Gadgets and Video Games

Oh, Sonic fans. Every time a new Sonic is announced, you joke about not getting fooled again and you promise that, this time, you won’t be taken in.

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Sonic fans remix Sonic 4 intro, get way too excited

During the same event in which Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino teased new Wii and PS3 games , he also suggested that the company may be setting up operations in the US. According to our own imperfect translation of 4Gamer ’s summary of statements, “Mr. Hino, in order to release software overseas, spoke about a plan to establish a new company in America,” describing his intention to expand the company’s activities from its current home of Fukuoka to the world.

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Level-5 considers opening US office

Ahhh, nostalgia. It’s quite a thing, isn’t it? That old familiar feeling.

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Swag Sunday: Oh, Nostalgia (DS)

Apparently Hollywood wouldn’t mind tossing Darksiders up on the silver screen, as Vigil’s Joe Madureira confirmed to VG247 that THQ’s already been contacted for projects outside of the video game realm. “We’ve gotten some interest from Hollywood, we’ve talked about doing a comic series,” said Madureira. Obviously, a comic wouldn’t be much of a stretch for the creative director, given his past experience with the medium. “It’s really a THQ thing, but I know they are definitely talking to people and I would be surprised if some of that stuff didn’t happen,” he added

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Report: Hollywood interested in doing a Darksiders movie

Harmonix and MTV Games are dropping a couple of classic Simon & Garfunkel tracks alongside the first Slipknot track pack this coming week as DLC, appealing to that very specific crossover niche of people who like 30-year-old folk music yet like to go blackout partying on the weekends. Take out your terrifying masks and acoustic guitars, folks. It’s going to be a weird one. Check out all the tracks for the upcoming week after the break

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Rock Band Weekly: Slipknot, Simon & Garfunkel, Lights Resolve

Judging by one analyst’s estimation, Assassin’s Creed 2 is set to escape from store shelves faster than its protagonist can outrun his pursuers. According to Mike Hickey of Janco Partners, pre-orders for the game are running 10 to 20 percent more than those of the original Assassin’s Creed , which, as the firm pointed out to Gamasutra , greatly exceeded its initial sales forecast of 3 million units. (It sold 8 million.) In other words, it looks like Ubisoft’s going to make a killing off an assassin.

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Assassin’s Creed 2 pre-orders up 10 to 20% over original

DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole thinks that Nintendo and Sony devices will still lead the handheld market by 2014, but that the iPhone/iPod Touch will drive growth, thanks to a little thing called the App Store. IndustryGamers took note of the new report, where the analyst believes that the worldwide mobile and portable games market will reach $11.7 billion by 2014, which includes the PSP and DS, with Apple’s devices pushing 24 percent of software sales. The company found that of over 8,000 surveyed respondents, 54 and 69 percent of North Americans and Europeans, respectively, had played a game on their phone in the last year.

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Analyst: DS and PSP growth ‘peaked,’ iPhone to drum future growth

When you get home with your gigantic DJ Hero Renegade Edition box, make sure to get everything out of it. We know the temptation to just unfold the case/table thing and start playing the game with that kind of irresistible-looking novelty controller will be overwhelming, but if you turn the package over and shake it, exclusive greatest-hits CDs from Jay-Z and Eminem will fall out. Rolling Stone got the full list of tracks on both sets. Jay-Z’s disc sticks exclusively to past hits, but Eminem’s includes a brand-new song, “Taking My Ball.” That’s right, the “unreleased tracks” mentioned on the box is really unreleased track . And it’ll premiere on Eminem’s Sirius radio station over a week before the game comes out, so it’s more like no unreleased tracks

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DJ Hero Renegade Edition’s Jay-Z, Eminem compilations detailed

Xbox Live’s Major Nelson reports that three new titles are releasing on Xbox Live this week. Whether you’re looking forward to some gang justice, surviving the undead or going all Einstein on some microscopic particles, rest assured there’s something here for you. This Wednesday’s offerings are: The Warriors: Street Brawl 800 ($10) Zombie Apocalypse 800 ($10) Ion Assault 800 ($10) So, whatcha downloadin’? This Wednesday: The Warriors, Zombie Apocalypse, Ion Assault hit XBLA originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:20:00 EST

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This Wednesday: The Warriors, Zombie Apocalypse, Ion Assault hit XBLA

The release date, price, and reveal of a PS3 bundle for Final Fantasy XIII were big news, sure, but the real megaton out of the Final Fantasy XIII Party was the announcement of a tie-in beverage from Final Fantasy XII Potion partner Suntory. Like the Dissidia beverage , Final Fantasy XIII ” Elixir ” will come in 16 collectible cans, each with a different character on it. It will be available sometime this winter, either in single cans (of Lemon or Aloe-flavored Elixir), in packages with collectible figurines, or in a collector’s box with all 16 cans. No, we don’t know why the logo uses the Star Trek movie font

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Final Fantasy XIII ‘Elixir’ beverage headed to Japanese inventories this winter