It seems that the original release of Metal Gear Solid Touch for the iPod Touch and iPhone wasn’t complete, ending almost randomly leaving players in the dust.

Well, Konami has announced that the game has official been finished and an update has been sent to the App Store for all to download for free

Joystiq reports that the update adds 8 new stages along with new unlockable wallpapers and a bunch of bug fixes.

After word got out that Skype could “technically be possible” on the Nintendo DSi, rumors began circulating over Nintendo possibly picking up the VoIP software.

I mean, the front facing webcam-like camera coupled with built-in microphone featured on the Nintendo DSi would make for a perfect Skype platform, right?

Unfortunately Nintendo, being the party poopers they are, responded to the buzz stating: ”We have no plans to release a Skype application for Nintendo DS or DSi.” Total bummer, I guess the homebrew community will have to take matters into their own hands.

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If you missed Dreamcast’s original 1999 debut and refuse to settle for a used console, you’re in luck. ThinkGeek, a popular online retailer for all thinks geek, has recently gotten their hands on a shipment of brand new, in the box Sega Dreamcasts and are selling them for just $99.99.

You better act fast as these things are sure to sell like hot cakes. The console’s listing is here.

UPDATE: Yep, just as I finished writing this they sold out of the consoles. Fortunately, they have a mailing list you can join to be notified if and when they get a new shipment.

It seems that the trio of Griffin International, XS Games and Bass Pro Shops weren’t satisfied with the current offerings of hunting and fishing games and have decided to take the matters into their own hands.

Recently announcing The Hunt and The Strike which the developers are touting as “the most realistic hunting and fishing experience to-date”. The Hunt will consist of, well, hunting while The Strike centers around fishing. Both include different game-modes and mini-games like boat and ATV racing that will keep you occupied once you get bored of huntin’ and fishin’.

The thing that sets these games apart from the rest, however, are the fishing pole (pictured above) and rifle controllers for use with the game. What sucks is the rifle will only be compatible with the Wii version.

Both The Strike and The Hunt will be available for the Xbox 360, Wii and PC this Fall for $69.99 with the added controller(s) and $39.99 without.

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The third and final DLC for The Maw will be released on PC and Xbox 360 next week, Twisted Pixel announced today.

"Teaching kids the value of stealing cars, Speeder Lane follows Frank and Maw after they nab a vehicle from the Galactic Forces and fly a path of destruction through a soldier compound," wrote the studio. There will also be an “old-school boss fight.”

The DLC is being priced at $1.25 and will be sold through Steam, Greenhouse and Direct2Drive on PC. It will be available from April 29.

Promising to “melt your face off”, developer Double Fine and EA today announced that Brutal Legend will be released on PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 13 in North America, followed by an European release three days later.

"Wooo! Having an official release date is awesome!" said Double Fine president Tim Schafer. "And how cool is it that EA threw down the dough to have the name of an entire month changed to Rocktober?"

The heavy metal-themed game tells the story of roadie Eddie Riggs as he enters the realm “where every Heavy Metal album cover and lyric Eddie knows has come to life.”

Square Enix’s takeover of Eidos Interactive has been an ongoing effort since last year when the deal was originally penned.

Well, Gamasutra is reporting that a court has finally made the take over official giving Square Enix control of valuable Eidos game franchises like Tomb Raider and Deus Ex.

So now that Square Enix’s $117 million buyout has been made official, what’s next? Are we going to see Laura Croft make a cameo in an upcoming Final Fantasy game? Let’s hope not!

We learned earlier this month that the Killzone 2 map pack entitled Steel & Titanium would be hitting the Playstation Network on April 30th but were left in the dark in terms of pricing.

Sony has decided to lift the veil giving us the heads up, on the Official Playstation Blog, that the pack would be selling for $5.99 when it hits.

In leui of this pricing announcement, Sony has also provided us with the above trailer detailing both maps (Wasteland Bullet and Vekta Cruiser) to be included in Steel & Titanium.

