| Kojima countdown site reveals 'MASK'
May 28, 2009 at 10:55 pm
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|   The weather's getting weirder on the Kojima Productions "NEXT" teaser site. Not only have glimpses of more letters and what appears to be Raiden begun to materialize as the 90 hour mark approaches, but clicking on the studio's eerily morphing logo now takes visitors to an age-gated site for "MASK." Fittingly, a mask appears, slowly revealing a ghastly female face...  Wait, isn't E3 next week? And isn't this game kind of a big deal for Sony? Ah, whatever. It's not the first game to blow cover this week, and it probably won't be the last.  And it continues. On and on and on. Kojima Productions updated its countdown page today, revealing this image. Is it Raiden? Is it Gray Fox? Is it Sunny? Who knows? Kojima does, that's who.  So, Prototype, we're a little worried about you, not gonna lie. Considering the recent wave of positive inFamous reviews, talk of Crackdown 2, and APB's E3 reveal, a game we once looked forward to greatly could quite possibly fall by the wayside.  MTV Games and Harmonix's Rock Band is getting a little heavier the week after E3, as the game's community 'zine has revealed that a dozen new Iron Maiden tracks will be released as downloadable content.
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| Analyst: This console cycle may never end
May 28, 2009 at 10:46 pm
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|  click for alternate headline image It's not too uncommon to say that the current crop of consoles won't be replaced for quite some time. Some believe that the current generation will last until around 2012, at which time it will be replaced by the next round of hardware (or the Apocalypse, if you swing that way). Others say that this generation of consoles will be the last, as publishers will soon jump to a unified platform rather than create disparate versions of games for a handful of platforms.  While PlayTV has been giving British PlayStation owners enhanced televisual experiences for some time, and the BBC has been working to improve the performance of the iPlayer on the Wii...  The latest report from research company EEDAR reveals that, despite complaints from gamers that publishers are overloading the fourth quarter every year, well-reviewed...  We just think it's adorable when publishers announce games that we've all known about for days already, like this release for Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest from Warner Bros.  The first 45 minutes of a platform holder's E3 media briefing follows the same formula: 1) Talk about the platform's position using fancy $10 words, 2) Show Data, 3) Spin...  THQ has officially confirmed work on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, yet another game set against the backdrop of Games Workshop's gritty tabletop universe. Relic has again been handed developer duties on the title...
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| Here's Your E3 White Knight Chronicles Trailer
May 28, 2009 at 10:30 pm
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|  Wait, isn't E3 next week? And isn't this game kind of a big deal for Sony? Ah, whatever. It's not the first game to blow cover this week, and it probably won't be the last. The weather's getting weirder on the Kojima Productions "NEXT" teaser site. Not only have glimpses of more letters and what appears to be Raiden begun to materialize as the 90 hour mark approaches... So, Prototype, we're a little worried about you, not gonna lie. Considering the recent wave of positive inFamous reviews, talk of Crackdown 2, and APB's E3 reveal, a game we once looked forward to greatly could quite possibly fall by the wayside. MTV Games and Harmonix's Rock Band is getting a little heavier the week after E3, as the game's community 'zine has revealed that a dozen new Iron Maiden tracks will be released as downloadable content.  Don't expect the PS3 Slim at E3! According to website Ars Technica, it won't be there. A "very well-informed mole" says that there won't be a PS3 Slim announcement next week at E3...  Been a while since we heard anything about Sony's upcoming PS3 & PC MMO "The Agency". But with E3 rapping at our chamber door, Sony have released a new CG trailer.
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| Industry pipes up on lack of overtime pay from crunch time
May 28, 2009 at 10:17 pm
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|  Just over a month ago, Joystiq talked to Epic Games' Mike Capps about crunch times in game development cycles and how many hours his employees are expected to work throughout the development of a game. Interestingly, Develop put the question of crunch time (among other things) to "over 350 industry professionals" via a poll and found that nearly 98 percent of respondents received no overtime pay for crunch work.  Some people say that the demand from video games has leveled off says Square Enix honcho Yoichi Wada. What to do, what to do. The reason for this, he continues, is that the customer base has been increasing.  Travis Touchdown is, in the end, Travis Touchdown -- no more, no less. The last time we saw him (in No More Heroes), he had advanced to ranking number one in the United Assassins Association...  Epic Games, the folks behind Gears of War, know a lot about how games are made now. So there's a good chance Epic has a good handle on the future. The company's Unreal Engine 3 powers a good chunk of this generation's titles.
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| Kojima Updates Site Yet Again With Familiar Face, Hidden Mystery Mask
May 28, 2009 at 9:45 pm
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| And it continues. On and on and on. Kojima Productions updated its countdown page today, revealing this image. Is it Raiden? Is it Gray Fox? Is it Sunny? Who knows? Kojima does, that's who. Him and his minions. There are also new letters: C, O, P. There's the number six, too. The site also sports a new Kojima Productions logo in the bottom corner. When it changes to a mask, click on the image, and it takes you to another site. That site has this:  Any doubt that the mysterious "Kojima Productions Next" project was not part of the Metal Gear Solid canon were erased today, when a character from the long-running series appeared on the game's--or games'-- teaser Web site.  The latest cycle in the mindf*** that is the Kojima Productions "NEXT" countdown page went live this evening, and beyond flashing two new letters ("P" and "R"), those who wait long enough can get startled with the face of a younger-looking Snake.  The last Kojima Productions countdown clock wasn't exactly climatic. This one will hopefully make up for it. The lighting and rain return, but the letters "R" and "P" flash on the screen.  When Kojima Productions launched a web teaser, many noticed "April 2007" written at the bottom of the page. People wondered what it referred to and if it was code for something.
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| Watch four minutes of Prototype, the death of a helicopter
May 28, 2009 at 9:32 pm
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| So, Prototype, we're a little worried about you, not gonna lie. Considering the recent wave of positive inFamous reviews, talk of Crackdown 2, and APB's E3 reveal, a game we once looked forward to greatly could quite possibly fall by the wayside. Luckily, the developer walkthrough of "mission #7" (found after the break) helps to assuage our concerns and brings back some fire into our lonely, cold hearts...  Even endangered furry space creatures are enamored with our mechanical pals, as evidenced by the latest robot we love, Clank. Insomniac's little robot buddy is the co-star...  Truly iron fists for The King of the Iron Fists Tournament. There isn't one Jack, but a series of these Russian robots: Jack, Jack-2, Jack-4, Jack-5, Jack-6, Gun Jack and Prototype Jack.  Lead a squad of Jedi Knights (or Clone Troopers!) as you tear through Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Republic Heroes and discover the mysteries lying between seasons 1 and 2 of the hit TV series. When Kojima Productions launched a web teaser, many noticed "April 2007" written at the bottom of the page. People wondered what it referred to and if it was code for something.
