There were already a few signs hinting that Atari was having some trouble holding on to the Dragon Ball franchise. A couple of years ago, the publisher clashed with FUNimation over the game license. Namco Bandai announced last month that it had secured publishing rights to three new entries in the franchise. Today, Namco Bandai has announced that it's finishing what it started.

Homebrew coder Geecko has released a new version of BreakOut4PSP, a homebrew game based on the classic Atari arcade game Breakout. The latest update adds new features, improved performance and some more bug fixes.


Download: BreakOut4PSP v0.7

Last December, Cryptic Studios packed up and moved in with Atari and Infogrames, in effect turning over all of their proprietary IP, tools, technology and even WIPs to their new parent company. Inside sources are now alive and abuzz that part of the turned over WIPs would be an MMO version of Neverwinter Nights.

Hey, Euro gamers. Feeling bummed out because Sony has the Euro release of Ghostbusters locked? Well, you don't have to wait until the timed PS3 exclusivity on the game runs out so you can play the game on your Xbox 360 anymore.

For the weekend directly leading up to the E3 event, it sure was jampacked with news, wasn't it? If you've been hanging around the industry for a while now, you'd know that the usual occurrence during this time of the year (or whenever there is an event, actually), is to have some kind of drought in news. But no, not this year. Everyone's just as pumped up about the upcoming event, it didn't matter if the news that came out were more on the rumors and speculations and "leaks" side. We don't mind. We know we're in for the big stuff. Are you ready?

Last year, Phil Harrison made quite a ruckus when he severed ties with SCEI as their president, and then jumping on board Atari's team, via parent company Infogrames,  to serve as President. Today, however, we receive word that he will be stepping down from the position, and will assume instead a non-executive Director role.

Wiibrewer raz0red has just whipped up the first release of Wii7800, a port of the ProSystem emulator developed by Greg Stanton. Credits to Zx-81, Leonis, and gdement for their respective contributions. Developer notes in the full article.


Download: Wii7800

Almost every new Dragon Ball game gets international releases the days, and so the new PS3 and Xbox 360 title, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast, will be following suit. Namco Bandai Games Europe has announced that they will be bringing the game to PAL regions this autumn. This will be the first Budokai Tenkaichi game to be released on current gen consoles.

This homebrew game is based on the old Atari tank shoot-em-up game Combat. Remade for the Wii by developer spiffen, v0.1 was developed using devkitPro tools, as well as GRRLIB for rendering, sndlib for music and sound, as well as support for the use of Wiimote.


Download: CombatWii v0.1

This is a rather unique position we are in. The E3 is nearing, and yet we've got just about the biggest surge we've had the past couple of months. Okay, that might well be an exaggeration, but still. You gotta agree with me when I say it was a busy past week, yes? Rumors, confirmation of rumors, and surprising - yet at the same time not-so-surprising - NPD results for this month all proved to be the cherry on top for this game-filled, fun-filled week. Hmmm.. imagine all those cherries on top.... Dig in, then.