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Kalypso Media announced today that their upcoming trading-simulator Patrician IV has gone gold and will be shipping to US retailers on September 14th.

Truth be told, this article wasn’t originally going to be about why the upcoming Back To the Future video game will be a quality offering.  It was actually going to be the exact opposite.  My first thought when I heard that they were making a game based on the Back To The Future license was “where the hell are they finding a game out of Back To The Future?  This is just going to be a terrible movie game made to cash in on a trilogy which gamers around the world have been clamoring for”  However, as I sat down to do research on the article, full of all the fury and anger which makes for a scathing critique of the industry, I realized that I was, in fact, dead wrong.  At worst, the Back To The Future videogame will be a good title.  At best, it will be a great game which will deserve a spot on the top 10 movie games of all time list.

Since we're lost in the doldrums of late summer and there really aren't going to be any big time video game releases in the near future, I thought it would be a good idea to go through a list of video game movies and how they work in general to see why they are all uniformly terrible. Sure there have been a few exceptions but they have been very few to say the least and it really doesn't look like anything's going to change any time soon.

The second half of the opening trailer to Disney's Epic Mickey was unveiled today at PAX during Warren Spector's keynote.

HP and Hynix are going to be working together to bring memristor memory into the market.  Memristors, memory resistors, have the potential to be the universal memory that people have been struggling to find.  If they become cheap to manufacture, we will be blessed with "hard drives"  as fast as ram.  We would also get non-volatile memory, like Flash, which would last longer and use less power.  Exciting times.  Get some more information about the HP/ Hynix collaboration here.

We all knew it would come sooner or later.  After AMD's acquisition of the ATi brand, it was inevitable.  The lone brand of the classic GPU era is nVidia.  Gone are the days of 3dfx, S3, Trident, Creative, ATi, and more.  AMD will take over branding for the ATi Radeon series of cards.  Of course, the products will still be designed by the same team.  The cards will just be named differently.

This branding change make sense for the AMD Fusion line.  Just as Intel has its own integrated graphics division, their Centrino requires Intel CPUs and GPUs to be paired.  It's just a little sad to see a brand of 25 years swallowed up and only remnants trickling out.  Anyone remember the 3D Rage?  The All-in-Wonder?  All relics of the past to be remembered as revolutionary concepts in the field of computing.

Goodbye ATi.  Rest in peace.  Your memory will live on.

SouthPeak Interactive today that Battle Vs. Chess, the upcoming chess title which brings the classic board game to life with new modes, placements, challenges, and more has received a release date for consoles.

Today 2K released some new details regarding the upcoming Jimmy's Vendetta downloadable content for Mafia II.

If you would've told me five years ago when the Xbox 360 came out on the heels of the greatest run of Madden and Fight Night's emergence that my favorite game series of the next generation would be  EA's NHL offering I would've laughed and laughed. The PS2/Xbox run was littered with problems and possibly the worst sports game since NBA Live 2004 but oh did the series rebound. Here's a look at how NHL games have fared over the last 5 years.

Earlier this week we brought you all a look at the motion controlled games which Konami was showing off at their Gamer's Day event this past Thursday.  Here's a look at some of the upcoming titles which are controlled with more traditional means.

With there being a lull in sports gaming news lately as pretty much everything is known about upcoming games at this point, naturally the 'gest took a break. But post-Madden and pre-NHL we're back with the end of summer edition.

We recently had a chance to swing by the Ace Hotel up in New York City for Konami's Gamer's day, a semi annual event held by the Japanese game company, which gives east coast press a chance to take a look at some of Konami and Hudson's upcoming titles.  While there, we saw a ton of games, so many in fact, that it would be ludicrous for us to try to fit all of them into just one preview.  So, in the first of a two part series we present you the motion-controlled games that we got our hands-on and our impressions of them in a quick-hits format.