New firmware update will disable the ability to run Linux on the system.

Users have been reporting from all corners of the Internet that the Wii firmware 4.2 update has a chance of “bricking” or ruining unmodified consoles.

So, DSi launches in April for $170. A few of us started to talk about DSi-specific games in the other post. Seeing as how there’s so much ground to cover when discussing the new DS model, I figured I’d throw together a post that could get us (and hopefully developers) thinking about some of the [...]

Bob’s Game has become quite the spectacle with its 100 day “protest” for a SDK kit from Nintendo and (tongue-in-cheek?) holiday greeting to Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé. On the up side Pelloni has drawn tons of attention to his one man project. However, forcing Nintendo or any publisher to the negotiation table by [...]

Nintendo dropped the ball on DVD support, but it’s an understandable decision. Including DVD playback would mean licensing the technology and passing the fees to customers. Most homes have DVD players anyways. The extra cost wouldn’t make the Wii a better gaming console, but if you’re dying to use the vacuum loading drive to watch [...]

Persona 2: Innocent Sin is the missing chapter of the Persona series. Die hard Megami Tensei fans know this and have been craving to play the first half of Persona 2 in English.   Thankfully, Gemini is hard at work on the job. He (she?) has a blog discussing the trials of the fan translation [...]

I’m one of the poor souls who bought Sega Ages 2500 Vol. 5: Golden Axe looking for a good co-op brawler. The experience wasn’t dreadful, but I haven’t cracked open the PlayStation 2 remake for years. Meanwhile, Golden Axe: Beast Rider looks nothing like the simplistic arcade game of yesteryear.   Members of the Insert [...]

Sure, the Super Smash Brothers Brawl news is disappointing, but there is an unofficial mascot fighter you can play with to pass the time. Insert Credit points out Namco Super Heroes, a doujin fighter with forgotten Namco characters like Gil from the Druaga series, Valkyrie from  Legend of Valkyrie and my personal favorite addition Rick [...]

Back on the Famicom, Capcom developed a Mega Man party game. However, Wily & Light's Rockboard: That's Paradise!! isn’t a mini-game collection like Mario Party. Rockboard shares more in common with Monopoly or Enix’s Itadaki Street series. You roll dice, move on a board, purchase properties and make bets to collect the most Zenny. While [...]

Namco released Tales of Phantasia on the Game Boy Advance and it contained some of the modifications from the PsOne release. However, the anime intro got cut and the music was notably downsampled. No problem, though! Thanks to the hard work of the fan translation community a polished English patch of Tales of Phantasia for [...]

A labor of love is ready and available for download if you weren’t satisfied with Chrono Trigger’s US script. The retranslation took things out that were added in like Frog’s Elizebethan English and added stuff that was removed like the final ending artwork from the Japanese release. I never found the translation to be lacking, [...]

Square-Enix has been digging up many of their older games, but the quirky platformer RPG, Threads of Fate, still hasn’t gotten a proper sequel. Never fear though the doujin market has an unofficial sequel that throws the spoiled Princess Mint into another game. Duo Princess makes Maya, Mint’s younger sister, a playable character. And poor [...]

Down in the depths of Tokyo Game Show, away from all the blaring speakers and Level 5’s line were a series of student made games. While most of them were for PC or the Xbox 360 (go XNA!) there was a single Gamecube title in the bunch, Blowind. On the surface it is a platformer, [...]

The Linux based handheld is not ready to fade into obscurity. The F-200, a new version of the GP2X is set to come out later this year and it will allow you to play games with a touch screen. While there aren’t many commercial games for the GP2X, the homebrew community has been strongly supporting [...]

Many years after it has become a treasured memory people are still developing games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Occasionally, homebrew games come out in gray cartridge shells, but Sudoku for the NES also has a rare gold cartridge edition. Only five of these were made and one of them will be auctioned off at [...]

The title alone makes this rom hack worth mentioning, but there is more to Mr. Pac-Man besides a clever name. The repurposed release of Mrs. Pac-Man has new maps to check out and a new ghost. Granted it’s not nearly as lavish as Pac-Man: Championship Edition, but the NES never had widescreen support or HD [...]