Just a few ticks away from the launch of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, are you holding up well to the wait? If you need more distractions to help the remaining time pass, we're offering up this collection of features that we're been running for the game. Check out the full article and let it be your portal to past posts.

We here at QJ.NET are always on the look out for good point-and-click adventure games such as LucasArts and Telltale Games' Sam & Max. We were pleasantly surprised to know that Akella Games and Litera were coming out with a new one called The Bad, the Ugly, and the Sober for the PC. Much to our pleasure, we were able to give the pre-release version of this game a run through. Want to know what we found? Head on over to the full article for the complete preview.

We just got wind of IGG's latest announcement for their MMORPG, Tales of Pirates: the coming of new expansions. Screenshots were released to accompany the announcement. The new expansions will let you experience a rebirth system for your character, participate in battles between the navy and the pirates, and get engagedin a marriage ceremony.

More information on the expansions after the jump!

The 80s and the 90s can be considered as the golden era of cartoons. It's the time when the concept of mutant turtles were born, robots as tall as buildings were created, and talking bears with cute drawings on their chest was considered cool.

Entertainment media has spawned new avenues in modern Earth, but we're sure these old-school cartoons can still kick ass. So in this article, we look at old-school cartoons and wonder how great it would be to have them as a video game.

 

Zombies. Can't live with them... period. Thankfully, we have the Onechanbara girls in their cute cowboy-bikini outfits and ridiculously-sharp katanas to take care of business for us, and this time they're doing it on the Nintendo Wii. We get a dose of that sexy blood-splattering action with D3Publisher's Onechanbara R, in this TGS 2007 gameplay video update.

While we all know that the Wii isn't as powerful as its competitors, Onechanbara R on the Wii looks strikingly superb. There's no discernable slowdown from the video that we could see, even when the player character is clearly getting mobbed by the game's various monsters.

The gameplay mechanics seems to be intact as well, with you requiring to shake off the blood from your sword after you've stuck it in a zombie or two for maximum efficiency.

Onechanbara R is definitely looking sweet. Here's to a US release, and enjoy the video!

One Chanbara R TGS 2007
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Okay, so we guess the idea of cuffing the Wiimote to your wrist through handcuffs bought from a sex shop didn't really take off. The whole Wiimote wielding community laments at the still open possibility of losing grip of the motion sensing controller while playing, and hitting the TV with it. Slipping Wiimotes equals broken TVs and broken Wiimotes. What now?

Thankfully, there's the Retractable Wii Sports Cuff For Remote control. Made of neoprene this time and not cold metal anymore, you attach the cuff to the Wiimote and slap it to your wrist. It is retractable up to 13 inches, with an adjustable wrist band, and it's available in black.

Come to think of it, the retractable 13-inch cord could be of help when using the Wiimote as an innovative weapon, ala rodeo cowboy. Haha. The cuff doesn't come in different colors; we'd appreciate a Wii-color scheme. And a bad thing is that the price tag reading US$ 5.99 is already a discounted price.

Calling all cowboys: Saddle your horses and get ready to ride as Activision games has announced that the PSPs very own cowboy 'simulator' has shipped to game stores across North America today. If free roaming in the nomadic lawless west back in the good old days with drunkenness, prostitutes, and gun slinging is your thing, then you should definitely give Gun Showdown a try. This game gives much more than the title would like to suggest though, with the action-adventure hybrid having much more proportion than your average first person shooter as the 'bullets fly, people die' trailer shows.

Gun Showdown expands on what previous games have left behind, allowing you to take control of the untamed West on both sides of the law. Firstly as a gunslinger, you must shoot, knife and dynamite your way through an epic story. Good cop or bad cop, it's your choice. You'll be overjoyed that you bought your PSP when you get to see the game's list of features, taking full advantage of the PSPs technical abilities with a brand new wireless multiplayer and Quickplay modes, exclusive missions, and gameplay features that you won't find on any other console.

In Gun Showdown, players have a licence to dish out vigilante vengeance as you face-off against corrupt lawmen, a murderous preacher, a renegade army psychopath, and merciless outlaws that won't listen any other way. In a world where greed, lust and murder reign, the only way to survive is to wage war on horseback, hold up banks, collect bounties on prisoners dead or alive, and commandeer trains as the lines between good and evil are drawn in blood.

If you fancy a break from all the killing and bloodshed then you can settle down with multiplayer modes which allow you to team up or go head-to-head in Showdown mode; includes Deathmatch, Golden Cross and Texas Hold 'Em poker gameplay modes via the PSPs wireless network capabilities.

Now doesn't that sound fun? What are you waiting for, it's out today!

Preorder: [GUN Showdown]

   

It's been a while since we've brought you any updates for Activision Hits Remixed, but this slew of screenshots for the games included in the $19.99 USD package with a release date of Fall 2006, will definitely more than make up for the interval.

You can check out what to expect from old school games like Decathlon, Grand Prix, Private Eye, Stampede, and Tennis. Thank you so much to Wiebke Hess for sharing these goodies.

Decathlon

Requires discipline and sweat, stamina and speed, with muscles opposing muscles, compete in the most celebrated game of the Olympics: the ten events of the decathlon. Earn points for each event. Highest final score wins!

See more of Activision Hits Remixed after the jump!

Pre-Order: [Activision Hits Remixed]

Okay, let's take a horde of zombies. Then let's add in a girl dressed in a skimpy outfit. Throw in a cowboy hat and a sword for the girl and we've got Oneechanbara X. Oh, and don't forget the lacy pink underwear.

This zombie-infested action game is D3 Publisher and Tamsoft's new offering for the Xbox 360. Oneechanbara X (also known as Chambara Beauty X: The Devil Evolution Human, Chambara Beauty X, and Oneechanbara X: The Devil Evolution Human) for the Xbox 360 will be released in Japan on December 31st. US release date is yet to be announced.

While we wait for more info on when we can hack, slash, and mutilate our way through all those zombies, check out the screenshots.

More screenshots after the jump!

Monkeyboy1916's mod for DeNitro and Devin923's PSP Revolution, Anime Style, is saying sayonara for now. Maybe, you're thinking that he has already announced that in version three, but because of some bugs that were found in that game's release, he continued to refine his work. This time though, it's the real deal.

"Unfortunatly this is my last version this time, only because there aren't many more songs worth adding, but when a new version of PSP Revolution comes out I will be here to update Anime Style, and maybe throw in a couple songs," says Monkeyboy1916 on the letter he sent QJ.

However, the recent additions to his mod would make it a farewell to remember. Since the last release, there are a number of new animes added to the pack like Samurai Champloo, Ruronin Kenshin, Ghost in the Shell, Eureka Seven and Cowboy Bebop. The previously included anime packs were given new tracks as well.

Download: [Anime Style v4]

The full song list awaits after the jump!