
1up.com take a closer look at how the PS3's Home and Little Big Planet match up to the Xbox 360's Live service and XNA. They also caught up with corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios Shane Kim and the Bioware Doctors for interviews that offered plenty of interesting bits, including a Halo 3 release teaser. Games also get a chance to take center stage and our impressions include Mercenaries 2, Portal, Super Paper Mario, and Big Brain Academy for the Wii. It's a jam packed episode.

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.

A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Confirmed. The user created content of Littlebigplanet in the demo release this year will then be used on the disc release in 2008. So if you create the best level...it may well be in the final game disc! :P COol.
But, did anyone else get irritated by there voices? I mean maybe it's b/c I couldn't see them, only hear but I was not enjoying this podcast.