Gamersyde was able to finish the level of MegaMan 9 that Capcom had available for play at this years E3.

If you want to try this yourself you will have to wait to wait to play MegaMan 9 at home, it’s becomes available for download via WiiWare this September for your Nintendo Wii.

You can watch the 2:45 of MegaMan 9 as captured by Gamersyde at E3 2008 below.

Here is compilation of XNA community created games that are featured this year at the XNA Gamefest that is being held in right now in Seattle, Washington.  The XNA Gamefest will also be held this year in London, England August 7th and Tokyo, Japan September 4th and 5th.

Prices will be set at 200 MS points for games 50MB and under, with larger games priced at 400 or 800 MS points. Creators will receive 70% of the revenue generated mailed to them via check on a quarterly basis, though Microsoft will be randomly promoting XNA games, for which they will take an extra 10-20% based on traffic generated.

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Here is a list of video game release dates covering all platforms scheduled for August 2008. There are some great looking titles this month including Line Rider 2 for DS, PC and Wii, Too Human for Xbox 360, Mario Super Sluggers for Wii, Madden 09, Tiger Woods 09, Mercenaries 2, plus a couple of other titles you might be interested in.

Legend: Hand of God	PC	RPG	August 1, 2008
Professor Brainium	DS	Educational	August 1, 2008
Sam & Max Season One	Wii	Adventure	August 1, 2008
Animal Paradise	DS	Simulation	August 5, 2008
B-Boy	PS2	Music	August 5, 2008
Cheetah Girls: Passport to Fame, The	DS	Action	August 5, 2008
Crash Time: Autobahn Pursuit	X360	Racing	August 5, 2008
Garfield’s Fun Fest	DS	Platformer	August 5, 2008
Grid	DS	Racing	August 5, 2008
Hannah Montana: Spotlight World Tour	PS2	Action	August 5, 2008
Little League World Series Baseball 2008	DS	Sports	August 5, 2008
Little League World Series Baseball 2008	Wii	Sports	August 5, 2008
MindHabits	PC	Productivity	August 5, 2008
MindHabits	Mac	Productivity	August 5, 2008
Monster Madness: Grave Danger	PS3	Action	August 5, 2008
Murder in the Abbey	PC	Adventure	August 5, 2008
Quick Yoga Training	DS	Educational Productivity	August 5, 2008
Rain Drops	DS	Action	August 5, 2008
Rock Blast	DS	Action	August 5, 2008
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2	X360	Shooter	August 6, 2008
Fading Shadows	PSP	Puzzle Adventure	August 8, 2008
Air Traffic Chaos	DS	Simulation	August 12, 2008
Bangai-O Spirits	DS	Shooter	August 12, 2008
Bratz Ponyz 2	DS	Virtual Pet	August 12, 2008
Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon	PC	Adventure	August 12, 2008
Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero	DS	Action	August 12, 2008
Imagine: Teacher	DS	Simulation	August 12, 2008
Line Rider 2: Unbound	DS	Puzzle	August 12, 2008
Line Rider 2: Unbound	Wii	Puzzle	August 12, 2008
Line Rider 2: Unbound	PC	Puzzle	August 12, 2008
Madden NFL 09	PS2	Sports	August 12, 2008
Madden NFL 09	Xbox	Sports	August 12, 2008
Madden NFL 09	PSP	Sports	August 12, 2008
Madden NFL 09	PS3	Sports	August 12, 2008
Madden NFL 09	X360	Sports	August 12, 2008
Madden NFL 09	DS	Sports	August 12, 2008
Madden NFL 09 All-Play	Wii	Sports	August 12, 2008
Madden NFL 09: 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition	PS3	Sports	August 12, 2008
Madden NFL 09: 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition	X360	Sports	August 12, 2008
N+	PSP	Platformer	August 12, 2008
N+	DS	Platformer	August 12, 2008
Sinking Island	PC	Adventure	August 12, 2008
Smash Court Tennis 3	X360	Sports	August 12, 2008
Fable II Pub Games	X360	Adventure	August 13, 2008
GTR Evolution	PC	Racing	August 15, 2008
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals	PC	Adventure	August 15, 2008
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice	PS3	Strategy RPG	August 18, 2008
DT Racer Refueled	PSP	Racing	August 18, 2008
Commando: Steel Disaster	DS	Action	August 19, 2008
Defendin’ de Penguin	DS	Strategy	August 19, 2008
Defendin’ de Penguin	Wii	Strategy	August 19, 2008
DT Racer Refueled	PS2	Racing	August 19, 2008
Falling Stars	PS2	RPG	August 19, 2008
Margot’s Word Brain	DS	Educational Puzzle	August 19, 2008
Margot’s Word Brain	Wii	Educational Puzzle	August 19, 2008
My Secret World by Imagine	DS	Other	August 19, 2008
Pajama Sam: Don’t Fear the Dark	Wii	Educational Adventure	August 19, 2008
Rebel Raiders: Operation NightHawk	Wii	Flight Action	August 19, 2008
Shattered Suns	PC	Strategy	August 19, 2008
Two Worlds: Epic Edition	PC	RPG	August 19, 2008
Space Siege	PC	Action RPG	August 19, 2008
Super PickUps	Wii	Racing	August 19, 2008
Ten Pin Alley 2	Wii	Sports	August 19, 2008
Too Human	X360	Action Adventure	August 19, 2008
Mario Super Sluggers	Wii	Sports Action	August 25, 2008
B-Boy	PSP	Music	August 26, 2008
Dark Horizon	PC	Action Simulation	August 26, 2008
Digimon World Championship	DS	Fighting	August 26, 2008
DT Carnage	PS2	Racing	August 26, 2008
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli	PS3	Racing	August 26, 2008
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli	DS	Racing	August 26, 2008
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli	PS2	Racing	August 26, 2008
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli	Wii	Racing	August 26, 2008
From the Abyss	DS	RPG	August 26, 2008
Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness	DS	Simulation	August 26, 2008
Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility	Wii	Adventure	August 26, 2008
Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams	DS	Action	August 26, 2008
Jeep Thrills	Wii	Racing	August 26, 2008
Kidz Sports: Crazy Mini Golf	Wii	Sports	August 26, 2008
Pictoimage	DS	Puzzle	August 26, 2008
Pilot Academy	PSP	Flight	August 26, 2008
Red Bull BC One	DS	Music	August 26, 2008
Rollin’ Rascals	DS	Puzzle	August 26, 2008
Shining Dragon	PS2	Action	August 26, 2008
Sims 2: Apartment Life	PC	Simulation	August 26, 2008
Sims 2: Apartment Pets, The	DS	Simulation	August 26, 2008
Tales of Vesperia	X360	RPG	August 26, 2008
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09	X360	Sports	August 26, 2008
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09	PS3	Sports	August 26, 2008
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09	PSP	Sports	August 26, 2008
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09	PS2	Sports	August 26, 2008
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play	Wii	Sports	August 26, 2008
Time Hollow	DS	Adventure	August 26, 2008
Vampire Rain: Altered Species	PS3	Action	August 26, 2008
Penumbra: Requiem	PC	Action	August 27, 2008
Guitar Hits	PSP	Music	August 29, 2008
Prison Tycoon 4: SuperMax	PC	Simulation	August 29, 2008
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky	PC	Shooter	August 29, 2008
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames	X360	Shooter	August 31, 2008
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames	PS2	Shooter	August 31, 2008
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames	PS3	Shooter	August 31, 2008
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames	PC	Shooter	August 31, 2008