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| Japanese Hardware War Now Officially Boring
May 28, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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|  Minor fluctuations in the currently tepid Japanese console race don't make this week's Media Create chart all that exciting, to be honest. A slightly slinking PlayStation presence and marginally expanded Nintendo one isn't exactly thrilling. But neither was the software contest, which saw a pair of Nintendo DS titles beating out the Japanese release of Mass Effect. The Xbox 360 game gave Microsoft's console a slight bump in sales, but not enough to push it past PlayStation 2 sales. While PlayTV has been giving British PlayStation owners enhanced televisual experiences for some time, and the BBC has been working to improve the performance of the iPlayer on the Wii...  Sega got a taste of crossover success with 2007's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, and the publisher has been making the original gaming speed freak play nice with other brands ever since.  While BioWare's Mass Effect didn't score top placement in this week's Japanese software sales chart—Sloane to MacHale: Nazo no Monogatari did—it had a pretty damn good showing, considering the platform's last place position.
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| EEDAR analyst apologizes for his report supporting the Q4 wallet drain
May 28, 2009 at 9:07 pm
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| The latest report from research company EEDAR reveals that, despite complaints from gamers that publishers are overloading the fourth quarter every year, well-reviewed titles typically perform 15-20 percent better than games with high Metacritic released in the "off season.  Keeping motivated is one of the biggest problems with any plan to get in shape. Countless aspiring exercisers have bought gym memberships that went unused, or treadmills that wound up next to the washer and dryer...  by Leigh Alexander The notoriously insular and fickle Brooklyn music scene has had its doors blown off, and the culprit is – NES sound chip music? Chiptune music –...  Anecdotally, Nintendo's DS and Wii systems have a glut of subpar offerings rushed out to capitalize on both systems' wide-ranging popularity. Electronic Entertainment... We just think it's adorable when publishers announce games that we've all known about for days already, like this release for Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest from Warner Bros.
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| Microsoft Shooting For A 300,000 Player Online Game?
May 28, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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|  Yeah, you read that right. 300,000 players. A job listing issued by Microsoft's says exactly that, indicating that the game will be for the 360 and that it will be in "real-time". The job is specifically looking for somebody who is "an experienced server developer to help develop our server architecture. We are building an extremely high performance system to extend console games to the server in new ways; creating a completely new set of web services to support dynamic programming information of games and scheduling data".  Atlus Online throws open the doors to Neo Steam, launching the open beta test for their first massively multiplayer online offering. JoyImpact's Neo Steam: The Shattered...  The North American version of Ntreev's popular online fantasy golf game Pangya is officially back in business as of today. Pangya is a free-to-play, microtransaction-based...  THQ's first foray into the world of imported massively multiplayer online gaming is off to a good start, as THQ*ICE announces a preview beta for Dragonica Online at the end of May.
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| Wii | EA Sports Active Review
May 28, 2009 at 8:53 pm
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|  Keeping motivated is one of the biggest problems with any plan to get in shape. Countless aspiring exercisers have bought gym memberships that went unused, or treadmills that wound up next to the washer and dryer, doing time as the world's most expensive clothesline.  Electronic Arts has announced its "final" E3 2009 lineup, a list of games it plans to showcase at next week's video game expo. EA's list is expansive, making the more profitable competition's showing look minuscule.  At another Electronic Arts event, this time down in Los Angeles, we got another opportunity to check out Spore Hero for the Nintendo Wii. This is an entirely new game built specifically for the Wii...  Do you long for the days when video game ads were designed to attack or undermine competitive products? Don't despair. We can confirm such days are still here. EA's got a Wii fitness game.  Majesco is bending the very fabric of space to bring us Flip's Twisted World, an upside-down platformer for the Nintendo Wii, which they'll be showing off next week at E3 2009.  The Nintendo Wii and DS obviously won't last forever -- certainly not in their current forms. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata admitted as much in an investor call (via Eurogamer)...
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| Here's (Some Of) What Namco Bandai's Bringing To E3
May 28, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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|  Publisher Namco Bandai doesn't seem quite ready to reveal its entire E3 lineup for 2009, but it has let us know which of its games are definitely going to be there. Any surprises? No, silly. Why would there be surprises in a partially-revealed lineup of games that Namco Bandai is showing off at E3? It's obviously trying to get the biggest announcement bang for its many bucks spent on booth space, so expect any "megaton" announcements to happen next week, not this week. Still, there's a solid lineup of fighting games and such to be had.  One of the more interesting features on Sony's integrated hardware front is the PSP-to-PlayStation 3 Remote Play functionality. With it, gamers can access media stored on their PS3 by way of their handheld device.  Namco Bandai and tri-Crescendo's role-playing game Fragile is coming to North American Wiis later this year, thanks to publisher XSEED. If you were a fan of Baten Kaitos or Eternal Sonata, this one's for you. Anecdotally, Nintendo's DS and Wii systems have a glut of subpar offerings rushed out to capitalize on both systems' wide-ranging popularity. Electronic Entertainment... We just think it's adorable when publishers announce games that we've all known about for days already, like this release for Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest from Warner Bros.
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| Doom should come to iPhone next month
May 28, 2009 at 8:37 pm
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|  We wish all devs were as forthcoming as id's John Carmack. His update on the status of the iPhone version of Doom (or Doom Classic, as he's calling it) is exhaustive, but it's also rich with information and insight into porting an old-school classic onto new tech ... and doing it well. We've dug up a few nuggets for you, like the fact that Carmack says he should be able to submit the game to the App Store by next month and that the game will use the original Doom sprites, but you should really take a few minutes to read the whole thing, it's really interesting stuff. MTV Games and Harmonix's Rock Band is getting a little heavier the week after E3, as the game's community 'zine has revealed that a dozen new Iron Maiden tracks will be released as downloadable content.  The transition to new, higher-definition 2D sprites in The King of Fighters XII didn't just happen overnight. SNK Playmore illustrates why that process has taken so long with its animation showcase, "2D Dot Gallery.  The signs are so clear that Apple wants a bigger slice of the gaming pie, you probably don't need us offering our own cockamamie theories (iPhun!). But maybe Yves Guillemot will be enough to convince you.  If playing through modern, quicktime event heavy games like God of War has you feeling nostalgic for the era of laserdisc arcade games -- when QTEs were the only kind...
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| Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits Theme Song Coming to Guitar Hero World Tour
May 28, 2009 at 8:36 pm
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|  Activision is announcing anotherfree track that will be available for free during E3. To celebrate Guitar HeroOn Tour: Modern Hits launching on June 9th, gamers can download the game’s themesong for free for Guitar Hero World Tour starting June 4th. One of the more interesting features on Sony's integrated hardware front is the PSP-to-PlayStation 3 Remote Play functionality. With it, gamers can access media stored on their PS3 by way of their handheld device.  Activision passed us some Stan Bush swag in celebration of "The Touch" being available as free downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour. If you know your Transformers the Movie trivia, it could be yours.  Sadly, the Sony Aino mobile phone isn't the fabled PSPhone, but it does support one feature from the handheld device. Using the phone you will be able to access your PS3 via Remote Play and...  It's official. Activision is headed to E3 and it's bringing with it a bunch of games, including the highly anticipated Modern Warfare 2 and the nervously anticipated Tony Hawk: Ride.
