2008? Not exactly a good year for business. Unless that business was videogames – new  stats from NPD show that Americans spent an incredible $21 Billion on video game hardware, software and accessories. That’s an astounding increase of 19% over 2007’s figures. Gamers are apparently too busy tea-bagging downed Spartan foes, wiggling their bums pretending to hula-hoop or sneaking around …

I received a press release this morning for Konami’s Job Island and while the game sounded slightly entertaining I wasn’t going to post anything since this games was released sometime last year already. However I got to the bundled screenshots and this horror of an image was on the top of the pile… I am sure it’s all innocent but …

I stumbled across this CES interview for Dead Rising on the Wii today and I have to say that I am more interested in getting this version than the PS3 or Xbox 360 versions. As the developer honestly admits the PS3 and 360 versions are far superior in terms of graphics but from where I am sitting the Wii version …

One of the perks of running a gaming website is that you get hassled incessently by press releases for really weird, odd and boring games… imagine what the downside of running the website is. Anyway out of all the press releases sometimes rises a diamond or just something that you know you are going to play even if it sounds …

I realised just recently that this video was never posted up on the site, even though it came out a short while back and decided to post it up, in case some of you haven’t yet seen it. If you have ever wondered what it looks like when you toss a Wiimote into an LCD TV at a pretty decent …

There has been a lot of hype building around the new Nintendo Wii hardcore title Madworld but unfortunately I have a horrible feeling this game is going to flop terribly, and I have backing for this feeling. You see Madworld is already notorious for it’s over the top violence, excessive amounts of gore and some truly awesome effects of blood …

It is a good indication of how things have changed when respected industry analysts are now talking about how the PS3 may overtake the 360 sales if this, this and this happen. In the good old days everyone was convinced that the PS3 would slaughter the competition and walk away with yet another undisputed title, however two years after it’s …

Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter (try saying that when you are drunk) has said that he expects a Playstation 3 price drop by April this year. He then specifically predicted that the 80gb PS3 SKU would drop by $100. He added, “Once the PS3 is at a more affordable price point, we think that sales of that device will …