Finally, a game that makes me want to dust off my Wii — Ever since a video for The Conduit was released showing that the Nintendo Wii could actually handle a graphically intensive FPS, Wii owners have been anxiously awaiting a release date.

Well, the day has come; Sega has recently announced that High Voltage’s The Conduit will hit store shelves on June 23rd. I’m excited, are you?

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The hype surrounding Burnout Paradise‘s upcoming Cops & Robbers pack is building with Criterion recently being caught on film playing one of the new game modes.

Showcased in the above episode of Crash TV is just that, Criterion devs duking it out as cops and robbers to find and capture a pile of gold and then rushing it back to their hideout.

I don’t know about you guys but this game mode looks like it could provide me with hours of fun. Sure we know that it’s coming April 30th, but can we get an official price, please?

To entice consumers into trying out Gardening Mama, Majesco has recently released a statement detailing the arrivial of the game’s demo.

According to the press release you’ll be given a plant to take through 10 of the game’s stages which including tilling the soil and applying pesticide. Of course, Mama will be there to guide you if you need some help.

To snag the demo, download it to your Wii and then transfer it over to your DS via Wi-Fi and you’re good to go!

It was recently made known that Nintendo is prepping to release a greenreen Nintendo DS Lite bundle to conincide with the May 3rd launch of Personal Trainer: Cooking.

The bundle will include, obviously, the DS lite and Personal Trainer: Cooking but Nintendo is also throwing in a fashionable case that matches the DS.

I just wonder why Nintendo wouldn’t bundle this with a DSi, or are they going to have both the DS lite and DSi on the market at the same time?

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Here we go again — Joystiq recently noticed that GameStop’s website had a listing for Guitar Hero: Van Halen up for a small period for time. After being discovered, the listing was quickly pulled with no reasoning explained.

See now this is all find and dandy except for one thing, Activision hasn’t said anything at all about Guitar Hero: Van Halen. However, we all know that Activision loves milking the Guitar Hero franchise for all it’s worth so it would make sense that they would come out with another band themed game, right? I mean, there’s a Guitar Hero: Metallica and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith so why not Guitar Hero: Van Halen?

Before it was pulled, the listing had the game set for an August 4th release on the Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and Wii. Now let’s just wait for Activision’s official announcement.

As you can see from the above picture, these things are not your run of the mill action figures. In fact, they come to us from Hong Kong based toy maker Hot Toys who, Kotaku is reporting, specializes in highly detailed action figures.

Only two Resident Evil 5 characters made the cut the first time around, Chris and Sheva, who both come with clothes, accesories and enough weaponry to deal with the zombie onslaught.

There’s no word if these will be released Stateside but I’m sure if you do enough searching you can get these suckers imported.

Alternative rockers Jane’s Addiction’s 1988 album “Nothing’s Shocking” is set to become next week’s Rock Band downloadable content.

The 10-track album will come with all songs except “Mountain Song”, which is already on the Rock Band 2 disc.

The album can be had for 1280 points ($16) or individual songs for 160 points ($2).

• "Up the Beach"
• "Ocean Size"
• "Had a Dad"
• "Ted, Just Admit It…"
• "Standing in the Shower… Thinking"
• "Summertime Rolls"
• "Idiots Rule"
• "Jane Says"
• "Thank You Boys"
• "Pig’s in Zen"

Word comes from Variety, who cites anonymous sources, that Activision Blizzard has Prototype developer Radical working on a new Spider-Man game, with High Moon, the studio behind Bourne Conspiracy, working on Transformers.

The site notes that Radical’s work on free-roaming worlds fits in with Spidey’s exploits. No release estimate was provided.

High Moon’s Transformers game was said not to be based on the upcoming movie. It is expected sometime next year.

It’s that time of the week again when Activision announces new songs for Guitar Hero Smash Hits, its upcoming compilation title that features favorite songs from past Guitar Hero titles.

Today they announced songs pulled from Guitar Hero II. Selected tracks include “YYZ” by Rush, “Free Bird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd and the following:

• Avenged Sevenfold – "Beast And The Harlot"
• Rage Against The Machine – "Killing In The Name"
• Rush – "YYZ"
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – "Free Bird"
• Foo Fighters – "Monkey Wrench"
• Iron Maiden – "The Trooper"
• Nirvana – "Heart-Shaped Box"
• Lamb of God – "Laid To Rest"
• The Police – "Message In A Bottle"
• Wolfmother – "Woman"
• Kansas – "Carry On Wayward Son"
• Stone Temple Pilots – "Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart"
• Warrant – "Cherry Pie"
• Alice in Chains – "Them Bones"
• Danzig – "Mother"
• Jane’s Addiction – "Stop!"
• Reverend Horton Heat – "Psychobilly Freakout"
• The Sword – "Freya"
• Motley Crue- "Shout At The Devil"

The game is due out on PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii on June 16.

Shacknews reports that developer TimeGate has settled the lawsuit against Paramount over the use of Section 8.

TimeGate is currently working on a game titled Section 8, and they allege that Paramount infringed on its trademark with an “interactive web series” using the same name.

The suit was dismissed after Paramount agreed not to use the title for its web series. TimeGate had also taken ABC to court over the same infringement a while back.

Section 8 is currently in development for PC and consoles for release later this year.