disappointed.

(go to source for all images)

Last year, EA released the highly successful Skate for the PS3 and 360. However, the game was noticeably missing from Nintendo consoles. Today, EA announced that they will be bringing the game over to the Wii & DS, in spinoff form. The game, titled Skate It, will utilize the Wii remote and touch screen, and will also support the Wii Balance Board that will ship with Wii Fit in two weeks.

Activision recently spoke about what to expect with the company's first game in the James Bond franchise. Activision will be launching the Quantum of Solace video game along with the release of the movie, sometime in Q4 2008. Not much is known about the game so far, but they did announce that the game will use the same (amazing) engine that powered Call of Duty 4.

The game is scheduled to release on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PSP, DS, and PC.

Arguably the best baseball video game to release last year, and certainly the best on the Wii, MLB Power Pros provided a deep baseball simulation with a multitude of options and modes, under the guise of its super deformed Power Pro versions of current MLB players. The Power Pros series is hugely popular and successful, and well-established series in Japan.

MLB Power Pros 2008 will feature those same game modes that were present in the original MLB Power Pros, plus new ones for a total o...

"Nintendo's former president Hiroshi Yamauchi is the wealthiest Japanese man alive, adding $3 billion to his fortune in the past year alone.

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He tops a list of people worth $89.9 billion, according to Forbes Magazine's Japan's 40 richest people.

Yamauchi stepped down as company president in 2002 and was succeeded by Satoru Iwata. He reportedly refused to take a retirement package of £14 million, saying that Nintendo could put it to better use. And that's exactly what we'd ..."

"General consensus around the industry recently has tipped the imminent arrival of a new DS, whether it's a new model of the existing machine in a GBA SP sort of way, or an entirely new 'DS 2'.

We contacted Nintendo for a comment and they gave us more than the usual 'rumour and speculation' answer. Which was...

"No announcement has been made by Nintendo and everything reported online is pure speculation and rumour. Our hardware development team always work on the next product after we la..."

"It’s something of a surprise that the craze to develop virtual pet simulations on the Nintendo DS hasn’t infiltrated the Nintendo Wii quite so much, but Majesco Entertainment is making sure it doesn’t miss a trick, announcing today that Zoo Hospital will be released in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Like its handheld counterpart, Zoo Hospital on the Nintendo Wii will allow players to get down to the nitty gritty when it comes to taking care of some 48 different, sickly zoo animals - canels, d..."

"C3: WiiWare has already started with a bang in Japan and it seems many Western developers are lining up to support the service as well. Will we be seeing something from Firebrand in the near future as well?

Firebrand Games: It is certainly under discussion but there is nothing I can reveal at present.

C3: Or is it more likely a full-scale Wii game is on the cards for the team?

Firebrand Games: A full scale Wii game is certainly on the cards but nothing is ready to announce."

When you see the title, would you think this is a fanboy article? If you did, then you're wrong coz this is quite far from it.
That VideoGame Blog has analysed the situation of casual games. They seem to have problems with how these casual games sell even better than good action packed games. Read on and see how Nintendo and their casual games like Wii Sports, Crosswords DS and Wii Fit are taking over the world gaining such popularity.

Basically, a mother writes from her perspective, falling for her children's whines for a Nintendo or else they'd be 'left out'. What happens? Hell for her. She had read articles that praised the Nintendo DS, saying that it'd 'bump your mental ability'. So she bought it and the kids loved her. Yay! Too early to celebrate. The kids started to become addicted and fought over it. They desperately searched for it and found it when the mother hid it from them. They were hooked. When they lost the c...

"Developer-publisher Midway has taken another loss for the fiscal first quarter of 2008, the company announced today. The company saw $29.9 million in sales, more than twice its performance for the same period last year, but nonetheless, Midway's first quarter net losses were $34 million, while it lost much less - $19.8 million - in 2007's first quarter.

The sluggish performance can be credited to the fact Midway had only one U.S. release during the quarter - an expansion pack for Strangleh..."

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• Customizable teams: players can select color, emblem, player names, city and abilities
• Super abilities: some players will have special abilities that allow them to pull off big plays
• Wi-Fi and local multiplayer: oh yeah, you can play a friend in the same room or somebody across the country
• Stylus control: no other details on this one, yet
• Over 32 different teams
• Cut scenes: huh?
• Customizable playbook: no idea on how much you can customize it,

but it's a nice feature"

THQ has been as successful last year with its Nickelodeon titles (Spongebob, Avatar, etc) as Nintendo was with its DS, taking in over one billion in sales. Obviously happy about it, executive VP of digital media for Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Steve Youngwood left a comment for the press:

"THQ's interactive video games based on our hit shows have continued to help Nickelodeon maintain its position as a leader in gaming entertainment for the family, and we look forward to the addition ...