Rarely do games get celebrity renders right.
There are some amazingly accurate renders, such as Jean Reno from Onimusha 3 or Gackt from FFVII: Crisis Core.

... but most of them aren't quite so good ...

GamesRadar has compiled a list of the worst celebrity renders ever to appear in a game. From Charlie's Angels to Wayne's World, there's an awful celebrity render from almost any movie-to-game adaptation you can think of.

(go to the source for full list)

Remember when Uwe Boll said that his movie Postal will 'destroy Indiana Jones at the box office'? Well if that feat didn't sound ridiculous enough back then, it certainly sounds ridiculous now.
Due to the political content in Boll's most recent game-to-movie adaptation, Postal has been banned from most cinemas in America. He had originally intented it to be released on 1500 screens around America ... It will now only appear on 4 screens.

Reading Boll's press-release where he begs movie e...

This is the third week of Nintendo of Europe's Hanabi Festival for the European Virtual Console, where US and Japanese imports are made available to be downloaded. Whether this week will be the last for the Hanabi Festival is unknown, but there's a good chance it will be, given that WiiWare will launch in Europe next week.

After last week's release of Cho Aniki, NoE returns this week to release another three games, two of which are even more shoot-em-ups for the Virtual Console.

The fi...

The NPD Group recently released their tracked sales numbers for April 2008, for the four week tracking period that ends on May 3rd, 2008. Many thanks to sonycowboy at NeoGAF and the NPD Group for the numbers.

April saw the release of two major games: Grand Theft Auto IV, which shattered industry records, and Mario Kart Wii, the latest installment in Nintendo's Mario Kart franchise. You would think that there would be strong sales all around for the three current generation consoles, but ...

"Speaking to British newspaper the Daily Mail, an "aghast" Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum called for children to be banned from playing Wii Fit."

"This week's PlayStation Store update is quite big one for both Europe and the US. The European PlayStation Store has received a new playable demo and two new full games, whereas the US has received two new playable demos. The PixelJunk Monsters Encore pack is now available to purchase in Europe and both stores have received new characters for Everybody's Golf World Tour. This week's update also has several new videos, XMB themes and wallpapers. Check out the full list below."

It's no secret that Japanese companies use celebrities and popular bikini models to promote their goods. Sony has done it for PSP, Nintendo has done it for their games, and let's not forget the booth babes and show girls that appear at many gaming expos.

These girls are usually paid to look good and act excited while playing a game or console, no matter how awful it might be.

But if you take a look at many Japanese celebrity's blogs, you will often find them talking about their favorite...

Kotaku have recently got their hands on a demo of Silent Hill: Homecoming and they were impressed.

Although many themes seemed to be directly ripped-off from the SH movie (which some fans might be disappointed with), the gameplay, atmosphere and graphics seemed to impress the Kotaku guys.

(go to source for full preview)

Creator Peter Molyneux says a demo for Fable 2 is quite unlikely, partly due to the nature of the game. But on the plus side, a bunch of screenshots and a trailer have been released.

From JeuxVideo Magazine comes word of an interview with Michel Ancel, the father of Rayman and creator of Beyond Good & Evil. In the interview, Ancel reveals that he and a team of about 10-12 people are working on the project. However, Ubisoft has not greenlit the project.

Beyond Good & Evil, released in 2003 to critical success, but was a commercial failure, with the game receiving less than satisfactory sales, being sent to die against games like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. T...

"After being officially confirmed yesterday, the first proper screenshots of Lost in Blue for the Nintendo Wii have emerged. And if their awful quality is reflective of the gameplay we can expect, we’re not holding out much hope.

Whether these shots are from early development of Lost in Blue Wii or not isn’t clear, but even still, they’re really rather awful. The Nintendo Wii has been around for a year and a half now (and developers will have had kits to create games before then), so why so..."

"The intelligence on SOCOM: Confrontation has largely been under tight wraps, with bits of information leaked here and there, mostly by way of the official SOCOM site. With E3 and other events quickly approaching, that should all change soon. To get us up to speed and ready for our impending time with the game, we fired off a number of questions to David Seymour, design director over at Slant Six. Here's what he had to say."

