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With 3D Realms taking ten billion years to make a game, there are rumors that Gearbox Software has taken over development of theDuke Nukemfranchise, and will have something to announce at PAX Prime. According to whatKotakuhas heard, Gearbox has picked up theDuke Nukem Foreverproject, a game started in 1997. Take-Two maintains that it still has the rights to the game, and Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says that he will be able to say something at the next PAX event in September....

The firstHalo: Reachimages might have been leaked this afternoonvia the MLG message board. User “Tom Morello,” recently created a thread showing a blurry, perhaps camera-phone-snatched photograph of the anticipatedHalofollow-up’s Battle Rifle. He updated the thread again with more photographs of weapons, each of the same quality and with his username branded over as a watermark. Some of the weapons shown are familiar (needler plasma pistol, rocket launcher) while others are not so much — especiallythis super Needler thing....

Words can’t express how badly I need to be playingLeft 4 Deadright now. Turtle Rock Studios’ cooperative multiplayer survival-horror first-person shooter not only falls into more genres than you can shake a stick at, but it also looksdamned good. For now, Turtle Rock has only announced the title for the Xbox 360 and the PC. And, if you were totally hardcore, you’d at least own an Xbox 360 or a PC capable of running the game when it’s released later this year....

Although I freaking loveAnimal Crossing: City Folk, I understand why a lot of people thought Nintendo’s 2008 holiday line up was pretty weak. Compared to Q4 2007’s releases ofMetroid Prime 3andSuper Mario Galaxy, and Q4 2006’sThe Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Q4 2008 on the Wii was the driest holiday yet for the little white shat-box. Rumor has it that this dry spell wasn’t always part of the plan. According to an inside source, Nintendo was originally planning to presentKid Icarus Wiiat E3 2008, then release the game a few months later....

Hot on the heels ofThe Most Stupidly Awesome Collector’s Edition of 2011, THQ’sSaints Rowfranchise seems to want to keep itself in the spotlight. Some scraps of information have circulated from a number of sources pointing to something calledSaints Row: Money Shot. First, there was theapparent cancellationof an Xbox Live Arcade version ofSaints Rowin June. Then the Australian Classification Boardrevealedan MA15+ rating for a game under theSaints Row: Money Shotname. On top of that,some screenshots appearedrecently, along with anXbox 360 achievement list....

Who would have thought thatDragon Quest IXwould besuch a popular gamein Japan? Well, anybody who knows anything about Japan, really, so it shouldn’t come as a shock to learn that in just two days, the DS game has soldover two million copies. The official tally since the game’s July 11 launch is 2.34 million, which any analyst would officially recognize as “a buggering f*ckload.” Naturally, huge sales of aDragon Questgame are to be expected in a country where people skive off work in droves so they can stay home and play the game, but it’s still impressive....

Denis “the words just fall out of my mouth” Dyack hasshed a few pinpricks of lighton Silicon Knights’ next project, claiming it will be “nothing like”Too HumanorEternal Darkness. Considering I’ve not been wowed by anything from SK since 1993, the promise of something unlike previous workhasto be good news. “We’ve been lucky enough to makeLegacy of Kain,Eternal Darkness,Too Humanand if you look at all of those they’re all really different,” stated Dyack....

Update:So, the guys over at PlayStation Universe didn’t cite a source for this story, which was wise, because it turns out that it’s bogus. Seeing as how I along with the guys atJoystiq,Siliconera, andEvilAvatarwere not really able to decipher the moon language on Square-Enix’s Japanese Web site, the story was posted damn near everywhere. Chris Kohler put the pieces together — namely, older Digg stories with similarly-worded verbiage — and traced the “story” back to its source: an unfunny fake news report from an unfunnyfake gaming news site....

If you’re one of the proud and few still playingMetal Gear Solid 3: Subsistenceonline, then you’re going to be in for a very rude awakening on April 3 as Konami shuts down the online function of the title.1UPwas able to notice the warning and alert us all that Konami quietly sent anexecution datefor the game’s online functionality. Ouch: Konami sincerely thanks all of the Subsistence online community for their dedication to the game and support of the Metal Gear Solid series....

We know that the Wiimote sometimes gets used for things other than waggle — hell, it’s even beenhelpful to the disabled. Its newest foray outside the world of games has to do with a research project being conducted at Rice University, which hopes to find a way to use the Wiimote to control robot teachers. Led by Rice professors Marcia O’Malley and Michael Byrne, the project plans to analyze motion using the controller and then compare it to an advanced capture device from Vicon....

Telltale’s CTO, Kevin Bruner, is all about thinking outside the norm when it comes to videogames. While the rest of the industry is focused on the games you’ve come to expect, Telltale is going to take on “unusual properties and interesting things that are outside of what the rest of the industry is willing to take on.” Telltale’s sixth year anniversary is coming up, and it’s reached a point where it can start taking on even more creative projects....

Here’s another could-have-been scenario for your contemplation. In response to Telltale Games’current line-up, which was recently shown to the press,Scott PilgrimcreatorBryan Lee O’Malley tweeted that the studio previously approached him about adapting the series. “Telltale wanted to do Scott Pilgrim but I said no. I couldn’t see it as an adventure game. All respect to them, though,”reads his tweet. I’m sure many of you will respectively disagree; that’s my gut reaction....

Here’s the concept: Take tower defense and mix it with card-based strategy games. If you’re a total fu*king geek like I am, that sounds amazing. That’s whatCreature Defenseis. And you know what? It’s pretty good. We have the folks at Hudson to thank for this nifty little PSP downloadable. A pleasant little surprise. I’ve been playing the everloving crap out of this lately. Look for a review soon. For now, check out our TMT on the game....