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| ArmA II Release date moved forward to 19th June
May 18, 2009 at 8:46 pm
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|  505 Games and Bohemia Interactiveare thrilled to announce that the release date for the upcoming tacticalmilitary simulator ArmA II forward by precisely one week, to 19th June 2009.Fans eagerly awaiting their next foray into the world beating tactical actionthe ArmA series has become renowned for now have just over one month to wait. |
| Zelda Classic Becomes 300th Virtual Console Game
May 18, 2009 at 8:43 pm
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| Every Monday for two and a halfyears, Nintendo has introduced new downloadable games and applications for theWii console. Today marks a milestone for the Virtual Console section of the WiiShop Channel, home of some of the greatest titles in video game history. |
| Chronic Logic Releases Zatikon version 1.0 for Windows, OSX and Linux
May 18, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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| Chronic Logic announces Zatikon 1.0is now a free game for Windows, OSX and Linux. Zatikon is an online, turn based,multiplayer tactics game featuring over 30 unique units, each with their own setof spells and abilities. Construct your own distinct army. Create your ownstrategies. Defeat your opponents in competitive, multiplayer modes or play thecomputer is single player mode. With a limitless number of possible tactics atyour disposal, Zatikon is highly engaging and very addictive. |
| PS3 "Slim" Photos Result In Cease & Desist From Taiwanese Lawyers
May 18, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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|   Late last week, we posted what appeared to be the first pictures of the PLAYSTATION 3 "Slim". Taiwan-based attorney Li Mo & Associates contacted us, potentially giving credence to the validity of the pictures. In their email, the firm stated that these "trade secrets" had been posted online and demanded that the images be taken down "immediately" in a cease-and-desist. However, this legal notice did not come from Sony, who still has yet to comment on the images. |
| Resonance Of Fate Trailer Takes End Of Eternity, Adds Butt Rock
May 18, 2009 at 8:00 pm
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|  Sega of America is bringing the tri-Ace-developed role-playing game End of Eternity stateside, renaming it Resonance of Fate for some reason. And it's also apparently jamming in some butt rock. As evidenced by the newest trailer—still heavy on the pre-rendered CGI—for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 role-playing game, Sega's proud butt rock tradition will continue with Resonance of Fate, which goes from piano and clarinet duet to hot shredding royalty-free rock faster than you can say "What's wrong with the name 'End of Eternity', anyway?" |
| Piggy Flu
May 18, 2009 at 7:40 pm
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| To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Hello Swine Flu, Welcome To Japan They've had a couple cases of Swine Flu reported in our area, specifically in Denver, but I'm not too worried. Tristan is actually sick (again) just got a fever this morning, but I'm pretty sure it's just that. We're keeping a close eye on it of course. |
| Valve Reveals Spy Achievements (And Owns Up To Corporate Fail)
May 18, 2009 at 7:20 pm
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|  Oh, hey. The new Team Fortress 2 Spy update is here, revealing the pun-laden list of Steam Achievements for the stealthiest of classes and giving us our very first look at the "Meet The Spy" short. Or not. Because "Meet The Spy" leaked this weekend. According to the newest of entries for the Spy update, that leak was due to someone at Valve uploading the hilarious clip to YouTube with the wrong radio button ticked. Oops! Valve comes clean on its very un-Spy like behavior with the first "Valve Corporate Achievement." We shan't spoil. |
| Microsoft's E3 Promises, One Year Later
May 18, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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|  Join us in reliving the hype of last year's Microsoft E3 press conference with the know-it-all hindsight of what did and didn't come true. Sorry, Microsoft, but you were not perfect in predicting the future... What good is E3 hype if none of it comes true? To get you ready for this E3, we've subjected ourselves to re-living the major press conferences of last year's big show. We've pulled all of the predictions, promises and other verbal constructions Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony used to get you excited about their console. And we've seen what became of all those thrilling statements. |
| Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Second Month Sales Drop In NPD-PDs
May 18, 2009 at 6:40 pm
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|  First month Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars did not impress. At least they weren't impressive to analysts, as the game's initial NPD figures came in far below expectations. What about month two? According to NPD Group data from Gamasutra, the Nintendo DS title from Rockstar Games managed to move another 74,000 copies in the United States. A drop from the 89,000 copies sold in its first month on the market, but not a dramatic one. But Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars NPD per day (NPD-PD) sales tell a slightly different story. |
| Week In Games: Bionic Punch!
