UPDATE: Weekly Shōnen Jump, a Japanese magazine, has now confirmed that Square Enix are working on Chrono Trigger DS. The first info bits available seem to indicate that it is not going to be new, but rather a port of the SNES game. Probably we can even hope for additional content (similar to the Final Fantasy ports for the GBA).

Square Enix, known for their console role-playing franchises (Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest) have launched a countdown site very recently. All you can see on there is the Nintendo DS logo and a big clock that's ticking. The URL of this site runs under the name http://www.square-enix.co.jp/ctds/, and the easiest explanation for this would be that ctds stands for Chrono Trigger DS, also considering that the series has got to do with time travel. more...

Piranha Bytes, the German developer of the Gothic series, is off to a new start after having split with their publisher JoWood approximately a year ago. more...

Austrian game publisher JoWood has confirmed that there will be an official add-on for its very successful (at least in German speaking countries) 3D-RPG Gothic 3. more...

Last month, Graffiti Entertainment, part of Signature Devices, confirmed that it plans to release Mazes of Fate for the DS before the end of June.
Just in case you forgot, Signature Devices is making a big deal out of the whole thing as the company works harder to make its way as a video game publisher. more...

Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, died yesterday at age 69. Gygax’s influence on hobby games and pencil & paper is unquestionably enormous, but many gamers are not aware of his indirect impact on computer and video games. more...

Past night, BioWare (Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic) released the launch trailer for their Xbox 360 Action-RPG, Mass Effect, which will be released on November 20th in North America and November 23rd in Europe.

Grab the trailer from GameTrailers.com, direkt links are:

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Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords that was originally released for DS, PSP, and Xbox 360 and teased PC players with a demo only is now available for PC on the German site Gamesload. It costs 19,95 € and is a full German version. more...