Next week 2K Games brings Family Guy to retail shelves and these two clips show that the game has the same wacky humor as the cartoon show. While there are no gameplay videos yet, Destructoid has hands on impressions of the game. There is another bonus about the release of Family Guy, that has little [...]

Would you like a game with your fries? For an extra $3.99 you can purchase one of three Burger King themed games with your value meal. The games are developed by Blitz Games who made who made Barbie’s Horse Adventures and the upcoming Spongebob: Creature from the Krusty Krab game for Wii. Blitz Games previously [...]

Engineering students at Rutgers University created a new and inexpensive hand rehabilitation system for those recovering from a stroke. The virtual rehabilitation system combines a modded Xbox and an Essential Reality P5 gaming glove, which detects finger motions. The console runs homebrew software with two kinds of exercises to assist in recovering hand functions. The [...]

Microsoft hasn’t given up on backwards compatibility yet. The most recent update adds in 39 Xbox games, some which aren’t even released yet. Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, Spyro: A New Beginning and Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run. This is the first update that added in Xbox games before they were released to [...]

That mammoth sized Steel Battalion controller was a costly Xbox accessory at the price of $200 plus dollars. It’s a one of a kind device designed for mecha games. Wouldn’t it be cool to use the same controller for MechWarrior games on the PC? If you have an Xbox USB controller converter and the freeware [...]

If you are one of the people with a regular Xbox head over to Woot. They have a deal where you can get two Logitech cordless attack controllers for $35 shipped. Since the controllers normally retail for around $30 each this is a fair bargain. Also if you don’t have an Xbox you can use [...]

Sorry Sega fans there are no signs of Panzer Dragoon Orta, Shenmue 2 or Jet Set Radio Future in the list. The additional 21 games that are now backwards compatible with the Xbox 360 aren’t exactly the most exciting titles. On the plus side there’s Doom 3, Lego Star Wars and the Xbox exclusive Grabbed [...]

There has been a lot of buzz about the Xbox 360 update that went live yesterday. The new dashboard adds in a lot of awesome features such as behind the scenes marketplace downloading, tweaks for the Korean virtual keyboard and 2x-16x fast forwarding / rewinding for movies saved on to the hard drive. While all [...]

Could Atari be gearing up for the next wave of consoles or are they trying to recoup as much money as possible to cushion their losses? Either way their GamersFirst program is good for gamers who want to save some cash. As of June 1st Atari dropped the price for a truckload of games to [...]

  CERO recently announced that they changed their rating system, which ended up looking similar to the ESRB’s scale. Now there are two distinct ratings for “M” type games. A game gets a “D” rating if it’s made for gamers 17 years old and the “Z” rating is for game is for adults only (18+). [...]

Fashion designer Marc Ecko’s first video game venture, Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure got slashed more than fifty percent at Best Buy. Like most titles, the graffiti game retailed for $49.99, now Best Buy is selling it for $19.99 for the PS2, Xbox and PC. That is a fairly significant drop since the game has [...]

It looks like American McGee’s Bad Day LA from Enlight Interactive is still coming along. This trailer shows Anthony, a reluctant hero and drifter, in the middle of an Earthquake. Watch it to check out the game’s style, cel-shaded and humorous instead of other dark American McGee games like Alice. Look for Bad Day LA [...]

Announced last year, Bad Day LA is a humorous take on Grand Theft Auto. Instead of playing a mobster you’re a hobo caught in the middle of natural disasters. Meteor storms, fires, earthquakes and riots are things that you’ll have to face in the game. While it was en route for PC and the Xbox [...]

If Mario can play soccer Sonic should be able to race on a hoverboard. It fits the Sonic theme of being fast and suits the blue hedgehog’s edgy attitude. Since it’s such a natural fit you have to wonder what prompted Sega and Sonic Team to create Sonic Riders. Was it the desire to make [...]