The Strong National Museum of Play has announced that Will Wright, who gamers no doubt know as the creator of such monumental videogame franchises as SimCity , The Sims , and Spore , has donated a large collection of his personal papers and design documents to the museum’s International Center...

A pair of smaller announcements slipped through the cracks during Nintendo’s big 3DS conference early this morning: New games in the Fatal Frame and Rhythm Heaven franchises are headed for the Wii. Destructoid spotted a set of newly-added galleries for the two games on Nintendo of Japan’s...

Having locked down the release date of February 26, 2011 for the 3DS in Japan, and announcing that the U.S. and Europe will see the new handheld the following month, Nintendo has updated its sales targets for both the Wii and DS for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011. It also has offered up projections...

Feature Why “Inception: The Game” Will Be a Dream Come True How the surreal heist’s spin-off will plant the seed for better games. By David Wolinsky Last week, when Christopher Nolan casually announced he intends to release a spin-off game based on his cerebral thriller Inception “in...

Konami took the wraps off the final list of tracks for Def Jam Rapstar this morning. The upcoming music game will feature more than 40 hip-hop tracks, plus 15 never-before-heard beats for the game’s Freestyle mode. From the looks of things, Def Jam will offer a fairly eclectic setlist when it...

There are two perennial enemies that will always have employment in videogames: Nazis, and zombies. And while Call of Duty: Black Ops may finally be leaving the Nazis behind, Activision has at last stopped beating around the bush and confirmed that a zombie mode will indeed return in the game. Read...

At Nintendo’s press conference tonight in Japan, the company officially confirmed previous rumors that it was readying the launch of a new model of the Wii Remote. Dubbed the Wii Remote Plus, this new model combines the features of the original Remote with that of the MotionPlus add-on, in one...

The online content sector is steadily expanding, but a new report suggests that it still has plenty of room to grow. According to The NPD Group, six percent of U.S Read more: Report: Only Six Percent of U.S. Console Owners have Downloaded Content in Past Three Months

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 , Sega’s brand-new continuation of the classic side-scrolling Sonic series, finally has a release date (via IGN ). In fact, it has a lot of release dates, across a lot of platforms Read more from the original source: Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Dated for October

Electronic Arts’ upcoming NBA Jam will be available as a standalone game on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, despite past reports to the contrary. The news comes as part of a larger blog post by EA Sports head Peter Moore, who said that a “standalone product” would be available for...