Project Lore is a new website dedicated to World of Warcraft, already there is already a ton of content for you to peruse such as game guides, blogs, news and videos.

Created and hosted by Alex Albrecht (Diggnation, The Totally Rad Show) the show follows a group of level 70 characters, and documents their progress made each week in this MMORPG. You might think that watching the group of characters simultaneously would be difficult to follow, but thanks to the shows excellent production values and Alex describing the goings on even those new to WoW shouldn’t have too much trouble keeping up with the action.

Here is the Project Lore video introduction hosted by Alex Albrecht, aka DrDark:

Watch Episode 1.1: Hellfire Ramparts:

Over three years in development Raven Software is nearing completion on the latest Wolfenstein, built with the id Tech 4 engine (formerly known as the “Doom 3 engine”) for the PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360 platforms.  The official release date has not been announced yet, but the official website displays the copyright for 2009, so don’t expect this to be on the shelves until early next year.

Here is the press release:

Wolfenstein™ – From id Software’s critically-acclaimed and multi-million unit selling Wolfenstein universe, which pioneered and defined the first-person action genre, comes the ultimate supernatural thriller. Set within a near-fictional, historical WWII setting, players take on the role of the heroic OSA agent BJ Blazkowicz as they are thrust into the unknown and unexpected to battle against combat troops, otherworldly forces, and the dark science created by a supernatural Nazi force hell-bent on world domination. Wolfenstein offers players an action-packed experience as they investigate the powers of a dark parallel dimension, join with resistance forces, and employ an arsenal of conventional and otherworldly weapons in attempts to annihilate the Nazi war machine. Ensuring a deep variety of action, Wolfenstein provides gamers with an assortment of interlinked missions that drive an intense, story-driven combat experience; while the Wolfenstein multiplayer experience continues the world-renowned tradition of class-based team objective gameplay with a full arsenal of conventional and supernatural weapons for addictive online warfare. (Xbox 360™, PS3, Windows® PC).E3 2008 Press Release

Check out the latest screenshots and teaser trailer for Wolfenstein.

