Samit hat is go! I suppose I can reasonably say I have interest in the video below because Spike Lee is a filmmaker and I like movies. It’s a well known fact that no matter how piss poorly the Knicks are doing Spike Lee is courtside cheering them on — or attempting to coach the team. So how does he feel aboutKobe Bryant landing the coverofNBA 2K10? Well, I’m sure he’s fine with it, but he of course has some suggestions that lean more towards his favorite team....

Are you f*cking with us, Square Enix? Final Fantasy Versus XIIIproducer has confessed that he can’t commit to a 2011 release date for the PS3 game, which has been in development for roughly eight thousand years. The game has been in perpetual delay, with only slivers of information being drip-fed to us over the centuries. “We have no release date information to update,” says Kitase. “Unfortunately we can’t say anything about that....

Last week we talked about yet another teaser site, with Square Enix hinting at what some believed to be a newRomancing Saga. It would seem thatSagafans will be disappointed, butFinal Fantasyfans will be elated at the news that a brand new game,Four Warriors of Light: Final Fantasy Gaidenison the way, and it’s heading to the Nintendo DS. As usual, the teaser site’s contents were revealed before the site could officially make the announcement, withWeekly Jumpmagazine detailing Squeenix’s brand new game....

Download this, right now.Strange Adventures in Infinite Spaceused to be the most surprisingly expensive indie game on the PC market — $20, despite being almost a decade old — but now it’sfree. Beautifully, wonderfullyfree. But what, exactly, are you getting for yourzerodollars? Arguably the coolest space exploration game ever, that’s what. Highly randomized and frantically paced, an average playthrough ofSAISlasts fifteen minutes or less, yet still manages to cram in all sorts of thrilling discoveries, fun (if incredibly streamlined) space combat, and interesting strategic decisions into its seemingly meager playtime....

It wouldn’t be a fighting game if there wasn’t a corresponding arcade stick plastered with relevant imagery. Mad Catz has entered a multi-year agreement with Capcom to put outStreet Fighter X Tekkencontrollers and accessories in North America and Europe. The Street Fighter X Tekken Arcade FightStick Pro (shown above) is expected to ship out this September. You can get yourpre-order on now, but these aren’t exactly something you would go impulse buy — unless you make it rain on a consistent basis, that is....

Research group Interpret LLC claims that almost a third of 3DS owners feel the system’s main attraction — its 3D screen — actively detracts from the gaming experience. Shockingly, there are even people who don’t know the 3DS cando3D! You’d think the name was a clue. Of the 1,600 people polled, only 60% knew that the handheld had a 3D function. Of that group, 28% knew that it didn’t require 3D glasses to use....

Evony Onlineis a free browser-based real time strategy game that enjoys usinginappropriate sexual implications to advertise itself. The game creators, Evony LLC, have been embroiled in a rather bitter fight over so-called “attacks” launched by blogger Bruce Everiss. Today, Evony LLC has announced that it has filed an official suit against the writer ofBruce on Games. “For several weeks we have worked to avoid taking our grievances into the legal courts,” states an Evony representative, “hoping instead to persuade Mr....

Some good news for the starved 3DS owners out there. Nintendo is planning to releaseSuper Mario Land 2: 6 Golden CoinsandMetroid II: The Return of Samusto the eShop via the Virtual Console in the fourth quarter of 2011. Super Mario Land 2was one of the biggest games on the Game Boy — eight times bigger than its predecessor. It also sees the first appearance of dastardlyWario, brainwashing and turning the inhabitants of Mario Land against Mario, and forcing him to find six golden coins scattered across to land to break the spell and reclaim his castle from Wario’s tight grip....

Infinity Ward has released a pretty detailed look at what Spec Ops mode is all about inCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. You’re basically fighting waves of enemies that get progressively harder the longer you last. So it’s like the zombies mode inBlack Ops, but you know, fun. I playedSpec Ops mode while at E3and loved every second of it. It’s so fast paced and fun. The AI is pretty damn smart too....

As everybody with a brain knows, PETA is an insane organization full of insane people with an insane agenda. However, theydolove their videogames, so that makes them alright by us. The animal rights group has taken a significant interest in gaming lately, following itsself-publicized Sega ad petitionandspat withCooking Mama. With this in mind, we figured it wouldn’t be long before PETA starts singling out more videogames as evil anti-animal propaganda. After all, a great many games featurehate crimesagainst poor, innocent creatures, and PETA must surely be taking note....

Hothead, developer ofPenny Arcade Adventures, recently showed off their research and development projectSwarmat TGS. The video illustrates one of the key concepts that Hothead wanted to establish with the project – smart AI. Essentially the player controls one of those lovely blue creatures above, does a movement, and the AI responds by mimicking the behavior. We smell some pretty unique puzzle-based gameplay in the near future. Swarmwas the result of a submission into Canada’s Great Canadian Video Game Competition, where Hothead secured a nice sum of money to create this gameplay prototype....

The first season of HAWP is almost over. The second to last episode went up this week and of course it was an episode onMetal Gear Solid. So who’s going to win in the end? Anthony or Ashly? Part 4 of From the Console to the TV Station is up, Jim brought us an interview onBlur, Brad reviewedRemote Masseuse, the PAX exhibitor list is up, Games for Windows LIVE 3.0 is here, theBrutal Legendlawsuit has been settled and plenty more awesome happened on 08/06/09....

The story so far: Jim Sterling bursts into the Sharkade and enlists the help of Hamza Aziz. Sterling explains that not only has the President has been kidnapped by ninjas, but that there is also a much greater threat afoot. Hamza, relishing the opportunity for some action, transforms into his alter ego … Cybernetic Tiger Z! Together they head outside, to confront the problem. This weeks winning comment was from Palidi: Ahh, the last frame might conflict with my next idea, but I’ll try anyhow:...