Pop music is the focus of this DLC package for DJ Hero, released today on XBL, PSN, Wii.

The Dance Party Mix Pack contains Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" mixed With "Girls On Film" by Duran Duran, Rihanna's "S.O.S." beat juggle, and Pussycat Dolls' "Buttons" beat juggle. Gameplay videos are after the break.

As someone who lost interest in music games ending with "Hero" or "Band" and as someone who has little interest in pop music, I'll say I guess this is good news? DJ hero did not garner the great reception Activision was likely looking for but, it still is nice to see them supporting their product and releasing more content for it. Music games are only as good as their library of music.

That is, of course, unless the music games we're talking about are either Rhythm Heaven or Elite Beat Agents. In those game I had so much fun playing that I didn't even...

E3: It’s a time of exciting revelations, interesting developments, and scantly clad women being paid to interact with game designers and journalists. And there were a few titles that really caught my eye this year. So without further adieu, the last horse finally crosses the finish line.

Dead Rising 2:

      This game just looks fun. I loved the first Dead Rising and from what I’ve been seeing, I think I’ll probably love the sequel as well. However, the showing at E3 really didn’t appear to reveal too much about the game, and that might not be a bad thing. Dead Rising 2 is supposed to come out sometime around August/September and I’m willing to wait 2 months to be surprised. Like Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 will still be on a 72 hour time limit, so players will still be limited to just 3 in-game days from start to ending credits. It seems like the...

At the moment, there is an insane sale going on at Steam right now for all you PC gamers out there.

Stand outs include :

• Bioshock 2 for $15
• The complete THQ collection for $50
• The complete 2k Games collection (including Borderlands+ DLC and all the Civlization games) for $90.

There are deals on indie game packages too so support your fellow gamers trying to make it big!

I know, the title is misleading, but watching my girlfriend Annette play this battle in Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers, it conjured images of American and Soviet nuclear arms buildup.

At the start of the match, there was the usual greeting pleasantries: a quick grizzly bear attack, some mild lightning bolts and fireballs thrown about - just mild skirmishes. Then around turn 5, Annette stopped attacking and just hung back with the three creatures she had, while her opponent, Sarkhan Vol (seriously?), did the same, guarding with his 2, less hardy creatures. Annette was playing it safe but she could afford to. She had some 26 life...

One of my secret hopes for this year's E3 was the announcement of a new Kirby game. I was serving jury duty in New York during Nintendo's press conference but, I got a text from a friend listing all of the games Nintendo was revealing to the public. I was stunned to see Kid Icarus: Uprising, a new Donkey Kong Country, and then Kirby's Epic Yarn.

My first thought of Kirby's Epic Yarn was that it was a sequel to Kirby's Canvas Curse for the DS. I figured they took the same engine and changed the rainbow lines to strings of yarn. Made sense to me at least, and I wouldn't have been disappointed with that either; Canvas Curse was a really fun and innovative game to play.

When I got home and looked at the actual screenshots for Kirby's Epic Yarn however, I was blown away. Not only is Kirby's Epic Yarn a full-fledged Wii game but, the yarn storybook style is visually...

I told myself I wouldn't come back. Sure, Metal Gear Solid 4 was a great game and all, but after enduring the hours upon hours of endless cut scenes with some stellar gameplay mixed in between, I just wasn't sure I was ready for another Metal Gear game. However, after hearing that series creator Hideo Kojima was returning to his franchise - on the PSP no less! - I knew I'd have to give it another go.

Set in 1974, the game takes place shortly after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3 and casts the player as Naked Snake (Big Boss) who must, along with his band of mercenaries the Militaires Sans Frontieres, infiltrate a mysterious military force in Costa Rica. I'm only a few hours into the game so far, but Peace Walker does a good job of establishing itself as a solid PSP title and remains faithful to the Metal Gear franchise. The game stays true to the core of the Metal Gear series while incorporating new elements, such as development for...

As a big fan of new game development technologies, I was extremely excited to see Rage, id Software’s next flagship title.  Like Doom, and Quake before it, Rage is the title that will be showcasing the new id Tech 5 game engine.  Buzzwords like “MegaTextures” keep popping up in the industry recently, and now I got to see what all the hype was about.

Unfortunately, I didn’t see anything that made me think “cutting edge”.  In fact, everything I saw looked at best current-gen, and at worst, like games from the last couple of years.  Stylistically it appears to be somewhere between Fallout 3 and Borderlands.  It features a fairly trope post-apocalyptic setting as well as vehicular traversal and combat.  The textures seem almost cel-...

Let me start by saying that iGUGU Gamecore is a classic idea.  It embodies what every gamer has at one point or another wished existed, something long overdue: a device that converts PC controls to console controls with a universal hub, and manages to include a full, albeit tiny and cheap, keyboard as well.  The real question is, why has this not been done before?  Well, in testing out the Gamecore device, I think I discovered the answer.

The Gamecore controller is basically just the XBox 360 controller with an awkward-looking, yet strangely comfortable mini-keyboard attached to the bottom.  It feels and controls like its mainstream counterpart, except for one huge and prominent exception: instead of having a second analog stick like a PS3 controller, or four buttons like Microsoft’s, it has what I consider to be my old arch-nemesis, the devilishly hard to use trackball.  And I’m not saying theirs is worse than others;...

Remember the good ‘ol days when our flat panel TV’s only had to fear surprisingly aerodynamic Wiimotes cracking Mach 2 from an overly aggressive Wii-Tennis serve (What! Hit that grandma!)? Well on November fourth, another threat lopes out from the motion control dimension paralleling our own. It’s Microsoft’s Kinect, the peripheral formerly known (much more badassly) as Project Natal. Now, our TVs have to deal with us looking like we’re playing Simon Says at a lobotomy jamboree.

We all remember the first demonstrations last year, where we saw that our bodies are the control; the sight of the demonstrator gasping as he waved like a recovering meth addict not exactly inspiring me to enthusiasm, an individual who thinks left over cheesy double beef burritos are the core of a balanced breakfast. Thoughts of Wii miming and shovelware instantly bubbled up, but our collective interest was piqued nonetheless. Full body motion controls? Hey,...