Three individual Rock Band song downloads Tuesday for Xbox 360 and Thursday for PS3. All three of these are about $2 each. All three are a bit more upbeat than last week’s update: Blink 182′s “All the Small Things“ The Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville” (cover) Sweet’s “Action” (cover) really sweet artwork by: RatherNotSay, Creative [...]

Investigator Ethan Thomas, still with the Serial Crimes Unit (SCU), is back and the gameplay has a whole new fighting style. Hand-to-hand fighting in the original Condemned game was a bit disappointing but the new combo system plus visceral sound effects and even more visceral killing methods (like breakig someone’s head on a toilet bowl) [...]

Sony is discontinuing its 20GB and 60GB version of the PS3 in Japan this month, leaving only the 40GB model. According to PC World, similar plans are also underway in the UK. North America is the only major game territory still selling more than one model (here we have a 40GB version at $399 and [...]

Kojima Productions confirmed today that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will be out “in the Q2 launch window.” Next Generation reports a June 17th release date in the US. MGS4 will still, somehow, launch as a PS3 exclusive. Who knows how Konami will recoup the build costs. Hopefully they do or we’ll [...]

Star Wars fans are about to see either a dream fulfilled or to feel a crushing sell out. Roll the controversy. Soul Calibur fans are about to get one new character to play. It’s either Darth Vader or Yoda, and only one because 1UP reports that Darth Vader is only available on the PS3 version [...]

The Battlefield series is about to get a little explodier, if this video diary from the developers of Battlefield: Bad Company is any testament. The game, which is due out in late March 2008, features an innovation that most FPS lovers will find exciting: fully destructible environments. To use the lingo, the “sandbox” element of [...]

Someone put together a montage of screenshots from the upcoming Tomb Raider Underworld, which is scheduled to be released sometime in 2008 for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. It looks like Tomb Raider, what can I say? Watch the video after the jump.

During the holiday season, Sony made more money selling its eight-year-old second-generation console than its year-old PlayStation 3. Sony announced its North American sales figures for Black Friday through the end of the year, trumpeting 1.2 million in PS3 sales. Buried in the news: The PS2s, the most popular video game console of all time, [...]

New to the Playstation Store but old to Xbox LIVE members (the ones who could get online last week, anyway) is a fresh batch of downloadable content. This DLC update is light on the visuals and heavy on the listening. Prepare to be meh’d unless you’re a Rock Band or Guitar Hero III fan. Content [...]

Sweet games like this year’s Maxim top 10, plus those left off like Rock Band, and the always-out-of-stock Nintendo Wii have fueled a record year of game sales. New sales numbers from NPD Group put the console and game total for November at $2.63 billion. The total for 2007 is now $13.1 billion. Even without [...]