Welcome back to the next installment of "Things I learned from Video Games". Here at G3, we believe that video games are a learning experience as well as entertainment. When we play a game you can bet your sweet lucky 3rd grade bicycle helmet that we're thinking of how it might improve the world at large as well as our achievement and trophy scores. So check out what we learned from video games, a... more.

It's completely understandable for you to read that headline and think "Oh great...Pokemon Pinball 3 is something I couldn't live without this year." So you'll be happy to know that when Nintendo says "New Pokemon in 2010," they mean the good ones. Over in Japan, Nintendo announced a brand new entry in the Pokemon series that will be heading to the DS this year in Japan, shortly after for Ameri... more.

Let’s just be honest for a moment, if you were an adolescent gamer in the mid to late 90’s: Pokemon ruled a good portion of your free time. Pokemon could be found in the form of card games, cartoons and movies and they were all readily available to be obsessed over. Pokemon was impossible to ignore or escape and it made portable gaming become more mainstream. Then, when Pokemon had the chance ... more.

Quick Famitsu blast before I head to TGS tomorrow morning at 5am. This is probably necessary if for no other reason than a lot of the big news is covered in this week's issue as well as full listings of each booth at TGS. I am not going to list each booth, but it will help me form my game plan. Yakuza 4 has more information revealed about it; the old all star Japanese cast returns as well as so... more.

As I mentioned in the last of my Famitsu write-ups, the Japanese gaming audience has become increasingly intrigued with Western games. While still far from a dominant force a number of these games have been taken to heart. Even in the relatively short time I have lived in Osaka the game stores and magazines have slowly begun to place European and American games more prominently. In truth some o... more.

Yesterday The Pokémon Company International and Nintendo of America Inc. revealed that they will be releasing two brand new Pokémon games for the Nintendo DS. The two games are Pokémon™ HeartGold Version and Pokémon™ SoulSilver Version. Both Games will arriving Spring 2010 to both Europe and the United States. In Pokémon HeatGold and SoulSilver players will be returning to Johto ... more.