From Gamespot:
While Lego Batman is being released on a multitude of platforms, Traveller’s Tales claims that this is the first Lego game that they’ve built specifically for next-gen platforms such as Xbox 360 and PS3. …

From developer Eden Games the following two tech demonstrations – the first shows the inventory system and how items and environmental objects can be manipulated, as well as how items may be used together. …

Chris Faylor@ShackNews posted this nice list of upcoming video games set for release this week on most platforms.

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20 Questions, Dance! Online, First Battalion Gold Edition, Forgotten Riddles: The Mayan …

Watch this timeline on video games spanning 35 years, from Pong all the way to our current generation of titles – it’s quite apparent that we’ve come a long way. How many of the …

This episode previews Aquaria, No More Heroes & Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, enjoy.

Check out this collection of GTA bike stunts.

Bungie’s Halo 3 was once again master chief of the sales charts, despite a 92% drop in sales from its 3.3 million seller debut in September. Activision and Red Octane’s Guitar Hero III also had …

This Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving (November 23rd), Target stores will be having some great deals on video games starting at 5:00am.
They are offering a free $60 gift card with purchase of a Halo …

The official NPD numbers are in for September, and the Xbox 360 swept, even beating out the Nintendo Wii for that month.
NPD September sales numbers:
Hardware
Xbox 360: 527,800
Wii: 501,000
Nintendo DS: 495,800
PlayStation Portable: 284,500
PlayStation 2: 215,000
Playstation 3: …

Electronic Arts upcoming The Simpsons Game is a spoof of Grand Theft Auto. From the website:
When the Simpsons find themselves stuck in video game purgatory, it’ll take everything they have to get back to …

Does Cronenberg deliver on his Eastern Promises? What is Southland Tales? Heavenly Sword: More than just a pretty face? Reaper: A keeper? Journeyman: A quantum leap in storytelling or just derivative? Plus, TGS news from …

This is why Sony may yet rule the console-verse in spite of all its missteps and bungled first-gen games and cynical press. Because pretty much out of the blue, a game like Crisis Core: Final …

The NPD Group predicts that total game sales for 2007 could top $16 billion. That’s huge when you consider 2006 accounted for $13.5 billion (and that included PC game sales, which aren’t in the new …

The following is Amazon.com’s top 20 video games sold for July 25th, 2007

Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo Wii)

PlayStation 3 …

ScrewAttack compiled this top 10 list of best games and franchises that managed to take a great 2D game and ruin it when making the jump to the third dimension. I think they made …

While store shelves may be glutted with Maddens, Tony Hawks, and Calls of Duty, there are many games that never got a Part 2.
Games.net recently featured a list of the top 49 sequel-less games. …

Has your appetite for new-gen skateboarding games not been whetted by clips from Electronic Arts’ Skate? Activision has just sent out a press release unveiling the latest Tony Hawk game, entitled Proving Ground.
New features with …

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The Nintendo Wii has now sold over 2 million Wii hardware units in Japan as of April 13, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain reported today.The Wii reached the milestone in about 19 weeks, not quite beating the …

Watch the history of Final Fantasy the series has been commercially and critically successful and it is Square Enix’s best selling video game franchise, with more than 85 million units sold, not to mention one …

Sony created this cool flash game where you choose from a selection of characters from the Gods of War series and watch real actors battle it out at what looks like a neighborhood park. …

While bearing a striking resemblance to the nun-chuck attachment of the Wii-mote, the glideFX incorporates 2x the chuck adding a trackball opposite the analog stick, SplitFish the maker of this new controller packed it with …

God of War is about kicking ass and taking names, but fans of the first game will know that it’s also about pleasing the ladies. Kratos is a man with many appetites, and I’ve …

Top 10 Strangest Custom Gaming Systems – some of these mods are pretty amazing… some are just plain strange.

 The Sony news continues this week as their ongoing law suits finally play out in court and agreements are made. Back in 2002 Immersion sued Sony for using their patented technology in their …

Next-Gen has compiled a thorough analysis of 2006′s top 100 selling games according to NPD figures. The report includes several useful tidbits for those business savvy individuals keeping tabs on the industry as well as …

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