The latest installment of the popular Japanese RPG Tales series, Tales of Vesperia, has arrived on the Xbox 360.  The world of Terca Lumireis is one of which that depends on ancient technology known as Blastia.  Blastia is utilized to perform various tasks from helping to boost combat skills, using magic, dealing with daily activities and work, or even protecting towns from monsters.  The protagonist in Vesperia is a young man named Yuri, whom deviates from the J-RPG stereotype. He isn't whiny or immature, but instead has his own sense of justice and takes matters into his hands, but is very caring even though he tends to not let it show. Read More…

The driving genre of games is fairly crowded and with series like Gran Turismo, Burnout, Midnight Club, Need for Speed, and Ridge Racer, many of the newer, less recognizable racing titles are having a tough time trying to crack into the market. The only way these less established games are going to standout is if they bring something really different and unique to the table, and unfortunately Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli fails to do so. Eutechnyx and System 3 essentially put together the basic elements found in just about any racing title. There are 4 game modes to choose from. Read More…

Very simply put, Little League World Series Baseball 2008 is a fun game. Right from when you look at the cover to the moment you throw out the first pitch, it’s clear that Activision and Now Production wanted this to be an enjoyable little game that is easy to pick up and something you’re going to want to play for more than a few minutes at a time. In that regard they’ve succeed for the most part. There are a number of modes open from the start including Exhibition and World Series Mode. Read More…

Jack Thompson Disbarred That's right, one of the main thorns in the side of the video game community/industry has just been permanently disbarred as well as having to pay hefty fine by the Supreme Court of Florida. All of this for inappropriate conduct when filing his flagrant charges against Game, TV, and Music companies for their "Questionable" material in their formats. Some of these of course being against South Park and Grand Theft Auto. Now, granted, he has 30 days to appeal this disbarment and such, but he still has the sanction of that he cannot submit this to the court himself. Read More…

The Bungie countdown has ended, and with it releases a new teaser trailer.  Set in a futuristic city, you are looking through a camera at various areas when pods drop from the sky.  When the cameras are brought back online, you see destruction and damage everywhere. Cut to "Halo 3" and after which the camera itself is hit by a pod, and the video cuts to "Prepare To Drop". According to Xbox Live Marketplace description, this appears to be a new Halo 3 Campaign Experience.  Look for more info as it is released. Read More…

Pokemon Platinum, the third game in the Diamond and Pearl series, was recently released in Japan. During the first days of it's release it sold nearly 1 million units. In one weekend it sold over 963,000 copies, all for the Nintendo DS. This made Pokemon Platinum the fastest selling Nintendo DS game ever. The Pokemon series has a long history of being extremely successful, especially in Japan. The game still has no confirmed released date in America. Read More…

The Punisher: No Mercy Coming Exclusively to PSN So there was a tease a week ago on the Marvel site about something with the Punisher franchise. I wasn't too sure what to make of it until I spotted this on the Playstation Blog this morning. There is going to be a PSN exclusive all about the Punisher called, Punisher: No Mercy. Totally awesome. From what they have released, so far, it is a FPS all driven through the Unreal Engine. Read More…

Everyones favorite badass is now making his way onto the Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 microsoft points. The game will feature 8 player co-op and "dukematch" over xbox live, User Clips where you can share, upload and post clips to the leaderboards, rewind time on death, unlockable concept art and more. Read More…

Age of Booty - " Fileplanet has opened the seven seas for captains and unsavory crew to brave the choppy waters and help test Age of Booty." There you have it, you can now start to plunder all the booty you want. This RTS is sure to be a hit, considering your able to go around as pirates and pillage everything in sight. Here are some system requirements so you can see if you can run the beta. Single player and multiplayer real-time action strategy from Certain Affinity, lead by Max Hoberman, designer of Halo 2 and 3’s multiplayer gameRaid villages, sink merchants, steal gold, and upgrade your pirate ship to help send your foes to the briny deepMaster twenty-five unique multiplayer maps or create your own and share them with friendsEnlist help from fellow buccaneers, with up to four players on one console, and eight players over LAN or the InternetCountless customizable options to make your ship and crew the most feared scallywags to ever fly the Jolly RogerMinimum System Requirements:ATI Radeon 9600 / NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800Windows XP sp2 or VistaDirectX 9. Read More…

Motorcycles Finally Implemented In The Wrath Beta This morning I woke and decided I was going to see if the WotLK Beta was up and running, servers were down last night, and got welcomed by a new patch for the Beta. Figured ok can't be much more than fixes that have been reported. Well I found out not to long ago of something that got implemented in said patch that has me raring to go home tonight. A Motorcycle as a mount. Yes, you read that. Read More…

LittleBigPlanet Trophies Revealed So here we go with another set of trophies for you PS3 users out there. Might I add, finally a game I will own that has trophies. Finally! But enough about me, lets continue forth with what the skinny on this is. For the most part, it seems pretty straight forward. Complete levels here, place stickers there. Even a dash of get a crazy multiplier. Read More…

On Monday, Midway announced the complete character roster for the upcoming Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. The game is due this November for the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Read More…

Portal: Prelude Not get enough game time with the original Portal? Want more? Don't want to wait for Portal 2? Well you may have your wish in the not to distant future. Like end of the month future. How? Well keep reading. A small group of modders have taken the original Portal and expanded on the overall gameplay. They have taken the concept and world and created their own original story and content for the game. 48 challenges and 400 lines of script worth of new content for the game. Read More…

Update: Accoring to MTV Multiplayer, Doug Lombardi says it's a "complete fabrication"Yesterday at the GDC, our very own Clov3r got the chance to talk with the developers over at the Valve booth and got confirmation that it is infact a fabrication. The Valve developers joked around with the idea that someone could say such a thing, not seeming to mind the idea much and was "the talk of the office" yesterday morning- - - Original article:In a very interesting turn of events, it seems that Google is looking at Valve. Why you may ask? It really is quite simple, Valve has an amazing Content Distribution System, aka Steam. Read More…

Social Networks Now More Popular Than Porn We can all agree, the internet is for porn. Well at least according to a little song performed on Broadway. But that may not be all that true anymore or at least in the not to distant future. According to a researcher and author Bill Tancer, he wrote Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters, the number of searches for the coveted reason to log online and use the magic porn box is down. Like down 10% since Al Gore invented the Interwebs. The short and simple, it use to be 1 in 5 searches were for porn where as now it is 1 in 10. Read More…