Last week wementionedthat the Level 5/Studio Ghibli videogame,Ni no Kuni: The Another Worldwas going to be ported over to the PS3. This was pretty exciting, as while the DS does a fine job of showing off the animation from the House that Tortoro built, the PS3 would have an even better chance of replicating the actual artwork itself. And boy does it do that. Coming to Japan sometime in 2011,Ni no Kuni: Shiroki Seihai no Joouis the PS3 version of the game and will better replicate animation of Studio Ghibli as well as offer a different experience than the DS game....

I was really bummed whenSamit told usthat Sega Racing Studios was closing its doors. The 1990s vintageSega Rallyfor the Saturn is my favorite racer of all time. The Dreamcast classicSega Rally 2isn’t far behind on my list. The SRS team did a fair job with their only release,Sega Rally Revo, but the 2005 founded studio barely had a chance to prove themselves before their doors were closed. Luckily Codemasters snapped up the recently closed studio, according toNext Gen....

As I read about this device and looked at the snapshots, my mind conjured up a few amusing pictures of gamers using this for the first time. I also wondered just why anybody would actually want to own such a device, and just how real people want the whole gaming experience to be in the first place. Just where are we going to draw the line? Anyway, the whole concept behind this device is to draw players even further into the action than ever before, through tactile feedback....

Well,this it is it. The debate over whether Move is better than Kinect is over. No, scratch that. All console wars ever are over. Sony has won. Period. Conclusion. No debate. End of conversation. Other thing that means we aren’t debating something anymore. Why, you ask, as you hurl your now useless Wii, Xbox 360 and other gaming consoles out the window. It’s because Move has won an award at gamescom for the best console accesories....

“If you have to read instructions than it’s a bad game.” -Al Alcorn, GDC 2008 As one of the biggest retro videogame fans on the planet, that quote from a rainy Wednesday afternoon session with literalcreator of the videogameRalph Baer andinventor of PongAl Alcorn meant the world to me. And kind of changed my life a little bit. Sitting in a room with two of the biggest names in gaming history was a huge honor, to say the least....

The arrival ofGuilty Gear: Accent Core Pluswas inevitable. UsGuilty Gearfans will latch onto to just about anything that manages to make its way over here, save forIsukaandDust Strikers. Oh, the horrible memories. But let’s ignore those! There’s a fairly simple reason why you should buy the update toGuilty Gear: Accent Core: It has a story mode. The story mode, apart from being a new mode to play through, helps flesh out more details about the characters’ backstories, and all the cutscenes are fully voiced, which is a nice treat....

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rockwins by adding a Dillinger Escape Plan song to the on-disc setlist for the upcoming title. The band will join 10 others who will be making their debut to the franchise when the game ships on September 28. Here are the goods: Sure, I would have preferred something off of DEP’s debut,Calculating Infinity, maybe “43% Burnt.” But I’m sure the person they got to chart that song got tired and quit, so I suppose this will do....

I have never had an intimate connection with jet fighting games. I think the reason stems from my youth. I used to sit at my father’s Gateway 2000 — it had a beastly 8 RAM — and chop away at silly World War II games for hours on end. I never won a battle and I always ran out of fuel. Those were harsh, evil games.I’ve tried numerous titles over the years, but nothing has drawn me in....

Driving fast is neat. Blowing up stuff is neat. InSplit/Second, Black Rock Studio is giving people the opportunity to do both these things at the same time — if their drifting and passing abilities are good enough. In the above, we’re introduced to the “powerplay,” the mechanic that separates this racer from most of the rest on the market. When used, a catastrophic environmental collapse of a component on a track occurs, allowing you to get back into first place and snicker at those caught in whatever happens....

Along withour latest previewofSuper Mario Galaxy 2comes this brand new trailer showing off some of the newly revealed features. In it you get to see the Cosmic Guide in action, the new cloud suit and how player two has become more involved with the game. The more I see ofGalaxy 2, the more I can’t wait for its release next month. Now that all of the power-ups have been revealed, what are you looking forward to using the most?...

Irrational Gamesis set to reveal its lone project in the coming months. “This is the year we’ll start talking about stuff,” studio director Ken Levine told GameSpot in a recent interview, adding, “and we stop hiding behind the iron curtain of secrecy.” When pressed a bit for specifics, Levine would only comment that information would flow after Game Developers Conference 2010 this March. In other news, Ice T just finished a promotion....

Devil’s Thirddeveloper Tomonobu Itagaki has suggested that studios in his home country of Japan suffer from poor management that doesn’t know what it’s doing. According to the Sunglasses King, a lack of development knowledge and poor social skills are what differentiates Japan from the US. “In the US, more so in the US than in Japan, I think there are a lot of top management people who actually know how to make games,” he said....

[Editor’s note: A New Challenger wraps up Community Blog Promotion week. Stay tuned for a special message from yours truely. Until then,Turokwas an amazing game. Well, amazing untilGoldenEyecame out that is. Also, you haven’t lived until you’ve seen a Velociraptor get jiggy with it. — CTZ] Hello world! When Hamza announced he was doling out some front page lovin’ to regular features from the Community Blogs, I said “How high?” because I’m terrible with figures of speech....