Warner Bros. are in talks with Taito to acquire production rights to a Space Invaders movie.

Have video games totally taken over your life? Is your marriage being affected? Do you need to go to rehab to kick your habit? Then you could be on MTV.

This weekend Nintendo returned to a familiar location for their Nintendo DSi launch party. Citywalk, a shopping area inside Universal Studios, was the same venue where the original Nintendo DS and, more recently, the Wii were launched.   The event should have been a smashing success with parkour performances, art giveaways from I am 8 [...]

Sega of America acts fast when it comes to movie rights. In past years they made games based on the Golden Compass, Iron Man, and the Incredible Hulk. Their next movie game might be Planet 51, an animated film about about an astronaut landing on a planet with stereotypical Martians paranoid of a human invasion. [...]

The King of Pop has seen better days. To get some extra cash Michael Jackson is auctioning off at least part of arcade collection with Julien’s Auctions on April 24, 2009 (thanks Insert Credit forums!) which means we get to see what stuff he had.   And Jackson had a lot of cool stuff, a [...]

We haven’t seen much progress on Aliens: Colonial Marines, but that’s not going to stop Sega from announcing another game based on the Alien franchise. Also up on deck now and the first game to launch a trio of Sega published Alien games is Alien vs. Predator due in 2010. Rebellion, the UK developer that [...]

Capcom who is partially financing the Lost Planet film adaptation isn’t skimping on the budget. Toshihiro Tokumaru, Head of Capcom’s Character Contents Business, explains the “project will cost somewhere between 150 million and 200 million dollars to make.” Just for comparisons sake the planned budget is bigger than Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and falls [...]

Media superstore Tsutaya is running a Metal Gear Solid tie-in promotion, but they aren’t pushing PlayStation 3 games. Tsutaya is shilling movies. Hideo Kojima’s 15 favorite movies are on display at select retailers and a product page has tidbits about how they affected the Metal Gear Solid series.   Did you know Kojima got Snake [...]

Hearing the news about the Castlevania movie being in a standstill sparked my memory about another Castlevania movie. The film I’m thinking of is based on Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse and it’s animated. Originally, it was supposed to be a direct DVD release, but a few months ago the production blog claimed the project was [...]

24 is quite popular in Japan. I remember going to Sega’s Joypolis amusement center in Tokyo where there was a 24 video scavenger hunt. Players would take a card and swipe it to see videos and solve a mission. I gave up after the first video to play more House of the Dead 4 Extreme. [...]

With the unlikely mash up of Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Collin Chou it’s easy to overlook numerous video game references in the movie. Well, when one of the kids holds up an Xbox 360 and says “look, I found your new Xbox” or something to that magnitude and Jason, the young boy who needs [...]

In a strange turn of events, cooking games are becoming ever so popular. Cooking Mama was never the only cooking game in town, but it was the first one to appeal to a mass market. Before Office Create developed the series two Japanese fast food chains, CoCo Ichibanya Curry House and Yoshinoya, released licensed titles [...]

It seems strange, but Nintendo has gotten some big stars to hawk Ninty wares in Japan so maybe it's not so weird after all. Either way, Nintendo Europe will be using the lovely Ms. Kidman to promote the Brain Training series. Apparently she'll be participating in a 60 day campaign to keep her brain in [...]

Overtime, the comedy troupe who is behind the Nintendubs is having a show on Friday, June 22 at The Westside Eclectic @ 9PM. After a half hour comedy show the venue, including its big screen, is going to turn into a giant Wii party. Expect Wii Sports tournaments, Street Fighter II battles and Mario Kart [...]