Steve Young Football, a new iPad/iPhone game, takes a football field and turns it into a venue for bizarrely fun minigames. These two similarly bizarre ads for the game spoof a pair of memorable, early-’90s commercials. Are you ready to grab My Buddy and get caught up in the Crossfire? Continue reading Steve Young Football iPad commercials draw a Crossfire Steve Young Football iPad commercials draw a Crossfire originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

The first Dissidia: Final Fantasy was a game created to celebrate the famous franchise’s birthday, and as a result it was packed full of fan-service. However, now Square Enix appear to be working on a sequel to the original. The information comes via Shonen Jump, however details are relatively limited at this point. The article announces both Final Fantasy IV ’s Kane and Final Fantasy XIII ’s Lightning will be joining the roster for the sequel. So, let the speculation begin. Who would you like to see join the roster in this fan-service sequel? It is unknown if the original cast will return, but surely it …

At Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle last weekend, Valve showed this trailer for the first-person puzzle game’s co-op campaign behind closed doors. Now you can see it for yourself. Aren’t you lucky. Instead of a human test subject, Portal 2 ’s protagonists are a pair of adorable robots. Don’t worry if one of them is flung into a wall, or falls off a cliff, or is otherwise burned, crushed or mutilated by Aperture Science’s many devious testing facilities. They’ll come back to life. Watching this trailer does give you a glimpse of just how complicated playing Portal with two players — and two independently-controlled sets of portals that ruin everything you know about Euclidean geometry — will be. Make sure to pick a partner …

Over the Top Games won’t say exactly when, but sometime this month NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits will become available for Mac and PC users. No pricing information is listed on the game’s Steam page , but we imagine it’ll fall close to the WiiWare asking price of $10. In case you never became acquainted with Nyx and her … uh … quest on the Wii earlier this year, it’s a very pretty action-platformer steeped in …

In last season’s playoffs, the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings had a classic battle. To kickoff the 2010 NFL season, the two teams had fans falling asleep. In a contest that started out fast but ended with a wimper, the Saints beat the Vikings by a final score of 14-9. Three minutes into the game, the Saints got on the board when Drew Brees threw a 29 yard touchdown…

Friends and family of Brian Wood, a game developer who recently died in a car accident, established a memorial trust Thursday to aid the wife and unborn child that the 33-year-old gamemaker left behind. Wood was killed Friday in a head-on collision that took the lives of three . Wood’s pregnant wife was in the back seat of the vehicle he was driving, but survived the collision and is now at home with family. Wood, an employee of Relic Entertainment, was the lead…

GamesIndustry.biz Reports: The latest firmware updates for Nintendo’s DS and Wii are reportedly preventing the function of many flashcarts and modifications designed to enable piracy and homebrew on the machines. Officially the Nintendo DSi Menu Ver 1.4.1U update, which became available on Tuesday, is listed as “providing behind-the-scenes improvements to system performance” but many users of unsanctioned storage devices are claiming that the true intention of the update is to block the use of flashcarts. Not all flashcarts have been affected, with the notorious R4 apparently…

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On this day 15 years ago, Sony unleashed a beast upon the gaming industry in North America. After Nintendo dominated the industry for two generations with the NES and the Super NES, Sony teamed up with the gaming giant in the early 1990s to create a CD-based add-on to the SNES, but the device was eventually axed and the partnership collapsed, so Sony decided to pursue their own interests and the PlayStation was born a few years later. With a launch price of $299, the…

Have you submitted your T-Shirt Design yet? If not, be sure to do so by midnight (Eastern Time) on Monday, September 13, 2010! At that time, we will compile all the designs and start a contest for the winner. This could be YOU! Hey everyone. How cool would it be to have WiiNintendo t-shirts? Then, when we go to events like PAX or E3, we could represent and advertise! We think it would be great if we our own readers/members made up some designs! Feel free to use the existing WiiNintendo logo/design as much as possible, so that things can look similar, but also be creative. We cannot wait to see what you all come up with. The designs will be placed in a forum …

As promised last week , Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD for iPad has arrived in the App Store. It’s $10 (the same price as the iPhone version — shame it’s not a universal app), and you can see what that Hamilton would get you in the gallery past the break. Continue reading GTA: Chinatown Wars HD out for iPad, this is what it looks like GTA: Chinatown Wars HD out for iPad, this is what it looks like originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

The very same mall we walked through to enter the inaugural PAX East this past March just saw a heavy influx of Lemmings , care of the folks at ZUG and “a few dozen” of their “closest friends.” The video contains at least one water-based Lemming fatality — you’ve been warned! Continue reading ZUG takes live-action Lemmings tribute to Boston ZUG takes live-action Lemmings tribute to Boston originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Did you enjoy Miles Edgeworth’s adventure into being the main character of his own game? Well, if you did then you will be happy to hear that a sequel for the game is on its way. Not very much is known about it at this point in time, it is known that one of the cases will see Edgeworth return to Gourd Lake. Those who played through the first title will remember that Edgeworth nearly found himself in jail during a murder that took place at this locale. The sequel has not been dated yet, but it is going to be on show at

Creat’s support for the PlayStation Network seemingly has no end. Although the studio’s TerRover was just released this week, Creat has already revealed its next game: Skyfighter , an “unabashedly retro” side-scrolling shooter. The gameplay looks straightforward — players take control of a small fighter plane, gunning and bombing over 21 levels — but that’s to be expected of a title from a studio whose previous works include Hamster Ball and Smash Cars . Skyfighter will also have a multiplayer mode, but TheSixthAxis reports that it will be offline only. Surprisingly, the game is arriving on the PlayStation Store for PS3 in just a “few weeks”…