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| Aksys Launches Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past
May 28, 2009 at 8:33 pm
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| Aksys Games is pleased to announcethe arrival of Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past on Nintendo DS!Developed by WorkJam, the creators of Theresia and the Jake Hunter series, thisinstallment takes players back to the city of Aspicio to unravel the manymysteries that stand in the way of Jake Hunter! Can you solve Jake's toughestcases yet, or will you let him disappear into the memories of the past? Minor fluctuations in the currently tepid Japanese console race don't make this week's Media Create chart all that exciting, to be honest. A slightly slinking PlayStation presence and marginally expanded Nintendo one isn't exactly thrilling. While BioWare's Mass Effect didn't score top placement in this week's Japanese software sales chart—Sloane to MacHale: Nazo no Monogatari did—it had a pretty damn good showing, considering the platform's last place position.  Sega continues to milk their blue hedgehog for all he's worth, with the announcement of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, which takes the world's fastest video game character and puts him in a car.  It's not just Japan, North America and Europe that are bonkers for the Nintendo DS. Australia is too, with the local Nintendo outpost announcing today that the console has sold two million units since launch.
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| DJ Hero to feature 80 original mixes of 100 songs
May 28, 2009 at 8:20 pm
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|  We assumed DJ Hero's musical offerings would be impressive (considering the source of the mash-ups therein), but a recent Activision press release just gave us an idea to the number of tunes we'll be weaving together this fall -- according to the release, the game "features more than 100 individual songs that have been transformed into more than 80 exclusive, original mixes."  With E3 coming up, and amazing and/or hilariously awkward conferences on the way (get your bingo cards ready!), Crispy Gamer's Kyle Orland offers a look back at the most memorable conference moments of E3's past. Activision passed us some Stan Bush swag in celebration of "The Touch" being available as free downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour. If you know your Transformers the Movie trivia, it could be yours.  Activision has announced the first-person shooter Wolfenstein will hit store shelves on August 4. As is customary, Wolfenstein will put players behind the gun of American...  Activision's latest attempt at re-igniting the public's fascination with the Nazi occult will be put to the test this August, with the release of Raven's Wolfenstein title for the 360, PS3 and PC.
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| Wii RPG Fragile Coming Stateside Via XSEED
May 28, 2009 at 8:20 pm
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| Namco Bandai and tri-Crescendo's role-playing game Fragile is coming to North American Wiis later this year, thanks to publisher XSEED. If you were a fan of Baten Kaitos or Eternal Sonata, this one's for you. According to IGN, XSEED has picked up Namco Bandai of America's publishing slack, with Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon arriving sometime this Winter. The game, which features the adventures of a boy name Seto in a post-apocalyptic world devoid of light, makes extensive use of the Wii remote, which acts as a flashlight and metal detector in-game. Publisher Namco Bandai doesn't seem quite ready to reveal its entire E3 lineup for 2009, but it has let us know which of its games are definitely going to be there. Any surprises? No, silly. While BioWare's Mass Effect didn't score top placement in this week's Japanese software sales chart—Sloane to MacHale: Nazo no Monogatari did—it had a pretty damn good showing, considering the platform's last place position.  When XSEED and Namco Bandai meet, wonderful things happen. The last Banamco title to be localized by the publisher was Retro Game Challenge. Today, XSEED announced to IGN that it will publish Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon in North America...  Troubled real-time strategy and role-playing developer Big Huge Games lives on, with Curt Schilling's 38 Studios stepping up at the last moment for a late game save. 38 Studios has purchased Big Huge Games from THQ...
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| New Wolfmother Single Available for Free Download onGH5.GuitarHero.com
May 28, 2009 at 8:20 pm
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| Australian rockers Wolfmother aremaking Guitar Hero history with the release of their “Back Round” single, nowavailable for free download exclusively atGH5.GuitarHero.com. Forthe first time in franchise history, music featured in a Guitar Hero game isbeing offered as a free digital download, prior to its public release. The song,which is to be featured in Activision’s upcoming Guitar Hero 5, is set to be thefirst single off their upcoming album Cosmic Egg, due out in September. GuitarHero 5 is scheduled for release on September 1, 2009. Activision passed us some Stan Bush swag in celebration of "The Touch" being available as free downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour. If you know your Transformers the Movie trivia, it could be yours.  With Fahey's life-long crusade nearing its rapturous conclusion, Activision have announced that Stan Bush's "The Touch" will be available as a free download for Guitar Hero: World Tour on May 28. It's official. Activision is headed to E3 and it's bringing with it a bunch of games, including the highly anticipated Modern Warfare 2 and the nervously anticipated Tony Hawk: Ride.  How does Neversoft follow up on Guitar Hero World Tour, the game that introduced full-band instruments to the Guitar Hero series, which represented the single biggest...
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| Rock Band To Feel The Pain Of Iron Maiden In June
May 28, 2009 at 8:00 pm
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| MTV Games and Harmonix's Rock Band is getting a little heavier the week after E3, as the game's community 'zine has revealed that a dozen new Iron Maiden tracks will be released as downloadable content. The Iron Maiden track pack brings 12 classic tracks and new live concert performances to Rock Band and Rock Band 2, all of which are master recordings. The live stuff is from Iron Maiden's tour documentary Flight 666, but it may be the old school metal tracks that are most drool-worthy to fans. We wish all devs were as forthcoming as id's John Carmack. His update on the status of the iPhone version of Doom (or Doom Classic, as he's calling it) is exhaustive,...  The official Rock Band Community Zine has announced that a new batch of Iron Maiden tracks is headed to the game. The 12 upcoming tracks were all played during the band's recent Somewhere Back in Time World Tour and all are master recordings. The transition to new, higher-definition 2D sprites in The King of Fighters XII didn't just happen overnight. SNK Playmore illustrates why that process has taken so long with its animation showcase, "2D Dot Gallery.  Speaking to musicradar.com, Dhani Harrison, son of the Beatles' George Harrison, took care not to mince his words when discussing The Beatles: Rock Band. Naturally, one...