May 18, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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|  This week, two NES era favorites get remade and re-imagined, but identically titled, as both Punch-Out!! for the Wii and Bionic Commando for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 ship in North America. Those two titles are arguably the biggest releases hitting stateside this week, but there's plenty of original Wii fare hitting alongside those headline grabbers. EA Sports Active, The Munchables and Boom Blox Bash Party make for a varied Wii lineup. |
| 3D Realms Still Alive, Retaining Rights To Duke Nukem
May 18, 2009 at 6:05 pm
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|   More than a week after the Duke Nukem Forever team said their final goodbyes, 3D Realms remains alive and well. And they're taking on their former publishing partner.According to a recent release (via Shacknews), "Despite rumors and statements to the contrary, 3D Realms has not closed and is not closing. 3DR retains ownership of the Duke Nukem franchise. Due to lack of funding, however, we are saddened to confirm that we let the Duke Nukem Forever development team go on May 6th, while we regroup as a company." |
| Daisy Fuentes Brings Pilates To The Wii
May 18, 2009 at 6:00 pm
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|  Sega is finally bringing Pilates to the Wii this Summer, and who better to present the early 20th-century German physical fitness system than the Cuban-born former co-host of America's Funniest Home Videos, Daisy Fuentes? We've got plenty of yoga games, but Sega is the first to dedicate a title to the other popular exercise regiment for soccer moms... |
| Amazon's German Site Lists Forza 3 Strategy Guide
May 18, 2009 at 5:42 pm
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|  As if a massive marketing and research firm leak, a graphic design company leak, and a logo appearing during a Brazilian Microsoft briefing weren't enough, Amazon has now offered their own contribution to the seemingly never ending litany of Forza 3 rumors. |
| Wii Rock Band 2 Gets 25 New Tracks
May 18, 2009 at 5:40 pm
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|  Owners of the Wii version of Rock Band 2 will have some hard decisions to make tomorrow, as more than two dozen new tracks arrive on the title's in-game store. A huge batch of Wii-specific updates hit Rock Band 2 tomorrow, from Alien Ant Farm to the Buzzcocks to T-Rex. A mix of both new and old arrives, including a half-dozen from The Grateful Dead. It's a lot like this previous update, but, you know, for the Wii. This week, the Wii edges ever closer to the 670 songs already released for Harmonix and MTV Games' band game with one of its biggest updates ever. |
| Dragon Quest Wars waging on DSi in Japan
May 18, 2009 at 5:38 pm
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|   In late April, Square Enix filed an application to trademark Dragon Quest Wars with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. And while Square Enix remains tight-lipped on a North American release for the game, the publisher did announce its arrival in Japan, saying the DSiWare strategy game will be available for 500 points ($5) this June. |
| GameStop Offering LocoRoco 2 And God of War With PSP
May 18, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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|  Thinking about picking up a PlayStation Portable? Now might be the time, because GameStop has a nice little deal running at the moment.According to The offer ends May 21, so if you're interested, you might want to hurry. |
| Tatsunoko VS Capcom Confirmed, Playable At E3
May 18, 2009 at 5:20 pm
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|  Capcom has confirmed that a North American version of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom for the Nintendo Wii is indeed one of their two secret games for E3 2009, debuting in playable form at the Capcom booth. The magazine scan we posted Saturday is from the new issue of Nintendo Power, which features the exclusive reveal of the 2D fighter that we were relatively sure would never make it out of Japan. North American players will be able to pit Capcom characters like Ryu and Roll against Tatsunoko animation studio icons such as Tekkaman and Ken the Eagle, some sooner than others. |
| Capcom Confirms Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Coming to U.S.
