Bungie has revealed that Halo 3: ODST has “connections” to next year’s Halo: Reach.

Speaking in OXM’s lastest issue, Joe Staten, Writer and Creative Director at Bungie, said “it made a lot of sense to us” to link to the two Halo games together. “The Halo Universe has always had these interconnections but when we made ODST we had the luxury of knowing the Halo game we were going to make next. So it made a lot of sense to us ..read the full article

Here’s the list of this weeks game releases. The most popular titles are Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days on DS, Dead Space Extraction on Wii, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 on PS3, and Gran Turismo on PSP. On the downloadable games front we’ve got today’s Wii Shop and DSiWare titles Arkanoid Plus, DRiiFT Mania, Altered Beast, Art Academy, Dragon Quest Wars. Followed by Bust-A-Move, Football Genius, and Military Madness on Xbox Live Arcade (updates Wednesday). As well as Heroes Of Might & ..read the full article

Any time a company publicly states that they are choosing one console over another, the floodgates open and waves of comments from supporters and detractors begin to roll in. Ubisoft, either not knowing of this occurrence or, most likely, wanting to stir up the fan base to keep the coverage rolling, has fired the first shot for Splinter Cell: Conviction by saying that the game is “meant for the Xbox 360.”

“There’s going to be a really strong partnership with Microsoft,” ..read the full article

Nintendo downloads this week: Greek mythology, grid-based strategy, high-speed racing, classic arcade action and a hand-held art course are this week’s additions to the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi Shop.

Note that you can still receive 1,000 bonus Nintendo DSi Points when buying a new Nintendo DSi game system, by connecting it to the Nintendo DSi Shop before 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on October 5th, 2009.

Nintendo has now added these new/classic games to the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi ..read the full article

Machima.com’s Inside Gaming covers game news you might’ve missed last week. They do it in a nice, brief video format. The Dead Pixel details the latest news, reviews, and trailers in his own irreverent style.

In week 38, 2009, he talked about: GoldenEye 007 no longer coming to XBLA or VC, Batman: Arkham Asylum has sold 2.5 million copies, new Star Wars Jedi Knights games on Steam, Sega DreamCast games might come to the PlayStation Network, and other random game news.

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves features a cast of over 10 characters with many of your favorites from the first game returning for the sequel.

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is the story of Nathan Drake, a fortune-hunter with a shady reputation and an even shadier past who is lured back into the treacherous world of thieves and mercenary treasure-seekers. The tenth game by premier PlayStation 3 developer Naughty Dog, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves allows players to take control of Drake and ..read the full article

Welcome to the Nintendogs wallpapers page!

Take care of a virtual puppy of your own with this pet simulation! Here we will post images that you can use as desktop wallpapers. We will add to this list as we find cute new wallpapers for the game.

To download to your PC computer: Right click on the Image. Select “Set as Background Image.”

To download to your Mac computer: Click Image to Download to Desktop. Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences. Click ..read the full article

Welcome to the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon wallpapers page! We have Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, Darkness & Time wallpapers, as well as Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red & Blue Rescue Team wallpapers!

These “Rogue-like”-genre Pokemon games give you a new twist on the Pokemon series and allow you to actually PLAY AS the Pokemon themselves. Here we will post images that you can use as desktop wallpapers. We will add to this list as we find cool new wallpapers for the ..read the full article

How do you unlock all characters in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, the all-new Kingdom Hearts game for Nintendo’s portable DS system. Well read below to find out! The game releases in America on September 29, 2009.

UNLOCK ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS IN MISSION MODE

1. How to unlock Xion - Play story mode to day 96. 2. How to unlock Riku - Play story mode to day 171. 3. How to unlock Donald - Play story mode to day 244. 4. How to unlock Goofy - Play ..read the full article

Here is a cool Halo Xbox 360 casemod from modder, EvilDan. It features Master Chief and a Covenant Elite on top of the console. The best part of this Xbox 360 case mod is the glowing blue LED sticky grenade in the Master Chief’s hand. See more pictures after the jump.

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Here’s the latest trailer from the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII which was presented during last weekend’s Tokyo Game Show by Square Enix. The game will be released in Japan on December 17th for PS3, and in Spring 2010 in both US and Europe for PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms. Watch the trailer after the break.

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Welcome to the Left 4 Dead 2 wallpapers page!

Here we will post images that you can use as desktop wallpapers, both official and otherwise. We will add to this list as we find cool new wallpapers for the game.

To download to your PC computer: Right click on the Image. Select “Set as Background Image.”

To download to your Mac computer: Click Image to Download to Desktop. Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences. Click Desktop & Screen Saver. Click “Choose ..read the full article

The past week we’ve given you the chance to win in our Nintendo Wii console or 1 of 6 Grand Slam Tennis games competition. The task was a simple matter of mentioning how many mangos John McEnroe was holding. I should mention that the contest video suddenly changed mid-Thursday to a different video. Where originally there were 3 mangos, later there were indeed 0. So those two answers were both counted as correct.

We heartily thank everyone who participated, but of ..read the full article

Welcome to the Assassin’s Creed 2 characters list. So far not all of the characters that will be in the game have been revealed, so this is a partial list and includes some speculative characters, which are marked with a Question Mark.

Assassin’s Creed 2 is an epic story of family, vengeance and conspiracy set in the pristine, yet brutal, backdrop of a Renaissance Italy. Ezio befriends Leonardo da Vinci, takes on Florence’s most powerful families and ventures throughout the canals ..read the full article

Ubisoft producer Alexandre Parizeau had one or two things to say about the multiplayer modes in Sam Fisher’s upcoming iteration in the Splinter Cell franchise, Splinter Cell Conviction, when talking to CVG. In actuality, he had only one thing to say, he just went about it in different ways.

Said Parizeau: ”We’re going to have multiplayer, but we’re not announcing what we’re doing until a little later,” and ”it will be announced very shortly,” and “multiplayer we’re going to talk about soon.”

Later, shortly and soon. We virtually ..read the full article

What are the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe this week? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the games that are the hottest right now. Think of it as a games weather report.

What follows is a listing of the Top 50 bestsellers per region, for all systems combined.

1. Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360) 2. Wii Sports Resort with Wii MotionPlus Accessory (Wii) 3. Scribblenauts (DS) 4. Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (DS) 5. Mario & Luigi Bowser’s Inside Story (DS) 6. Mario Kart with ..read the full article

Welcome to the MagnaCarta 2 wallpapers page!

MagnaCarta 2 is the Xbox 360-exclusive sequel to the PS2 RPG Magna Carta: Crimson Stigmata (Magna Carta: The Phantom of Avalanche on PC). Here we will post images that you can use as desktop wallpapers, both official and otherwise. We will add to this list as we find cool new wallpapers for the game.

To download to your PC computer: Right click on the Image. Select “Set as Background Image.”

To download to your Mac ..read the full article