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| PlayStation 3 | Sonic, Sega All-Stars return to kart racing
May 28, 2009 at 7:57 pm
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| Sega got a taste of crossover success with 2007's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, and the publisher has been making the original gaming speed freak play nice with other brands ever since. Beyond this year's Winter Games follow-up, Sonic also crossed over into Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Sega Superstars Tennis, and now Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. One of the more interesting features on Sony's integrated hardware front is the PSP-to-PlayStation 3 Remote Play functionality. With it, gamers can access media stored on their PS3 by way of their handheld device. Anecdotally, Nintendo's DS and Wii systems have a glut of subpar offerings rushed out to capitalize on both systems' wide-ranging popularity. Electronic Entertainment...  After unveiling its new first-person shooter Homefront yesterday, THQ has followed up with a bevy of game announcements, starting with Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine...  Sony may not yet be ready to dive in feet first with a PlayStation branded phone, but the new Sony Ericsson Aino brings some of that "gadget to gadget" magic Sony bossman Howard Stringer teased.
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| PlayStation 3 | New Phone offers PS3 Remote Play
May 28, 2009 at 7:56 pm
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| One of the more interesting features on Sony's integrated hardware front is the PSP-to-PlayStation 3 Remote Play functionality. With it, gamers can access media stored on their PS3 by way of their handheld device. Today, Sony Ericsson announced that it would be incorporating that same functionality into its newest mobile phone, the Aino. Sega got a taste of crossover success with 2007's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, and the publisher has been making the original gaming speed freak play nice with other brands ever since. Anecdotally, Nintendo's DS and Wii systems have a glut of subpar offerings rushed out to capitalize on both systems' wide-ranging popularity. Electronic Entertainment... After unveiling its new first-person shooter Homefront yesterday, THQ has followed up with a bevy of game announcements, starting with Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine... Sadly, the Sony Aino mobile phone isn't the fabled PSPhone, but it does support one feature from the handheld device. Using the phone you will be able to access your PS3 via Remote Play and...
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| Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon Coming To America
May 28, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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|  Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon 'Danger' trailerXSEED won't be bringing Muramasa: The Demon Blade to America, but that doesn't mean they're done localizing titles for the Wii. The latest is Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon, will was recently released in Japan and will now be coming to North America.  Electronic Arts has narrowed its previously announced fall release window for Dead Space Extraction. The Wii-exclusive experiment is set to slice into retail shelves (and necromorphs' limbs) in North America on September 29. When XSEED and Namco Bandai meet, wonderful things happen. The last Banamco title to be localized by the publisher was Retro Game Challenge. Today, XSEED announced to IGN that it will publish Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon in North America... It's not just Japan, North America and Europe that are bonkers for the Nintendo DS. Australia is too, with the local Nintendo outpost announcing today that the console has sold two million units since launch.  According to Gamasutra, Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey isn't buying the release dates Take Two is selling. Hickey has "concerns" about the announced release date for...
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| Kotaku Robot Wars Round Three: Salvation
May 28, 2009 at 4:20 pm
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|  The Kotaku Robot Wars continue on the other side of the world, as Osaka Japan and Canberra Australia are reduced to steaming piles of rubble and broken robot parts...but whose broken robot parts? Once more we pit the power of human intuition against the mechanical will of Crecente's R2-D2 robot to try and predict the outcome of the Kotaku Robot Wars...  The first round of Kotaku's Robot Wars have left four U.S. cities in ruins and four video game robots nothing more than mounds of melted plastic and metal. Who survived to fight again? Well that all depends on who you ask.  Kotaku's newfound obsession with robots hs drawn mechanical video game characters from throughout time and space to do battle in the Robot Wars - and only you can decide...
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| See Gladiator A.D. in bloody action
May 28, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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|  We know that it's not fair to pass judgment on a game when its at an early stage of development, but we're having a problem with this first trailer for High Voltage's new Gladiator A.D. Namely: It doesn't look very good. It's not that it doesn't look fun, there's no way of knowing that, but it just looks really ... homely.  High Voltage are working on The Conduit. And Gladiator AD. And now they've just revealed a third game, only a day after revealing Gladiator. Slow down, guys! This third title is called The Grinder...  Last week, Conduit devs High Voltage Software promised that a new IP would be revealed at E3. Well, the convention is still a week away, but High Voltage has unveiled Gladiator AD anyway...  Spore Creatures did extremely well for Electronic Arts last year, so it's no surprise that the company would want to continue the trend by bringing Spore once again to Nintendo's handheld.  Conduit developers High Voltage mustn't have got the memo. E3 is next week, not this week. Regardless, they've chosen today to announce their latest project, Gladiator AD.
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| Ubisoft boss thinks Apple will make new gaming hardware
May 28, 2009 at 4:09 pm
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| The signs are so clear that Apple wants a bigger slice of the gaming pie, you probably don't need us offering our own cockamamie theories (iPhun!). But maybe Yves Guillemot will be enough to convince you. During an earnings call yesterday, the Ubisoft boss said "There's also a new entrant in the business. [That entrant is] Apple, with the iPhone. And we don't think they will stop there."  Okay, so DS hasn't really bested Paul Hogan's popularity -- as the man is an Australian legend -- but it is the fastest-selling piece of gaming hardware ever down under. If playing through modern, quicktime event heavy games like God of War has you feeling nostalgic for the era of laserdisc arcade games -- when QTEs were the only kind...  Next week, all eyes will be on E3, as the video game industry blows the doors off the Los Angeles Convention Center with megaton-caliber announcements. There will be short shorts, there will be news.  With just four days left until E3 2009 kicks off, Microsoft's press conference first out of the gate, speculation runs rampant, fanboy bunkers are being built, and countdown clocks come ever closer to death.
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| Fight Night Round 4 Demo on Xbox Live
May 28, 2009 at 4:01 pm
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|  The News: A demo for Fight Night Round 4 has been released on the Xbox Live Marketplace today. Weighing in at a hefty 784 MB, this is the same demo that was included with pre-orders of the game earlier this month, and is now available to Gold subscribers. It features Ricky Hatton and Manny Pacquiao fighting it out.Our Take: Even if you're not able to play as Iron Mike or Muhammad Ali, getting in some realistic punches might be a good reprieve if you're tired of being beaten down by Soda Popinski and Mr. Sandman in Punch-Out!! Give the demo a try and hit us with some of your thoughts. The first 45 minutes of a platform holder's E3 media briefing follows the same formula: 1) Talk about the platform's position using fancy $10 words, 2) Show Data, 3) Spin...  Microsoft has announced that global sales of the Xbox 360 have now surpassed the 30 million mark, with the Xbox Live community swelling to 20 million active members, all swearing at each other.  Attention digital pugilism fans everywhere: A Fight Night Round 4 demo is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace. Weighing in at 784MB and wearing the Gold Member Exclusive trunks, the demo is no featherweight either.  A good deal of speculation surrounded Microsoft's 2008 Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference, fueled primarily by a massive information leak by market-research firm Intellisponse.