May 18, 2009 at 5:01 pm
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| 3D Realms: We're Not Closing, Spent $20 Million On Duke Nukem Forever
May 18, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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|  The creators of Duke Nukem Forever fired back today at publisher Take-Two, detailing the costs of developing the never seen game and saying they haven't closed the studios. 3D Realms, the studio behind the legendarily delayed Duke Nukem Forever claimed in a statement today that Take-Two, the publisher now suing the studio, provided $2.5 million in funding, a fraction of the$12 million described in the publisher's lawsuit. Most of that money went to other companies long since uninvolved with the game. |
| Keiji Inafune Cancels Appearance Due To Swine Flu
May 18, 2009 at 4:57 pm
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|  The Swine Flu scare has subsided somewhat in the past few weeks, but Capcom isn't taking any chances. The publisher has restricted foreign travel for their employees, including Dead Rising producer Keiji Inafune."I'm sorry to announce that Keiji Inafune has cancelled his appearance at Nordic Game 2009, due to corporate policy restricting foreign travel during the current influenza outbreak," a Nordic Game 2009 spokesperson said (via GamesIndustry.biz). |
| "Video Game Conventions Let Down The Super-Hero Genre"
May 18, 2009 at 3:00 pm
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|  Batman notwithstanding, most super-heroes are too powerful to fit well in standard video games, so say some veteran gaming reporters, following a discussion hatched at nearby urinals. During the latest installment of the Listen Up podcast, host Garnett Lee tore into a design decision made in the recent Wolverine game that strips the hero of some of his powers, forcing players to earn them back, Metroid-style. |
| How About A Bonus Character For Each Wii Peripheral?
May 18, 2009 at 2:30 pm
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| Developers are adding MotionPlus controls to their Wii games as you read this. They're making their controls more responsive thanks to Nintendo's add-on. But what if they went another way? What if MotionPlus wasn't about introducing an extra control scheme? Darly Allison, producer of upcoming Capcom Wii game Spyborgs told Kotaku last week that the game's development team is still considering how they might implement MotionPlus to the co-op beat-em-up, which doesn't currently support it... |
| Peggle iPhone Micro-Review: Touching Balls Never Felt So Good
May 18, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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|  Peggle is conquering gaming one platform at a time. First it was PC, next Nintendo DS, then Xbox Live Arcade before doubling back to PC via World of Warcraft. Now it's on the iPhone, and there's goes all your free time. There's something powerfully addicting about the part-pachinko, part-puzzle, part-crack downloadable game. Mercifully the short levels and basic gameplay lend themselves well to portable gaming; but you're not going to want to put the game down. |
| More Modern Warefare 2 Footage Hits This Week
May 18, 2009 at 1:40 pm
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|  This Thursday's GameTrailers will be showing off a new Modern Warfare 2 gameplay teaser, I'm told.
The teaser, while similar in style to the brief tune-in commercial aired earlier this month, will include brand new scenes from the game. |
| ArmA II Pushed Up A Week
May 18, 2009 at 1:20 pm
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|  With Codemasters' Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising missing its originally planned summer release, original Flashpoint developer Bohemia Interactive scootches its spiritual successor's release up a week. ArmA II will now be shipping for the PC on the 19th of June, one full week ahead of the originally planned release date... |
| Bethesda Preparing "Big" Wii Announcement This Year
May 18, 2009 at 1:10 pm
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|  Bethesda is best known for designing games for PCs and high-end consoles, but a new interview from GamesIndustry.biz reveals they have plans for Nintendo's Wii as well. Asked about exploring the casual space, Sean Brennan, managing director of Bethesda Europe, said, "we are going to make an announcement on a really big Wii game this year, we've got a couple other things in the pipeline... |
| Last Chance to Win a Trip to E3 With Kotaku
May 18, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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|  Don't forget you have until 11:59 p.m. tonight to enter our contest for a chance to be flown to LA, put up in a hotel and help cover E3 with Kotaku. The full details can be found here. Get to it! |
| PSP | EA nails down Rock Back Unplugged set list
May 18, 2009 at 12:43 pm
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|  Since the announcement of Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP, patient rockers have been wondering what tracks would be making it to the game, with only nine of the 40 promised tracks having been unveiled. Nothing says rock more than a sparkly purple outfit. Today EA has let loose the full track-list for the game, consisting of 41 tracks, which span five decades of music, from the 1960's to present day, though many have featured in other Rock Band titles on disk or via DLC... |
| GZ Interview: NARUTO Shippuden: Ninja Council 4 Update With Product Specialist Glen Stotz