Console: PlayStation 2
Manufacturer: Sony
Discontinued: Still going…
Sold based on the strengths of the original PlayStation, backwards-compatibility and built-in DVD player, the PS2 has pushed more than 127 million units worldwide as of last year - making it the highest-selling console of all time. As the most popular console of the last generation, the PS2 secured exclusive rights to giant franchise sequels, including: Final Fantasy X, Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2, SOCOM and Gran Turismo 3. Not without faults, Sony made a weak effort to take gaming online. Still, the PS2 surpassed the Dreamcast and was one of the major players to drive a stake through Sega’s heart.

Console: PSone
Manufacturer: Sony
Discontinued: 2006
This newer, slimmer PS1 was released a few months before the PS2 hit shelves and still managed to outsell all other consoles that year, including its big brother. The only differences were the size (duh), the slightly different interface and the extra protection against modding the console. Also, it was easier to run the games, so we didn’t have to play the PSone upside down anymore.

Console: Xbox
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Discontinued: 2007
Microsoft’s first entry in the console market was met with equal parts doubt and cautious optimism. Many worried the Xbox would play nothing but PC ports and were scared that it was a glorified Windows console. After many delays, the Xbox released against Nintendo’s GameCube and not only improved upon online play (sorry Dreamcast), but came with a built-in hard drive. This eliminated the need for memory cards and let gamers to rip music and play custom soundtracks. The list of console exclusives was small, but included gems like Knights of the Old Republic and Ninja Gaiden. Oh, and if you’ve ever heard of Halo or Halo 2, then you’ll understand how the term ‘multiplayer’ is synonymous with Xbox.

Console: GameCube
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Discontinued: 2007
Released against the Xbox, the GameCube was Nintendo’s attempt to recapture the market lost by their last console, the N64. Sadly, it didn’t work. Nintendo trailed in third during last generation’s console war in terms of sales. This was partly attributed to Nintendo’s focus on family-friendly games, poor online support (their eventual modem didn’t do much) and very little third-party support. Even with spectacular first-party releases like Super Mario Sunshine, Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, Smash Bros. Melee and third-party (then exclusive) Resident Evil 4, the GC was not the major contender everyone wished it could be.

Console: GameBoy Advance
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Discontinued: 2007
Described as a portable SNES (but with better hardware), the GBA was insanely popular and technologically superior to the GameBoy Color in everything from battery life to color palette. Since its release, the GBA (and GBA SP) have sold just over 81 million copies and proved that sprite-based games could still stand against the 3D powerhouse consoles available at the time. Was also popular due to the amount of old school love including the Super Mario Advance series, Metroid Fusion, Castlevania and many Mega Mans.

Console: Swan Crystal - Japan
Manufacturer: Bandai
Discontinued: Shortly thereafter
The Swan Crystal was practically the same as its predecessor, the WonderSwan Color. The major difference was that the LCD used in the Crystal is the same type found in many flat-paneled TVs and therefore provided sharper contrast ratios. In plain speak, the screen was more vibrant and looked better. It was backwards compatible with the previous two Swans and could be played for 15 hours on one AA battery. The GBA’s dominance would scare it into submission.

Console: GameBoy Advance SP
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Discontinued: 2007
Slightly more than half the size of the original GBA, this version folded in half like earlier Game & Watch units or - as we’ll see later - the DS. Interestingly, Nintendo opted to omit a headphone jack. So you either had to buy specific headphones or a special jack. Two years after its release, a newer model of the SP featured a backlit screen - perfect for nighttime playing. Also, the latest iterations of Pokemon - Ruby and Sapphire - hit Japan one month after the SP went on sale, bolstering sales.

Console: N-Gage
Manufacturer: Nokia
Discontinued: The phone service continues
Although Nokia is immensely successful as a network communications brand (its the 5th most valuable global brand according to BusinessWeek), their venture into the gaming market has proved disastrous. Ugly for both a phone and a handheld, the N-Gage cost twice as much as the GBA SP and was three times as much of a joke. The most basic function of inserting a game was a chore: you had to pop off the phone’s plastic cover and the battery compartment just to slide the game card in. Somehow it managed to nab known franchises like Sonic, Tomb Raider and Tony Hawk. It still sucked, though.