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| The Three (Or More, Or Less) Laws Of Gaming AI
May 28, 2009 at 4:00 pm
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|  It's pure fantasy. Robots won't ever actually rise up and go to war with humanity. You know why? Because the robots of the future will be governed by Asimov's three laws of robotics. For those who don't know what those are, know that sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov established three basic laws governing the programming of robots for his works, which later became almost canonical amongst other sci-fi writers, and which remain popular to this day. Next week, all eyes will be on E3, as the video game industry blows the doors off the Los Angeles Convention Center with megaton-caliber announcements. There will be short shorts, there will be news.  After Lair tanked, things haven't been going all too well for Factor 5. In fact, things got so bad that the company's North American arm was severed not too long ago....  We're still not sure why anyone would want to retrofit video games with last-gen tech and turn them into books, but sci-fi/fantasy publisher Tor has apparently had a lot of success with the practice lately, with franchises like Halo and Dragon Age.  Today Sega delivers a wealth of screens, details, and even a teaser video for the upcoming update to Rebellion's original Aliens VS Predator. Like the PC original, the new Aliens VS Predator title will feature three separate campaign modes...
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| Sony's New Phone Lets You Stream Media From Your PS3
May 28, 2009 at 3:40 pm
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| Sony may not yet be ready to dive in feet first with a PlayStation branded phone, but the new Sony Ericsson Aino brings some of that "gadget to gadget" magic Sony bossman Howard Stringer teased. The Aino will let users control their PlayStation 3s using "Remote Play," allowing for across-the-internet streaming of media from your home console to your cell phone. Not bad. While it may not let you play Lair on the bus, it will apparently let you stream movies, music and whatever other media content you may have stored on your PS3 wherever you are in the world.  The Sega Blog has announced that Sonic and his friends will once again be starring in a racing game. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing features a who's who of well-known Sega characters kart racing for glory.  Natsume has revealed their full game line up for E3 2009, and this time around only 40% of the games have Harvest Moon in the title. By far the most exciting title Natsume will be showing at E3 is the long-awaited PlayStation 3 title Afrika... Sega continues to milk their blue hedgehog for all he's worth, with the announcement of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, which takes the world's fastest video game character and puts him in a car.  Sony has announced on the PlayStation.Blog that six new titles are being added to the PlayStation 3 "Greatest Hits" line. Starting June 16, each will be available for $29.
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| DS more popular than Paul Hogan in Australia
May 28, 2009 at 3:37 pm
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| Okay, so DS hasn't really bested Paul Hogan's popularity -- as the man is an Australian legend -- but it is the fastest-selling piece of gaming hardware ever down under. Edge reports the DS, DS Lite and DSi have pulled together to sell two million units in a span of 221 weeks, the fastest any platform has managed to reach that coveted two-million milestone. Nintendo of Australia boasts that the DS has been the number one console in Australia for three years. That's just ... wow. The signs are so clear that Apple wants a bigger slice of the gaming pie, you probably don't need us offering our own cockamamie theories (iPhun!). But maybe Yves Guillemot will be enough to convince you.  Well, that about wraps it up for video games. No, no, we're serious. There's a new world order and we'd highly suggest that you get in line. How are we so sure? Because SOE's free MMO Free Realms just crossed the two-million-player mark.  Blocks rain from the sky, blotting out the sun with their odd shapes and vivid colors. Your only hope to survive this onslaught is to match colors, banishing these blocks with strings of carefully constructed combos.  This week's Japanese hardware contest wasn't a proud one, with total hardware unit sales just barely cracking the 100,000 mark. Not good. But it was a winning week for the Nintendo DSi and Wii.
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| Crash the castle, 'Wolfenstein' ships August 4
May 28, 2009 at 3:27 pm
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| Activision has announced the first-person shooter Wolfenstein will hit store shelves on August 4. As is customary, Wolfenstein will put players behind the gun of American soldier BJ Blazkowicz as he battles a horde of horrific monsters (also known as Nazis) as well as actual supernatural beasts. Originally announced as an Xbox 360 timed-exclusive at Microsoft's X05 event in Amsterdam, the Raven Software developed sequel to the classic franchise will be made available for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. A World War II-era cameo from Wolverine (also developed by Raven) has yet to be confirmed. Electronic Arts has narrowed its previously announced fall release window for Dead Space Extraction. The Wii-exclusive experiment is set to slice into retail shelves (and necromorphs' limbs) in North America on September 29.  In the latest episode of Crash TV, Criterion takes us on a guided tour of Big Surf Island, the major chunk of new real estate coming to Burnout Paradise next month. After a year of driving around Paradise City... Don't expect the PS3 Slim at E3! According to website Ars Technica, it won't be there. A "very well-informed mole" says that there won't be a PS3 Slim announcement next week at E3...  Sony's 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference was dominated by one big reveal: the PlayStation 3. To give gamers an idea of the kind of support that the PS3 would receive on launch...
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| 4mm unveils Def Jam Rapstar
May 28, 2009 at 3:23 pm
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|  Ask anyone who knows us: Joystiq understands hip-hop culture. So does the recently-revealed 4mm which today unveiled its maiden project: Def Jam Rapstar, a trailer for which we've nestled lovingly after the break. How do you know it's speaking to the hip-hop community so well with its new rapping game? Because CEO Nicholas Perrett manages to use the phrases "games that live long beyond the box," "MMO-esque," "long tail" and "game-like" in a single paragraph of the announcement story. Street? Street.  With its deep gameplay and sexy simplicity, Nabi Studio's Toribash could have gone to any platform. But it's going to WiiWare ... because that's where it's needed. Creator...  The PlayStation 3 is becoming known for its range of quirky, nontraditional games, such as Flow, Flower, and Noby Noby Boy. Now, one of the first announced titles to fit into this alternative category has been given a due date.  MTV Games' Rock Band series shrinks down and drops the plastic instruments for the PlayStation Portable release Rock Band Unplugged, which turns the band video game series into a break out solo effort. Lead a squad of Jedi Knights (or Clone Troopers!) as you tear through Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Republic Heroes and discover the mysteries lying between seasons 1 and 2 of the hit TV series.
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| Space Ace Released for iPhone
May 28, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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| If playing through modern, quicktime event heavy games like God of War has you feeling nostalgic for the era of laserdisc arcade games -- when QTEs were the only kind of events -- then you'll be delighted to hear that Don Bluth's classic Space Ace is now available on iPhone and iPod Touch. The signs are so clear that Apple wants a bigger slice of the gaming pie, you probably don't need us offering our own cockamamie theories (iPhun!). But maybe Yves Guillemot will be enough to convince you.  Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot predicted today not just a coming generation of consoles and a gaming revolution in set-top boxes, but a bigger gaming play by Apple than just the iPhone.  Infectious makes skins for everything from iPods to cars, but what interests me most over on their site right now is this slick iPhone skin. Monochrome is a set of stickers that makes your iPhone look like an old school handheld...
