Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness Goes Gold (RPGamer)

Would-be cultivators and agrarian RPGamers looking for a fresh excuse to get familiar with their trusty hoes should find no small amount of comfort in a juicy press release stating that Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness has recently gone gold, after vine-ripening in the summer sun.

Blown Away (Anime News Network)

This is a busy week. Well, it's more accurate to denote next week as the busy one, as that is when we shall be flooded by games with anime themes and made-in-Japan relevance. In fact, it's so much that I'm skipping an Extra Lives entry this time around.

Release This: Too Human, Sims 2: Apartment Life Head U.S. Lineup (Gamasutra)

Gamasutra's regular round-up of worldwide video game releases, "Release This!", takes a look at every game title we know to be shipping to stores this week, in an exclusively compiled list. This week's worldwide release lineup features the North American debut of Too Human on the Xbox 360, while PC owners receive The Sims 2 expansion pack Apartment Life. J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club ...

THE CRAVE GAMING CHANNEL (RPGamer)

I am so disoriented right now, it isn't even funny. I forgot to write this intro initially. I wrote the entire column, including the outro, before realizing I had FORGOTTEN TO WRITE AN INTRO. So now, after completing 99.9% of the column, here I am writing the intro.

Games releasing week of Sept. 17 (Miami Herald)

This week the Sims franchise comes to the Wii, street racing gets Juiced and composer Frederic Chopin stars in Eternal Sonata.

THE CRAVE GAMING CHANNEL (RPGamer)

Yawn. Good evening, everyone. I overslept this morning and missed the beginning of the podcast. So, and as you may already know, RPGcast #44 begins WITHOUT ME. I don't show up for about... well, I don't actually know at this point.