The opening battle between The Beatles Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5 has laid waste to the September landscape and the numbers have been tallied. The fab four edged out the Kurt Cobain simulator by 20 percent on a per unit basis, and MTV Games general manager Scott Guthrie made sure everyone knew about it.

“We outsold them two-to-one on a revenue basis and we outperformed on a unit basis as well, despite the fact that they had an eight-day advantage, ..read the full article

This week looks to be quite possibly the best so far for Nintendo’s download services. WiiWare starts the fantastic week by bringing us Lostwinds: Winter of the Melodias (FRONTIER, Players: 1, E, 1000 Wii Points), the follow-up to the award-winning WiiWare launch title, in which our hero must save his mother and his very civilization by making friends, influencing people, and even changing the seasons. As if that were not enough, WiiWare gives us another offering with Shootanto: ..read the full article

Last week Warner Bros. announced that LEGO Rock Band will allow for the songs on disc to be exported to Rock Band 2 for a $10 fee. Those PS3 and 360 owners looking to keep the LEGO disc and rock out with their blocks out, though, will find not all of their DLC will accompany them.

According to the Score Hero message boards, every song is rated on a 1-4 system (1-Everyone, 2-Teen, 3-Mature, 4-Unrated) and only songs with a ‘1′ ..read the full article

EA’s Peter Moore reckons that Microsoft will once again be the first one to the market once the new console generation rolls around.

“[The industry is] at least a decade away from saying goodbye to a physical disc,” Moore said during a PLAY Conference panel while chatting about the next-gen and digital distribution. “The more important question is what does the next generation of console look like?” He didn’t have an answer, but the ex-Microsoft man did say it will probably ..read the full article

Microsoft has dated their upcoming hub for all things Halo, Halo Waypoint, for early November. And to give us a little peek of what exactly to expect, they’ve sent out the video above (and some screens, too) where Jason Pace, the creative director on Waypoint, takes us through some of the things we should expect.

The service will be available to all Xbox Live Gold members and for a limited time following the November 5th launch to all Silver members as ..read the full article

September’s US sales numbers released by NPD confirm what everyone, including Microsoft, expected; The price cut and the introduction of the new slimmer model paired with some solid advertising were enough for the PS3 to catapult itself to the top spot in the most systems sold charts while even beating expectations by 15%. Well, that’s almost correct — if you’re not just counting home consoles then the DS still beat it by ~32,000 units, but when it comes to home ..read the full article

Dark Void isn’t the only jetpack-powered shooter boosting our way over the next few months. Shattered Horizon, the first game from benchmarking pros Futuremark, is getting in on the act too. And you know what? It looks like great fun!

A first-person multiplayer shooter for PC, Shattered Horizon sees teams fighting it out for limited supplies in zero gravity, following a catastrophic lunar explosion that leaves them cut off from Earth. This is the first trailer to show off gameplay and ..read the full article

There are wise people out in the world that tell you never to put cash in the mail as it is susceptible to being stolen. At this point that almost seems obvious to most of us but never would we suspect that a game we rented might never make it to us due to it being stolen in-route to our mailboxes. Well in Philadelphia — where this writer happens to be hailing from — a postal worker stole 2,220 GameFly ..read the full article

Modern Warfare 2 is now on the same level as cigarettes and booze in the UK. The British Board of Film Classification, which will continue to rate videogames until the PEGI system officially takes over as the standard, has given developer Infinity Ward’s latest game an 18 rating. Equivalent to a Mature rating in the States, the 18 label is a first for the Call of Duty series, according to Eurogamer. Tough break, underage gamers. But on the bright side, ..read the full article

Mistwalker Studios, the company headed up by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, hasn’t made much noise since releasing Lost Odyssey last February. There was Blue Dragon Plus on DS, they announced the 360 RPG Cry On had been cancelled, and not a whole lot else. Well it turns out that, surprise, they’re still making games. Over on Sakaguchi’s blog, after talking about how delighted he was to find out that they have tiny Lego surfboards for Lego men to stand on, ..read the full article

No matter how charming Nathan Drake can be, gamers in the UK simply can not resist a shiny new soccer title as demonstrated again by last week’s UK sales chart. FIFA 10 has been holding on to the number one spot ever since it debuted three weeks ago, first pushing down Halo 3: ODST, then holding off newcomer Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, and now preventing Uncharted 2: Among Thieves from climbing all the way to the top.

The second huge game ..read the full article

According to the latest issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine, Killzone 3 is supposedly one of the “secret games of 2010,” is in “deep development” at Guerrilla Games and is set for a 2010 release.

The mag also mentions Resistance 3 and a sequel to Treyarch’s Call of Duty: World at War in the works for 2010, which shouldn’t be much of a surprise as Resistance 3 was accidentally announced on the set of an upcoming movie, and we’ve known about ..read the full article

Next to releasing a trailer for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Lineage live action shorts, Ubisoft also sent out a handful of new shots from the set of the film today. That guy has one the coolest job in the world.

Update: EA’s official Bad Company 2 Twitter has chimed in with two tweets; “To answer a lot of questions; Will #BFBC2 PC have dedicated servers the user will control? YES!” and “And console (PS3, Xbox360) also has access to host Dedicated servers through BFBC2 Private Matches, eliminating “host with the most” issues.”

Original story: Following Infinity Ward’s decision to ditch the use of dedicated servers and instead go with a service they call IWNet, DICE’s Karl-Magnus Troedsson, the executive producer of ..read the full article

Despite its repetitive nature, the first Assassin’s Creed was something else, and you could tell right from the get-go that Ubisoft had big plans for the soon-to-be franchise. Fast-forward two years and here we are, at the verge of Assassin’s Creed II being released, and we get new details of Assassin’s Creed: Lineage, a Ubisoft’s Hybride Technologies (300 and Sin City) production of short movies that will depict the events leading up to the game’s commence.

Ubisoft today announced that YouTube will ..read the full article

Metal Gear Solid’s Hideo Kojima took to his blog to announce that Zone of the Enders 3, will happen, though exactly when remains a mystery.

“I cannot make a promise about time. However, I can promise a sequel.”

The first Zone of the Enders may be better remember for its included Metal Gear 2 demo, but its epic anime-style mecha battles only became more fast-paced and story-driven in Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner. The sequel improved upon the original in ..read the full article

This is a pretty accurate outline of the process for screening any and all Xbox Live Friend requests, save for the fact they didn’t add “Have they made fun of your Gamertag?” What’s wrong with SparklePrincess?

Confirming what we already expected, a NeoGAF user believed to be Louis Gascoigne, a programmer at Visceral Games, has said that “nobody bought” Dead Space: Extraction, likely meaning the game has not met sales expectations. In addition, he reiterated that the game was a test of the Wii audience, and that Extraction’s sales will affect the company’s future projects on the Wii.

But, although we remained hopeful until the end, we thought as much. It’s a shame really, for the ..read the full article