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If you playMortal Kombatregularly, you’ve no doubt experienced, or at least heard of, the infamous “desynchronization error.” The bug plagued players who decided to pick certain DLC costumes, alternate costumes and even some default costumes and caused their game to disconnect in the middle of the match, prompting the desynchronization error message. It happened to both consoles at one point, and then was later a problem only experienced on Xbox 360....

As a bonus, Stark_Sam also included a picture of Colombia-based fast food joint Mario Boss. Copyrights and trademarks be damned! Holy sh*t, that’s an ugly Mario.

It’s that time again, folks! Yep, it’s time to listen to another Japanese developer tell us that Japanese games are terrible. Capcom’s Keiji Inafune, a long-term critic of his country’s industry, has stated that this year’s Tokyo Game Show was dismal, with his fellow countrymen creating “awful” games. “I look around Tokyo Games Show, and everyone’s making awful games,” says Inafune. “Japan is at least five years behind.” Inafune also believes that Capcom is “barely keeping up” with Western rivals, and even wants to start gearing his games to the roundeye market: “I want to study how Westerners live, and make games that appeal to them....

Box art canmake or break a game. At retail, it’s the first and only impression for many people; even the worst games with killer box art will get picked up by the average Joe, while some of the best experiences in gaming will be cast aside in favor of a box that doesn’t drive consumers to murder. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfareon the other hand shouldn’t really have that problem....

Set your phasers to “unrealistic nostalgia-driven hope,” for Interplay is about to return and, if this teaser image fromInterplay.comis to be believed, it’s bringing back some total classics. We already knew that Interplay waslooking to revive its in-house studiowith the money made fromFallout 3, and now it looks like a definite go. I still don’t care what anybody thinks, I will get on my hands and knees and lick newEarthworm Jimgreatness off the dusty floor, regardless of whether or not it can live up to expecatations....

A massive undertaking like Midway’s upcoming action gameStrangleholdneeded an equally massive score. The John Woo directed game continues to follow the story and main character of the 1992 filmHard Boiled, so the musical score and sound had to follow suit, fitting within the John Woo world. A project this big needed a large musical team, so Midway managed to assemble three teams of composers to cover the score. Music4Games managed to gather and interview the head composers of each of the three teams – Tilman Sillescu and Pierre Langer of Dynamedion (Paraworld,Spellforce), Jamie Christopherson of Soundelux DMG (Lost Planet,Surf’s Up), Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan (Spyhunter: Nowhere To Run,TMNT) – as well as Midway’s supervising Audio Director Rich Carle....

January 2010’s review line-up brings some pretty likable titles to the App Store, and we’ve rounded up some of them for you in a group review. Two of this month’s titles from Square Enix, but the’re not quite role-playing games. Well, they look and sound like RPGs, and have art like RPGs, but they’re not. They’re both fun, though. There’s also a serious FPS and a no-so-serious catapult game. All great titles this month....

NEEDS MOAR ALTON BROWN. If you’ve ever watched the Food Network adaptation of the Japanese cooking showIron Chef, you know who the real star is: Alton Brown. His witty commentary and slight mispronunciations of every Japanese term make for greatIron Chef Americagreat. But this isn’t about Alton. Sorry. This is about chefs Mario Batali and Masaharu Morimoto and their appearance in the Wii and DS gamesIron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine. Both of their voices and likenesses will be dropped into this virtual Kitchen Stadium for you to either battle as or against....

The headline basically says it all. Enterbrain has released the Japanese lifetime sales numbers for the current generation of home consoles,and here’s how it all plays out as of February 28th: PS3: 4,766,408 Xbox 360: 1,235,049 The Wii took 170 weeks to break the 10 million mark, which was 39 weeks longer than the PS2 took back in the day. They’re not “winning” by any means, but it’s nice to see that the Xbox 360 passed the 1 million mark....

If you live in San Francisco and you visitedGeorge Hotz‘s website between January 2009 and now, you might be in in Sony’s headlights. A federal magistrate has given Sony the power to expose anybody who patronized thePS3 jailbreaksite. Sony claimed it needs to unmask anybody who downloaded Hotz’s files in order to prove that the majority of users were based in California. This would allow Sony to sue “Geohot” in San Francisco, rather than his home town of New Jersey....

Rest easy. Dwarves are being represented inDragon Ageexpansion “Awakening.”In a recent “World Update” on theexpansion’s official site, we’re introduced to the Amaranthine fortress known as Kal’Hirol, a “long known as a center of learning” for dwarven smiths. According to the update, which also brought us several images, this is something of a typicalDragon Agedwarven dwelling. Kal-Hirol is a fallen, stony place that we’ll no doubt poke around in, and then kill plenty of weird crap in, once the expansion hits this March....

A young man known only by his surname of Yang wascharged by policeShangqiu, China, for conspiring to fake his own abduction. Yang worked with two men, Zhou and Pan, who pretended to be his kidnappers and extorted 10,000 yuan ($1,400) from the youth’s parents. They were caught when withdrawing the cash from an ATM. Yang admitted to his own kidnap, claiming he did it because his parents “had refused to buy him a Nintendo computer....

Twenty minutes from now,@Dtoidwill officially kick off ourKing of Fighters XIITwitter party. There are fifteen copies of the game and twenty posters to give away, and all you have to do is use the #KOF12 hashtag (just type it after your Tweets) while discussing the game with us and each other. Easy stuff, right? Officially starting at 3pm Central, and running until 5pm, we’ll be sparking some debates and discussion, so make sure you’re following us....