N.O.V.Ais one of the big titles people use to demonstrate the iPhone’s potential for gaming, and it’s hardly surprising. Although I’ve only played the Lite version, it works surprisingly well as a touch-screen FPS and it looks pretty damn good, too. Despite being an iPhone poster-boy, however,N.O.V.Amay very well be coming to other platforms. “It’s an idea we want to build cross-platform,” says Gameloft VP Gonzague de Vallois. “So you can expect to see it on new systems in the future....

I really believe (and hope) that this is one sick mind reading too much into things, but if it’s not then the Wii is taking a perverse turn for the erotic withCaptain Rainbow— a potential powder keg of smug and degradation the likes of which my fair Christian eyes have ne’er before witnessed. According to reader Josh, the above video has Birdo trapped in a cage and only proof that she is a woman will set her free (Josh suggests Birdo was caught using the woman’s restroom and mistaken for a man....

Aww! You guys get to play now! The EU PlayStation Blog confirms that Europe will get some of the Japanese and US PSOne releases on the PlayStation Network soon. It seems that publishers that previously only had rights to release in one territory now can push their games onto the EU PSN. These titles will remain be published ‘as is,’ meaning that the original language stays. You’ll need a 60Hz display to play these, as that bit also stays....

Maybe. Probably not. Okay, not really. [Warning: Contains foul language.]

Because overall PlayStation 3 sales have hit just under 4 million consoles worldwide, Sony hasn’t reached their self-imposed holy grail number of 6 million by the end of the latest financial year. Since many predicted that might happen with the PS3’s hefty price tag, a few analysts believed a price cut was on the horizon to try and balance out Sony’s checkbooks. Well, likemost of the time, they were wrong. Sony has released this statement in response to more talk of a price cut:...

Halo Reach.UFC 2010 Undisputed.Tron.Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. Electronic Arts’Medal of Honorreboot. That’s only five of the games that will make their world premiere at the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards, which airs on Spike TV this Saturday. But according toGameTrailers TVhost and VGA producer Geoff Keighley, we haven’t seen anything yet. He promises “more than 12” exclusives, including all new footage of Ruffian’sCrackdown 2, a newStar Warstitle, and at least two games Spike can’t even hint at....

If the Las Vegas Convention Center Web site can be trusted, then it appears as if the Sin City complex will be the next host of developer Blizzard’s massive community event, BlizzCon. The Web siteis currently listingthe LVCC as the gathering place between the dates of July 30th and July 31st. Hold on to your butts (and plane tickets), though. After unearthing this nugget,WoW.comcontacted Blizzard about the unannounced plans to put the event in the LVCC....

New Super Mario Brothers Wiihas been out for, oh, about 48 hours, but the Wii homebrew scene is already on the case: GBAtemp user Tanks hasrecreated Level 1-1 from the originalSuper Mario Brosusing aNSMBlevel editor calledReggie!, developed by a user named Treeki. I don’t know much about homebrewing or modding, but I do know something cute and nostalgic when I see it. Level 1-1 is kind of played out by now—if a level editor exists for any game, it is a divine rule of the universe that Level 1-1 must be recreated—but it’s an impressive, and rather hasty, effort nonetheless....

God bless Rockstar for including a gigantic fold-out map of Liberty City with every copy ofGrand Theft Auto IV. Without it, I might have never been able to find that bar to get theQUB3Dachievement. But what a pain in the ass it was dealing with that unwieldy map — it’s four times the size of my coffee table, and it folds in 72 different places. IGN has the answer —an interactive, detailed virtual map of Liberty City....

[Backlogis the ongoing quest to ridConrad Zimmerman’scollection of unfinished games. As voted on by the Destructoid community, Conrad plays each game from start to finish live onDestructoid’s Twitch.tv channelevery weeknight at 8pm Pacific] We’re on the verge of finishingSilent Hill 3tonight on Backlog, having arrived in a the Silent Hill cult’s chapel for a final face-off with Claudia. I am certain that not only will everything resolve itself in a nice, easy conclusion but there will also be no doubt that the evil is cleansed from the sleepy town forever by the time I’m through....

Double Fine has the specifics on when we can get our hands onTrenched, and how much it’s going to set us back to do so. The mech-centric defense title will see a June 22 release on Xbox Live Arcade for 1200 Microsoft Points. Soon you too can discover the sex-beasts of Route 66. Attached is the game’s opening cut scene, which sets up its expectedly weird (and awesome) premise. I’m all about tower defense games when you’re required to play an active role throughout....

Time to shake the cobwebs off another disc. The first bit ofMass Effect 2PDLC, “Kasumi’s Stolen Memory,” hits on April 6th. To celebrate that fact — and arouse ourpumped-upnessafter a hip showing at GDC 10— studio BioWare has released a new teaser video for the downloadable content that shows off space rogue Kasumi and some of her espionage-style Loyalty mission. We get the impressions that this hunk of DLC will be a great palatte cleanser in our future playthroughs of the stellar RPG....

Xbox 360 Achievementshas gotten its hands on the achievement list for the Xbox 360 version ofBioShock 2, and well…they look a bit familiar. Sure, there are a slew of “secret achievements” that are tied toBioShock 2‘s story. But is it just me or does all of the other stuff look like it could have applied to the original? Well, outside of the multiplayer achievements, of course. Becoming a Big Daddy for the first time in multiplayer gets you the “Disgusting Frankenstein” achievement; save your first Little Sister in multiplayer and get dubbed “Mother Goose....