Gamecockseriously do need to start rounding off their name with the word “tease”. The promise of a new indie publisher with heavy left-field leanings has been getting more than a few of us more than a little excited for more than a good while now, but while the concepts and art of their slated titles are cooler than Henry Winkler’s corpse, there’s been a knuckle-whiteningly small amount of actual gameplay footage, or even details, so far....

Erection-inducing action gameBayonettais almost ready, with producer Yusuke Hashimoto proudly proclaiming that it’s 80% done. That’s good, because my penis is 100% hard right now, just thinking about this game. Oh yeah, I’m typing this with amassivebonk-on right now, so just sit back and think about that. All throbbin’ and everything. “In terms of development, we’re actually about 80 percent there,” he tellsVG247. “We’ve only made the really basic parts, what makes the game really, really good, what makes the game really, really fun....

In spite of our differences, the one thing I have consistently lavished Nintendo with plaudits for is their rigid stance on online game play, i.e. that it should remain free of charge. Sadly, it seems Nintendo is a bit more flexible than I originally thought. Of note is the specific wording used for this service, Nintendo has named it “Pay and Play” rather than “Pay for Play” or “Pay to Play”....

It’s an avalanche of art shows in San Francisco this week! On top of hosting theInto the Pixel exhibitthis week, Hotel des Arts will also have an entire floor dedicated to the art ofDante’s Inferno. The art will be on display starting this Thursday and will be up until April. The gallery below has a small taste of what to expect at theDante’s Infernoart show this week. Some pretty disturbing stuff!...

German gamers have shown a strong preference to Nintendo products as of late, with both a Nintendo console and first-party games topping sales charts. Next-Gentells us that the July sales figures for the Nintendo Wii more than doubled the sales of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 combined, with Wii’s 26,000 versus Xbox 360’s 5,000 and PS3’s 8,000. They also tell us that the total lifetime sales numbers for the three consoles have been tallied, and that the Nintendo Wii has taken the top spot for next-generation game consoles, selling 291,000 units over Xbox 360’s 281,000....

Think back to your childhood. I mean way back. What are the odds that your memories of learning to read are stacked beside those of learning to handle a one-button joystick? Did you know how to fight your way out of dungeons before you knew how to tie your shoes? Remember growing up with video games? If you’re visiting this site, you probably do. Like it or not, though, somewhere between thePongpaddle and the Sixaxis, you grew up....

Good Old Games is offering a challenge to its user base:reach 6 million downloadsand then you’ll be able to getBroken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Director’s Cutfor free — but only for 48 hours. Now that’s downloads, not sales, so don’t start clicking your way through your wishlist just yet. You’ll need that cash forthis weekend’s sale. Not only will the classic point-and-click adventure game be free, but lucky downloader six million will receive the entire GOG catalogue for free!...

Grand Theft Auto IV’sexclusive Xbox 360 downloadable content titledThe Lost and Damnedwill be revealed in detail during the Spike TV Videogames Awards. The awards show will be this Sunday at 9:00 PM eastern time. According to the press release, west coast viewers will have to catch the program on a tape delay. This is important, because it prevents people in California from experiencing the wonders of live TV and the possibility of nipple slips....

Everyone loves a good list, but the problem is that anyone can make up a list and call it right. That won’t do. No, what we need is some sort of official organization to make the list and thus validate it because they’re known to be official. Enter Guinness World Records andtheir list of the top 50 game series. Guinness actually did this for the last edition of their gaming edition of the “Guinness Book of World Records,” but this year they switched it up by asking gamers to vote on the games instead of devs and industry pros....

There’s been a lot of petty sniping towardsHalofrom both the anti-Microsoft crowd and the contrarian, anti-mainstream crowd ever since the pre-release hype forHalo 3began building up, but absolutely no one, regardless of how tightly they cling to their myopic, childish beliefs, can deny one simple fact:Halois a brand that sells. To drive that point home, we bring younews courtesy of GameDaily: it seems that the latest novelization based on the Master Chief’s fictional realm has debuted at #3 on theNew York Timesbestseller list and #23 on theUSA Todaybestseller list....

High Voltage Software has declared that its long-forgotten shooter,The Grinder, is still alive and waiting for a publisher. If you can’t remember what it is, it’s a first-person shooter for the Wii that is also athird-person shooter for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. It features four-player co-op and it’s about vampires, which makes it different fromLeft 4 Dead. According to level designer Eric Stoli, the game is on “vertical slice status” and the studio isn’t quite sure what the final product is going to be like....

Yes! I was already having a golfgasm overHot Shots Golf: Out of Boundsfor PS3, and then Sony comes along and annouces a sequel to one of my favorite portable games of all time. Today Sony has announced thatHot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2is coming to the PlayStation Portable. This new title from golf masters Clap Hanz brings us six new courses and 12 more crazy characters (24 total) for more golfing on the go....

Welcome to the first edition ofHour of Power! Once a week, you’ll have the opportunity to jump inside the Dtoid time machine (which, coincidentally, looks like a giant robot head) and warp back to the yesteryear of gaming, courtesy of Nintendo Power. This feature onShadowgateknocked me directly back into 1990 before I could ever get to the time machine to set the date. This was one of the first games for the NES to use the PC adventure format....