Metroid Prime, which should be your most anticipated of Nintendo's "New Play Control" series of Wii games, shipped last month in Japan. After digging myself out from a pile of other work, I played a bit of it last night. The 2002 GameCube first-person shooter has been totally refitted with Wii motio...

Electronic Arts' Need for Speed series has a long, storied history, dating back to the 3D0 in 1994. Three new games are currently in development, distinct titles that EA hopes will appeal to different types of racing fans. Need for Speed: Shift is aimed squarely at simulator buffs, emulating an auth...

SAN FRANCISCO — Electronic Arts' upcoming game Dante's Inferno is a riff on God of War that stars a beefed-up warrior based on the author of The Divine Comedy. Seriously. For those of us who spent our formative years sleeping through Classics lectures, Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem The ...

As promised, Capcom revealed a trailer exclusively on Xbox Live yesterday announcing the upcoming Lost Planet 2. Today the firm issued a number of screenshots from the game demonstrating its gorgeous -- if often moist -- graphics. Though the first Lost Planet took place almost entirely in an arctic ...

Good news for Left 4 Dead fans: Valve has issued a patch for the console version of the game that fixes a number of exploits in the hit multiplayer title. Included in the long list of fixes is word that Survivors will no longer be able to drop through the floor at will, while their undead counterpar...

I definitely dig the latest trailer from The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, but honestly this clip is raising more questions for me than it answers. First, why is space always so dark? Stylistic choices aside -- and even ignoring the main character's "excellent night vision" gimmick ...

By Wired magazine contributing editor Brian Ashcraft In a country full of iconoclastic game designers, Japan's Keita Takahashi somehow manages to stand out even more. He gives press conferences barefoot. He doesn't like having his picture taken — his office couldn't get us one. He dreams of someda...

How do you follow up the biggest game of 2008? If you're Rockstar Games, you use downloadable add-on content to give gamers Grand Theft Auto 4.5 for the bargain price of $20. That's not to say that Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned , released Tuesday exclusively for Xbox 360, deserves the sor...

Good news from Capcom this morning for those zombie fans left cold by the hyperactive undead of Valve's Left 4 Dead: The former developer is hard at work on a sequel to 2006's phenomenal Dead Rising. Though few details on the sequel were passed along in the company's official announcement, it's clea...

Ever since Capcom revealed the first images from Resident Evil 5 certain factions in the gaming community have labeled the title as racist against the African natives it portrays. If you thought the debate was long behind us, Eurogamer's preview of the game wants to assure you that its not. After wa...