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I imagine a lot of people are excited forNiGHTS: Journey of Dreamson the Wii, mainly because it’s a videogame for Nintendo’s system and not a plastic board that you can stand on with realtime board-standing physics. It’s an actual videogame, I promise. We have some bad news though, coming fromNiGHTSintodreams.com, pertaining to delays. According to those guys, you won’t be able to get your hands on SEGA’s aerodynamic jester until Q1 of 2008....

Normal soccer just isn’t cutting it anymore. You have to have extra special skills and talents to win. However, if you aren’t sure what those skills and talents do, you can check out the officialSkillfulTrello board. What is the Skillful Trello link? TheSkillfulTrello board is an organized well of knowledge there to help you learn the basics as well as pick your Skills, Talents and Flows to make the best builds in the game....

It’s been almost eight months since I first laid hands onPuzzle Quest: Galactrix, and most of the time inbetween then and now has been spent idly wondering if the game had the power to addict me as completely as the first game did (and then, I got thedemoand realized the addiction was going to be much, much worse than the first time). I’m sure you can imagine, then, that today is a happy day, because I just watched this trailer that made the hairs on my arms stand on end, and as soon as it’s lunchtime I’m driving down to GameStop and picking up my copy and spending all night clicking away mindlessly at hex-shaped blocks....

What year is it?! Tony Hawk appeared onBloomberg TVto talk about his new skateboarding game. Surprise: It’s just for mobile! The new title is expected to release this year, and will be the first time aTony Hawkspecific game has appeared on the mobile space. So yeah, that’s happening. Congrats to reader PopTart Catwho correctly guessedthis would be a mobile title whenActivision confirmedthe new game last week. Your prize is a giant cup of disappointment....

Better graphics and nicer hair [Want to know how a developer handled the PC version of a multiplatform game? Check out the PC Port Report for the full scoop.] Over the weekend, I had a chance to play the magnificentTomb Raider.It’s every bit as good asJim says in his review, and I am happy to report that the PC version is a robust and great-looking game with every feature you’d hope to find and decent performance....

When Capcom showed usNeopets Puzzle Adventureat CAPTIVATE earlier this year, I came back yelling about how it’s “Puzzle Questmeets Othello … with Neopets.” Translated, that means it’s potentially awesome. No one wants to listen to me. So don’t take my word for it — play the game. Capcom has released an online Flash demo of the first area of the Nintendo DS version of the game. you may find it after the jump and you should try it....

TimeGate’s multiplayer sci-fi shooterSection 8is a game many of us have written off before. Beginning next week, it will be half price. The sale starts on May 11 and will continue through the 18th. As a $14.99 download from PlayStation Network (North America only, we’re told), it’ll be hard to turn this game down. Especially considering how the three downloadable maps that cost money on Xbox 360 are included for free here....

Press F for aCall of Duty: Advanced Warfaresequel Considering the series has been around for a few decades at this point,Call of Dutyhas had to reinvent itself over and over to keep bringing players fresh concepts. The games have covered concepts from the first World War all the way to futuristic space combat, and some were received better than others, to say the least. Now that the series has started cycling back through classicCoDeras like World War II and the modern day, I guess I should have realized that the franchise would be returning to some of their other, less beloved concepts too....

Sony CEO, Howard Stringer, recently spoke to German outletWelt Onlineabout research and development cost, PlayStation 3 demand, and even the impact that the Wii has on the PS3. Not surprisingly, Stringer revealed that Sony is losing money on their newest console and games are the only source of profit at this point. Interestingly, Stringer then begins congratulating Nintendo for capturing the casual market that Sony has traditionally sought out with titles like SingStar and says that the Wii doesn’t pose a threat to Sony’s plans....

Being the massiveSpace Invadersfanthat I am, I’ve had an ear open for any word regarding a little-known addition to the franchise, calledSpace Invaders: Infinity Gene. Originally a Japan-only release for mobile phones, it was looking like we’d never see this one come stateside, but Brandon Boyer over at the lovelyOffworldhas just received word from Taito that the company will indeed be bringing this delicious new addition to us via the iPhone....

The latest in the polarizing service The very talked about, incredibly divisive Steam Greenlight service is back at it again, releasing a batch of 75 new titles to play. As always, I’m not even going to pretend like I’ve heard of any of these games. That said, it looks like my only choice is to take it back the mid ’80s, and base my purchases on how cool the title art looks....

Staying power Atop Steam’s daily most-played list sits an unimpeachable handful of games. There are newcomers on occasion and that temporarily shakes things up. But, if you go back day after day and year after year, the same popular games never fall out of favor. Now that 2016 is in the books, stat-tracking toolGithypposted Steam’s most-played games of the year based on average number of players per hour. The top five is a triumvirate of Valve titles and two other heavy hitters....

IKUZO! For years now, I’ve been a huge fan of theYakuzaseries. The first title I played wasYakuza 3back in 2011 and it took me by complete surprise. It was basically everything I had ever wanted out of a video game, right down to kooky characters and gut-wrenching action moments. It also had an extreme attention to detail in recreating a small slice of Tokyo, a city I’ve always fantasized about visiting....