Hustle Kingsis one of the finest pool simulators I’ve ever played and certainly the best console billiards experience you can have today. But the strongest criticism I can levy upon any game of its type is that there’s simply no replacement for having a cue in your hand. VooFoo Games, the makers ofHustle Kings, are going to try and break that barrier with a free update this week adding support for the PlayStation Move controller....

Not long agowe told youaboutIL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Preygetting a September 15 release on consoles as well as DS and PSP. And wouldn’t you know it, now there’sa demofor the game up on Xbox LIVE Marketplace too. As a complete beginner to the series and even flight simulation games in general, I found the controls be hard to work with. I think that part of the reason why is due to me being so used to playingBattlefield 1943since it hasits own setof unique and equally hard-to-master flight controls....

Have you ever played a game that was so incredibly punishing, yet so ridiculously fun and rewarding that you couldn’t help but play it for hours and hours despite losing at least two hundred lives in that span of time? Have you ever played a game that was part roguelike (random dungeons, exploration, RPG elements) and part action-platformer? I have, because I’ve playedSpelunky. This, the newest title from Derek Yu (ofI’m O....

I don’t even know wha Jack-o is doing anymore. It’s so hard to follow all the stupid things he does and says, so I’ve kind lost track. Thankfully,GamePoliticsis keeping track, and now they point us to Thompson trying to treaten prosecution for all 104 House and Senate members of the Utah legislature. Jack is pissed because Utah tried to prosecute him for sending them spam. In an email sent back to Utah, Jack says that he is “not going to put up with it,” and threatens to addallof the legislature to his sworn complaint:...

Mortal Kombat‘s daddy Ed Boon has made it no secret that he and his team are hard at work onMortal Kombat 9, which the designerjokingly dubs“When dogz attack!” Besides the fact that it exists (and that it will likely published by Warner Bros.), we know little else. Now, a job listing has revealed that the team is looking to set the bar for online gameplay. Thejob descriptionputs out a call to a software engineer, with WB Games Inc....

According to Sony marketing manager Mark Valledor, the moderation inLittleBigPlanetwill continue to evolve and the levels that have been tossed into oblivion thus far are the result of players utilizing the game’s Good Grief tool. This may come as a mini-relief for those worried that levels were being stripped without reason. At least now they can blame other players instead of ghosts in theLBPmachine. Valledor also said that a system that tells creators why the content was moderated is coming....

Okay, so we’ve already heard from EA, but what of the company who many still feel has most to prove this generation? I was sitting in on Sony’s Leipzig press conference and now, a bit later than planned due to the failings of hotel WiFi, here are the details. 18:22– Screen explodes with a montage if Sony franchises old and new, accompanied by some pretty damn dramatic choral music. I get a strange feeling Sony may have some big things up their sleeve....

MOOOORTAL KOMBAT! Evil publisher Activision may havewhacked an RRP of £55onModern Warfare 2, but that hasn’t stopped British supermarkets from engaging inbrutal price combatas they attempt to undercut each other while selling the biggest game of the year. Some of the prices are absolutely insane. ASDA will be selling the game for £32, while Sainsbury’s has managed the ridiculous price of £26! Tesco has the “cheapest” price of £25, but it only costs that much if you buyModern Warfare 2in conjunction with another chart title....

Is it morning again already? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu- That’s right. It’s Saturday morning, and that can only mean one thing. Time for the Hangover. Every Saturday morning, I’m joined by Jordan Devore and the lovely ImpossiblePlant to hang out and play some videogames. As usual, we’ll be taking a look at this week’s Xbox Live Indie Games releases. And then we’re going to spend some time playingAban Hawkings & the 1000 Spikes, a very cool retro platformer which released this week....

InsideGamer.nl, the Dutch answer to the once mightySpanish Armada, has uncovered some mysterious information about an upcoming title sporting the monikerLost Planet Colonies. The game seems to be scheduled for release on the Xbox 360 and PC platforms in January of 2008, but besides that brief snippet, almost nothing is known of this title. Is it an extension of the currentLost Planettitle? Is it an entirely new game? Perhaps the BabelFish-assisted translation of the original article will shed some light on this mystery:...

If these new screens are anything to judge by, the women ofLuminous Arclook decidely angry. That could either be a total turn off or really hot to you, depending on how weird you are. This is Atlus’ second game in the strategy RPG series and is expected out this November (although if you are lucky enough to read Japanese, you may have been enjoying it since May). It features a suitably epic storyline where the world is consumed by its use of magic and critters called Beast Fiends are ravaging the land....

Sony has announced that Zipper Interactive’s “OMFG there are 256 people playing at once” first-person shooter,MAG, has gone gold. That’s right, it’s done — the game hits North America on January 26. More good news is that the beta, called “MAGbeta 5,” is launching tomorrow for everyone North America. Yes, everyone. If you have a PlayStation 3 and an Internet connection, you can simply log in to the PlayStation Network, download the beta file, and then spend the next five hours downloading updates and the actual game files....

OK, Activision Blizzard, we get it — a whole bunch of people are playing PC/MAC mega-MMOWorld of Warcraft. Activision Blizzard will continue their quest towards world Internet and MMO domination on November 13 when the game’s new expansion,World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Litch King, hits stores. “It’s been very rewarding to see gamers around the world continue to show such strong support for World of Warcraft,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment(R)....