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| Dead Space Extraction Extracts Itself In September
May 28, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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|  EA has given the Wii installment of their survival horror franchise a release date, with Dead Space Extraction scheduled to hit a little under a year after the original game. September 29th marks the date that Wii owners get shot of EA-flavored survival horror. Dead Space Extraction is an on-rails shooter that tells the story of what happened before the player shows up in Dead Space, so one can pretty much assume that things don't end too well. Electronic Arts has narrowed its previously announced fall release window for Dead Space Extraction. The Wii-exclusive experiment is set to slice into retail shelves (and necromorphs' limbs) in North America on September 29. The Sega Blog has announced that Sonic and his friends will once again be starring in a racing game. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing features a who's who of well-known Sega characters kart racing for glory. Sega continues to milk their blue hedgehog for all he's worth, with the announcement of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, which takes the world's fastest video game character and puts him in a car. When XSEED and Namco Bandai meet, wonderful things happen. The last Banamco title to be localized by the publisher was Retro Game Challenge. Today, XSEED announced to IGN that it will publish Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon in North America...
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| 2009 Life. Love. Game Design Challenge Winners Unveiled
May 28, 2009 at 3:00 pm
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|  Is it possible to educate about teen dating violence through a violence-free video game? That's the idea behind the annual Life. Love Game Design Challenge, now in it's second year. Jennifer Ann's Group today announced the winners of their second annual flash game design contest, handing out $1,500 to Jared Sain for first place. Runners Up Brian Crick and Toronja Concepts each received $100. A door prize of another $100 was awarded to Bence Joful. The News: A demo for Fight Night Round 4 has been released on the Xbox Live Marketplace today. Weighing in at a hefty 784 MB, this is the same demo that was included with pre-orders of the game earlier this month... Sony may not yet be ready to dive in feet first with a PlayStation branded phone, but the new Sony Ericsson Aino brings some of that "gadget to gadget" magic Sony bossman Howard Stringer teased. It's pure fantasy. Robots won't ever actually rise up and go to war with humanity. You know why? Because the robots of the future will be governed by Asimov's three laws of robotics. We know that it's not fair to pass judgment on a game when its at an early stage of development, but we're having a problem with this first trailer for High Voltage's new Gladiator A.
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| High Voltage Software announces celebrity appearance at E3 booth
May 28, 2009 at 2:58 pm
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| The upcoming Wii first-person shooter The Conduit developer High Voltage Software officially announced that Mark A. Sheppard, the voice actor for the game’s main character of Mr. Ford, would be appearing at their booth at next month’s Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3). Mark Sheppard is the London born actor who played Romo Lampkin in “Battlestar Galactica”, Badger in “Firefly”, Dr... Activision has announced the first-person shooter Wolfenstein will hit store shelves on August 4. As is customary, Wolfenstein will put players behind the gun of American...  The winner of the E3 2009 T-shirt contest is Christine Sununu of The Granite State (New Hampshire). The garment will be available for purchase during the show, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Midnight Mission... Next week, all eyes will be on E3, as the video game industry blows the doors off the Los Angeles Convention Center with megaton-caliber announcements. There will be short shorts, there will be news.  We mentioned this earlier, but we thought you might like some more details. So, odds are we won't be seeing you at E3 (you'd recognize us by our rugged good looks and sun-bronzed skin)...
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| Official E3 2009 T-shirt revealed, reminder of blood drive
May 28, 2009 at 2:58 pm
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| The winner of the E3 2009 T-shirt contest is Christine Sununu of The Granite State (New Hampshire). The garment will be available for purchase during the show, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Midnight Mission, an LA-based organization helping the homeless. Also, as a reminder, the Red Cross will have a blood drive on site (you do not to be an attendee to donate), but you have to make an appointment... Next week, all eyes will be on E3, as the video game industry blows the doors off the Los Angeles Convention Center with megaton-caliber announcements. There will be short shorts, there will be news. We mentioned this earlier, but we thought you might like some more details. So, odds are we won't be seeing you at E3 (you'd recognize us by our rugged good looks and sun-bronzed skin)... Natsume has revealed their full game line up for E3 2009, and this time around only 40% of the games have Harvest Moon in the title. By far the most exciting title Natsume will be showing at E3 is the long-awaited PlayStation 3 title Afrika...  Thanks to his or her flawless track record, when Ars Technica's mole speaks, we listen. So you'll understand why rumors of the PSP Go! and slim PS3 seem just a little more likely to us this morning.
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| Sonic and Sega all-stars race in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
May 28, 2009 at 2:55 pm
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| The last Sonic the Hedgehog racing game (not counting the flying snowboard business) was Sonic R on the Saturn, back in 1997. Sega has revived the idea of a Sonic racing game in the form of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, adding some friends from other Sega games, including Super Monkey Ball's AiAi the monkey and Samba de Amigo's Amigo the ... other monkey. The Sega Blog has announced that Sonic and his friends will once again be starring in a racing game. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing features a who's who of well-known Sega characters kart racing for glory. Sega continues to milk their blue hedgehog for all he's worth, with the announcement of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, which takes the world's fastest video game character and puts him in a car.  In one week, E3 will reveal just about every major game you will be able to play in the next year. For racing game fans, these are the big ones expected at the big show: Blur - Activision is hoping for a Call Of Duty-scale new racing franchise...  According to VG247, the console versions of Codemaster's upcoming post-apocalyptic racing game Fuel has been delayed one week, with its release moved from May 26 to June 5.
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| TOMY unveils E3 lineup; New Naruto Titles Announced
May 28, 2009 at 2:54 pm
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| Consumer software and entertainmentcompany, TOMY Corporation, announced today it will be unveiling two new titlesbased on the popular NARUTO™ Shippuden series, NARUTO™ Shippuden: Clash of NinjaRevolution 3 for Wii™ and NARUTO™ Shippuden: Ninja Destiny 2 for Nintendo DS™ atthe upcoming 2009 E3 Expo in Los Angeles, June 2-4... EA has given the Wii installment of their survival horror franchise a release date, with Dead Space Extraction scheduled to hit a little under a year after the original game. Sega continues to milk their blue hedgehog for all he's worth, with the announcement of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, which takes the world's fastest video game character and puts him in a car.  This year, Nintendo's E3 media briefing will be all "about the games," with promises from the Wii maker that we won't be subjected to tales of Mother's Day cards and on-stage snowboarding.  Before you fire up the grill this Memorial Day, Nintendo has plenty of new downloadable goods to choose from. The Virtual Console's lone offering this week is the Genesis classic Clay Fighter...
