What do Solid Snake, Lara Croft and Samus Aran all have in common? They dress for success. Their own costume, be it custom-built spacesuit or bottomless backpack, is directly related to their adventuresome profession. No matter the situation, these heroes are loaded with gadgets, training and expertise that'll see them through to the end. But not all game characters are created equal. A great many appear to have no practical application other than "the boss says this guy stays in the game." ... » Read More

Game Front has a list of Q1 release dates for Ubisoft titles in Europe. The list includes titles for PS3, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii and DS. It also has price information in Euro. The list is dated 18 January, 2008.
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EDGE review scores Februari 2008 edition:

Nights: Journey of Dreams (Wii, Sega): 6
Soul Calibur Legends (Wii, Namco Bandai): 2
No More Heroes (Wii, Grasshopper Manufacture): 9
Geometry Wars Galaxies (Wii, Sierra Entertainment): 7
Burnout Paradise (PS3/Xbox 360, EA): 9
Soldier of Fortune: Payback (PS3/Xbox 360, Activision): 4
The Club (PS3/Xbox 360, Sega): 7
Pain (PS3 PSN, Sony): 6
Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (PSP, Sony): 6
R-Type Tactics (PSP, Irem): 6
Dragoneer's Aria (PSP, Koei): 4
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From PS3 Attitude; Ubisoft confirm that they will be distributing Soulcalibur IV across PAL territories, and our worst fears are confirmed about the LucasArts 'bonus' characters...
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Toys"R"Us has just gone above and beyond the call of corporate greed. The retailer is offering what is perhaps the worst next-gen console "bundle" in the history of gaming: a Nintendo Wii and 10 games (No 1st Party titles) for $700.
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Listed below are the first day sales in Japan for December 13.

GT5 Prologue (PS3) : about 50k

Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon (Wii) : about 30k

Kingdom Under Fire (360) : about 8k

NiGHTS (Wii) : about 7k

Soul Calibur Legends (Wii) : about 5k

Kirarin Revolution (DS) : about 5k

Okiku Furikabutte (DS) : about 5k

We Love Golf! (Wii) : about 4k

Shikigami no Shiro 3 (360) : about 1.5k

Shikigami no Shiro 3 (Wii) : about 0.5k
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Game Informer have just sent out their newest edition to American stores nationwide and this months' review scores can be found below. Super Mario Galaxy receives the game of the month award, while Rock Band also impresses. Time Crisis 4, Soul Caliber: Legends and Jenga were this months' worst games.

Rock Band (PS3/Xbox 360/PS2, EA): 9,25 / 9,25
F.E.A.R. Files (Xbox 360, Sierra): 6,5 / 7
Beowulf (PS3/Xbox 360, Ubisoft): 5,75 / 5
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (PS3/Xbox 360, Eidos): 7 / 7,25
Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command (NDS, THQ): 8 / 8,5
MX vs. ATV Untamed (Xbox 360/PS3, THQ): 8 / 8,25
Scene It? (Xbox 360, Microsoft): 8,5 / 7
Viva Pinata: Party Animals (Xbox 360, Microsoft): 5,5
Bee Movie (Xbox 360/PS2/Wii/NDS, Activision): 6,5
Time Crisis 4 (PS3, Namco Bandai): 4,25 / 4,5
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo): 9,75 / 9,75 **Game of the Month**
Smarty Pants (Wii, EA): 7,5 / 6
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (Wii, Ubisoft): 7,75 / 8
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Wii, Capcom): 8,25 / 8
Soul Calibur Legends (Wii, Namco Bandai): 4 / 4
Ghost Squad (Wii, Sega): 7 / 6,5
Battalion Wars 2 (Wii, Nintendo): 7,25 / 7,25
Endless Ocean (Wii, Nintendo): 6
Trauma Center: New Blood (Wii, Atlus): 7,5
Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 (Wii, EA): 6,75
Dancing With the Stars (Wii/PS2, Actgivision): 5,25
Jenga (Wii, Atari): 2
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This week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly, representing the most requested games for the week ending December 3rd, highlight both to-be-released and already released games in a unique demand-specific chart.

