Evan Wilson, a Pacific Crest Securities analyst,has told GameSpotthat a new DS redesign has been completed but it will be awhile before we see it. The new DS is thinner, has no GBA slot, has internal memory and larger screens. The rest of the GameSpot report goes on to talk about how well the gaming industry will do this holiday and that sports game did horrible this year compared to last year....

An alleged list of new achievements forSuper Street Fighter 4containing stuff fromSuper Street Fighter 4 Arcade Editionhas hit the internet. The list includes images of Yun and Yang (two characters that have yet to be announced for the arcade version), Evil Ryu (all shirtless and red eyed) and a glowing purple guy that looks a lot like Akuma. Internet people have already taken to calling this purple man “Oni Akuma” (Ogre Demon in Japanese), because one of the achievements correlated to his image is called “Birth of the Oni”....

I’m not sure I could describe the look on my face as I’m typing this. It’s probably somewhere between disbelief in the fact that I am indeed writing aboutSadness, the eternally delayed/probably doesn’t exist Wii game from developer Nibris, and laughter. The game hasbeen canceled,had its site taken downand the developer ridiculed, and yet Nibris’s YouTube channel (believed to be official byGoNintendo) updated with this comment: “Greeting, Significant progress is being made on our Flagship title,Sadness....

It’s good to see that Sony is using its money responsibly in this time offinancial hardship. This Russian billboard poster measures an epic 500 meters in length (making the illustrated PlayStation 3 on the end around 2:1 scale) and is certainly an impressively grandiose sight. It does however, give one reason to wonder about Sony’s present thinking. As a company with such a famously large collective ego, currently taking a considerable beating both in business and in the press, is this lengthy poster their replacement for the traditional phallic therapy of the midlife crisis sports car?...

RememberSadness?The Wii horror title spoken of in excited whispers years ago wound up being vaporware in the end, but it’s not a total loss. Composer Arkadiusz Reikowski has released a thirteen song soundtrack of music intended for use in the game. The tracks are all works in progress, but they give an indication of what we might have expected fromSadness. It’s dark, moody, atmospheric and there’s a very ominous tone at work throughout the collection’s nine minute running time....

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Alan Wake is a pretty cool guy, and you know, I have grown to love his agent Barry Wheeler even after an admittedly rough start. I pray that Remedy gets to releasing the two announced add-on episodes before too long, or else I’m going to start forgetting key plot points. Oh shoot — it’s already happening! Joystiq got word straight from Remedy’s Oskari Hakkinen that both “The Signal” and “The Writer” will be associated with an affordable $7 price tag....

Back when the Nintendo DS launched no one had any clue it was going to be such a big hit and start printing all that money. As such you couldn’t blame developers for being a bit tepid about jumping into the development pool for the system. Once everyone saw that Nintendo’s handheld was raking in the dough, however — well, we’ve all seen what the DS section of our local Best Buy looks like....

Hey, guys … guess what? Electronic Arts and Maxis are developingThe Sims 3! Who would have thought that we’d see another installment to what has become one of the best selling computer games of all time? It boggles the mind. EA and Maxis have officially launchedTheSims3.com, and while the page contains no information on the game, it does do a pretty good job of teasing. They’ve plastered a giant image on the page, with the now iconic green diamond with a “3” next to it....

Just when we thought all the relevant information to be had fromGDCwas out in the open, along comes this tidbit that could further open the door for budding developers in our mist. Untapped talent just waiting to be discovered? This is for you. According to Sony’s senior developer relations account manager Chris Eden, making games for the PlayStation Network is not only reasonably affordable at $1200 for the debug PS3 kit (including the freebie PhyreEngine) — but it comes with the satisfaction of knowing that Sony is going to back you up with their own promotional muscle, should your project get the green light....

Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts are shutting down the massively multiplayer online portion ofStar Wars Galaxies, in addition to the trading card game, on July 01, 2025. Yeah, MMO-lovingStar Warsfans haveThe Old Republicto look forward to, but it’s still sad to see along-running gameclose down for good. There’s something oddly eerie about online games all of a sudden ceasing to exist. “During the last week thatSWGis available, we’re inviting the community to participate in a galaxy-ending event,”says the official site, which also offers details on fan appreciation offers and important dates....

India’s Got Talent? I’m sure they do. In this case, it seems that their talent lies in modifying how classic videogames play out into strange skits. On the television showIndia’s Got Talent, one group decided to take classicSuper Mario Brosand twist it into some broken black light version where Bowser has a laser gun and 1UP mushrooms can revive you. Or maybe that’s howSuper Mario Brosreally is in India. I don’t know....

JAMMA, the Amusement Machine Show, has just kicked off in Tokyo. Bandai Namco used the opportunity to show off the Arcade update to theTekkenseries,Tekken 6 Bloodline Rebellion. Among the additions are new stages, characters, cutscenes and items, andAndraisang.comhas some images of these additions from some of the six playable kiosks there. Two new characters with ridiculous last names were added to this update: Alisa Bosconovitch and Lars Alexandersson, the latter of which reportedly can remove her head and use it as a bomb....