This week starts the slow trickle of great fall releases with Wolfenstein for the PC, PS3, and 360. Also, Shadow Complex will be available to the gaming masses this Wednesday. I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot about that game from Jacob's review and article coming up this week. It's Metroidvania style of gameplay had me hooked the second I saw it at E3. To wrap up the big releases this week,... more.

This is an edited version of a post I wrote for my blog shortly after Final Fantasy XIV was announced: What would you do if you knew your world was coming to an end in one year, only to be replaced by a bigger, better world? This is a question that is on the minds of thousands of Final Fantasy XI players today. Our precious Vana’diel will soon be overshadowed by a new world, Eorzea. It... more.

July’s E3 opened this year’s convention season with a bang. Coming up a week from today is the next big event in the gaming industry. Gamescom in Cologne is stealing the thunder normally reserved for Leipzig Games Convention, which fizzled this year as Game Convention Online. Luckily, with the promise of some big name titles from some big name companies, it seems that Gamescom will fill... more.

Bookworm Adventures 2 is a puzzle game from casual game makers Popcap. It combines the simplicity of Scrabble with interesting RPG elements to make for an incredibly addicting game. At first glance, the game seems to be targeted for a completely different audience, which is why I have yet to play the first one. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find a strangely addictive puzzle games t... more.

We just got word of the annual DIG Conference in London, Ontario. DIG is an industry conference that brings in some big name companies like Microsoft, Ubisoft, and EA, as well as some smaller local companies. They also sponsor a Game Development Competition in which participants are all competing for shares of the $10,000 grand prize. They accept entries in Game Art, Game Programming, and G... more.

Lucasarts teased another announcement over the weekend.  Today sees the release of Super Star Wars from the SNES on the Wii's Virtual Console.  This is the beginning of a string of Star Wars related releases on the Wii, with Super Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back and Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi over the next couple weeks.  Each is (and will be) available for 800 Wii Points. In addi... more.

Whoops, I'm a day late on the Releasing This Week article. Oh well, that's what happens when things get super busy. This week looks like a decent week for games. Not stellar, just average. Looks like Hearts of Iron III got pushed back from last weeks release date, and is now listed to release this Tuesday. On the DS side of things, we have the FPS, C.O.R.E., and the re-release of Ph... more.

Xbox live members were greeted this morning by an email notifying them of a "mandatory Xbox Live service update on August 11th, 2009." This update brings with it all the goodies some users have been fortunate enough to already experience. They include: User Ratings, Indie Games (a renamed version of Community Games), Avatar Props and Marketplace, Games on Demand, Netflix Parties, and More. ... more.

Might as well keep my Final Fantasy XIV news streak going. I just loaded up the official website to watch the trailer (again), only to be greeted by an entirely new design. The website now features a short prelude story about an attempted invasion of Eorzea (the games main continent) from an unknown force, leading to the current "Age of Adventurer's." There is also information on one of the... more.

Yesterday's Final Fantasy XIV info came from a leaked Weekly Famitsu article.  Today sees another leak from the Dengeki Playstation magazine.  Well, actually, a lot of this info came out yesterday, but now there are pictures.  The picture above looks to be a party of an Elezan, Hyuran, and a Roegadyn at an outpost of some sort.  The crystal structure in the middle is rumored to be a method... more.

It's been known that the races in Final Fantasy XIV are going to be visual copies of the races in Final Fantasy XI.  This is to help ease the transition for the dedicated fans of the previous game.  Some leaked scans have appeared, and thanks to Eorzeapedia, they have been translated. The Human-like Hume are now the Hyurans The short Tarutaru are now the Lalafells The cat-like Mithra ar... more.

Valve just announced a new campaign set to release this September for Left 4 Dead. The campaign, called "Crash Course", will bridge the gap in story between the "No Mercy" and "Death Toll" campaigns. I wasn't aware there was any story connection to any of the campaigns, but that's cool. The campaign will also support Multiplayer and Survival modes when it releases this September. Interestin... more.