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| DJ Hero Superstar DJ's Offer Exclusive Original Mixes
May 28, 2009 at 2:52 pm
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| DJ Hero™ will drop the needle on oneof the most anticipated new video games of 2009 with a completely freshexperience and legendary artists including Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent, Justice,Marvin Gaye, Beck, Beastie Boys and N. The News: A demo for Fight Night Round 4 has been released on the Xbox Live Marketplace today. Weighing in at a hefty 784 MB, this is the same demo that was included with pre-orders of the game earlier this month... Sony may not yet be ready to dive in feet first with a PlayStation branded phone, but the new Sony Ericsson Aino brings some of that "gadget to gadget" magic Sony bossman Howard Stringer teased. It's pure fantasy. Robots won't ever actually rise up and go to war with humanity. You know why? Because the robots of the future will be governed by Asimov's three laws of robotics. We know that it's not fair to pass judgment on a game when its at an early stage of development, but we're having a problem with this first trailer for High Voltage's new Gladiator A.
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| Disney Interactive Studios Announces JONAS for Nintendo DS
May 28, 2009 at 2:50 pm
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| From sold out shows to the big andsmall screens, the Jonas Brothers will take over the video game world as wellthis holiday. Disney Interactive Studios today announced the development ofJONAS for Nintendo DS. The game allows players to take on the role of threesuperstar brothers – Nick, Joe and Kevin Lucas in outrageous adventures from theDisney Channel comedy series “JONAS.” Players help the JONAS band members juggleconcerts, school, friends and fans to find the balance between their rock starworld and ordinary lives. Sega continues to milk their blue hedgehog for all he's worth, with the announcement of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, which takes the world's fastest video game character and puts him in a car. It's not just Japan, North America and Europe that are bonkers for the Nintendo DS. Australia is too, with the local Nintendo outpost announcing today that the console has sold two million units since launch.  A new Pirates of the Caribbean game has been spotted on the horizon. Disney Interactive Studios announced today that the popular swashbuckling series is returning to gaming waters.  At its surface, Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier is nothing more than a generic Japanese role-playing game that was seemingly cranked out of an RPG-O-Matic machine.
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| Saints Row 2: Corporate Warfare DLC Pack Now Available
May 28, 2009 at 2:42 pm
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| THQ Inc. today announced that thesecond downloadable content pack for Saints Row 2, titled Corporate Warfare, isnow available for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoftand PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. The News: A demo for Fight Night Round 4 has been released on the Xbox Live Marketplace today. Weighing in at a hefty 784 MB, this is the same demo that was included with pre-orders of the game earlier this month... The first 45 minutes of a platform holder's E3 media briefing follows the same formula: 1) Talk about the platform's position using fancy $10 words, 2) Show Data, 3) Spin... Microsoft has announced that global sales of the Xbox 360 have now surpassed the 30 million mark, with the Xbox Live community swelling to 20 million active members, all swearing at each other.
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| MGS4, Ratchet, others $30 as PS3 'Greatest Hits' starting June 16
May 28, 2009 at 10:11 am
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|  Old Snake, domestic partners Ratchet and Clank, glam goth Nero and others, will be offered up as PS3 "Greatest Hits" for $30 starting June 16. This will be the second round of discounted best-selling software for the console, as the first batch hit at around the same time last year. The latest additions include:  Sony today added six more Playstation 3 titles to their Greatest Hits library, dropping the price of the half-dozen to $30 each. Army of Two, Battlefield: Bad Company...  We got a chance to go hands-on with EA Montreal's follow up to the original Army of Two a few weeks prior to E3, a chance to strap on the Kevlar vest again. The two private...  Who doesn't love the introduction of a pint-sized sidekick who cracks wise in established franchises? I know I do. So I hope these new screens of Army of Two: The 40th Day are telling.  In this week's issue of Famitsu magazine, Namco Bandai announced the latest additions to the character cast of Tales of VS., the PSP fighter featuring the stars of all 13 games in the Tales series.
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| Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine cleansing consoles for the emperor
May 28, 2009 at 9:45 am
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| THQ has officially confirmed work on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, yet another game set against the backdrop of Games Workshop's gritty tabletop universe. Relic has again been handed developer duties on the title, though unlike Dawn of War, the console-focused Space Marine will be an action RPG that lets players control individual units through a "narrative-driven story campaign and in wide-scale online battles." Well, that about wraps it up for video games. No, no, we're serious. There's a new world order and we'd highly suggest that you get in line. How are we so sure? Because SOE's free MMO Free Realms just crossed the two-million-player mark.  After job advertisements and some exquisite leaked footage prematurely lifted the lid on the game last year, THQ have just officially announced Space Marine, a Warhammer 40K "Action RPG". Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot predicted today not just a coming generation of consoles and a gaming revolution in set-top boxes, but a bigger gaming play by Apple than just the iPhone.
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| Wolfenstein Will Be Out In August
May 28, 2009 at 9:40 am
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| Activision's latest attempt at re-igniting the public's fascination with the Nazi occult will be put to the test this August, with the release of Raven's Wolfenstein title for the 360, PS3 and PC. The game will be out on August 4, and while we wish it the best of luck, can't help but yearn for a time when the franchise was a little bolder, a little brighter with its colour palette (especially on mechanised Adolf Hitlers).  E3 isn't the only gaming show around. Our gaming compadres to the south are getting ready for the 8th annual Electronic Game Show, a gaming expo open to the public. (Not a televised competition with appliances for prizes. With Fahey's life-long crusade nearing its rapturous conclusion, Activision have announced that Stan Bush's "The Touch" will be available as a free download for Guitar Hero: World Tour on May 28. In one week, E3 will reveal just about every major game you will be able to play in the next year. For racing game fans, these are the big ones expected at the big show: Blur - Activision is hoping for a Call Of Duty-scale new racing franchise... It's official. Activision is headed to E3 and it's bringing with it a bunch of games, including the highly anticipated Modern Warfare 2 and the nervously anticipated Tony Hawk: Ride.
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| European PlayStation Blog now live
May 28, 2009 at 9:09 am
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|  SCEE has -- rather unceremoniously -- opened the European PlayStation Blog for business. It's been a long time coming and something European PlayStation fans have been clamoring for for quite a while now. We're very happy to see the site replace the terrible "semi-official" ThreeSpeech and are happy to see that the new blog not only mirrors the design of the US version, but that there will be back and forth between the site's contributing editor Charlotte Large (aka our new best friend) and the guys over at the US blog.  Poor Europe. Americans have long been spoiled with up-to-the-minute PlayStation info straight from the horse's mouth, in the form of the PlayStation.Blog, while Europeans got. It's not just Japan, North America and Europe that are bonkers for the Nintendo DS. Australia is too, with the local Nintendo outpost announcing today that the console has sold two million units since launch. According to Gamasutra, Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey isn't buying the release dates Take Two is selling. Hickey has "concerns" about the announced release date for...  Jack Black voiced Brutal Legend is prepping for E3 this week, unveiling a website dedicated to the game and the big show with promises of contests, interviews and a new trailer.  Nintendo is aiming for a better press conference this year, and a financial research company has speculated that they'll deliver. Macquarie Research claims that Wii Fit Plus will be shown off at E3...
