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Wii Push Up Bar

If you play Wii Fit video game regularly, then you might need the Wii Push Up Bar. CTA Digital’s plastic push up bar pops right on top of your balance board, offering adjustable grips for you. The Wii Push Up Bar is compatible with Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus, U Fitness and Jillian Fitness Ultimatum. [...]

GDC: Final Fantasy’s Future Is Interactive Cut Scenes, Downloadable Content

SAN FRANCISCO — For the future of Final Fantasy, director Motomu Toriyama is looking to Uncharted 2. The interactive cinematic scenes in Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed action game seem to have inspired Toriyama to try the same thing in the Final Fantasy games, he said at his Game Developers Conference panel on Friday. “In Final Fantasy [...]

GDC: What Final Fantasy XIII Looked Like on PlayStation 2

SAN FRANCISCO — Final Fantasy XIII began its life as a PlayStation 2 game. Here’s what it looked like. Speaking at Game Developers Conference on Friday, FFXIII director Motomu Toriyama talked a bit about the development history of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game, showing the early screenshot pictured above. The battle system, Toriyama said, [...]

More Info About Gran Turismo 5

Here is good news for all Grand Turismo fans around the globe. Sony has finally announced that the long awaited Gran Tursimo 5 during the GDC press conference in San Fransico. The game will be hitting store shelves at some point this year. We will keep you posted. [That Videogame Blog]

First DLC Pack For Mass Effect 2

BioWare is preparing to release the first DLC pack for Mass Effect 2. Known as the Kasumi’s Stolen Memory, this add-on content will include a new character named Kasumi, a new weapon and a new Achievement. The pack itself is scheduled to be released on April 6th for both Xbox 360 and PC platforms, however, [...]

February NPD: BioShock 2, Xbox 360 Top the Charts

The Xbox 360 version of BioShock 2 topped the sales charts in February, moving half a million copies in a month packed with big game releases, the NPD Group said Thursday. Boosted by BioShock, Dante’s Inferno and continued sales of Modern Warfare 2, the Xbox 360 was the best-selling home game console in the U.S. last [...]

Photo: Silent Hill Composer Rocks Out at GDC

SAN FRANCISCO — “Audio is my lover,” Akira Yamaoka said as he kicked off his presentation Thursday at Game Developers Conference. Pulling out his guitar, he played some music that he composed over the past day on his trip from Tokyo to San Francisco. Yamaoka is best known for his years at game publisher Konami, creating [...]

GDC: Metroid Creator Inspired by Italian Horror Films

SAN FRANCISCO — Nintendo’s Metroid games take their creative cues from an unlikely source: Dario Argento, the Italian horror film director. At his keynote speech during the Game Developers Conference on Thursday, Metroid creator Yoshio Sakamoto said that Argento’s films Susperia and Deep Red, which he discovered in his youth, awoke his creative sensibilities. The horror [...]

White House: Ask What Game Developers Can Do For Your Country

SAN FRANCISCO — Kumar Garg, policy analyst for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wants the game industry to address America’s “national challenges.” In a keynote entitled “Grand Challenges for Game Developers” delivered at the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday, Garg focused on videogames’ unique ability to engage, immerse and teach. “We don’t [...]

GDC: Sony’s Motion Controller Underwhelms With Janky Games

SAN FRANCISCO — Sony’s motion controller is called PlayStation Move and will be released this fall, the gamemaker said Wednesday. Whether any killer app games will be released with it is still in question. At a lavish press briefing taking place a few blocks away from the Game Developers Conference, Sony revealed the final name and [...]