The creator of Devil May Cry and the former staff of Clover Studio (Okami, Viewtiful Joe, God Hand) back in 2006 formed Seeds, Inc, which later was renamed to PlatinumGames after a merge in 2007. Sega has recently announced its partnership with the development studio and announced three new games. One of which is a game called Bayonetta, an intense action game from the mind of the creator of Devil May Cry, Hideki Kamiya.

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The upcoming game in the PixelJunk series is PixelJunk Eden. A physics based game where you are a dot and have to travel through the level of vegitation. Some nice features about this game have been revealed. It will have remote play which means you can play this game on your PSP anywhere in the world. Which is an awesome feature, sadly not much games do this. And it will also have trophies for Home.

It can easily be described as a stunning display of workmanship, and this is only the concept art that we're talking about. With over 500 endings rumoured to be included, it's easy to see why this game is on the 'wish-list' of many RPG fans.. the game is of course Fallout 3. Enjoy the concept art attached below.

The previous rumor of Sega and PlatinumGames purportedly agreeing to a three-game deal is now confirmed by Sega, with the embargo on all related materials now over.

The most interesting fact is that there will now be four games developed by the developer, the former Clover Studio, instead of the original three mentioned. Again, Sega will handle the publishing of all four titles. Other than the three previously-mentioned games (Bayonetta, Infinite Line and MADWORLD), there is a fourth unn...

Some scans from Famitsu give us a peek inside another solid-looking sci-fi DS game (first Moon and now this!): Infinite Line. And for those looking for a little role-playing in their science fiction, this one comes with a lot of RPG flavour. The spin on the Active Time Battle system seems particularly interesting: the more full your gauge is in battle, the more actions you have available to you.

Got a Wii? Got the itch? Mad World will fix you right up. A bloody actionfest with a visual style ripped straight out of the Sin City graphic novels (but hey, who's complaining), it looks like Nintendo has loosened up a bit. Let's just hope there aren't any tearful moments featuring the musical stylings of Gary Jules.

The title is developed by Platinum Games (the developer formerly known as Clover), who created the similar God Hand, the Viewtiful Joe series, and Okami. A trailer was leake...

"When it comes to badasses, there are a few specific folks who come to mind. Chuck Norris, with his roundhouse kicks of fury, Steven Segal, with the ponytail of doom, and Martha Stewart and her soul-stealing stare. However, none of these pillars of destruction quite match up to Sparta's greatest warrior, Kratos (Martha Stewart comes awfully close, but I've got to think Kratos could take her so long as she doesn't get the drop on him)."

Today Sony released firmware update 2.35 for the Playstation 3, the minor update according to Sony fixes stability to several PS3 games. Considering Rockstar's announcement about the freezing problems in GTA IV being Sony's problem you would think this patch would solve the issues.

Unfortunately so far there appears to be no change, however Sony have said that they have identified the issue and are working on a solution. So maybe in the next one?

At the recent Konami press conference, Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima gave a speech about the completion of Metal Gear Solid 4, but he also used it as a chance to comment on the current state of the video-game industry and the uprising of casual gamers over hardcore gamers.

Kojima also admitted that Western devs have surpassed Japanese devs (including himself). Yes, believe it or not, Kojima can be modest.

Rumours are currently circulating that Kojima might be planning MGS5, but in a recent interview with the UK edition of PSM magazine he expressed interest in developing Zone of the Enders 3, saying it might be good to change to outer space, or robots, or things like that.

Nintendo have always prided themselves on their originality. Unfortunately in this case the courts do not agree.
Back in 2006 a small Texas based gaming company called Anascape sued Nintendo for patent infringement in the creation of the Wii, Wavebird and Gamecube controllers. After almost two years the courts have ruled in favour of Anascape, and Nintendo must now pay $21 million compensation to Anascape and while Nintendo can certainly spare the cash this is definitely a humiliating blow.

Here are five new Resident Evil 5 scans from Capcom's most anticipated game. These scans show the game's protagonist Chris Redfield, a new female character, and some other images from the game. Famitsu also revealed that there might be a new trailer coming up to give us a new preview of Resident Evil 5.

Note: The original source is in German and the alternate source is in English.