For those of you DS owners looking forward to Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon but have not pre-ordered it yet, now you may have a reason to. Amazon.com is offering a free plush squirrel (above) from the upcoming RPG as a bonus to their customers that pre-order the game due out November 18.

This last weekend, my girlfriend and I visited Action City in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. http://www.actioncityfun.com/ So, here's a review of the place, with some general thoughts on the state of arcades in general. This particular venue includes batting cages, outdoor mini-golf, outdoor and indoor gokarts, a lasertag arena, airhockey, skeeball, indoor rock climbing, and miscellaneous video games. There were the usual "skill" games, such as the claw game that is packed with crappy ...

Sainsbury's has gone that little extra mile for it's customers by running a special promotion until the 12th October that is flogging Xbox 360 Arcades for £99.97 only. Basically they've doubled the discount the whole country has got recently and dropped Microsoft's console to way below bargain price.

Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of nine new tracks to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content. This week’s lineup includes a 3-pack from the legendary California punk rock band The Offspring, which features “Gone Away,” “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy),” and “Self Esteem.” The 3-pack joins previously released Rock Band downloadable track “Hammerhead” to make for a total of four Offspring tracks availab...

Major Nelson reminds us that the free demo for NBA 2K9 is available in the XBOX LIVE marketplace, so check it out this weekend. We discussed the game's live rosters a little while back. Check it out .

Now that Vice President nominee Sarah Palin has been battle tested with the debate, why not put her in some video game battles too? She brought destruction to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the remake of the All Your Base video and here is what else we have come up with so far. I think she makes a better Lara Croft than Cortana. Which candidate gets your vote? Any new nominees? Maybe both Democrats and Republicans can agree on one? (Grand Theft Auto IV) (Lara Croft in Tomb Raider)...

Can the title of this release get any longer? I have video games to play sometime today. Maybe all the hip kids out there have an acronym for this title already, but I'm out of the loop. Here you can find the trailer for Sword of the Stars: A Murder of Crows Anyway, here's an update from the publisher: Today leading publisher Lighthouse Interactive and accomplished developer Kerberos Productions announced that A Murder of Crows, the latest expansion to their highly acclaimed 4X space st...

I doubt I'm the first person, or the last for that matter, that will suffer from Xbox 360 problems other than having 3 red rings staring them in their horrified faces. Possibly the most annoying error of these is the constant overheating problem that occurs, where your Xbox will shut down and flash 2 lights every 10 minutes. This cry for attention from my Xbox has been happening over the last couple of weeks. Every day I would throw my arms in the air, pop the monocle whence forth fro...

If you were a fan of the old school Bomberman game, get ready for more of it.