Released last week, THQ’s Company of Heroes and LucasArts’ Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy are the first two titles to feature the new “Games For Windows” packaging. An initive from Microsoft to “more closely align Xbox 360 and PC gaming”. A Microsoft spokesperson explained to Next-Gen:
“With the retail branding for console games, [...]

For a brief period on friday, Amazon.com began taking pre-orders for the Wii Console, only to pull the offer from their site a few hours later.
Many believed Amazon had sold out of their initial quota, but according to a recent post by Amazon Video Game Editor “Jon G”, the offer was pulled from the site [...]

Koei Canada’s Fatal Inertia is an aerial combat racing game for the Playstation 3. Similar to Wipeout and F-Zero but with the difference that items are used not to damage other players but to create a variety of physics-based effects. Fatal Inertia is still on track for the Playstation 3 launch come November 19th.

Nintendo are on a roll recently, having already announced the release date and price of the Wii console they go on to unveil a new Zelda: Twilight Princess trailer. Originally planned for the GameCube and probably one of most anticipated tittles for the Wii launch, it features motion-sensing controls and updated visual effects.

Nintendo UK has told Gameindustry.biz that the Wii will be region locked, despite the recent reports from Nintendo’s of America’s VP of Marketing, Perrin Kaplan, that ALL first-party Wii games will be region free.
From the article, Nintendo UK say: “We are region-locked,” and said the US arm of the company had made a mistake in [...]

Finally the answer Europe has been waiting for, Nintendo have revealed the European release-date for the Wii Console as well as the recommended retail-price.
Release Date: 8th December 2006
RRP: £179 / €249
Contents:

One Wii remote
One Nunchuck
Wii Sports

Software: £35-39 / €49-59
Launch-titles:

Wii Sports
Wii Play
Zelda
Rayman
Red Steel
Need for Speed
Tony Hawk
Super Monkey Ball
WarioWare: Smooth Moves

Click here for release-dates in other regions.

Thanks to Joel Johnson from Wired News we now have confirmation from Nintendo’s VP of Marketing Perrin Kaplan that ALL first-party Wii games will be without region locks. This means that all games made by Nintendo for the Wii will be playable on Wii systems from all regions.
This is what Perrin Kaplan had to say [...]

Nintendo announced today that the Wii will launch in Japan on December 2nd, priced at 25,000 Yen (around $215).
The Wii will be launching in the U.S. almost two weeks earlier, on November 19th, and will retail at $249.99. The U.S. version comes bundled with Wii sports.
The Wii will launch in only one color in all [...]

Back in September 2005 Microsoft announced that the 360 will be supporting HD-DVD. Since then many have thought that Microsoft will be planning a new version of the 360 with an internal HD-DVD drive to draw par with the PlayStation 3’s inclusion of Blu-ray Discs.
In the past year however it has become to look less [...]

This is the inside of the Final Fantasy XII limited edition case. Very Nice!
On another note, Gamespot are reporting that the final build of Final Fantasy XII will be playable at DigitalLife, a consumer electronics show that takes place in New York City between October 12 and October 15.