Yes, that’s the (very blurry) final Super Smash Bros. Brawl roster, fresh from some kind Japanese player’s digital camera; no Photoshopped fakes here. As you can no doubt see, Luigi, Captain Falcon, Falco, Ness, Gannondorf, Jigglypuff, Marth, and Game & Watch have all returned from Melee, despite never being officially revealed by the [...]

This week can only be described as disappointing, especially after last week’s unexpected lineup of excellent titles. We can’t wholly recommend a Pick of the Week or Runner-Up this week, but we’ll keep you informed just the same.
Available this week:

Bomberman Land
Minigame Collection | Wii
Not even honored gaming legends are safe from publisher’s desire to transform [...]

PC Gamer has spilled the beans about the mysterious connection between Team Fortress 2’s new medic class achievements and the mysterious “large scale modification,” and they are delicious. By earning the new medic achievements, players will unlock new weapon loadouts for everyone’s favorite healing class. For example, unlocking half of the medic’s new [...]

Hellgate London’s official site has information concerning the first post-release content for the game, called The Stonehenge Chronicles. The update, which will finally bring Hellgate up to version 1.0, nearly three months after its initial release, will introduce Stonehenge and a batch of new quests, areas, weapons, and monsters with it. In addition [...]

The end of January is the new middle of November, apparently, as several genuinely excellent titles see release this week.

Pick of the Week: Tie: Burnout Paradise
Racing | PS3 360
Finally, a real next gen Burnout! Paradise sheds the structure of previous Burnout titles in favor the open-ended, load time-free Paradise City. And best of all, it’s [...]

Robert Bowling, Community Relations Manager at Infinity Ward, has posted a weekly Call of Duty 4 roundup over at his blog in which he laments just how pervasive piracy has become on the PC, writing:
They Wonder Why People Don’t Make PC Games Any More
On another PC related note, we pulled some disturbing numbers this past [...]

Resistance: Fall of Man was unquestionably the number one reason to own a Playstation 3 at launch, and a over a year later still stands as one of the strongest titles on the console. Not one to sit idly by and see themselves outdone by up-and-comer Killzone 2, Insomniac Games has pulled out all [...]

World of Raids has a great link to an online flash game that trains players for the Teron Gorefiend raid boss in World of Warcraft’s Black Temple. Like the actual boss fight, the flash game is hard, but with a little practice you’ll soon find yourself a more than capable player ready for a [...]

The third week of the new year brings three new Wii titles and a couple of handheld games.

Pick of the Week: Nitrobike
Ubisoft’s answer to Excitebike arrives on the Wii this week from developer Left Field Productions, the same studio behind Excitebike 64. This arcadey motorcross title features 6-player online multiplayer and should be easy to [...]

Following in the footsteps of Bungie and Insomniac, Blizzard has released its first official podcast, BlizzCast. The first episode includes a conversation with Samwise Didier, Blizzard’s Art Director, as well as a sneak peak at World of Warcraft’s upcoming 2.4 patch, which will introduce the Sunwell Plateau, the game’s final, pre-Wrath of the Lich [...]

Valve employee Robin Walker told Shacknews they hope to have two new Team Fortress 2 Maps available to PC players within the next two months, one of which is a remake of Team Fortress Classic’s “Badlands” with some added verticality. The much-hyped new Medic achievements as well as a “large scale modification to the [...]

I once tried to level a World of Warcraft character usually only Discovery XP, experience rewarded whenever your character discovers a new location in the world. I made it to level 6 before giving up. Boingboing has a link to an interesting WoW Insider article about a much more tenacious WoW player trying [...]