May 18, 2009 at 12:41 pm
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|  "We wanted to stay current with the most recentstory the Naruto fans were experiencing," he continues, describing theimportance of releasing the right Naruto game in each market. "With that, wehave to take development times, TV episodes and [everything] the US market isseeing into account so [we can give them] the most up-to-date game. This staysmore in line with what [American viewers] are seeing, rather than trying to takeevery [game] we get from Japan and [release them in America]." |
| Xbox Live Arcade This Week: Gel and Blazing Birds
May 18, 2009 at 12:40 pm
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|  It's obscure game week on Xbox Live Arcade, with Wednesday seeing the release of Gastronaut Studio's Gel: Set & Match and Vector 2 Games' Blazing Birds. Gel: Set & Match is a puzzle game which features multicolored blocks that melt as you match them together, with an Action mode that adds a little side-scrolling to the mix. The game has both online co-op in Puzzle and Action modes, along with a Battle mode that allows for competitive online play. |
| PlayStation 3 | Kojima teaser ends in countdown timer
May 18, 2009 at 12:27 pm
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|  Those hoping that Konami and Kojima Productions would today reveal Metal Gear Solid 5, a Metal Gear Solid 4 for the Xbox 360, or even Metal Gear Solid Touch 2 for the iPhone are in for a bit of a disappointment. After launching Kojima Productions' "Next" Web site as part of a teaser campaign on Wednesday, the publisher today updated said Web site with...a new teaser campaign. |
| Wii | Madden NFL 10 Hands-On
May 18, 2009 at 12:25 pm
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|  As we saw in our last look at Madden NFL 10 for the Wii, EA Sports has once again been experimenting with its premier football franchise on the Nintendo Wii. The game's look--with its exaggerated body types full of super-skinny wideouts and extra-beefy linemen--is just one area of change; the game's new control tweaks are designed to make the game of football that much easier to understand for the Wii crowd. At EA's most recent press event in Los Angeles, we got a chance to try out Madden NFL 10 for the Wii to see how the controls are coming together ahead of the game's release this summer. |
| Majora's Mask Marks 300th Virtual Console Game
May 18, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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|  The N64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has become Nintendo's 300th Virtual Console game. It's now available for 1,000 Wii Points, and hardly needs any introduction. As a sequel to Ocarina of Time, some players were surprised by how different it was, but it still holds a fond place in many gamers' hearts... |
| Champions Online Heroically Delayed
May 18, 2009 at 12:20 pm
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|  A true superhero knows when to boldly charge into battle and when to delay your game for a couple of months in order to make sure it's solid. And that's just what Champions Online developer Cryptic is doing. Originally slated for a July 14th release, the developer is delaying the game until September 1st, in order to "implement certain features". |
| Wii | 300th Game hits Wii Virtual Console
May 18, 2009 at 12:17 pm
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|  One of the key features revealed at the official unveiling of the Wii back in 2006 was Nintendo's take on Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade, the Wii Virtual Console. Launching with just 30 games, the service has gone from strength to strength, with Nintendo updating the store weekly with new content. He tried hard, but Link's combination gas mask and bagpipes didn't go down too well on American Inventor. |
| Xbox 360 | Madden NFL 10 Hands-On
May 18, 2009 at 12:17 pm
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|  If you played the upcoming Madden NFL 10 side by side with its college football counterpart, NCAA Football 10, perhaps the starkest difference between the two would be the speed of the games. While NCAA seems to be running at the brisk pace you've come to expect from the series for the past couple of years, Madden NFL 10 has a more measured tempo on the field, one that is entirely intentional according to the game's developers... |
| Madden NFL 10 Screens
May 18, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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|  Madden NFL 10 offers a lot of little changes, as has its predecessors. Among the tweaks is the ability to do up to nine man gang tackles and fight for fumbles, new throwing and kicking styles unique to each quarterback starter and tweaks to the injury system, allowing a gamer to keep players in the game with a decline in stats. |
| Microsoft to Publicly Shame Gamerscore Cheaters
May 18, 2009 at 11:44 am
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Microsoft has bigger plans for cheaters than simply resetting their gamerscore. |
| Rockband Unplugged DLC Detailed
May 18, 2009 at 11:40 am
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|  Harmonix has released the full track list for Rock Band Unplugged, which we already knew, but they've also announced the first batch of downloadable content, which we didn't know. This weekend's video reveal of the full track listing for Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP looks a little more legitimate today, as the official listing matches the unofficial listing exactly... |
