LIVE at the Game Developers Choice Awards [Dc]

The 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards kicks off now. Stay tuned to see if your favorite games, publishers and developers win the big awards. More »

LIVE: The Independent Game Festival Awards *Explosion Sound* [Gdc10]

Yes! The IGF Awards are happening right now at this year's Game Developers Conference, a chance for indie developers to be handed awards under bright lights and for those indie developers to give short, awkward speeches. Let's do this!!! More »

This Motorized Video Game Outruns All Comprehension [Oddities]

So, this guy gutted an Outrun arcade cabinet, jammed it on a go-kart and, in the name of university research, assembled a contraption that drives 15 mph in the real world while displaying it as an 8-bit virtual one. More »

Oh Good, A Pokemon Game Is Selling Well In Japan [Sales Get]

It's been almost four months since a Pokemon game was the bestselling game on Japan's software chart, but Nintendo's newest Pokemon Ranger title for the Nintendo DS ends that dark period for the franchise. Whew! More »

Downhill Office Chair Racing Gets Extreme Motion [Gdc]

We saw a peek of Slider yesterday when he trailer was released, but today I got a chance to zip down a paved street on an office chair with the help of the PS3 Move controller first-hand. More »

Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes Goes HD For XBLA, PSN [Gdc10]

Just as it did with its colorful puzzle game Critter Crunch, Capybara Games' Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes is getting the high-definition once-over, making the jump from Nintendo DS to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade later this year. More »

Bit.Trip Runner: Like Super Mario Bros, But Musical And Maybe Weirder [Gdc]

Here is Bit.Trip Runner, the first sidescrolling game in the Bit.Trip series of downloadable games for the Wii. Two videos of the game played by G4's Patrick Klepek. Shot by me. Keep the guy running, synced to the music. More »

Why One Of Nintendo’s Smash Hits May Never Leave Japan [Gdc]

Yoshio Sakamoto is visiting San Francisco's Game Developers Conference to talk up the latest, he says greatest, take on Metroid. But that's not the game he's carrying around with him to show off at dinner. More »

BioShock 2 is Entitled to February’s Top Spot for U.S. Sales [Npd Group]

BioShock 2 ended New Super Mario Bros. Wii's two-month hold atop the U.S. console sales charts, edging the Nintendo platformer by 7,000 units to take February's top honors. More »

Xbox 360 Notches Rare Triumph Over Wii in February [Npd Group]

The Xbox 360 clocked in with a rare victory over the Wii among console sales in the United States for February, according to figures released today by the NPD Group. More »

Fallen Earth Lands on the Mac [Mac]

Somehow the Mac went from gaming afterthought to everyone's favorite platform in the span of a week. Now the MMO Fallen Earth is Mac compatible, beginning with today's Beta release of the game. More »

Gears of War Creators’ New Tech Sure To Inspire Sequel Guesswork [Gdc]

What could be in a new Gears of War? Clues are always included in the major Game Developers Conference demonstrations of the Unreal Engine. More »

Nintendo Would "Happily" Make Kid Icarus Wii [Gdc]

Yoshio Sakamoto, one of the creators behind popular Nintendo platformer Kid Icarus, says Nintendo hasn't ruled out bringing a new title in the series to the Wii, they just haven't yet figured out how to. More »

Will You Be Buying God Of War III At Midnight? [Midnight Launches]

GameStop just dropped a list of stores opening at midnight to make sure 24-hour Walmart stores don't steal all of their customers when the game launches. Will you be staying up late to kill the gods? More »

Metroid Co-creator’s Romantic (And Tragic) Samus Aran Fan Fiction [Gdc10]

How does Metroid producer Yoshio Sakamoto explain his Nintendo DS megahit Tomodachi Collection—still a Japan-only release—to the non-Japanese GDC attendee? By putting high-level Nintendo execs in weird Tomodachi Collection situations, including Sakamoto's own virtual crush on Samus Aran. More »