Until now, the hit musical "Grease" has kept it's successes to the silver screen and the stage.  But recently 505 games and Paramount pictures have announced that they will be collaborating to bring the musical to your Nintendo DS and Wii.  So click on the jump to find out more!

    Square Enix, for all 34 years they have been producing games always made their own accompanying video game trailers—that is until Front Mission Evolved. The guys down at Big Machine Design were beyond surprised when they received a request from Square Enix to make a top-secret trailer for E3 2009 in Los Angeles. How long did they have to make a trailer from scratch for one of the biggest developers out there? A mere four weeks. This was no simple task, and I had the pleasure of talking to them one on one about what it took to make this groundbreaking trailer for none other then Square Enix.

A new trailer for Capcom's Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles was just recently released and it's an on-rails shooter that will play with the Wiimote or Wii Zapper. This new Resident Evil title is also promised to be able to adjust its difficulty on its own, depending on the players skill level.

I was able to play a bit of this game while at E3 and even though I am not a big fan of "rail shooters", this one seemed to give me a little more wandering room than most. I would call it a next-gen action-arcade rail shooter...if that makes any sense.

Look for Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles this November.

 

Although I'm pretty proud of the small collection of figurines I own, Morrigan from Darkstalkers, Ryuk from Deathnote and Amaha Masane from WitchBlade to name a few, Sideshow Collectibles puts my shelf to shame. I recently found out that they have introduced the Barbarian from Diablo III! 

For six years, the Pirate Bay has been a bastion of the anti-copyright (pro-piracy) movement. It was originally created by the Swedish anti-copyright group Piratbyrån (the Piracy Bureau in English) and is run out of Sweden, though they do own backup servers in Russia and Belgium. It is the world's largest Bittorrent tracker with the most traffic at which over 25 million people use the site to find and share files (including copyrighted material).

In 2006 Swedish police raided and shut them down, confiscating it servers and other equipment. The site was back up and running only a few days later, but this raid eventually led to charges being filed against the four operators of TPB in 2008.

It's a bonafide game of Sleek Software Pirates vs. the Fat Federal Ninjas, and we just recently found out who won.

 

 

A blue post appeared on the forums today from Blizzard Poster Nethaera. The post was regarding player's request for a faction change service that is now in development. Nethaera goes on to stress the work involved in making this happen in a fair and equal way for all World of Warcraft players. Then Nethaera hints at the possibility of this feature hitting the PTRs (Public Test Realms) soon. It is clear this service is very much in the development stages and it could be quite some time until we get this option, let alone hear more about it.

It is a service many Warcraft players have been waiting for. Blizzard already offers so many other services such as; paid name changes and paid character transfers. There is no word yet on how much, if anything, will this service cost and the requirements. I know I have always wondered what it would be like to just switch factions of my character. Not just that but, how would they determine what race turns into what? I could be an human Alliance member and switch to a Blood Elf of the Horde... Sounds like a great idea to let players have this but knowing Blizzard we won't see this for awhile.

 

Welcome to another edition of This Week in Geek. This Week in Geek is the one place you can go to get everything you need to know on gaming, entertainment, entrainment, and kittens. I search the internet for all the latest rumors and announcements so you don't have to. Get ready to see all this week's game releases too: downloads, PC games, and console games. Prepare to know more than ever before...

this week in geek, TWIG, nikole, nikolez

 

Fans of Mass Effect might have been saddened to discover there were no announcements made last week about the next DLC for the first game in the series as promised.  While there is still no word on when BioWare will give up the goods on that, we are starting to learn more about Mass Effect 2.



 

This Week on GameGirl is a feature on GameGirl.com that brings you all of the articles, reviews and stories posted on GameGirl in the past week. You know, just in case you missed it. This week at a glance is 6/21 - 6/27 and this week we had a good handful of great posts from new Max Payne screenshots, a welcome post for our new GameGirl, Nixie to a list of top 7 dads in video games and a look at Chaunteuse in her hot Chun Li costume. In case you missed any of it, here is the week all wrapped up just for you.

Do you wish you were Japanese? Do you eat Ramen like it is the last food on this planet? Do you crave Japanese games?  Well as for the first two, I can’t help you, but for the last one: this is a weekly article featuring popular and quirky titles just released in Japan. Each article will feature brand-spanking-new games for each system, tell you what they are, what is new about them, and when (if) they are expected to make it over here. Grab your Pocky, Ramune, Pikachu slippers, and retsu go!

Highlights this week: BlazBlue, Mamonoro, Fushigi Yuugi DS

**WARNING: This weeks list contains some panties, view at your own discretion**