GRID racing game on Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 Windows and Nintendo DS

A new world of motorsport is brought to life as Codemasters reveals the first gameplay video for GRID; the video is now showing online at www.grid-game.com.

Featuring aggressive wheel-to-wheel racing, spectacular crashes and a taster of the jaw-dropping damage engine, the unmissable trailer showcases GRID as the game that will make racing exciting again. With game footage captured from the dramatic in-car view and powerful replay camera, the stunning new video shows the broad range of race events, breath-taking cars and striking locations in the game.

In Europe, touring cars jostle for position at Spa, the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR races in the legendary Le Mans 24 Hours race at dusk and the Aston Martin DBR9 charges around the historic city-centre of Milan.

In Japan, gamers catch their first glimpse of GRID’s open-wheel racing series as Formula 3 cars battle around the new Otakuma circuit. At Yokohama docks, the Nissan Silvia and Subaru Impreza demonstrate the awesome exhilaration of drift and night-racing is revealed as the RE Amemiya RX-7 takes on the neon-lit streets of Shibuya in Tokyo.



Finally in the United States, the Dodge Viper roars through the iconic streets of San Francisco, Plymouth Barracudas and Chevrolet Camaros battle for supremacy in Washington and Jupiter Eagleray Mk5s smash their way through the chaos and carnage of the destruction derby in Detroit.

From its huge, challenging career mode to thrilling, incident-packed online races featuring up to 12 players, GRID will deliver an unparalleled competitive experience when it launches early summer for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, Games for Windows, and Nintendo DS.

For the full video, new screens, wallpapers and to sign up to the official GRID newsletter visit the new site atwww.grid-game.com.

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Xbox 360 news update - new firmware for discontinued HD DVD

Sales for the Xbox 360 fell further in Japan this week as consumers flock to other hardware offerings.

The 360 ranked last in overall hardware sales.

Sales for Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV this week cracked the top five at Amazon.

The Xbox 360 SKU held a No. 3 rank in overall sales.

Microsoft this week deployed a new firmware update for the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player.

The company in Feb. discontinued the device following Toshiba Corp.'s exit from the HD DVD business.

Microsoft this week released Ikaruga to the Xbox Live Arcade division.

The latest version includes local and online co-op play.

Xbox 360 HD DVD Player sales continued to burn at Amazon this week. The product held an increase in sales from third-party sellers.

Clean the dust from your PlayStation 3 (ps3) with these simple video instructions

Watch the video here

Dust fans can greatly affect a console's performance.

They also generate a vexatiously louder than usual noise emanating from your powerful machine.

If you want to keep things nice and tidy and/or want your fans running smoother, you'll want to have a quick look at this clip.

It's basically a video instruction about running a fan test on your PS3 which also blows out the dust and essentially cleaning it up. What's nice is there's very little effort involved, so you can actually do this every day. Just a warning though, it's only for 40GB models.

Street Fighter Tribute - All-New Artbook and Contest!

Street Fighter is one of the most influential video game franchises of all time. It launched the head-to-head fighting game genre and brought together millions of players around the globe to do battle, first at arcades and later, across a variety of home consoles. 2008 is the 20th anniversary of the franchise and to celebrate the property’s rich history UDON Entertainment is producing an all-new full color art book - Street Fighter Tribute.

The Street Fighter fans who were young players when the franchise first launched are now grown up, but their love of the game continues. This high quality art book, showcases a cross section of brand new artistic interpretations of the Street Fighter characters in a series of full size pin-up style illustrations. The book will launch at this year’s Comic-con International: San Diego as part of Capcom’s Street Fighter Celebration content.


UDON artists and other comic, video game and freelance illustrators have been invited to interpret their favorite Street Fighter characters for inclusion in this special book. Along with these invited artists UDON is sending out a widespread open art submission call to the video game fan artist community to submit artwork for possible inclusion in the tribute volume.

You could be part of Capcom history as part of the Street Fighter Tribute art book and have your artwork showcased alongside top names in the industry! It’s time to show UDON and Capcom your unique vision of Street Fighter!

IGN has FREE Devil May Cry 4 video game guide online

There are times in DMC4 where the urge to hurl your controller directly through your TV is a nigh irresistible urge.

Trying to Devil Bringer your way across the moving grapple points beneath the pointy ceiling in Mission 3.

Breaking through the final boss’ shield, only to have him run away and recharge the damned thing before you can hit him.


Fighting the stupid lightning-powered demon as it teleports around the area. Gargh, I feel my hands cramping just thinking about some of these choice moments.

Fortunately, IGN’s got your back, so if you’re late to the whole DMC4 party, do not despair.

Resident Evil 5 Famitsu Interview with Jun - Takeuchi in English

Watch interview here on Capcom blog
Note: Capcom trailers before main video

Japan’s Famitsu magazine recently conducted a video interview with Jun Takeuchi, the producer of Resident Evil 5, and we now have the video complete with English subs for your viewing pleasure!

In addition to the interview, the video include a brief introduction into the history of the Resident Evil series, many first-ever shots of actual gameplay, and also includes some behind the scenes development sneak peeks.

