Never hasenvironmentalismbeen this fun or adorable!Okabuwill be releasing on the PlayStation Network on October 18. Okabuputs you in the roles of Kumulo and Nimbe, two Cloud Whales who on an journey to save the planet from the pollution corrupting it! But how can such a grand adventure be taken on with the help of 5 spunky youths with power rings and a small spider money? Well, Kumulo and Nimbe will also enlist the help of 4 heroes to bring peace back to the land....

Father Raymond DeSouzahas his own entry on Wikipedia, so perhaps he is more important than me and I have no right to complain here. However, there’s a difference between stupid commentary and intolerable commentary, and this crap falls into the latter like a baseball player cleanly sliding across home plate. In his column forCanada’s conservative National Post, he writes: I learned the truth about video games the hard way, and so this is the lesson I offer for free: Don’t play video games....

People have been having a good time digging around in the data on theMarvel vs. Cacpom 3disk. Recently it seems that Jill Valentine was uncovered in the mix. One badass has done some work to make Jill playable by replacing her data with Viewtiful Joe’s. Here’s how it was done, straight from the hacker’s mouth: This was a relatively simple hack. I decrypted the PS3 version’s executable file, changed some variables around, and replaced Viewtiful Joe with Jill....

Killzone 2launched exclusively for the PlayStation 3 this Friday, generating much bias from biased people who are biased. It also sold quite a few copies and has been setting the PlayStation Network afire with grenade spam and shotgun rampages. It is a great game. It is also blatantly better thanHalo 3. Because one good thing cannot exist in this world without something else being absolutely rubbish, we present our concise and thoughtful argument explaining exactly howKillzone 2is blatantly better thanHalo 3....

C’mere, son. Set aside that remote and take a knee. You and me, we’re gonna have us a little talk aboutcommon sense. That newfangled Nintendo system you’ve got there — the Wii? Yeah, she’s a real beaut. Sleek, smooth, an attractive shape … speaking of, did I ever tell you about the weekend I spent with a cute little blonde at a conference in Singapore? Lord, she was a sight to see– what?...

It seems that Ska Studios’ excellent stick shooterI MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT !!!1could be heading toRock Band, as Harmonix is currently usingthe game’s musicin network playtesting on the Rock Band Network. A playtest is no guarantee of an official appearance, but it’s a damn good sign. If you’ve ever playedI MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT !!!1,then you’ll know that the game’s hilarious and catchy soundtrack is as big a part of the game as the shooting itself....

Our Indie Nation series highlights interesting, independently-made games. I will be the first to admit thatWhere’s an Egg?has some of the least interesting base gameplay you’ll ever see highlighted on Indie Nation (and that’s saying something). It doesn’t have a cool story to tell, or anything terribly perceptive to say about humanity. It is, however, one of the most interesting detective games I’ve ever played. It’s not just a detective game in the sense that you play some sort of private eye (if the five or so brown pixels arranged on his head are meant to represent a fedora, anyway) presumably tasked with finding a missing egg....

On Friday night, the opening night of the 2009 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, headliner and rock legend Paul McCartney thrilled the crowd with a marathon set that lasted nearly two and a half hours (boy, what I wouldn’t have given to have been able to have seen the show). Video captured by audience members has already appeared on YouTube, and it appears that during one song, the massive video board behind McCartney and his band showed the first-ever footage ofThe Beatles: Rock Band, which willhit stores on September 9th....

Yesterday, Sonywarned jailbreakers and cheatersthat they had a limited time to remove any unauthorized tools from their consoles before the banhammer would drop. Turns out that time wasextremelylimited, as the great cull has already begun. A mixture of account removal and permanent console bans have been reported by hackers. Some modders report getting a message that reads, “you cannot use the PlayStation Network with this account (8002a227).” Less fortunate folk have received the following email:...

Information went around last week regarding Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s thoughts on how Japan seems to dig the 2D Mario more than the 3D version. It sounds like more of that worry that Japanese gamers fear 3D control, which I’m not too sure about. Get this, though: Sales numbers show that Japan bought about 3 million copies of the 2DNew Super Mario Bros. Wii, but only 1 million copies of the 3DSuper Mario Galaxy....

According to a Dutch newspaperde Volksrant, by way ofGameSpot, Sony’s future cough killer PlayStation 3 app cough is setting all kinds of spending records in the native land of clogs and windmills. Today, the long silence on the game was broken by the Dutch newspaperde Volksrant. In an article titled, “A video game more expensive than the most expensive film,” the daily highlights the next-gen Killzone and its developer, Amsterdam-based and Sony-owned Guerilla Games....

Not satisfied with having completely eradicated the global threat of terrorism, the U.S. Department of Intelligence, in their infinite wisdom and spendthrift, have turned their attentions to the final asylum of those that hope to violently wrest our freedom from us: MMOs. Dubbed “The Reynard Project” (What happened to cool names like Enduring Freedom?), the Department of National Intelligence has broken the initiative into two stages. First, to analyze “the emerging social, behavioral and cultural norms in virtual worlds and gaming environments” claiming that “the cultural and behavioral norms of virtual worlds and gaming are generally unstudied”, and second, should the collected data justify further action, to institute an automated system to track the actions of those playing games likeWorld of Warcraftand report behavior they consider indicative of terroristic intent....

I swear. We’re getting close. I had a look through an FAQ last night and the last few missions are pretty short. Plus, one of them also serves as the game’s prologue. I’m hoping we can have this thing all wrapped up tomorrow night. That’s a good thing as I’m still enjoying myself but I think I’m nearing my limit on that. Join me every weeknight at 8pm Pacific for Backlog, where I play through the games which have spent too much time unfinished and give them the respect they deserve....