Beef up your Nintendo Wii or your DSI with the latest downloads. Check out what’s going on.

NBA Jam will be here later this year, but unfortunately with no Michael Jordan.

One thing I’d love to do would be to go back in time and present one of our current video game consoles to those Atari and Nintendo programmers in the 1980s. Their heads would explode. But I digress. Here are the latest downloads for your Nintendo DSi and Wii.

A look back at 2009’s biggest moments in gaming.

The WiiWare title gets an unusual European and Australian release date, while US gamers can expect it even later.

Rock Band’s track pack next week will contain songs from Nirvana and Night Ranger.

The KISS Track Pack is now available for Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero.

Always trying to give you the leg up in your social circle, we are bringing a sequel to last year’s 60 Video Game Costume Ideas in Time for Halloween. In this year’s reprise, the list includes characters and costumes that were not in the previous collection. This time around we went for fresh characters and less traditional costumes. Afterall, everybody else has Mario and Link covered. In addition to having new characters, the list rates each costume on the difficulty of work and costs involved to make it as well as the materials you will need.

Today Nintendo announced they are finally releasing a black version of their family-oriented console, a limited edition to be released in the UK and Ireland first on November 6th. Two weeks later on November 20th, the console will be released in the rest of Europe.

This fall marks the 40th anniversary of the popular boys’ toy brand NERF, and arriving just in time for the festivities will be NERF “N-Strike” Elite. What better way to commemorate the many years of “accidentally on purpose” shooting your friends in the eyes with NERF darts and then forcing them not to tell their parents and to stop crying?