Once every couple years, a game comes along that changes everything. Braid is one of those games. I’m being totally serious right now. What at first seems like a simple platformer with time rewind capabilities quickly turns into an extremely brain-taxing yet very rewarding experience. It’s one of those games with such simple and well [...]

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Metacritic – The one stop shop on the Internet for all your compilation review score needs.
Fanboys – The worst thing to happen to video games since Superman 64.
What happens when these two forces combine? Find out all about the complete saga after the intermission.

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If you haven’t been paying attention lately, the world is going to Hell.  Prices are rising, salaries are falling, stocks have plummeted, and unemployment rates are off the charts.  One could even say we’re in the middle of a Financiapocalypse. Luckily for developers, economists have always labeled video games as a recession-proof industry.
Turns out, they [...]

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Survey time! Raise your hand if you’ve paid for an XNA created game in the Community Games section on NXE!
Anyone?…Anyone?…Bueller?…Yeah, that’s what I thought.
What started off as a great idea by Microsoft to let everyday gamer code monkeys create games available for download on the 360 has blossomed into a bunch of crappy titles that [...]

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If you haven’t been paying attention for the last few years, there’s been a shift in the way gamers game. What used to be a reclusive, cramped desk, stereo speaker, 15-inch-monitor-glowing-in-the-dark obsession has slowly shifted to a spacious living room, comfy recliner, big screen HDTV, 5.1 surround sound…umm…obsession.
Unfortunately for some developers, not all gaming genres [...]

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As I’m sure you’ve noticed, CheapAssGamer.com is under attack right now for running an impromptu contest on their podcast promoting their members to create rumors and see if it gets picked up by one of the major gaming blogs: Kotaku, Joystiq or Destructoid. Well it turns out that one of their members was extremely successful [...]

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I know I haven’t written anything for SG.com in awhile, but I just had to beg Lono to let me post this review of the most craptacular game of all time. That’s right, I’m talking about the most coveted of all XBLA arcade titles: Braid. It may be tearing up the metacritic chart and winning [...]

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With the announcement yesterday that the Xbox division had turned a profit for the second quarter in a row, I couldn’t help but feel inclined to go and check out Xbox headquarters to get a couple interviews regarding this monumental occasion.
What I witnessed will astound you

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Source: MCV

Along with the news yesterday that Nintendo had sold 5 million Wii’s in Japan, Enterbrain also released the list of top 5 Wii games sold:

Wii Sports – 2,663,938
Wii Play – 2,139,084
Mario Party 8 – 1,153,648
Wii Fit – 1,113,626
Super Mario Galaxy – 843,961

Are you freakin’ kidding me?! Isn’t Japan the birthplace of video games? You’d [...]

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Source: MCV

It’s a new day, which can only mean one thing: a new record set by Nintendo. This one is quite a doozy though. According to Enterbrain, Nintendo has now crossed the 5 million mark for Wii’s sold in Japan.
Not that impressed? Well you should be, because it remains the fastest selling console in the [...]

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Source: IGN
Japanese site Yukan Fuji had the privilege of sitting down with Nintendo’s top dog, Satoru Iwata, on Friday and getting his take on Nintendo’s performance in 2007 and what to expect this coming year. I’ve read a lot of interviews with Nintendo’s president, but none have been quite like this. Generally he comes across [...]

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Source: Nintendo.com
Nintendo has once again disappointed all of their fans. On Tuesday, they announced the delay of Smash Bros. In an attempt to deflect some of that bile, they decided to try and slightly make up for it by publishing their tentative games release list for the first half of this year. While it [...]

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Source: SmashBros.com

Due to delays in the completion of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, we’ve had to change the release date of the game to Sunday, March 9th.
I deeply apologize to the people who have looked forward to playing the game for so long and ask that you hold on just a little longer. Thank you for [...]

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