This week's top five all-platform requests show little movement once again, after last week saw the list barely ruffled. Assassin's Creed still takes the top spot for a third week with Mass Effect in second for its second week in a row.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which spent the last two weeks at number four, slips a bit to the fourth spot to make room for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men to move up one spot into the fourth spot, but that's the only movement -- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune stays at number five, where it entered last week.
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The usually brilliant Soul Calibur series has made its appearance on Wii in the form of a spin-off adventure game, but, unfortunately for Nintendo fans, word is it's not up to scratch.

The latest issue of Nintendo Power, the official Nintendo Magazine in the US, has published the first review for the game - a small, easily missed column at the back of the reviews section - with a score of just 6.5 out of 10. Oh dear.
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Namco Bandai today sent word that its upcoming Wii title Soul Calibur Legends has officially gone gold and is scheduled to hit store shelves on November 20.

Soul Calibur Legends strays from the series norm as a third person action adventure, featuring use of the Wii's intuitive controls, a unique combat system and classic roster of Soulcalibur characters.
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Oct 19, 2007 In the tradition of Mortal Kombat and Tekken, the Soulcalibur (or SoulCalibur, or Soul Calibur) series has taken head-to-head fighting and transferred it to a brawler platform. The track record of such efforts has had mixed results, so we'll just have to wait until November to see if this one can pull it off. In the meantime, you can tickle your optic nerves with this still-warm batch of screens. But wait... who's that swiping dragons from the stage of history? It sure does look ... » Read More

In light of Nintendo's announcement that Super Smash Bros. Brawl has been delayed until 2008, IGN's GamerMetrics analyzed the implications that this delay will have on the holiday sales of other upcoming games available for the Nintendo Wii.

According to GamerMetrics analyst Nick Williams, the resulting findings put Super Mario Galaxy at the top of the most anticipated games list. Rounding out the top three are Capcom's Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure and Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles.
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Oct 10, 2007 12 new shots of Soul Calibur Legends, the third person action game being released exclusively on Wii, have found there way out of Namco Bandai HQ and onto our screens. Two of these shots feature one of the many bosses that the game's warriors, which include Mitsurugi, Siegfried and Ivy, will be facing off against when Legends hits the shelves. We last mentioned this gigantic levitating, laser firing, fire summoning Egyptian creation in our hands-on preview, but this is the first ... » Read More

According to director Jin Okubo, the adventure-based fighting game Soul Calibur Legends may feature some very nifty Wii controls. In a recent interview, he hinted at one-to-one on-screen representation of real-world gestures, much like the baseball bat in Wii Sports.
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Admit it, Wii owners: the moment you got a glimpse of the fake-but-stunning trailer for Soulcalibur IV, you felt like you'd been rammed in the gut with the game's trademark giant-ass demon sword. Your lip quivered, your eyes filled with tears like a PSP left at home and you stammered out something about wanting to play as Link again, like you could in SoulCalibur II. Sorry kid; your system just can't handle these ... » Read More

In addition to the recently revealed single player player details, Soul Calibur Legends will also include multiplayer support.

Players will be able to face off against one another and combat enemies cooperatively. Producer Jin Okubo admits that the method of implementing the multiplayer modes is still under consideration, he expects the game to use a split screen setup in order to allow players to fully become their in-game counterparts.
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Amidst all the other news flooding our inbox this week from EA, Sega, Square, Ubi-soft and Aunt Gertrude - Namco-Bandai hit us with a bit of a surprise by announcing Soul Calibur: Legends, exclusively for the Nintendo Wii. It's been over a decade since Soul Edge made arcades everywhere its bitch, and this Soul spin-off is the first entry of series' to slice through the curtain and step onto the next-gen stage. According to the press release, we won't see the traditional ... » Read More