Square Enix details upcoming membership rewards

If you’re in North America and you’ve been dutifully collecting Square Enix games, you may have some free stuff headed your way.

Final Fantasy XIV closed beta goes live March 11

If you’re anything like us (or our partners over at Massively ), you were hurriedly clicking refresh on the official VanaFest 2010 website for news about the now eight-year-old Final Fantasy XI MMO last night.

Nintendo Media Summit 2010: The Recap Post

The 2010 Nintendo Media Summit has come and gone, and sent a wave of huge Nintendo news through the industry. We had hands-on time with some of the Wii’s biggest upcoming titles, screenshots for almost everything on Nintendo’s 2010 calendar and a big ol’ sack full of new videos. In case you missed anything, we’ve wrapped it all up and have it here for you in one tidy little package.

Stadium Events sells for $41,300, becomes most expensive NES game ever

We’re not sure which element of this story is the most newsworthy, so we’ll lead with this: Some person, somewhere in the world, recently spent $41,300 on an extremely rare NES game. Someone was perusing the eBay auction block, saw Stadium Events (which Nintendo bought the rights to and retitled World Class Track Meet ), and said, “you know what

Remade NES box art almost as awesome as our childhood memories

The fruits of a deviantART “art jam” concept pitched by user lerms in late 2009 has finally been revealed, rekindling our love for classic NES promotional design (and how awesomely bad it was). The art jam’s rules were simple : Select a classic title and reimagine its box art, while also keeping the spirit of the original in mind. Suffice it to say, the results were superb and only make us want to print each of the designs for use in our own classic gaming collection

New Line Cinema options rights for film adaptation of Heavy Rain

What if Heavy Rain , which is so often heralded by creator David Cage as “interactive fiction,” was just a bit less interactive ?

Original Clover soundtrack available for free

Presumably doing a little early spring cleaning, the team at Binary Tweed have released the complete soundtrack to its original Xbox Live Indie Game Clover . For the low, low price of free, those who download the soundtrack will be treated to a piano assortment composed and recorded by Chris Chillingworth (he’s got a MySpace , so he’s legit). Clover is scheduled to make its PC debut with a new ” longer, sexier ” musical accompaniment on March 3 with Clover: A Curious Tale .

MLB 2K10 showcases numbers in ‘Stats & Splits’ trailer

Nothing says “It’s seriously snowing, again?” like a new trailer for MLB 2K10 focusing on the “real language” of baseball. Being pro chair sitters, we’re not really able to vouch for the validity of this trailer’s claims about the vernacular of the diamond, but we can make the claim that the uncanny valley of video games is being crossed by sports. We certainly aren’t sports buffs, but some of the graphics look damn near real life

MLB 2K10 showcases numbers in ‘Stats & Splits’ trailer

Nothing says “It’s seriously snowing, again?” like a new trailer for MLB 2K10 focusing on the “real language” of baseball. Being pro chair sitters, we’re not really able to vouch for the validity of this trailer’s claims about the vernacular of the diamond, but we can make the claim that the uncanny valley of video games is being crossed by sports.

Court tosses disabled gamer’s suit against Sony

A U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has dismissed a lawsuit against Sony Corporation of America and its related gaming branches (SCEA and SOE) which alleged the company denies access to its services for people with disabilities

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