Love Namco games on your iPhone, iPad and Android gaming devices, but hate paying too much money for them. Well, Namco has some SERIOUS deals for you. A great quantity of deals, in fact, starting tomorrow, July 2nd and running all weekend long. Check the lists below for all your favorite games at LOW LOW prices. Like, seriously.

Sale Dates: Friday, July 2 through Monday, July 5

iPhone Games

• Ace Combat Xi: $4.99 ? $2.99
• Alpine Racer: $1.99 ? $0.99
• Brain Exercise: $4.99 ? $1.99
• Dig Dug REMIX: $2.99 ? $0.99
• Galaga Remix: $2.99 ? $0.99
• Garter & Ghouls: $1.99 ? $0.99
• Gator Panic: 1.99 ? $0.99
• i Love Katamari: $4.99 ? $2.99
• Inspector Gadget: $2.99 ? $0.99
• Isaac Newton’s Gravity: $2.99 ? $1.99
• Lt. Fly: Rise of the Arachnids: $1.99 ? $0.99
• Mr. Driller: $1.99 ? $0.99
• Ms. PAC-MAN: $4.99 ? $0.99
• PAC-MAN: $4.99 ? $2.99
• Pole Position: $2.99 ? $0.99
• Pool Pro Online 3: $1.99 ? $0.99
• Star Trigon: $1.99 ? $0.99
• Tamagotchi: $4.99 ? $1.99
• Time Crisis: $4.99 ? $0.99
• Tinseltown Dreams: The 50’s: $2.99 ? $0.99
• PAC-Match Party: $1.99 ? $0.99

iPad Games

• Isaac Newton’s Gravity: $9.99 ? $6.99
• Pool Pro Online 3: $1.99 ? $0.99
• PAC-MAN: $4.99 ? $2.99

Android Games

All the following Android titles will be on sale for $2.99 (originally $4.99). Wait, you actually have an Android phone? Really?

• Inspector Gadget
• Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming
• Learn to Fly
• PAC-MAN
• PAC-MAN Championship Edition
• Wolfman

Alawar is one of my favorite casual game companies and today they let me know about their new idea. They want to rope in some new gamers that haven’t gotten addicted to their products. I’m not sure there are any left, but just in case here is the deal:

For only $1.99 you can download their Fun Frenzy Pack which includes Farm Frenzy, Smash Frenzy 2 and Gourmania, 3 of their best sellers.

• Farm Frenzy is an award-winning time management game in which the player tries his hand at running a farm. Featuring 90 levels of addictive arcade gameplay and compelling business management, Farm Frenzy lets players give Old McDonald a run for the money!
• Smash Frenzy 2 is a Breakout-style game featuring 3D graphics, an original soundtrack and new brick types, bonuses and special effects. Smash Frenzy also allows players to save and reload their progress.
• Gourmania is a hidden object game featuring 60 levels and no time limits. The player begins his journey at a fast food joint, finding the ingredients for the sandwiches his customers want and then processing their orders. Before the big showdown, the player will save a Sushi Bar, a Pizza Parlor and more from shutting down, making him the most sought after chef in town!

If you don’t already have these gems, you really don’t have any excuse not to pick this up.

Title: Fun Frenzy Pack
Developer: Alawar Entertainment
Price: $1.99

GfK Chart-Track has released figures showing the Nintendo DS has passed 10 million units sold in the UK.  Let us sit back for a moment and day dream about the trash bags of cash Nintendo is raking in.  This milestone makes the DS the best selling hotcake, bypassing the PS2 for the UK.  It is estimated that one in six people own an DS.

Nintendo is happy to boast this achievement:

“Nintendo’s Touch Generations range of software, which has been expanding the definition of videogame, has resonated strongly with people of all ages, extending its appeal to a non-traditional gaming audience, which now sees people aged between five and 95 picking up and playing Nintendo DS consoles,” –Gameindustry.biz

Congrats to Nintendo on this amazing sales mark.

It's that time of the month. Fanboy time.

If you’ve ever visited a video game forum in the middle of the month, you know of the exciting, entertaining, and level-headed discussion that appears when the NPD sales numbers come out for the previous month. If you haven’t, then I don’t suggest starting now. However, if you still have a thirst for the knowledge of video game sales, then you have come to the right place!

First off, a look at the February system sales for the DS and PSP:

• DS: 698,000 (up 15.7% from Feb 2008)
• PSP: 297,000 (up 18.1% from Feb 2008)

Despite the PSP’s seemingly horrible performance compared to the DS, it still managed to outsell the 360 and PS3 for the month. Sony’s at least doing something right with the PSP to keep moving units, despite the fact that no one’s buying software, or at least not at the rate that DS users are buying them, as seen in the top 10 sellers for DS, PSP, and among handheld systems overall (iPhone excluded):

Top 10 Nintendo DS Games

1. Mario Kart DS
2. New Super Mario Bros.
3. Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force
4. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
5. Super Mario 64 DS
6. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
7. Mario Party DS
8. Kirby Super Star Ultra
9. Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
10. Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day

Top 10 PSP Games

1. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
2. Midnight Club: LA Remix
3. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
4. Iron Man
5. LocoRoco 2
6. Madden NFL 2009
7. WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2008
8. Lego Batman
9. WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2009
10. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

Top 10 Portable Games Overall

1. Mario Kart DS (NDS)
2. New Super Mario Bros. (NDS)
3. Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force (NDS)
4. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (NDS)
5. Super Mario 64 DS (NDS)
6. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (NDS)
7. Mario Party DS (NDS)
8. Kirby Super Star Ultra (NDS)
9. Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia (NDS)
10. Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day (NDS)

Yes, still.

Yes. That’s right. Despite selling just under 300k systems for the month, Sony can’t even get one entry on to the overall portable games chart. And it’s not even as if the DS just swamped the PSP with new releases – it’s full of evergreen titles (games that continue to sell well long after their release date – for Nintendo, think anything with Mario, Pokemon, or Brain Age on the cover) and only one new release – Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon .

The PSP chart does feature its own variation of evergreen titles with the GTA games, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 outselling the 2009 version (likely due to 2008 being $20 cheaper), and an appearance from Crisis Core, but nothing from launch like Super Mario 64 DS still selling even to this day! Is it just that DS gamers overwhelm the chart because they have such a lead over the PSP, or is it that Sony has been unable to spur PSP software sales at all, or is it due to the PSP’s media functions that people buy the system?

Whatever the cause, it’s something that Sony needs to reverse, and the release of titles like Resistance Retribution and the big announcements they put out earlier should help the system at least be competitive against Nintendo’s money printers.

So, you oughta head over to the iTunes App store, or Pangea’s web page itself to take advantage of their huge $.99 sale.

Looks like all the Pangea games you love are now $.99. Great games like Bugdom 2, Bubble Town, and Nanosaur 2 are falling from $3.99 to $.99.

You really can’t go wrong. Get on it, people! The sale only lasts the week. PERFECT timing for our Grand Opening, yeah?