Snowboarding games, to me, may well be the only kind of sports game that makes just a little less sense than skateboarding games.  Oh, sure, when you snowboard you get to wear a lot of thick winter gear which functions as padding, and you’ll also be falling into snow, which is just a kind of cold padding.  But then again, I’ve really never heard of anyone who either froze to death or got buried alive while skateboarding.  And these are two very real dangers of snowboarding.  One word: avalanche.

So when I latched on to a copy of Shaun White Snowboarding, now available for the Xbox 360, the Playstation 3, PC and PSP, I wasn’t all that sure what to think.  See, it’s not like this game has a whole lot of plot to it.  You’ll play a snowboarder who launches through a series of challenges like slalom racing, and straight out races, and other kinds of snowboarding fun, as well as an opportunity to sail down some very nicely set up courses and do tricks and flips and whatnot.  Playing the challenges allows you to get cash to trick out your board and gear, and you’ll also get to advance to different kinds of courses, like mountain peaks, back country hills, parks, and of course, Target Mountain, which is basically just one giant commercial for Target, assuming you bought your game at Target.  The best kick in the teeth about the Target Mountain pack is that it costs more than the regular, so you’ll basically be paying Target a premium to advertise itself to you.

That particular kick to the teeth aside, Shaun White Snowboarding really surprised me.  I had a surprising quantity of fun throwing myself down a mountain to a positively outstanding funk soundtrack comprised of songs like “Play That Funky Music”.  Tricks weren’t terribly difficult to pull off, and it did a really nice job of capturing the feeling of speed as you go flying down a mountain with a chunk of fiberglass strapped to your feet.  I actually managed to blow a lot of time just cruising down the various mountains, sliding in and out of the pine trees, jumping off ramps and wood piles and houses and suchlike…there’s plenty to do here, and you’ll probably be able to enjoy it repeatedly, giving it all sorts of replay value.

Okay, granted—if you like to have a storyline when you play your games, then Shaun White Snowboarding’s miserable attempt at a plot is going to be a spectacular joke to you.  There’s only so much narrative value in “improve as a snowboarder and travel to various locales where you’ll continue trying to improve as a snowboarder”.   As for action, it’s also in pretty short supply here, because you’re basically playing a sports game.  While you’ll get to chuck snowballs at your fellow racers when you’re in the Death Race portion of the game, you’ll never lay hands on, say, a shotgun or a chainsaw.  And I’m sorry, but I think being able to handle a chainsaw or shotgun would just up the awesome factor of a snowboarding game like a million percent.

The key point to take away from all this is that you’re snowboarding.  If you like the feeling of speed and the exhilaration of gravity as you take a long drop off a mountain with nothing between you and a shattered spinal column but sheer momentum and a hunk of fiberglass.  They did a solid job with it, but there’s only so much you CAN do with it by dint of the material itself.  If you’re okay with the inherent limitations of the source material, then you’ll love this game.

I’ve played a lot of different Mahjong games before, and they mostly wind up being tile matching games whilst I steadily winnow down a pile to nonexistence.  This is all right by me, generally, and so when I saw Funtown Mahjong on Xbox Live Arcade for eight hundred Microsoft points, I was fairly interested.

What I got, however, was a whole different matter.

I got a really top-rank chill game with some great music and an almost rummy-style of mahjong play, where my big task was to assemble runs and sets of three tiles.  That’s pretty much it.  You’re out to do it before everybody else, of course, and you’ll actually have a multiplayer versus mode to try out.

Sure, the graphics make it look a LOT like Hot Shots Golf / Tennis (Hot Shots Mahjong?  That’s really rather interesting….), and at first, it’s going to be a little difficult to pick up since I can’t remember ever playing THIS kind of Mahjong before despite having played several different kinds.  But still–it’s nice to have a game you can cool off with at the end of the day, and Funtown Mahjong definitely fills that bill.