No Meatboy on Wii due to Memory Limitations

Team Meat's creation will not be on Wii according to this Kotaku article, due to the fact that Super Meat Boy cannot wedge itself into the size limitations set for Nintendo's WiiWare software. Team Meat tried to get a publisher for a retail release, but they have confirmed that the Wii version will not be happening.

The original game of Super Meat Boy is over the 40 megabyte cap limit for WiiWare. It is possible to fit if there were sacrifices but Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenses (creators of the meat

Gears of War 3

Color is breaking through in the next Gears of War. The Gears of War series has been known for it's dull, but appropriate color schemes. Dark muddy grays and browns with the red of blood being the only color that truly ever stands out. Screenshots have been coming out steadily for awhile and will continue to do so until the mid-April release of the Gears of War 3 Beta when we will all have an opportunity to play the game ourselves.

While the main focus of the game and the gameplay itself will probably be more of the same. If it's not broken, what is there for Epic to fix? It appears as though the story may take a positive turn for a happy ending. The screen shots aren't echoing the same sense of claustrophobia

Gamestop accused of taking personal information

As seen here about Gamestop, a California woman filed the suit on Wednesday of this past week, claiming that a Alameda County GameStop store recorded her personal information such as her name, her credit card information, and her PII (personal identification information) after purchasing items with her credit card. The woman, Melissa Arechiga, believes that GameStop uses the information like addresses and various other private pieces of information to benefit sales and future aspects of their store(s).

In the view of the legal system of California, these actions of

How many lives do you really get when gaming?

Weve all heard the warnings that parents give us in regards to playing video games, obesity, laziness, a drop in grades, violent and aggressive behavior. But now thanks to a 30-year-old man in China there is now one more reason to add to their list, a cause of death.

The 30-year-old man collapsed and fell into a coma in an internet café just outside of Beijing. According to witnesses he had been gaming online nonstop for three days. During those three days the man consumed very little food or drink and was getting absolutely

Social Network site used often to invade Privacy

Steps to becoming even more of an obnoxious post break up wreck!

And I thought the see friendship feature that lets you stalk every wall post, mutually attended event, photo and probably daydream between two people was creepy enough. Apparently not.

Because of sites like Breakupnotifier.com, you can now keep tabs on the girl who walks past you like you dont exists relationship status

Record breaker opens up Arcade near Orlando Airport

If you watched "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters," you know Billy Mitchell, the man who has been sort of labeled as the evil villain of the retro-arcade gaming world. Well he recently opened an arcade at Orlando's airport with the name that of the movie. What's more oddly enough is that with good guy Steve Wiebe is also featured as part of the arcade's entrance as seen here but I think the way Billy made the picture was to glorify himself and make Steve look a bit....dull and confused. If that's true, the guy's living up to the vision

Vietnam places a gaming curfew!

While China was facing issue with the deaths of those who were addicted to online gaming Vietnam has came up with a plan to help cut down the amount of time spent playing online games and eliminate side effects.

The Ministry of Information and Communication has asked internet service providers to block access to on-line games from 10:00pm to 8:00am. "Provincial departments of information and communication will inspect on-line games activities nationwide and deal with organizations that violate regulations by canceling their services," said the ministry's Deputy Minister Le Nam Thang (

Games - Soul Calibur in the near future!

The designer of the Soul Calibur IV, Daishi Odashima,opened up a Twitter account on Christmas day and one of the first few tweets was to surprise his followers with a tweet saying "SC is back! Get ready, fans!". He then sweetened the deal with a tease. The tease comes in the form of him at his desk and drawing what islikely to be the new Soul Edge in the game.

With this confirmation, it looks like Namco Bandai is hard at work with now THREE franchise fighting games. They got Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken vs. Street Fighter, and now a new Soul Calibur on the way.If you want to follow his tweets, follow him here: http://twitter.com/#!/daishi_calibur

Gaming Modz

Gaming Modz showcase those characters and titles that the gaming community really seem to latch on to. Guinness just asked over 13,000 gamers to vote for their favorite video game characters at their Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition website. The top 50 list compiled seems fairly accurate if you take a lesson from the gaming modz you see within gaming communities.

In the top 5 of this list you'll find characters that have been used for hundreds of gaming modz as well as some very cool community driven gaming modz based off these personalities.

Video Game News:
Civilization Music Composer awarded
Music's Highest Honor.

It's a first in video game history, never in its history has any part of video game's music industry won a Grammy. Christopher Tin who done recent work for Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect, the Civilization series and various other video games, has beaten out other Grammy Nominees in the Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists category. Christopher won the award for his piece "Baba Yetu" which he wrote for Civilization IV back in 2005. Sure it was composed six years ago and is now later nominated and won for the 2011 Grammy's but hey, the video game