It would be a fair assumption to say that the games industry has been neglecting the western genre.  We had Gun a few years ago and most recently there was Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood release just this past summer.  This April you'll be able to experience a sandbox style Western that utilizes the same engine applied in Grand Theft Auto 4 (Euphoria and RAGE) from Rockstar San Diego.  The ... more.

It may have been Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, or maybe even Pokemon. Or perhaps very recently that you started to take interest in this genre of gaming. Role-playing games have been one of the more popular genres in gaming for almost two decades now ever since fans of the old Dungeons and Dragons board game started to play video games. After all that's what RPG's were created to duplicate -- Dungeo... more.

I have not been fair to Mario over the years. I have had a Wii and Super Mario Galaxy for quite some time now. Never interested or bored enough to actually play the game, it has sat in a dark corner of my home collecting dead skin cells. Having recently returned to Mario 3, a game I played and enjoyed throughout my childhood, on Nintendo8.com, I decided it was time to give Super Mario Galaxy a cha... more.

Three years out, looking at the list of Nintendo’s first party Wii releases it’s fortunate that they don’t have to rely on great software to move systems.  If that were the case, the more hardcore audience would certainly have a better selection of high quality, big ticket Nintendo titles on the Wii and there would be about a half dozen less “New Play Control” ports of GameCube games. ... more.

How many of you fellow nerds fondly remember beasting out Ice World in Mario 3? Do you remember the simple fun of scoring mad coins and amassing more free lives than you will ever need? Perhaps you savored the difficulty of some of the boss levels in Mario games? Well, whatever it was you enjoyed in the older installments, you will probably find it here, in the new Super Mario Bros. Wii! This ne... more.

Wedbush Morgan analyst Micheal Pachter revealed his monthly sales prediction numbers today, paving the way for what is expected to be a big November month for game companies. Pachter expects total sales to hit $1.55 billion for the month, up 7% compared to last year's $1.45 billion, but with overall hardware unit sales to be down 19% compared to last November. The PlayStation 3 has started ... more.