| Bionic Commando
May 18, 2009 at 11:26 am
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|  Launching back on the NES overtwenty years ago, the original Bionic Commando was one of those titles thatstays fresh in the minds of gamers, and harking back to the best period of NESdevelopment, if not gaming on the whole. |
| Invasion of the Plastic Peripherals
May 18, 2009 at 9:20 am
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|  The unbridled success of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Wii are spurring game developers to look at new ways to control games. This year developers unveiled games that have players using a faux turntable to pretend to be a DJ and another that has them ride a plastic skateboard in a new Tony Hawk game. And both Microsoft and Sony are rumored to be working on motion controls for their consoles. |
| Tatsunoko vs Capcom Might Get Online Multiplayer
May 18, 2009 at 9:00 am
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|  Tatsunoko vs Capcom is coming to the West. Hurrah! That's enough cause for celebration, but more corks may need to be popped if the game makes its way over with some online multiplayer. The Japanese version of the game shipped without it (you could only play against other humans on the same console). Which may cut it in Japan, but in the West, a fighter without online multiplayer just isn't going to cut it. |
| These Guys Take Mirror's Edge Cosplay Seriously
May 18, 2009 at 8:30 am
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|  While cosplay can often be an amatuer, stinky affair, sometimes people put a little more effort into it. This gallery - of some Mirror's Edge cosplay - is one of those times. The work of Jesse James Allen and his crew, it shows Faith (played by Yen Ryder) doing the kind of thing she does best, in the kind of places she likes to be seen. |
| Cheater Gamercards Will Be Marked
May 18, 2009 at 8:00 am
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|  Cheating is bad! Microsoft wants you to know it's dead serious about discouraging users from doing underhanded things to beef up their Gamerscore. According to Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement enforcer Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft isn't only resetting the Gamerscores of cheaters to zero, but also marking their Gamercards as cheaters. |
| Capcom Quarantines Its Own Employees
May 18, 2009 at 7:30 am
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|  As we've seen, Capcom's swine flu contingency plans are in full effect. Step 1 was stockpile hygeine kits. Step 2? Stop executives from travelling overseas. Mega Man creator and all-round Capcom pin-up boy Keiji Inafune was due to appear at the Nordic Game Conference in Malmö, Sweden this week. Was. Instead, his ticket has been pulled by Capcom HQ, who issued a statement that reads: |
| Life-Sized Gundam Has Nice Legs
May 18, 2009 at 7:00 am
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|  Work has started on the "life-sized" Gundam. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the mecha anime/manga/toy/video game franchise, an 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall) Gundam statue will be erected in Tokyo this July. Part of the "Mobile Suit Gundam 30th Anniversary Project," the structure in Odaiba's Shiokaze Park will stay up for only two months and be built from fiberglass-reinforced plastic over a steel frame and coated in a layer of awesomeoness... |
| Lunar: Harmony Of Silver Star Screens
May 18, 2009 at 6:30 am
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|  Lunar: The Silver Star is getting another remake, and has been rebranded Lunar: Harmony of Silver Star. In addition to the new name, the game's got a new look as well.
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| Bethesda Announcing Wii Game This Year
May 18, 2009 at 6:00 am
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|  Bethesda Softworks, the folks behind The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, is going to make a Wii game announcement this year — and a "really big Wii game" at that. In an interview with industry site GamesIndustry, Bethesda Europe's Sean Brennan questioned whether there's a market for 18-year-old-and-up Wii titles... |
| You Cannot Look Up This King of Fighters Skirt
May 18, 2009 at 5:30 am
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|  Upskirts, nipples and compromising poses, Street Fighter IV does not shy away from suggestive content. 2D fighter The King of Fighters XII, on the other hand, is showing some restraint. Hooray? In KoFXII, character Athena Asamiya has returned to wearing the sailor uniform she first donned in Psycho Solider. Her skirt is impenetrable — like Fort Knox, but Fort Knox you can wear to class. |
| Kojima Takes Countdown Clocks To Their Absurd Conclusion
May 18, 2009 at 5:00 am
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|  They're a passionate bunch, those Metal Gear fans. So when series creator Hideo Kojima throws up a simple flash page, you can bet they'll go absolutely bananas. In the wake of the site being updated with a naught but a single countdown clock, the flashing of the number "5" (or the letters "S"!) and some thunder & lightning (OMG RAIDEN MEANS THUNDER & LIGHTNING IN JAPANESE), the page's source code has been read, compiled, digested, analysed then read again by some the world's keenest Metal Gear fans, hungry for clues on what it all means. | | | 
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