Namco Bandai's old-school arcade game collection for the PSN will finally arrive in North America six months after it hit Japan. A new Namco Bandai Home Destination will also launch alongside the collection.

It looks like Namco Museum has finally slipped out of beta. Namco Bandai has announced that the downloadable game collection will be available on the Japanese PlayStation Store on Thursday. The game will be rocking a new name along with a new game.

While trawling through the Internets, we came across this a nice tip on using Namco Museum to get a few special items for PlayStation Home. Read on to find out how.

Some 10,000 Japanese PlayStation 3 owners are going to join the fun in the PlayStation Home beta this month, and Sony is welcoming them with the help of publisher Namco Bandai. The long time game maker will offer up its classics from the Namco Museum collection for play in the virtual world. Details after the jump.

Every kid in the neighborhood knows about Bungie Studios' Halo 3, or at least in the UK. It's almost not surprising that even the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, felt the need to tell millions of people about Master Chief's final battle. What took our attention the most is when things went wrong, and the PlayStation 3's Killzone 2 mistakenly appeared on a report for the premiere Xbox 360 title.

Apparently, them lads call Halo 3 both a first-person shooter and shoot 'em up. We don't know if it's human error or some sort of miscommunication, but footage of what was supposed to be the "Halo killer" back in the day played while BBC's anchor talked about Halo 3's much anticipated release.

Nintendo's Wii Sports was also mentioned as something very simplistic yet still manage to outsell shoot 'em up games (Galaga, is that you?). Believe in pressing the play button and finish the fight entire video, then you'll see what we're talking about.

Buy: [Halo 3]
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Is there any particular video game that still haunts you up to this very day? One that, if you died today, you'll be sure to be earthbound because of this one "unfinished business"? Okay, so that was morbid. But that pretty much drove the point home now, didn't it?

I first got introduced to the wonderful world of gaming consoles through the NES, otherwise known as the Family Computer in Japan. Now this little wonder brought me some very fond and special memories growing up, thanks to its wholesome and now-retro 8-bit graphics. Games like Galaga, Battle City, Twinbee, Contra, and of course, the immortal Super Mario Bros. kept me company during stale afternoons, with ignored chocolate-covered donuts sitting beside me across our living room floor.

And then came a whole new generation of gaming consoles. Handhelds like the Game Boy and its successors, and even the simplistic Game & Watch, to the more powerful modern consoles we have today, all played a part - no matter how minute - in my formative years. They certainly kept me off the streets, for sure. I guess I only have them to blame for my not having developed that "streetsmart" gene in my system.

Even after all those games and gaming machines, however, I still couldn't let go of that one NES game that I never got to finish: Adventure Island.

Not that I didn't find the adventures of Master Higgins interesting or exciting enough for my own amateur taste, back then. But with the onslaught of newer game titles coming along, and with the irrational, almost neurotic desire of finishing a level without any scratch or bruise or diminished life for my Master Higgins, I did not realize that I had slowly and unwittingly pushed it to the back of the game shelves.

And then I got busy with other things - Tetris, Metroid, school, dates, friends, sneak-outs at night, the X-Files, Castlevania, high school prom, college admissions, Need for Speed Underground, Sex and the City... and good ol' Master Higgins remained in the webbed corner of my consciousness. Not to be disturbed, and more importantly, never to disturb me. Until we met again, that is.

Read on to see if we share the same hang up experience over that one unfinished game, and to see what else is on QJ's list by clicking on Full Article!

And it seems like we just might get off the LOST island faster than any of the characters will, in terms of information on its game version. Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, executive producers of the highly popular ABC TV Show and podcast hosts, have revealed some pretty interesting bits on the LOST videogame.

Of course, you can't expect it to be enough to drench the info thirst we all have regarding this title. But what they did reveal certainly is enough to confirm that there is, indeed, a light at the end of the tunnel.

First off is the revelation that the LOST game will actually be a multiplatformer, to find its way through the jungles of the Xbox 360, the PS3, and the PC. As for how far along is the game in development, Cuse and Lindelof said that the Ubisoft Montreal team has in fact already presented to them the game demo. The guys even went to the LOST studios themselves.

So were the producers impressed? Well, Carlton said it "will actually be a really cool game", while Damon concurred, albeit with a little dissent: "Not as cool as Galaga, but what is?"

To find out more about what the LOST exec prods had to say in the podcast, just click on Download below.

Download: LOST Podcast