Before the days of the PSP and the DS, only one name came to mind when it came to portable gaming - the Nintendo Game Boy. Since its launch in 1989, the Game Boy made its mark in the gaming industry, pioneering a new level in portable gameplay. For its contributions and millions of satisfied users, the Museum of Play has now honored the handheld by including it in its National Toy Hall of Fame.

Klum and company are set to go beyond the runway and head straight into your living rooms via your Wii. Atari and Weinstein Company have announced that they are gearing up the hit TV show Project Runway as a Wii game come Spring next year.

We've got new assets for the second episode of Atari's One Piece: Unlimited Cruise based on the popular manga and anime, One Piece. Japan and Australia has already welcomed Luffy and the gang to their shores, while Europe will only get its chance on October 2nd of 2009. As for North America, there's still no date for a launch. Don't feel too bad, though. We've got screenshots and a Japanese trailer for you here to tide the wait over.

July 7, 2009 - This marks the day of Namco Bandai's completion of purchase of Atari's global PAL distribution operation. And since there's new blood infused, it's just right to have a new name to go by: Namco Bandai Partners.

There were already a few signs hinting that Atari was having some trouble holding on to the Dragon Ball franchise. A couple of years ago, the publisher clashed with FUNimation over the game license. Namco Bandai announced last month that it had secured publishing rights to three new entries in the franchise. Today, Namco Bandai has announced that it's finishing what it started.

For the weekend directly leading up to the E3 event, it sure was jampacked with news, wasn't it? If you've been hanging around the industry for a while now, you'd know that the usual occurrence during this time of the year (or whenever there is an event, actually), is to have some kind of drought in news. But no, not this year. Everyone's just as pumped up about the upcoming event, it didn't matter if the news that came out were more on the rumors and speculations and "leaks" side. We don't mind. We know we're in for the big stuff. Are you ready?

Last year, Phil Harrison made quite a ruckus when he severed ties with SCEI as their president, and then jumping on board Atari's team, via parent company Infogrames,  to serve as President. Today, however, we receive word that he will be stepping down from the position, and will assume instead a non-executive Director role.

Wiibrewer raz0red has just whipped up the first release of Wii7800, a port of the ProSystem emulator developed by Greg Stanton. Credits to Zx-81, Leonis, and gdement for their respective contributions. Developer notes in the full article.


Download: Wii7800

This homebrew game is based on the old Atari tank shoot-em-up game Combat. Remade for the Wii by developer spiffen, v0.1 was developed using devkitPro tools, as well as GRRLIB for rendering, sndlib for music and sound, as well as support for the use of Wiimote.


Download: CombatWii v0.1

This is a rather unique position we are in. The E3 is nearing, and yet we've got just about the biggest surge we've had the past couple of months. Okay, that might well be an exaggeration, but still. You gotta agree with me when I say it was a busy past week, yes? Rumors, confirmation of rumors, and surprising - yet at the same time not-so-surprising - NPD results for this month all proved to be the cherry on top for this game-filled, fun-filled week. Hmmm.. imagine all those cherries on top.... Dig in, then.