This week's new videogame releases:
(subject to change)

Xbox 360
Bioshock & The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Bundle
The Bigs 2

PLAYSTATION 3
The Bigs 2

Wii
The Bigs 2

PC
BioShock and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Bundle
Street Fighter IV MadCatz Bundle
Street Fighter IV
Agatha Christie: Peril at End House
Europa Universalis Rome Gold
Hunting Unlimited 2010
The Hardy Boys: The Perfect Crime

DS & DSi
no new releases

PSP
The Bigs 2

  

 In honor of July 4, Sega is offering the spectacular puzzler Columns for free to all iPhone/iPod Touch owners. For the whole July 4th weekend, gamers can grab this gaming gem for free and enjoy puzzle fun!

 Players return to ancient Phoenicia and behold the jeweled Columnsas they strategically align falling gems across, down or diagonally – racing against the clock or taking on the computer for hours of challenging gameplay.   Easy to pick up, difficult to master and fiendishly addicting, Columns features Timed, Challenge and Endlessmodes, as well as three levels of difficulty.

  

One of the early high quality match/puzzle games for the iPhone has recently dropped in price all the way down to free. Tatomic originally debuted in October of last year at $4.99 and was well received.

The game is a Tetris variant in which your goal is to group atoms into like-colored chains. The game comes with three gameplay modes and is really well put together. Here is a gameplay video from the Lite version, but there's no excuse to not get the full version which is now free.

  

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If you're itching to tinker and create some games, Kodu Game Lab is now available for 400 Microsoft Points ($5).

Features of Kodu, from Microsoft:
“Kodu” lets anyone from age 7 to 70 harness the power and fun of Xbox360 to bring their own unique game creations to life. With a simpleimage-based creator menu and potentially millions of creation options,game development has never been as intuitive for kids and adults of allages. Players’ imagination is the only limit they’ll face with “Kodu.”

Create a one-of-a-kind game with only an Xbox 360 controller from the comfort of the couch, including the following:

- A bridge and path builder.
- A terrain editor.
- Co-op gameplay and create modes.
- 20 “Kodu” characters with different abilities.
- Breakthrough visual user menu that requires no experience.
- Almost 200 behavioral building blocks with potentially millions of ways to create and combine new actions for characters

Download Kodu Game Lab on your Xbox 360 console, or queue it up for download here: Kodu Game Lab (Demo) or Kodu Game Lab (full version). Check out the latest on Kodu from the developer blog.

Share your creations with friends over XBOX LIVE. Let us know what your creating... Get Creating!

  

Konami has sent out new game details and screenshots from the tactical RPG, Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment.

Here's a list of key features:

• Classic gameplay, expanded and streamlined - combines the speedy RPG pace of the original Vandal Hearts with improved user mechanics and top-notch presentation.
  
• Strong story - serving as the prequel to the original Vandal Hearts, Flames of Judgment delivers a rich, focused, and character-driven storyline that includes quality cinematic cutscenes.
  
• Multiple endings - the player's actions throughout the game determine the ending, Tobias' future and more!
  
• Party members adapt to the player's style of gameplay - player characters naturally and automatically improve at whatever they do, providing a wide, deep range of customization options.
  
• 20 playable maps

To View more Screen Shots, head over to RPGFan.com.

So who out there is looking forward to this one?

  

Following the death of Michael Jackson last Thursday, sales for Sega’s Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker video game have gone up.

Released for the Sega Genesis in 1990, Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker has reached prices as high as $205 on ebay. The game features music from the best-selling Thriller album and BAD album, including hits like Smooth Criminal, Beat It, Billie Jean and BAD.

Boy this brings back some old memories...

 

  

 GameStop will be hosting a nationwide Fight Night Round 4tournament at 2,100 of its retail stores. The grand prize is a freetrip to Vegas and five thousand dollars. If this sounds like somethingyou might enjoy, make it to your local Gamestop by 1:30 pm on July 11thto enter. If you become one of 16 regional champions, then you'll beinvited to Las Vegas for the championships on August 31st. The grandchampion wins the five grand and “a one of a kind championship belt.”

 See details on the tournament at GameStop.com/fightnight.

  

 Get equipped with a wireless arcade controller when Tekken 6 comes out... Here is one of the first photos of the Tekken 6 Hori Arcade Fight Stick, along with the Art Book. The Premium bundle has a $149.99 MSRP, and is available for pre-order from GameStop here for the PlayStation 3 and here for the Xbox 360.

  

 People who pre-order the sequel to Assassin’s Creed will get the chance to explore the Palazzo Medici, a famous palace in Italy...

 GameStop locations across North America are running a promotional campaign in which those who pre-order the title will receive an unlock code to explore a virtual rendition of the expansive Palazzo Medici in-game.

 Built in the mid-1400s, this majestic palace is said to hold a wealth of treasure within the confines of its ancient walls. What sort of treasures? Looks like we’ll have to wait until November to find out.

 Keep in the mind the offer is limited to online and in-store pre-orders of either the Xbox 360 or PS3 version.