Atari announced today that they are bringing Namco Bandai's Dragon Ball: Origins for the Nintendo DS to the western, English speaking market.

Hooray!

Origins will focus on touch screen controls. Players will draw lines or shapes to direct Goku as he protects Bulma on their quest to recover the seven mystical Dragon

Epic Games, more recently known for their blockbuster Gears of War, has signed a distribution agreement with Electronic Arts for an as-yet titled game. The game is being developed in Poland by People Can Fly studios, and will be released on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC.

No further details on

It has been announced Maxis' creature creating game Spore has gone gold, and is set for Australian release on September 4th for Mac, PC and Nintendo DS. It will be released on September 7th in North America.

The game is a sandbox title allowing players to create their own universe of

In corporate news, Electronic Arts had let lapse its takeover move for Take Two Entertainment. As many will know, Take Two is most famous for it's Grand Theft Auto series. EA in Feburary made a bid for the company, and raised it's bid several times, however Take Two rejected the

To get gamer's excited by next month's release of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, a playable demo will be released on Thursday 21st. It will be available on Xbox Live, as well as the Playstation Network.

The demo will allow players to sample one of the first levels of the game

Sony has confirmed that the 80GB hard drive version of the Playstation 3 will be priced at AUD$699, and will go on sale on the 27th August. Other than the hard drive, the new package will also ship by default with the Dual Shock 3 Controller. Otherwise, there are no

Microsoft has added a 60GB HDD to the Xbox 360 Pro bundle for no extra cost, and will go on sale for AUD$449 RRP. New units will be available in stores today.

The current pricing for the arcade remains at AUD$349, and the 120GB Elite is AUD$649

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For a while there, we thought Disaster: Day of Crisis had gone the way of Project H.A.M.M.E.R., Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball and Stage Debut. After a couple of years of complete silence on the game, we'd all but given up hope that the game lived on. Thankfully, those hopes can

There were a lot of miffed gamers in Australia in July, with the announcement that the eagerly awaited Fallout 3 was to be "RC" (refused classification) under our games rating system.

However, finally some great news - the game has been re-classified, and now will be released as MA15+. You

Possibly the biggest console game release of 2008 will be in the hands of PC gamers before christmas, EB reported today. In their news article which you can read here, they have a quote from Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games stating, ""We are very excited to be