One of the launch titles for Nintendo’s new WiiWare downloadable games service, LostWinds is overflowing with unrealized potential. This is one of the relatively few games on the Wii that make legitimate use of the Wii Remote, striving to take the puzzle platforming genre to places previously unseen. Dishearteningly, it falls short of the lofty […]

The games industry could always do with more original concepts, so we were naturally intrigued when we saw this new action puzzle game from French developer Mekensleep. Published by Eidos and slated for release in June 2008, this DS-exclusive game is a stylish take on the puzzle genre that is quite unlike anything we’ve seen […]

Last night, we had the opportunity to attend Konami’s Gamer’s Night event here in San Francisco. After focusing on the big guns during its opening presentation, Konami gave us the chance to play a number of other upcoming games. Among the selection was Hellboy: The Science of Evil, a tie-in to the upcoming Hellboy film […]

With the Grand Theft Auto IV launch at the end of April, there was little doubt that the month’s game industry sales would be up in a big way. The stat-tracking NPD Group today released its snapshot of US retail sales, and it showed that total industry sales were up 40 percent year-over-year, with Rockstar’s […]

Stargate Worlds, the upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the Stargate SG-1 universe, has been confirmed as in development since the beginning of 2006. Cheyenne Mountain announced the game as its first project, and later announced that it would be self-publishing the game under the banner of a new publishing studio called FireSky.

It’s […]