Yay! More zombie games! Thanks to Konami and Nihilistic, we're getting Zombie Apocalypse on the PSN next month! But before it launches, John Slavin has graciously given out some pertinent information about this zombiefest as well as screenshots. In full retro style.

Midway Games just released its total sales for Q1 of 2007 and despite having lower numbers than last year's, CEO David Zucker commented that they still exceeded their earlier expectations.

The official also added that their big guns will start appearing later in the year that's why sales were down to US$ 11.1 million from 2006's US$ 15.4 million. Zucker mentioned too that most sales were generated by the unique pre-order program for MMO video game The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar.

Downloadable titles also did great Zucker imparted, enumerating Gauntlet, Smash TV, Root Beer Tapper, and Ultimate Mortal Kombat III as games among those that performed well on Xbox Live.

Likewise, Championship Sprint, Mortal Kombat II, and Rampage World Tour are doing good on the PlayStation Network (PSN). Also, the CEO revealed that a demo of BlackSite: Area 51 will be available at the Marketplace to help generate curiosity and excitement among players.

For Wii, lastly, Zucker promised three more unannounced titles for 2007 in addition to the forthcoming Mortal Kombat, two of those exclusive to the console.

Reality TV shows were never this whack (unless you count "A Simple Life" but that's of its own class, entirely). Cash Money Chaos from Sony Online Entertainment kidnaps you into a reality TV show that pits you into battlezone-ified game shows like "The Price is Right" and other 70s hits.

You choose one of the four characters forced to participate in ten seasons (levels), each having five episodes (stages) where you must fight for your life and collect heaps of cold hard cash for the win. (Do I hear Smash TV?) You'd have to blast your way through demented circus clowns, diabolically possessed bouncing balls, evil bearded women, and other bizarre baddies. There are different weapons to help you give those enemies something worse than a Sunday morning hang-over.

The multiplayer mode will also bring the game to newer heights, whether you want a 2-4 player co-op to finish the story or pit it against each other in versus mode with up to eight people.

So, is it a proverbial "deal" or "no deal"? Let the official trailer help you decide:

Sony Online Entertainment has been developing this for some time now, and Cash Money Chaos looks like it won't disappoint fans of frenzied action games.

In CMC, you can play as one of four kidnapped humans who are forced to participate in a game show where you have to kill everything... waitaminute... this sounds like Smash TV! Chances are, it is, which means we can forget the real story and look at the big picture.

Long story short: Everything goes BOOM = You get cash and get to kill more people next level for more Boom + Bucks! Since it's a game show, that means multiple "seasons" and in this case, you have to go through 10 "seasons" of five "episodes" each, and that's a lot of bang for your buck.

The game also has weird enemies for each season, such as clowns and demonic bouncing balls in the clown season. Also, look to bosses to be almost as weird as a Japanese game show, from a giant exhibitionist bearded lady whose minions come out of her *AHEM* to a more normal football guy who throws explosives at you from his truck (if you could call that normal). Of course, you could focus instead on Multiplayer and have a team of four aiming to complete story mode or just beating each other senseless.

While waiting its PSP debut in 2007, here are some vids and screens of Cash Money Chaos. Enjoy!

  

Download: [Cash Money Chaos - Circus Balls]
Download: [Cash Money Chaos - Fat Cash]
Download: [Cash Money Chaos - Killed by Clowns]
Download: [Cash Money Chaos - Marathon Run]

Sony has just announced a new PSP title to hit shelves early next year. Called Cash Money Chaos, the game is a fast-paced arcade shooter that puts players in a twisted 70’s game show made by aliens. To survive and rescue the human race, they have to fight against demented clowns, killer gorillas, alien chickens and similar wacky creatures, with the chance to grab cash, prizes and weapons. Set to a hardrocking punk soundtrack, Cash Money Chaos will offer more than 50 hyper-fast levels, organized in seasons and episodes, where players wreak havoc in circus tents, swamps and medieval settings.

Multiplayer modes will include a "Versus" mode for up to eight players, as well as a co-op "Game Show" mode for 2-4 players.

Cash Money Chaos is going to be released in Q1 2007, retailing for only $29.99. The whole concept sounds like an obvious homage to the arcade classic Smash TV - hopefully, the game won't disappoint.

A gamer known as C4Lukins has compiled a list of Xbox Live Arcade sales stats. Because Microsoft does not release any official numbers, he decided the best way to look at Live Arcade sales is to go to the leader boards and see the last name on the list and their ranking. Pretty much the only way to do this is to try and get the lowest score on each game so that you do not have to scroll through tens of thousands of people to see the bottom one with only one chance to really try per account.

Some of the crazy things that were discovered from the research is that over 20,000 Uno players have not managed to win a single single player game. Somehow people are managing to get a lower score then 200 on Joust, despite the fact that they get 4 lives, and 50 points each time they die. The worst finishing time on the first level of Marble Blast Ultra, is over an hour. Over 40 people purchased Geometry wars between 1am and 2am Central time while he was compiling this list. Cloning Clyde sold 8500 copies on its first day, and 5410 on its second day.

Is this accurate? Probably not. It should be pretty close. Some people have multiple accounts on a single 360 which will fudge up the numbers, and some people have bought these games and for one reason or another not posted a score on the leader boards. This is probably as close as we can get without Microsoft making any sort of announcement.Remember games with a question mark after them are games I do not own, and need numbers for.

Astropop- 21,321
Bankshot Billiards- 35,136 ???
Bejeweled 2- 50,994 ???
Cloning Clyde- 14,063
Crystal Quest- 29,557
Feeding Frenzy- 50,229
Frogger- 43,416 ???
Gauntlet- 77,394 ???
Geometry Wars- 188,428
Hexic HD- 566,230
Jewel Quest- 18,091 ???
Joust- 45,010
Marble Blast Ultra- 107,886
Mutant Storm Reloaded- 38,726
Outpost Kaloki X- 23,732 ???
Robotron 2084- 22,887
Smash TV- 78,790
Uno- 143,223
Wik Fable of Souls- 15,591
Zuma- 70,264

According to Next-Generation, Microsoft is planning to bring the success of Xbox Live Arcade to retail. Xbox chief Peter Moore is pushing to extend the Live Arcade brands to stores, arguing internally that original games like Geometry Wars, retro hits like Smash TV and casual games like Hardwood Hearts will extend Xbox 360's appeal to non-hardcore audiences.The company is seeking to offer the games to the 'other 50%' of gamers that have not signed up to Xbox Live, while using the titles to showcase the platform as a welcoming destination.

Moore recently told industry sources that a retail SKU is being planned. Whether this will  take the form of low-priced series of individual titles or, more likely, a compilation of some sort is yet to be determined. Microsoft today said it was not ready to discuss the plan, so issues such as pricing, packaging, and timing are unknown. But this is good news for people that like to have a tangible version of their console games. When more news becomes available we'll be sure to keep you informed.