Console: Zodiac
Manufacturer: Tapwave
Discontinued: 2005
Designed to run off an updated version of the Palm OS, the Zodiac received all kinds of awards from tech magazines for merging PDAs with gaming. However, due to pressure from its direct competitor, the DS, Tapwave decided to stop developing for it.

Console: PSP (PlayStation Portable) - Japan
Manufacturer: Sony
Discontinued: Still going strong
With Nintendo eating up the handheld market, it made sense for Sony to try and take back territory. It had the console market by the balls, so why shouldn’t it have a handheld? Enter the PSP - complete with wide widescreen, analog nubbin for 3D gameplay and multimedia capabilities never before seen on a handheld (stuff like internet, cross media bar, mp3 player, connectivity with other Sony products). The PSP also had the distinction of playing an optical disc - the UMD - which played not only games, but movies.

But even with stellar hits like Metal Gear Portable Ops, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Daxter, Crisis Core and a hell of a lot more, the PSP trails the Nintendo DS in sales even now. As of December 2007, it’s behind by about 34 million.

Console: PStwo
Manufacturer: Sony
Discontinued: Not yet
Released just before the launch of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the redesigned slimline PS2 was just that: smaller, thinner and quieter than the comparatively gargantuan original design. However, due to its new size, the PStwo lacks the expansion bay and thus, doesn’t support the internal hard drive used to play specific games like Final Fantasy XI. Also, there was no internal power source, hence the AC power brick that comes with the system. But even so, it was still way more attractive to display in homes. And in 2007, an even slimmer PS2 slim was released with a smaller motherboard.

Console: DS (Dual Screen - get it?)
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Discontinued: Probably never
Originally announced as the third pillar of Nintendo’s console line (has since replaced the GameBoy), the DS looks amazingly similar to the original Game & Watch’s. With two screens - the bottom of which is a touch pad that utilizes a stylus - the DS competes with the PSP in terms of innovation, not hardware. Since its release, the DS has been marketed to a broader audience - which is one reason why it’s sold over 70 million units (including the DS Lite). The DS is also compatible with GBA games, contains Wi-Fi service and is even known to have a large homebrew audience by playing SD cards that house emulated games.

Console: N-gage QD
Manufacturer: Nokia
Discontinued: Service still exists
Nokia’s second attempt at conquering the portable market corrected design flaws of the original, including the cartridge slot and earpiece issues. It’s still a joke.

Console: Xbox 360
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Discontinued: No way, Jose
As the first console and forerunner of the “next-generation” of hardware, the 360 launched with a much-improved Xbox Live online service and high-definition support (although games are encoded on regular DVDs). The 360 is also known for launching with different retail options - Elite, Core, Premium and Arcade - and some of the highest failure rates we’ve ever seen in a console. Microsoft’s “red ring of death” problem was so bad that the company took a pretax charge of $1 billion to up everyone’s warranty to three years.

Even with all those returns and refurbishes, the 360 is amazingly popular and coupled with some of the best games on the market today, including Halo 3, Gears of War, Mass Effect, Ninja Gaiden II and Project Gotham Racing 4.

Console: GameBoy Micro
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Discontinued: Still out there
As the GBA’s second redesign, the GBM was released for people who loved extremely small things. The Micro omitted compatibility with the original GameBoy and GB Color, but added the headphone jack back in the design. Since release, it’s sold about 2 1/2 million copies, but failed to meet expectations when going up against the newer, more powerful DS.

Console: Gizmondo
Manufacturer: Tiger Telematics
Discontinued: Might get a new release
This shitty handheld game came with GPS, mp3 player, prepaid text messages and in-system ads (booooo!). However, Gizmondo’s most interesting story deals with greed, the mafia and car wrecks. Apparently a number of Gizmondo employees, including noted criminal Stefan Eriksson, were dealing with the Swedish mob while extorting cash from the company. It’s a convoluted story, but we’ll let Next Gen finish this sordid tale…

“In February 2006 Stefan Eriksson, former executive at Gizmondo, taught his Ferrari Enzo how to fly on a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway, slicing the million-dollar car neatly in half, and creating the world’s first performance art re-enactment of the rise and fall of a videogame company.

Of course, it wasn’t really Eriksson’s fault. As he told it, a mysterious German named Dietrich was driving the doomed sportscar when it crashed. Eriksson was just innocently sitting in the passenger seat of a flying Ferrari when it collided with a pole and blood flew off his lip and onto the driver-side airbag.”

