Remember going to arcades, playing skee-ball, collecting tickets, and redeeming them for shoddy plush toys? Activision does.   The mega-publisher is making a whole game based on the premise of a day at the arcade in your living room. An anonymous source leaked this product slide detailing Arcade Zone (thanks!!) which is in development for [...]

Tony Hawk’s Motion is sitting in the OFLC database as a newly rated Nintendo DS game. While this could be a vanilla Tony Hawk experience the “motion” part of the title is interesting. As tipster Raj points out (thanks!!) a few forum members on NeoGAF are speculating it could relate to a Wario Ware Twisted-like [...]

Cooking Mama may have a rival made by Activision. The publisher recently trademarked Math Papa and Science Papa for use with things like “video game programs; computer game cartridges”. In plain English these may be titles for upcoming games where a fatherly character runs through science training on some system. This reminds me of a [...]

Oh wait, it isn’t. Housemarque of Super Stardust fame developed Golf: Tee It Up which just happens to share the feel of a lost Hot Shots Golf game. Like the recent PlayStation 3 release you can play online, customize your character, and download new content. Additional course, clothes, and accessories will be available almost certainly [...]

This news shouldn’t be a surprise since the box art was revealed a few days earlier. The difference is Toys ‘R Us marked June 29 as the release date, but the Guitar Hero: On Tour Nintendo DS bundle is actually scheduled to ship on the same day as the DS game, June 22. Inside the [...]

Pitfall’s popularity plummeted from being a multimillion selling game on the Atari 2600 and a household name to a retro memory. Activision has tried to evolve Pitfall into a 3D platformer, but the transition hasn’t been stellar. The latest version, Pitfall: The Big Adventure, is coming out this fall in North Americaand so far it’s [...]

Geometry Wars fans, get ready for more retro inspired insanity. The OFLC has rated Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2! Yes, it looks like a sequel is indeed coming. While the OFLC website lists it as "multiplatform", it's most likely coming to the PC and XBLA, at least in my opinion. Though how crazy would it [...]

With all the news about Rock Band coming to the Wii it’s easy to overlook Guitar Hero. Activision bent on not letting their franchise stray from the spotlight opened up a campaign Rock Icon contest where Guitar Hero fans are invited to add themselves as a character in the next Guitar Hero. Well, not themselves [...]

Back when the Wii launched Link was almost thrust into a battle royale against Marvel’s best. No, Marvel characters weren’t drafted in an early version of Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Link was supposed to be a guest character in the Wii version of Marvel Ultimate Alliance! I touched on this nifty lost piece of gaming [...]

The always entertaining Surfer Girl has a neat tidbit about the Wii version of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance over at such things that never was. Before Marvel: Ultimate Alliance shipped to stores Samus and Link were supposed to appear alongside Spider-Man and the Hulk. However, Nintendo did not give Activision approval to do this and the [...]

If you didn’t procure the Guitar Hero III demo disc by purchasing Tony Hawk: Proving Ground or gray level means you can snag it on Tuesday on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo contains the same five songs on the disc, which are:   – Even Flow (by Pearl Jam) – Lay Down (by Priestess) [...]

Microsoft sent over an e-mail officially announcing the rumored Forza Motorsport 2/Marvel Ultimate Alliance pack-in this holiday season. Starting at the end of October you get both games for free when you pick up a specially marked Xbox 360 Pro ($349.99) or an Xbox 360 Elite ($449.99). If you don’t need to play Halo 3 [...]

Digitally distributed demos are becoming popular, but it is kind of a drag to play through a demo only to do the same thing when you purchase a game. Activision has an interesting concept, reward gamers for playing the demo. Once you get a reward code for the Spider Man: Friend or Foe demo you [...]

Something struck me while I was glancing over Sony’s playable games at Tokyo Game Show and this time it wasn’t Q Entertainment’s unannounced game. Half of the games being shown aren’t developed in Japan. The developers reside in the USA, Canada and Europe. And a fair number of the third party games like Harry Potter [...]