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| Army of Two, MGS 4, Others Added to PS3 Greatest Hits
May 28, 2009 at 9:08 am
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| Sony today added six more Playstation 3 titles to their Greatest Hits library, dropping the price of the half-dozen to $30 each. Army of Two, Battlefield: Bad Company, Devil May Cry 4, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction all get the price drop and new packaging effective June 16. THQ has officially confirmed work on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, yet another game set against the backdrop of Games Workshop's gritty tabletop universe. Relic has again been handed developer duties on the title... Sony's 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference was dominated by one big reveal: the PlayStation 3. To give gamers an idea of the kind of support that the PS3 would receive on launch... We got a chance to go hands-on with EA Montreal's follow up to the original Army of Two a few weeks prior to E3, a chance to strap on the Kevlar vest again. The two private...  One of the titles that appeared in Sony's first PlayStation 3 "sizzle" trailer at E3 2005 was a first-person shooter named Killing Day. Heavy on destruction, light on details, Killing Day soon disappeared.
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| Report: PS3 Slim Is Real, Won't Be At E3
May 28, 2009 at 9:00 am
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| Don't expect the PS3 Slim at E3! According to website Ars Technica, it won't be there. A "very well-informed mole" says that there won't be a PS3 Slim announcement next week at E3, and that the console won't be in stores until late summer or early fall. Why? "There are plenty of PS3 systems sitting on store shelves right now," writes Ars Technica, "and Sony is planning on sitting back and allowing the supply of those units to dry up over the summer."  Yes, The Last Guy, you remember that? The PSN game that used real world overhead maps of Tokyo as players tried to save citizens from alien monsters. Well, the popular PSN game is getting a retail packaged version — on sale today. E3 isn't the only gaming show around. Our gaming compadres to the south are getting ready for the 8th annual Electronic Game Show, a gaming expo open to the public. (Not a televised competition with appliances for prizes. Been a while since we heard anything about Sony's upcoming PS3 & PC MMO "The Agency". But with E3 rapping at our chamber door, Sony have released a new CG trailer. According to Gamasutra, Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey isn't buying the release dates Take Two is selling. Hickey has "concerns" about the announced release date for...
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| InvenSense boasts new motion tech, as seen in MotionPlus
May 28, 2009 at 8:37 am
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|  The motion technology masterminds at InvenSense dropped a press release today which reminds everyone how totally awesome their handiwork is. The product the company is currently boasting is its "6-axis motion processing solution," which is featured in the upcoming Wii MotionPlus dongle attachment. As the name suggests, the "solution" allows for the detection of movement in six directions -- up, down, left, right, forward and backward -- allowing you to throw fake frisbees to fake dogs with unparalleled accuracy. With its deep gameplay and sexy simplicity, Nabi Studio's Toribash could have gone to any platform. But it's going to WiiWare ... because that's where it's needed. Creator...  There are a lot of minigame collections on the Wii, but none are quite like Help Wanted: 50 Wacky Jobs. For starters, it's premise is pretty wacky. You have to save Earth...  The newest trailer for Ubisoft's Rayman-free Wii exclusive Rabbids Go Home features a brief cameo by what appears to be President Barack Obama and Barack Obama's man panties. In one week, E3 will reveal just about every major game you will be able to play in the next year. For racing game fans, these are the big ones expected at the big show: Blur - Activision is hoping for a Call Of Duty-scale new racing franchise...
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| European PlayStation Blog Open For Business
May 28, 2009 at 8:30 am
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| Poor Europe. Americans have long been spoiled with up-to-the-minute PlayStation info straight from the horse's mouth, in the form of the PlayStation.Blog, while Europeans got...Three Speech. Yuck. Today, that changes! Yes, Three Speech's final post has been to announce that the PlayStation Europe Blog opens for business today, having first been announced last month. SCEE has -- rather unceremoniously -- opened the European PlayStation Blog for business. It's been a long time coming and something European PlayStation fans have been clamoring for for quite a while now.  BioShock fans can now mark their calendars, as Take-Two officially announces the release dates for 2K Marin's BioShock 2. However, looks like in a role reversal of the usual standard...  November 3 is the date for BioShock 2 in North America, but Europeans will get a head start. During the company's conference call to discuss second quarter financial results...  May 26, 2009 - Each and every Tuesday between 8 AM and 8 PM Pacific time, a random question about IGN, our editors or videogames will be asked on the IGNcom Twitter. The 50th person to email skrause@ign.  When TF2's Scout received his update, the ad on the game's blog was done in the style of an old-school mail-away. And you know, some people actually responded. What's more, Valve responded back.
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| Nabi filling fighting hole on Wii with Toribash
May 28, 2009 at 8:19 am
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| With its deep gameplay and sexy simplicity, Nabi Studio's Toribash could have gone to any platform. But it's going to WiiWare ... because that's where it's needed. Creator Hampus Soderstrom told Eurogamer "I always just liked the platform better and thought it would suit Toribash much better. And also Wii didn't have any [fighting games]. OK it has Smash Bros. [Brawl], but fighting titles are really lacking on Wii," he said. The motion technology masterminds at InvenSense dropped a press release today which reminds everyone how totally awesome their handiwork is. The product the company is currently boasting is its "6-axis motion processing solution...  Hey, UFC fighters. Over here. Would you like to avoid appearing in a video game without getting fired? We have the solution for you: Stop cutting your hair. According to Fight! magazine (via 5thround. There are a lot of minigame collections on the Wii, but none are quite like Help Wanted: 50 Wacky Jobs. For starters, it's premise is pretty wacky. You have to save Earth... The newest trailer for Ubisoft's Rayman-free Wii exclusive Rabbids Go Home features a brief cameo by what appears to be President Barack Obama and Barack Obama's man panties.
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| Sony Japan Marketer Wants To Make Official Board On 2ch
May 28, 2009 at 8:00 am
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|  Times are changing. Marketing people are smart, they know things are different these days. These ad wizards are moving from traditional forms like print, TV and radio to the internet. In a recent interview, Sony Computer Entertainment Platform Promotion Chief Tetsuro Sakurai talked about how things are changing. Up until now, he said, advertising has been centered around the living room via TV commercials. But then the internet hit and the speed at which information travels and spreads has increased dramatically. There's no way Sony can avoid it!  The News: VG247 reports that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) has confirmed that MAG will be playable for journalists at E3. According to the report, the press will be part of eight-man squads led by developers.  Sony Computer Entertainment and Rhino Studios' safari and photography sim Afrika is finally coming to North America, publisher Natsume has announced, giving PlayStation 3 owners a chance to experience the gorgeous game on Western shores.  Here's some new concept art and screens from Sony Online Entertainment, showing how the Wally West version of The Flash appears in DC Universe Online. A profile shot. The Flash uses this for his Facebook listing.
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