With gift-giving holidays behind us, we’re all looking ahead to the new year. As a celebration (and clever marketing opportunity), Nintendo is offering 10 new games as we prepare for 2010. Of course, with that kind of volume they can’t all be winners, but a few standouts should satisfy....

It’s been a rough decade for Duke Nukem (and a particularly tough year for developer 3D Realms), but it looks like 2010 will be the start of a comeback for the flat-topped action hero of so many cringe-inducing one-liners — or at least that’s what 3D Realms has planned. Speaking in...

If Legend of Zelda series director Eiji Aonuma had his way, we’d all be looking forward to Link’s Crossbow Training 2 instead of another full-fledged Zelda title right now. In an interview with gamesTM magazine ( via NowGamer), Aonuma revealed his real interest in making the next Zelda title...

Videogame Holiday Card Roundup 2009 We dig through the holiday card pile to share some of our favorites with you. Go here to see the original: Videogame Holiday Card Roundup 2009

It’s a chain reaction, basically: After a number of publishers delayed their games to early 2010 to avoid the behemoth that was Modern Warfare 2 , it made early 2010 suddenly look like a behemoth itself — and at least one developer is already getting out of the way of that freight train,...

Dracula X: Rondo of Blood arrived on the Japanese Virtual Console way back in April 2008. Since then North American fans have waited patiently for a localized release of their own, but have had no luck Continued here: Australian OFLC Classifies Rondo of Blood for Virtual Console

One of the reasons why Famitsu magazine has been such a dominant presence in the Japan game scene for over two decades: They print horoscopes. Not just some random shyster’s predictions, though — they’ve got Yusho Fukuda (pictured above), an astrologer who contributes to all sorts...

In an interview with Japan’s Famitsu magazine this week, Ubisoft executive director Alain Corre dropped some hints that his company is interested in tapping into the Japanese game market more seriously in 2010 and beyond — even floating the idea of creating a Japan-style console RPG sometime...

Some highlights from an interview in this week’s year-end issue of Famitsu magazine with Masahiro Sakurai, the game designer and director behind titles like Nintendo’s Smash Bros. See the rest here: Smash Bros. Creator: "I Don’t Create The Sort of Games I Actually Play"

A Quick Guide To Getting Fit on Wii Find the right Wii fitness title to get in shape in 2010. By Alice Liang Don’t let anyone lie to you — getting in shape, and staying there, takes effort, time, and dedication. Read the original here: A Quick Guide To Getting Fit on Wii