In one of Nintendo’s Iwata Asks features, the Nintendo president admits that they need to catch up with the folks at Capcom in the visuals department. You see, they thinkMonster Hunter Trilooks amazing. It does look amazing from what I’ve seen. Here’s what Iwata tellsMHTdirector Kaname Fujioka and producer Ryozo Tsujimoto: “I can tell Nintendo’s staff has really been galvanized by you. I can tell they feel like you did what they hadn’t yet....

Sony just bumped up the hard drive sizes in the PS3 at gamescom this week, putting the two SKUs at 160GB and 320GB. There’s still plenty of the old 120GB and 250GB units on shelves, so it’s probably a good time to be shopping around for a discount at a retail clearout. The folks atengadgetpoint us to one clearout at electronics retailer Fry’s. The old 250GB units are marked down to only $299....

If you haven’t read any of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books, you really should. I’ve only gotten through the first book,A Game of Thrones, so far, but it was a great read. Now it’s set to be a videogame, with Cyanide Interactive announcing that the Starks and the Lannisters will settle their difference is in a real-time strategy game. A Game of Thrones: Genesiswill give players a variety of methods with which to control the kingdom of Westeros, utilizing military strength, diplomacy, and all manner of treachery....

According to online retail behemoth Amazon, Microsoft’s Kinect contraption will require six feet of space between the player and the TV to be enjoyed. The amount of space needed for Kinect has been at the center of some hot debate, and as far as we can tell, this is the closest we’ve come to confirmation on the issue. “You’ll need any Xbox 360 console, a Kinect sensor, Kinect games and 6 feet between you and your television for play space,” warns the retailer....

Let me repeat that. Angry Birds, which was only just released on the PlayStation Network in January of this year, has become the best-selling game on the platform. Think of any other big PSN game andAngry Birdshas outsold it. Wow. Just… wow. That’s some selling power. This info comes via Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian. Though he didn’t give any specific sales figures, he did say that PSN now has “75M registered accounts WW (half of which are in NA), with over 1....

Project Peacemakers is the name of the group that apparently goes around and inspects retailers to grade them on their displays of violent videogames. They call itToy Inspections 2008. Brilliant. Visiting fourteen chain stores, they checked out displays of violent toys and games, and WalMart and Toys ‘R’ Us received poor marks. They complain about M-rated game placement in some stores: Where video games are sold, there continue to be an overwhelming number that contain violent and sexually explicit themes....

When I used to do my art stuff back in the day, I would only draw in black and white. I felt my work was best left without coloring. Plus, I sucked at applying colors. It just never felt right. DougSQ has a ton of work at his deviantART page with most of it being all in black and white. There are a good handful of colored art pieces, but the coloring is mostly done by friends of his....

Earlier yesterday afternoon, Ascaron announced an expansion for the PC version ofSacred 2: Fallen Angel. Dubbed “Ice & Blood,” the expansion will add a new character called the Dragon Mage, several quests, two fresh locations, more items and even more enemies to smack on. Apparently, it will also twist the game’s main story: the posting on the game’sofficial Web siteindicates an “elaborate new development” has happened in the game’s fictional world of Ancaria....

While it won’t be something we can exactly track, I am so interested in seeing how successfulBattlefield: Bad Company 2will be now that so many people are pissed over the botched PC version ofModern Warfare 2. Or could it be they aren’t really boycotting anything? Exactly! Hence my excitement. When Infinity Ward announced there would be no dedicated servers, a bunch of other developers followed suit by announcing the opposite for their respective games....

Yesterdaywe speculated overone of the mysterious notes from theBioShock 2website Something in the Sea which indicated an event which would take place at ten beaches around th world at specified times. Curious, some folks showed up at Bondi Beach in Australia today and found what you see in the pictures above – buried wine bottles waiting for them in the sand! Within the bottles (which were marked “Acadia”) were three promotional posters for Rapture (see gallery), including ads for two plasmids: Electrobolt and Decoy....

Mass Effect 2’s Miranda seems like a tough broad. In the latest spotlight video, you’ll catch the space witch furrowing her brow and delivering cold, calculated lines. But we’re willing to guess Miranda is a kind soul who just wants to be loved. It’s all a clever front. Or not. She might double-cross us at the end of the game and demand a space demon baby. Who knows? We will eventually, that’s for sure....

Blurdevelopers Bizarre Creations aren’t ruling out a possible handheld release of their racing game. In a recent interview with VG247, lead designer Gareth Wilson kept the possibility of such a thing open. But he also made it clear that Bizarre would probably get another developer to handle the title’s theoretical handheld release. “Not right now,” he said. “But maybe in the future. And to be honest, handheld is not something that we would do anyway....

The car and barrel bonus stages are making a return inSuper Street Fighter IV.The latest Famitsu scans show the rebirth of the classic bonus stages that were in the originalStreet Fighter IIgames. For those of you that were unfortunate enough to be born after the golden era of gaming, the bonus stages requires players to completely destroy a car or a bunch of barrels within a certain amount of time....