In case you haven’t checked this out as of May 22nd the Super Smash Bros. Brawl director Masahiro Sakurai is running a daily blog at smashbros.com. There are some great pics of the different characters and their special moves along with some videos and breaking news. There is actually a “how to play” section as well that explains the basics of the game if you didn’t know already.

If there was a score in the next gen console wars, it would have to show that the Xbox360 has the lead. They have out sold the PS3 by leaps and bounds, especially over in Japan where Sony has been God. The only question that remains is the alarming hardware failure rate. Gameindustry has released a very well written editorial about the status quo of the next gen market . This is a must read for anyone who invests their money in today’s gaming universe.

How is it possible for a company to drop 12% of their overall net profit for the 2006-2007 fiscal year and still be happy about it? Capcom expected to lose a lot more than that according to Gamespot. The company had figured with the switching of consoles and how much they would cost the consumer, that they would have a higher drop off, but two titles saved their necks. According to their publisher:

“One of the significant accomplishments is that both Dead Rising and Lost Planet for Xbox 360 achieved sales of one million copies due to their great popularity in the US and Europe,”

Capcom has more games slated for release this fall such as Monster Hunter Freedom 2 for the Xbox360.

We brought you news of a mysterious countdown that we were sure would be the announcement of the game and behold, here it is.

They announced their new game and also previewed the 400th episode of the Simpsons as well. A demo was unveiled, which reportedly showed Homer running around eating everyhitng in sight. Good news to all, the game actually looks like the cartoon now, wonder of wonders! There is over 8,000 lines of dialogue and almost an hour of new footage created just for the game. I look forward to seeing the Simpson clan on my next-gen console.

You can sign up for the game’s newletter and check out some nice pics from the event along with some coverage here, enjoy.

Our friends at computerandvideogames.com report that Rockstar is finding some issues with the Xbox360 and trying to finalize its monster title. Apparently, the problem lies in the hard drive exclusivity of the PS3. While almost everyone who has a Xbox360 has a hard drive, everyone who has a PS3 has a hard drive. The caveat here is that the systems, though comparable in graphics with the Blu-ray exception, Rockstar is trying to find ways to configure the game so it is the same on both despite these small but important differences. When asked, Rockstar big wig, Dan Houser replied, “To be honest with you we haven’t solved all those riddles yet.” He also claims that the sky is not falling and the game will show no detriments on the Xbox360, but it seems this problem will arise again.