Update: You can now download a high-res MP4 version of the interview by - clicking here

Wii Fit - Wii Balance board use it with Super Monkey Ball - Waverace - Mario Kart Wii - Jet Set games

After an amazingly successful debut in Japan, expectation and hype for Wii Fit and its accompanying Balance Board is slowly reaching fever pitch elsewhere around the world. With a game that will have millions of us up on our feet, helping to convince us that exercise can be fun, arrives hope and anticipation about the future potential uses for the Wii Balance Board. From ball-rolling to dancing, Nintendic suggests five of gaming’s most popular franchises to which the accessory could make revolutionary changes.

Super Monkey Ball: The Super Monkey Ball series has always, at its heart, been about absolute precision when it comes to directing the entrapped simian from start to finish across some of gaming’s most difficulty evil courses. Presuming the Wii Balance Board’s technology is up to it, SEGA could develop a Monkey Ball title in which players shift their weight to propel the sphere forward, backwards, left and right along the designated path. What’s more, the accessory’s weight-measuring abilities could tailor custom balls for each individual gamer, defining its movement depending on the bulk onboard.

Wave Race: Wave Race’s last outing was as a launch title for the Nintendo GameCube in 2001 and was criticised for being overly similar to its Nintendo 64 prequel. The implementation of the Balance Board could give the series just the boost it needs, thrusting it back squarely into the limelight. Imagine standing on the device, using the Wii Remote (and Nunchuck?) as your jet ski’s handlebars, and leaning to the left and right to cut sharply through the tight, watery courses. Throw in a variety of tracks, dramatic weather effects and an online multiplayer mode, and Wave Race Wii could be something very special.



Boogie: We wouldn’t be the first to claim that after a fair amount of positively-tinged anticipation, Electronic Arts’ dance-em-up debut for the Nintendo Wii turned out to be something of a disappointment; a title with the flair and charisma of a drunken uncle at a wedding reception. It’s characters to have a certain charm, though, and for that we think it deserves a second chance. With the Balance Board making interactive dance moves a possibility, if only the karaoke and shallow gameplay were sorted, we reckon EA could have a real casual hit on its hands. C’mon, the firm has to at least do something to make up for EA Playground and Ninja Reflex.

Jet Set / Grind Radio: Jet Set Radio (known as Jet Grind Radio in North America) is another franchise for which a return to the world of videogames is long overdue. Set on the mean streets of Tokyo, it saw SEGA Dreamcast (and later Microsoft Xbox and Game Boy Advance) players inline skating around the city, graffiti-ing tags, marking territory and avoiding the long arm of the law. While the Balance Board’s dimensions might make a skating action a little difficult, we’re sure SEGA could come up with something to make it work, especially since spray painting with the Wii Remote’s pointer would compliment said movement brilliantly.

Mario Kart: This is one of the simpler and more obvious ideas, and one that might have been perfect for Mario Kart Wii had Wii Fit and the Balance Board arrived a fair time beforehand: using the accessory’s pressure sensitive pads to accelerate and brake. Perhaps it wouldn’t be as comfortable as buying a ‘proper’ steering wheel and pedals piece of kit, but even if developers other than Nintendo added it as a secondary control option into their future software, it would make sure that the Balance Board wouldn’t be left languishing in a cupboard collecting dust - or being used as a sturdy marquee for an insects’ garden party. We can but dream.

We know that there are over ten Wii Balance Board-compatible games currently in development (including Rocket Company’s Wii Exercise and THQ’s All Star Cheer Squad - and of course Namco’s We Ski is due soon), but which of your favourite gaming franchises would you like to see given a Balance Board makeover? How else do you think the technology could best be used? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

Source: Nintendic

King Story on Nintendo Wii - new details and screenshots

Originally known as “Project O”, King Story is the English name given to the new life simulation game for the Nintendo Wii, with Yahuhiro Kimura (Harvest Moon) at the helm. It’s currently scheduled to arrive in the summer of 2008 in Japan, and today we’re treated to new details and screenshots.

King Story sees players inheriting the role of a timid little boy named Corobo Bred, who on finding a mysterious crown realises that it gives him the power to charm anybody he comes across into performing orders for him. As King of his Europe-based village, his task ultimately involves expanding his “empire”, keeping the residents happy and defending them from the attack of monsters.



Players will be put in charge of a number of key areas, including agriculture, construction and defense. A report from Famitsu also reveals that King Story will include time-sensitive events during the day and night cycles.

Looking very promising so far, if you ask us, especially in the vibrancy and spirited-looking graphics.

Nintendo take action against Mario Kart Wii Cheaters

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Owners of Mario Kart will have noticed recently that some people have been exploiting some bugs and cheats to give them unbelievably great times in time trial mode.

Thankfully, it seems Nintendo have listened to these complaints and have dealt with them.

Nintendo have deleted the insane times from all records and have removed the cheating methods.

Whether or not said players have been banned from uploading time trails to the server is not yet known (but I doubt it very much), but at least it's a step in the right direction.

Source: Nintencast