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The 1989 filmBig, in which a child wishes himself into becoming a grown-up, is probably something you’re familiar with. One of the interesting elements of the movie is a graphical text-based adventure game which the main character, Josh Baskin, plays in a couple of different scenes and serves as a link between his childhood and the premature adulthood he finds himself experiencing. At the time, the game looked awesome and I really wanted to play it but, sadly, the game never actually existed....

Sony often operates at a loss while Nintendo always prices to profit. Since Sony is shamelessly copying Nintendo in a bid to make the exact same amount of money, it stands to reason that PlayStation Move will be true to the winning formula and get a price designed to make instant cashback. “We are pricing Move as if we are launching a new platform,” says Worldwide Studios VP Shuhei Yoshida. “So because the install base of Move will help third party studios create games for it, we benefit by helping those third-parties....

First we told you aboutCircuit City filing for bankruptcy, with the closing 155 stores following that.Later we used that to our advantage, snapping up discounted games from those closing stores. Now it seems that the inevitable has happened, and all stores are now to be liquidated. MSN Moneysays that everything goes after the company failed to attract a buyer. Three companies were looking to snap up the failing retailer, but the poor holiday performance must have scared them off....

After pulling in more than one million sales in the Stateson day one,Pokemon BlackandWhiteare seeing continued success. Who could’ve guessed? The people really like them some moving sprites and the new focus on only fresh Pokemon pre-Elite Four. Nintendo of America hastaken to Twitter(I’m as surprised as you are) to announce that Game Freak’s latest pair of titles has surpassed two million sales in two weeks. Very nice. As far as I am concerned, this is totally deserved —Whiteis probably my second favorite core game in the series....

Call of Dutygames have reached a sort of cult status in the last few years. Quickly becoming theMaddenof first person shooters by having a new iteration every year, the series has expanded exponentially. The series is considered by many to be the most immersive of first-person shooters, and now they’re taking that to heart withCall of Duty: Black Ops, which has one new addition that I was able to see a few days ago — 3D implementation....

Say hello to Matt Hazard, the quintessential hero of the videogame world. Matt Hazard pioneered the videogame industry by being the first character to jump, go backwards in levels and was the first character in 3D. If it wasn’t for Matt, videogames wouldn’t be what they are today. Now say hello to the first videogame where the fourth wall has been completely obliterated. Everything that was said above is true, but only in Matt Hazard’s world....

If you were a nerd child of the 80s — and especially if you were a nerd child of the 80s in Britain — there’s a very good chance you read (or rather played) a book series calledFighting Fantasy. Initially written by the founders of Games Workshop, Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, theFighting Fantasyseries was an immensely popular “choose your own adventure” books, selling over 14 million copies across over 70 books....

In a recent article over at theMultiplayer blog, Stephen Totilo discusses the upcoming port ofBioShockto the PS3. In a interview with Melissa Miller of 2k Marin, she spoke about the decision not to change the ending of the port, despite the negative feedback that portion of the game garnered. Her comments: “We wanted to respect it … the things we wanted to add were things that would complement what was created....

We don’t really knowmuch at all about Agent.Rockstar’smaking it. (If Take-Twotop-brassare to be believed, it willturn out “very cool.”) Now there’s aWeb site,but this agent of insightkind of fails right now. No trailers, no screens;not even looping music.Hastilyset live?

Sony kept its mouth shut about games last year, but now that it has some, the platform holder can’t stop showing off. Sony is evengoing so faras to claim it has an “Embarrassment of riches” this year, and is going to “Arrest the competition” in terms of quality gaming. “AfterKillzone 2we’ve gotMLB 09: The Showand theninFamous,”claimsProduct Marketing VP Scott Steinberg. “It’s almost an embarrassment of riches and it really bombards the competition with games that show the power and advantages of the PS3....

Videogames bring people together and sometimes, when those people are together, they’ll kick the everloving shite out of each other. Thus it was that Eric LaChapelle and Cory Chalich ended up having a physical altercation due to an online game. The two were playing an unnamed PS3 game via the PlayStation Network when an argument broke out. Most of us would block the other person and forget about it, but LaChapelle instead drove to Chalich’s house and proceeded to beat him up....

Onlylast week, the man-made-meat-man that is Reggie Fils-Aime was quite complimentary of his rivals, praisingHalo 3andLittleBigPlanet. As if to suggest that this kind of good nature won’t do, Reggie has brought Nintendoback to the smug train, claiming that Sony and Microsoft are now in a strategic trap with no clear way out. “The challenge that our competitors have is significant. They’ve gone down the path with building expensive machines that they lose money on,” lectured Ol’ Hamburger Hands....

Darkest of Daysis the worst first-person shooter of this generation. There it is. This attempt to be a clever, interesting FPS experience is, without a shadow of a doubt, the single worst first-person shooter to appear in the past five years. It is a game for which hyperbole is perfectly acceptable. A game so awful that simply writing about it cannot do it justice. The game isn’t simply bad; it’s the lowest of the low, a game so bad that its very existence defies all sense of reason and logic....