Gadgets and Video Games

Gaijin Entertainment Corporation plans to publish 1C’s PC combat racing game Death Track: Resurrection , on PS3. At least, the publisher secured an ESRB rating for a PS3 version, which it probably wouldn’t do if it didn’t plan to release the game. Death Track: Resurrection , released last year, is about a violent racing competition set far in the future, in which cars have weapons and stuff. As a rookie driver, the player must make their way up the tournament ranks by driving well and not exploding.

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ESRB: Death Track: Resurrection to get new life on PS3

Listen up, game industry, the Electronic Entertainment Expo — E3 to the kids — is kind of a big deal. If you want your company to be a part of it, it’s time to get on the ball , as the Expo has revealed that 90 percent of its floor space has already been booked. And seriously, like, everyone is going to be there when the show opens June 15 .

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90% of E3 2010 exhibit space already sold, registration open

Those of you who guessed “comic book” along with us when the Command & Conquer team hinted that their universe was headed to a “new medium” were still stuck in the past of 2009 — here in 2010, comics move like video, and they’re called “motion comics.” Geez, get with the decade! EA’s posted a teaser trailer for the C&C “motion comic,” created in conjunction with Ape Entertainment , and almost literally, all it says is that Episode 1 is coming soon. There’s also a guy in a truck who wants to know the same thing we do: What he’s doing here. Oh yeah, and can we know where “here,” is, too, and what this has to do with the game ? You can head after the break to watch the entire teaser for yourself

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EA teases Command & Conquer motion comic

Very few games have been able to match the impact of the original Rez … well, with the exception of Rez HD on Xbox Live Arcade; unsurprisingly, revamped visuals made for an even more psychedelic experience. Q Entertainment recently tweeted about a possible PSN port of the game, asking how much a PS3 version should cost.

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Q Entertainment ‘researching’ PSN port of Rez HD

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has inked crayoned a deal with Sesame Workshop to produce a new series of games based on the beloved edutainment property, Sesame Street. According to an AP report , the partnership is designed to capitalize on a “big open hole in the market,” which is easily filled with children and their open-minded parents. “This is the first generation of parents who grew up as gamers,” said WBIE senior vice president of marketing, Russel Arons. “Unlike prior generations where people weren’t sure of the value of video games, these are people who know there’s value and fun for the whole family .” Warner Bros.

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New Sesame Street games on the way, saysa Warner Bros.

After a successful partnership on XBLA/PSN release Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (breath), Udon Entertainment and Capcom are once again working together, though this time the Street Fighter comic book artists are adding endings to upcoming Wii fighter Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars . Despite Udon’s pedigree, the announcement post remains overwhelmingly humble, saying, “Everyone at Udon is very proud to have contributed to such an epic piece of video game and anime history.” We haven’t gotten our hands on any screens of the endings just yet, but we’ll be sure to give you a gander as soon as we do. [Via Capcom-Unity ] Gallery: Tatsunoko vs.

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Udon adding new endings to Tatsunoko vs. Capcom

click to plund-arrr the gall-arrr-y Majesco followed up its announcement of Attack of the Movies 3D with another multiplayer Wii experience, this time with a much sillier title: Pirates Plund-arrr . Three r’s. If it were two r’s, it would be the planet that the Thundercats’ enemies come from.

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Pirates Plundarrr sailing Wii-ward this April

[ Image credit: Bashed ] England’s The Daily Telegraph reports the UK spent more on video games during a one year period than movies, which apparently includes both theater ticket purchases and movies on disc. According to information from GFK Chart-Track,

You gotta give it up to Criterion Games. Throughout the lifespan of Burnout Paradise , the developers at Criterion worked their buns off to give us all kinds of juicy DLC, from a new island to explore, a new game mode , right down to motorcycles and many , many car packs. Now, the company has prepared a lengthy diatribe documenting some of the updates that never got off the ground. For one, did you know that Criterion initially planned to have motorcycles vs cars? Yep, sure was planned — and did you know that Criterion wanted to create a whole series of islands, not just the one?

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Criterion details Burnout Paradise DLC that never was

Filed under: Features Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq (“LGJ”), a column on legal issues as they relate to video games : [ Image Source ] I would imagine anyone reading this column has seen the coverage of the UK government’s plan to create a “Pirate Finder General” and other new anti-piracy activities . The Pirate Finder General would have exceptionally broad powers to find and punish pirates with little supervision in an almost Judge Dredd-esque “I am the law!” kind of way.

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LGJ: IP Police, Arrest this man, He talks in torrents