Amazon and Toys R Us have set their sights on some of GameStop's market with their new trade-in programs. But will they succeed? Is there any reason for customers to offload their junk with any of these new services? Cheap Ass Gamer's Shipwreck compared the three services to try to arrive at an answ...

YES! CARDIO BOXING ON THE WII! FROM UBISOFT AND GOLD'S GYM, YEAAAHHHH! AWESOME! Sorry, we were just doing our best to get your heart rate up. Consider it a free cardio workout from Joystiq, because Joystiq Cares[TM] about your health! Ubisoft announced a partnership with Gold's Gym to market the new...

The Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360 bundle is totally a real thing that people will be able to buy! We kind of assumed that the bundle, containing a red system and a copy of the game, wasn't just some rumor, but now we have confirmation that is about as official as anything can be: an Xbox 360 told us! Che...

EA Sports used to rely on the popularity of real sports organizations and real players to make its games more appealing, and now one company is using EA Sports' name to get kids into real sports. Toy Island has partnered with EA to produce branded sports equipment for kids, some of which includes an...

Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 Click to embiggen. That " Dead Rising 2" video from last week, that kinda looked like it could have been Dead Rising 2? It was totally Dead Rising 2. Capcom has officially announced the title not just for Xbox 360, but for PS3 and PC as well! T...

Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS Last fall, controversy about Fisher-Price's Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo doll rocked the local news circuit, when the doll was discovered to utter some kind of gibberish that sounded kind of like "Islam is the Light" if you were listening hard enough for things to be ...

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Portable, RPGs, E3 While, for the most part, Chrono Trigger on the DS looks just like Chrono Trigger on the SNES, some liberties have been taken to make the use of the new, screenier hardware. I snapped this control scheme diagram from the Chrono Trigger demo station, figur...

Filed under: Nintendo DS Last week we used this commemorative image to introduce our review archive. This week, we're using it again, because we seriously got our review on. In fact, we aren't exactly sure how we found time to report on all the news this week, with all the time we spent thinking rea...

Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action click to embiggen As Firefly Studios explained it, most dungeon games put the player in the role of a psychopath who enters a dungeon to slaughter thousands of subterranean creatures and steal their gold. Dungeon Hero is totally different. In Dungeon Hero,...

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Sports click to embiggen I'm a big fan of the Super Dodgeball games, and of the Kunio series in general. I played tons of dodgeball on the NES and GBA, and I've been watching the development of the DS game with more than enthusiasm. So when I first heard about the Xb...