Konami Japan launched a new teaser site to coincide with their recent ad in Famitsu today.

The Bayonetta development blog over at Platinum Games posted this Youtube video recently, of the game in its early stages of development, literally in its very first month.

Shifty Pete was at Best Buy recently and saw that they had The Red Star marked down to $10. He was unable to resist picking it up, and you know what that means: time for another contest!

Anybody interested in playing some early Starcraft 2 should go check this out. Bypassing the usual uploading of DXDIAG files in favor of a more Blizzard-flavored method of obtaining your system specs, users need only log into or create a new Battle.net account and head to the beta profiles page. Then download the Blizzard system check utility, [...]

For gamers who slap down a fiver to reserve their copy of Double Fine's Brütal Legend comes a new in-game guitar, or axe as goes the parlance. Aside from the unique look, voice work has been provided (for a guitar?) by Tenacious D's Kyle Gass and Jack Black.

In an announcement sure to please just about anybody, Bioware announced that the PC version of the upcoming Dragon Age won’t be using SecuROM for its copy protection scheme. Chris Priestly, Bioware’s community coordinator on their official forums posted that “the retail PC version of the game won’t require you to go online to authenticate the [...]

Announced at Game Developers’ Conference this past week, Entertainment Consumers Association Hal Halpin announced that membership in the organization now gets you 10% off of games at Amazon.com. The $20 membership fee helps to fund the ECA’s advocacy issues, as they work to improve such things as DRM and basically act as a gamers’ lobby. Looking into [...]

Gametap will be removing 97 games from it's free library on Thursday, making them available only to their subscribing members. As the current free library contains about 145 free games, this comes to a 67% reduction in size. Several of the notable titles in Gametap's lineup are included in this cut, including Tomb Raider Legend, Psychonauts and Deus Ex.

According to an email sent out by Square-Enix, the release date for Star Ocean: The Last Hope has been moved up from March 3rd to February 27th. The Japanese and European releases are remaining the same at February 19 and April 24, respectively.

It's been uncovered that Nintendo has patented a new gameplay methodology designed to squarely target non-gamers and bring them into the fold that 'hardcore' players have enjoyed for years. Made public today, the patent describes the new gameplay style as having a built-in hint system, enabling players to move past sections of a game that formerly proved difficult for them.