Already got my copy of Pokemon Black, though it'll be a while before I go ahead and start on it. Tuesday I'll be grabbing Yoostar 2 (360) since it looks like it'll be a fun party game. Outside of the odd Steam or PSN sale that could spring up on me, I should be good for the rest of the week.

Got a review of de Blob 2 (360) to finish. After that I'll partake in the Steam deal and buy both of the Bit.Trip games available as well as indulge in some BlazBlue and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. If it comes in early, though, all of that will be thrown aside for some Pokemon Black.

Nope, no stamina drain when you're moving like crazy around the ring. Your stamina only drains during hits when blocked, giving out hits when the opponent is blocking, and missed punches. Considering that one of the fights in Championship mode will have you chasing around another fighter in the ring, it would have…

That may be the case for the PAL version (which you have pictured) but I do remember the NTSC-U release being a white cover with black text on it.

It is on Yahoo news but there's no religious talk... yet. Instead, someone already piped up about politics asking if Wisconsin Democrats went there yet.

The schemes are the same, IIRC, so whatever you've got be default on the PS3 would be default on the 360. Super Street Fighter 4, for example, has Right Bumper and Right Trigger for the strongest punches and kicks on the 360 and that translated correctly to R1 and R2 on the PS3 pad.

Stupid malfunctioning comment system. Making me double post.

I'm in for GTA Chinatown Wars on PSP and the Yakuza 4 demo. As excited as I am for Xenogears finally being on the US PSN, I'll wait a bit longer before I grab it. With only $10 in my PSN wallet, Chinatown Wars gets priority due to it being on sale. When I refill my wallet, Xenogears will be bought along with a few…

Not quite yet. This is an EA game, after all, so if it has online multiplayer you know it'll have the online pass to get some cash from those who bought the game used. It's been status quo from EA and THQ for about a year now.

The article stated that the list was formed out of the marathon session for the console Mario Kart games, not the portable ones. That explains why neither the GBA nor the DS versions are present there.

Instead, you'll be seeing Super Mario Sunshine 3D on your lovely new 3DS!

While you did state you aren't counting the spin-off systems, it could be argued that the Game Boy Color was a new system entirely and, therefore, didn't launch with a Mario title either. the GBC hit the scene in 1998 but a Mario game, SMB Deluxe, didn't hit until a year later.

bakagaijin has some good choices there but out of the three I'd go for Enslaved. It's $20 now at Gamestop though word is that it'll be $15 at K-Mart this Sunday. Damn good game and cheap enough that you can justify buying something like Vanquish as well simultaneously. While both aren't terribly long titles, they…

Get some polish on the detection system and you've got yourself a nice lil XBLA Kinect game.

I believe there's some legal hurdles to be dealt with there since he would be using the emulators and roms for profit purposes. In grey areas like that, it would be best to go with originals than roms.

I'll be putting in some time on Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs (NDS). Not a bad spin-off RPG by any means, though it is simpler than one would expect. My sister also happens to be off for the weekend so it may mean playing Earth Defense Force 2017, DJ Hero 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Plants vs. Zombies, Scott Pilgrim vs. The…

I can understand why the Wii is no longer a contender for them. Though the Strong Bad games did run nicely, Sam & Max didn't.

What will interest me here is what platforms the games will come out for. Telltale, while they are prominent in the PC and Mac space, has been interesting when it comes to the console area. First they had some of their early stuff on Wii discs and WiiWare. They then got Wallace and Gromit on XBLA as well as 2 seasons…

Like Cobalitios said earlier, the Virtual Console versions do the lock-on feature if you have Sonic 3 or Sonic 2. While the 360 and PS3 compilations don't do that, the XBLA versions do.

Blame Sony, not Kotaku. Kotaku just copied and pasted what was on the PlayStation blog.