Console: Wii
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Discontinued: Are you kidding?
Originally codenamed “Revolution,” the Wii is known for the Wii Remote - that remote-control looking doohickey that you swing around to play games. The sleek white console (possibly taking a cue from Apple) is notorious for reaching people who don’t normally play games and is populated mostly by third-party “casual” releases. This may account for the console having sold close to 25 million units worldwide, but you wouldn’t know it considering you can’t find the damn thing anywhere. Even though online play is proving to be dismal when compared to the 360 and PS3, the Wii store enables gamers to download older games from systems like the Genesis, NES, SNES, N64 and Turbo-Grafx. Amazing first-party games like Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Twilight Princess and Smash Bros. Brawl are among the finest in its library.

Console: DS Lite
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Discontinued: Yeah, right
The redesigned DS is slimmer, has a brighter screen and the stylus storage is on the side of the system. Also, the power button is now a slider and the battery holds a longer charge. It’s sold about 52 million units worldwide and when combined with the original, that adds up to about 70 million. You just might have one of these.

Console: PlayStation 3
Manufacturer: Sony
Discontinued: Give it about ten more years
Announced at the ridiculous price point of $500/$600 before dropping to a much more affordable range, the PS3 was built to be essentially future-proof with its incredible graphical prowess and built-in Blu-ray player.

Even with all that muscle tech behind it, the PS3 lags in sales with an estimated 13 million units sold worldwide. This can be attributed to pompous marketing, a higher-than-competitive price point, lack of killer-apps (for now) and console ports that take longer to develop for. Not to mention a lawsuit that initially kept rumble from its controllers. Still, it’s one hell of a machine and seems to be hitting its stride with its Home service and hit games like Uncharted, Ratchet & Clank Future, Resistance and Metal Gear Solid 4.

Console: PSP Slim
Manufacturer: Sony
Discontinued: Nope
1/3 lighter and 19% slimmer, the new PSP accounted for a surge of sales. Even with a slimmer battery, a more efficient use keeps the runtime the same as the previous version. With a number of slight design and hardware changes, this newer model has met a fair bit of praise, including more tactile feedback in the buttons.

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Console: Amstrad GX4000
Manufacturer: Amstrad
Discontinued in: ~1990
This epically unheard-of beasty came and went as quickly as you walk from your front door to the mailbox. It’s huge, played massive carts and kind of looks like it belongs in a hospital. Even with a version of RoboCop 2 in its library, kids happily ignored it in favor of the SNES and Genesis.

Console: NeoGeo AES
Manufacturer: SNK
Discontinued in: 2004
Think games are expensive now? Imagine shelling out $200 for games that are now readily available on Wii’s Virtual Console. The pricey carts kept it from mainstream success, but certain niches adored the system enough to warrant software support well into 2004. This makes NeoGeo one of the most long-lived systems of all time.

Console: TurboGrafx-CD
Manufacturer: NEC
Discontinued in: ~1999
The TG-16 and its many additions (like this CD) never took off in the US or Europe, but the Japanese market was much more attentive to NEC’s multimedia plight. There are so many revisions and changes to this basic idea - CD-ROM games - that it’s no wonder the console failed to find a large audience. The variants also make it tough to pinpoint exactly when this console went belly up.

Console: TurboExpress
Manufacturer: NEC
Discontinued in: ~1999
A handheld TG-16 that was also famous for its TV Tuner, a device that in 1990 was freaking amazing. Watch TV anywhere? What sort of mad sorcery is this?

Console: Game Gear
Manufacturer: Sega
Discontinued in: 1997
Essentially a portable Master System, Game Gear tried to fend off Game Boy but ultimately faded into nothingness. Partly to blame for its demise were the six AA batteries needed for power that it guzzled like a stretch Hummer with stadium lighting. Strangely enough, it saw a brief resurgence post-2000 through Majesco. The re-issued unit allegedly had a better screen and higher-quality speakers.

Console: Master System II
Manufacturer: Sega
Discontinued in: 1992
A small re-issue of the original Master System, with no card slot or, oddly enough, reset button. Apparently included Alex Kidd in Miracle World as a pack-in game already programmed into the console. It didn’t reignite interest in the Master System, so Sega wisely put its efforts behind the Genesis/Mega Drive.

Console: Super Famicom
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Discontinued in: 2000
Easily one of the most revered and popular systems of all time, the SFC/SNES proved Nintendo could lead the market into the next generation and had massively popular games that are still heavily traded on eBay and other markets. While technically slower than the Genesis, its many other advantages (color palette, superior audio, graphics capabilities) helped propel it to an eventual victory.

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