Christmas in Japan turned out to be an unfortunate one for J-RPG fans around the world. AQ Interactive announces the cancellation of the upcoming Action RPG, Cry On. It was being developed by Mistwalker Studios, who previously did Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, and headed up by Hironobu Sakaguchi. This was supposed to be the third in Hironobu's planned XBox 360 titles. It was also due to feature a soundtrack by the legendary Nobuo Uemetsu and character designs by Kimihiko Fujisaka. According to 1UP, when approached with the questions as to why the game had been cancelled, AQI responded with the following statement: "AQI decided to cancel the project after analyzing the current market environment and forecasts for the future. Read More...

Finally Sony puts out a good Classic PS1 game onto the Playstation Store. As of Monday, December 12th, you can now download the classic J-RPG, Suikoden. Suikoden is a standout title that all J-RPG fans must play. Now it's readily available for PS3 owners, and if you have a PSP as well, you can freely transfer the game to your PSP for play on the go.  Suikoden 1 is rare title that you would have to pay from $40 to $75 depending on the condition and if it is complete or not. Brand new, the game can run you over $200. Read More...

Look who decided to send us a holiday card! http://www.radical.ca/christmas/index. Read More...

For all those who played Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts and had a hard time reading all the small text, you'll be pleased to know that the patch to enlarge the text is out now. This had caused problems because there was no voice acting in the game, like the other 2 Banjo Kazooie games, and certain underpowered rigs made it hard to read the dialog which contains clues and instructions throughout the game. Rare wasn't going to fix it but somebody got it out a month and a half later. Read More...

Spore Get A Spore™ Sculpture Created Ever created something in Spore™ and said, "Well I'd love to have a physical version of that." Be it a real pet or maybe for the realist, a small statue of it. Don't lie to yourself. You know you have ever since World of Warcraft™ characters were able to be created through cosplay or sculpture. Read More...

Hideo Kojima said to wait a few more weeks for a public announcement on a upcoming Metal Gear project. But scans from Famitsu pretty much spoiled it. Metal Gear is coming to the Iphone. Konami have also given us some details on the game. It's an original title in the MGS4 world with 8 stages with more to be made soon and obviously controlled by the touchpad. Throughout the gameplay you will receive bonus points witch will allow you unlock some neat stuff such as MGS wallpaper. The game is due for a world wide release in Spring 2009. Read More...

         It seems the folks over at Kotaku have gotten their hands on some leaked screens of the new Activision game Prototype. Read More...

Give a video game franchise enough time and eventually it stops being about attracting new fans and the focus switches to catering to the hardcore fanbase. It happened to the Dynasty Warriors series, it happened to pretty much any EA Sports series, and it happened to Armored Core. So with the release of Armored Core For Answer, the thirteenth game in the series, it’s no surprise that even with Ubisoft taking over as publishers, developers From Software have stuck with the two basic elements of an Armored Core game. Fast and crazy action and a ton of customization. As a result, it pretty much means that if you’re a fan, you’ll still like this game even if you did buy Armored Core 4 sometime over the course of the last twelve months. Read More...

Episodes 1-4 So I want to preface this review with a little something. I am a casual Strong Bad fan. By that I mean that I watch the flash videos every now and then and am not so entrenched into the whole Strong Bad world or Strongbaddia world if you will. I thought this important so the hard core fans don’t say I am leaning one way or the other. With that said, here we go. For the most part this game plays through, via “episodes,” much like the clips of flash video. Read More...

Sam & Max are back in their second collection of episodes appropriately titled, Sam & Max: Season Two. For those who don't know, Sam & Max are a detective duo, calling themselves "the freelance police", based off of the comic series created by Steve Purcell. Sam, a 6-foot dog in stereotypical detective attire, and Max, a rabbit with a pension for violence, solve crimes without any regard for the law and rarely without conflict. The series consists of references various aspects of pop culture, offbeat humorous dialogue, and quick wit. In Ice Station Santa, Sam & Max journey to the North Pole after being attacked at their office by a large robot, which was tagged as being sent by Santa. Read More...

Continuing with the already impressive number of costume downloads, Sony has released five new Sackboy outfits for Little Big Planet. Firstly there is a festive “Sack-sized Santa Coat and Trousers” which is available for free. Along with that, there are four other Street Fighter based costume sets that were released as well. Just in time for the release of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Ryu, Chun Li, Guile, and Zangief are all available for $1.99 each or you can grab all four for the price of $5. Read More...

Turns out the Europeans are getting Halo Wars nearly a week before North and South America. Halo Wars will release in Japan and Asia on February 26th, in Europe on February 27th and North and South America have to wait till the Third of March Pre-order the game at a participating retailer and you'll get an exclusive in-game Warthog with flame decals, whether you buy the Limited Edition or not. SHIIIIINNNYY. Read More...

The last time we saw a James Bond video game that tied into a movie was the release of The World is Not Enough in November of 2000 and it wasn’t so hot. Since then there have been a handful of very good games based on original Bond stories and then of course there was an adaptation of From Russia with Love which once again fell a little short of expectations. But now Bond is going through a reboot phase in the movies, and with the license switching hands from EA to Activision, the latest Bond game Quantum of Solace, has gone through some similar changes. Being an Activision property and a shooting game, it’s probably no surprise that the game is built using the Call of Duty 4 engine but a lot of people were probably wondering would the game transfer over well. Read More...

Resident Evil 5: Viral So normally I don't get anything but press releases in my inbox from game companies. One in particular Capcom. But today I got a very odd email I almost threw away as junk until I looked into it. I'll paste it below for you. from: Capcom Entertainment [pr@capcom.com] to: Hades [DavidB@pwned.com] date: Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:16 PM subject: It came from Kijuju It came from Kijuju. It came from Kijuju. Read More...

PlayStation fiends finally get a second life One of the big rumors and let downs, so far, for Sony has been their new "Social Network" program, Home. It has had so many rumors about when the mass populace will be able to get their hands on it, it has made a lot of people stop caring about it. To top that off, Sony's very limited "Beta" for the program has also left a lot feeling left out. Don't worry you people, there isn't much that you are missing. Just having the early download. Read More...