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Sources have told Siliconera that Konami’s cooperative multiplayer gameCastlevania: Harmony of Despairwill be seeing release on the PlayStation Network. An Xbox 360 exclusive up until this point,Harmony of Despairwas a challenging game which placed an emphasis on working as a team, as the game was just too damn hard to try and do anything else. I can’t say that I would be shocked to hear this announced by Konami at E3 next week and it would be great for PS3 owners to have a crack at Drac....

The footage is not pre-rendered, it is real time on one of Nokia’s new N-gage phones. A possible player customization includes texture mapping to create their own costumes. This is way too damn cool for a cell phone. And just the other day, I was having a flashback with Niero about Sega’s Game Gear.

If you have bitterness about Japan’s neverending array of colored consoles and portables, this bit will hopefully help to erase some of that simmering hatred. Perfilings at the Federal Communications Commission, evidence points to Sony bringing the white PS3 to the good old US of A at the fine price of 39.980 Yen (about $374 dollars.) The cover letter on file at the FCC shows Sony submitted the console to the FCC and the American Telecommunications Certification Body in October 2007, but asked to have it kept mum for the short term “to avoid premature release of sensitive information prior to marketing or release of the product to the public....

A newStarCraftand a newCivilizationin the same year? This is, indeed, a ridiculously good time to own a capable gaming PC. And you know what? I haven’t heard anyone make the recurring “PC gaming is dead” claim in, like, a whole month. That’s got to be some kind of record. We don’t tend to dip into box art territory unless it’s a particularly slow news day; today is one of those days, thanks to the aforementioned Blizzard game....

Phew! That’s a lot of 3s and Ds for one headline. Everyone has to get their 3D ducks in a row for next year’s Nintendo 3DS launch, and it sounds like D3Publisher has their new duck ready withDream Trigger 3D. This is an arcade shooter where you’ll use sonar to expose enemies and blast them into colorful patterns. Things explode in 3D This sounds very…3D. The publisher says that there are over 50 stages that mix 3D visuals and shooting with a “dynamic multi-track musical score” to immerse you....

Maxis has set a date forDarkspore,and it’s not long off at all: March 29 is the big day. This news was tucked away in Big Download’s exclusive video of the game’s hero editor. If you were wondering where the “DiabloplusSpore” nickname stems from, your answer lies within. The robust creature creator fromSporeis back and looking better than ever inDarkspore. I can hardly wait to see what horrors YouTube posters will come up with....

According to1UP, David Jaffe and Incognito Entertainment head Scott Campbell are forming a new, independent studio to be based out of sunny Utah. This supports earlier rumblings and rumors about Jaffe’s possible move towards independent status; pictures of anempty studio postedon his blog a few weeks ago caused the Internet’s pants to explode at the seams. Jaffe, in a thread onNeoGAF(in which his avatar is that of English actress Kate Beckinsale), maintains that he still works for Sony Computer Entertainment … for now:...

The Zombie Apocalypse is the new World War II, and has been for a while now when it comes to games. But most, if not all zombie games to date have mostly focused on just killing them in droves. Few have actually thought aboutsurvivingin a world full of shambling undead. UntilDead State, that is. Developed by DoubleBear, among whose members were once of Obsidian Entertainment and Troika Games (theArcanumpeople),Dead Statetakes survival beyond just getting to the chopper/boat/car and concentrates on the big picture....

Straight up — I haven’t even gotten a chance to watchthis episode yet. I just got in the door, returning from some work-related weirdness, and I was told by a spirited shark man “POST YOUR DAMN SHOW ON THE SITE RIGHT NOW!” So I haven’t seen Episode 2, but I do have a few guesses about what happens in it. I know we have Jim Sterling talking about the deviant ways of downloadable content....

We’re no strangers to odd narrative twists, but who would have thought zombies would make an appearance inArmy of Two: the 40th Day— a game thatseemsgrounded in physical reality? But zombies are exactly what Nick Chester and I discovered during our demo playthrough this afternoon. The slice opens in a dingy alley somewhere in Shanghai. After a few seconds of freedom, Salem and Rios get cozy with a Space Marine....

A few days ago, a promotion that Microsoft ran for Windows Vistaresurfacedon the Internet. It was a drawing for the opportunity to be digitally inserted into Remedy’sAlan Wakeand a trip to the Tokyo Game Show to view the game in action. The bad part of all this is that the promotion is over a year old. We don’t know who beat the March 2007 deadline or if a winner was even chosen....

AllShattered Memoriesjokes aside, once we started to take a closer look at Climax’s upcoming contribution to the world of Silent Hill, we realized we had quite a few questions we wanted to ask then. Being the Silent Hill purist that I am, I’ve spent an obsessive and borderline unhealthy amount of time on all the previous games in the series. I had to know more! Lucky for me, Konami’s Tomm Hulett, lead producer onSilent Hill: Shattered Memories, was willing to let me pelt him with questions, not to mention ask a lot of the annoying fan stuff....

[Editor’s note:The originalHalo Warsreview was written before I had completed the campaign. This is common in our industry, where reviewers have to make a judgment call as to whether or not they have played enough for review. A number of our readers disagreed with the judgment call made, The Incredible Edible Egg in particular, and as the debate has continued, we have decided to address the issue with a very simple fix....