It’s been announced that “Tecmo Bowl Throwback” coming out this spring on the Xbox 360 and Ps3 for download is the remake of the 1993 Snes game and not the original 8 bit game that some people thought.  Throwback features the rosters of all 32 current NFL franchises. And Tecmo Koei promises plenty of old-school goodness! Gamespy has a great write-up and this current great snapshot of the 3d graphics. Looks VERY good. The game will also feature online multi-player, original 2D and updated 3D graphics, customizable teams and rosters, and online leader boards. My god in heaven this could be what Tecmo fans have wanted for a long time! I hope they keep the same old school game-play we all love so much.

DON’T PANIC!!! But yes “Red Dead Redemption” has been delayed a little bit. The game was originally set to come out on April 27, the third person action game will now ship on Xbox and PlayStation 3 on May 18. It appears Rockstar Games the producer of the HUGELY successful “Grand Theft Auto” series, just wants to polish things up and make sure the product is top notch when it hit’s the shelves. Hey I always say quality is number one , so if we have to wait and extra month for Rockstar to work out the kinks I’m all for it. Take your time fella’s.

Here is a look at Final Fantasy 13 that’s dropping in stores March 9th 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. In Final Fantasy 13, players will embark on a journey through the city-world of Cocoon and the outer world of Pulse,  fighting alongside  groups of allies. Execute powerful attacks with weapons and magic and experience  transitions between real-time gameplay and in-game cinematics.  Plain and simple the game looks sweet!

Sony’s Playstation Network (PSN) went into meltdown this weekend, logging users out of the service and preventing them from playing online games. Users are reporting that previously downloaded games – including Heavy Rain – cannot be played offline, that trophies won in games have disappeared from the console.

Sony is aware of the problem, posting updates on both its PS3 blog and Twitter stream. Oddly, the issue is confined to the original big PS3s: The PS3 Slim remains unaffected by the problem.

Although Sony says it will have a fix by this morning, it has not yet said what went wrong. Anecdotal evidence points to a combination of DRM and firmware issues rather than a network outage. Affected units have their system date set to Dec 31, 1999 (something impossible to do manually, according to PS3 News) or January 1st 2000 and the consoles are only able to play non-protected games.

This, combined with errors like the following:

8001050F – Hardware failure. Cannot update Firmware or connect to Internet

make us think that a firmware bug screwed up the date and/or connectivity, and the games’ DRM is thrown into a panic as a result. If this is true, it’s embarrassing for Sony. The other possibility is that the trophy syncing itself is breaking the games: games try to sync trophy info and refuse to work when they can’t. Non trophy-based titles like Metal Gear Solid 4 are unaffected.

Obsidian Entertainment’s modern-day role-playing game has players taking on the role of spy Michael Thorton as he tried to uncover who was behind the missile attack on a passenger plane.

Gamers that pre-order Alpha Protocol through GameStop will receive the Exclusive Assault Pack, containing exclusive weapons and ammo like the UC Regulator high damage shotgun and Rittergroupen Grizzly high accuracy rifle.