A mixture of battlefield strategy...and school drama? By Kevin Gifford , 07/15/2009 In this week's issue of Famitsu magazine, Sega announced the first details behind Valkyria Chronicles 2 , sequel to the strategic action game released for the PS3 last year. A new Valkyria wasn't complet...
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A quick look at Team Mission mode. By Kevin Gifford , 07/15/2009 Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 may not be coming for a little while longer (it now has an official October 1 release date in Japan), but details on the PlayStation 3 sequel update are beginning to trickle through the Japanese game medi...
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MH players can bring their PSPs to Comic-Con to download a host of challenging quests. By Ray Barnholt , 07/15/2009 Are you deep into Monster Hunter Freedom Unite ? And are you going to be in San Diego next week? In that case, Capcom has a surprise for you in the form of eight special quest...
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Crack a joke that makes Telltale laugh, and your writing might make it into an episode of Tales of Monkey Island. By Dustin Quillen , 07/15/2009 Eerily similar to today's news about the Serious Sam remake, Tales of Monkey Island developer Telltale Games announced that they're also ...
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Microsoft chairman explains how the motion-sensing camera could one day be in every "office environment." By Kris Pigna , 07/15/2009 Microsoft impressed a lot of gamers with the potential that Project Natal showed on the Xbox 360 at E3 , but their plans for the motion-sensing came...
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Are U.S. games "too dry"? By Kevin Gifford , 07/15/2009 This week's issue of Famitsu magazine contains a roundtable discussion held between nine Japanese game-music composers, sponsored by local game-music production firm Noisycroak, Participants included Keisuke Ito (the Pokemo...
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Plus! What do Japanese people think about 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand? By Kevin Gifford , 07/15/2009 A few of the highlights from this week's spate of console releases in Japan, as reviewed by Weekly Famitsu magazine: - Dragon Quest IX (10/10/10/10, 40 points): The newest game in Japan's ...
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Plenty of new characters, maps, and modes are coming to the movie adaptation this summer. By Dustin Quillen , 07/15/2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen isn't exactly winning the hearts of film critics. Fortunately for those of us who mostly stick to interactive entertainment, the ...
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Sharing out identification and password to get select Home items is not okay, they say. By Kat Bailey , 07/15/2009 If you like to go around PlayStation Home asking people for their PSN identification and password, then watch out. Sony is watching you, and they will soon be cracking down. &qu...
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Write a witty line of dialog and send it to Devolver Digital's Twitter account, and you might hear it in the XBLA remake of Serious Sam. By Dustin Quillen , 07/15/2009 Ever get the feeling that even your kid sister could write snappier one-liners than the Serious Sam developers over at Cro...
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But, 25% of 20 million is a substantial number. By Steve Watts , 07/15/2009 Only 25-30% of PlayStation Network users have visited the Home application more than once, according to comments from Sony's Peter Edward reported by GamesIndustry.biz. This may sound like a blow against the servic...
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"We're always writing up new game proposals and things we want to do," says Josh Tsui. By Steve Watts , 07/15/2009 Robomodo has already expressed interest in using the peripheral board from Tony Hawk Ride in other titles, but they might also be making plans for a Ride sequel al...
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If it arrives at all, it'll be late. By Kat Bailey , 07/15/2009 A PC version of Alan Wake has been under discussion for a while now. Developer Remedy has said that they are focusing all their efforts on the Xbox 360 version, leading to speculation the PC version is in trouble. Alan Wake fa...
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Sony's Eric Lempel says "in some cases, I think we've got more." By Steve Watts , 07/08/2009 In online services, we see a good amount of cross-pollination, with various companies taking good ideas from each other. The same has been the case with PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, a...
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An odd collection of one-button minigames. By Kevin Gifford , 07/15/2009 What kind of game is this screen from? Who can say, really? Japanese humor is, well, Japanese humor. The title, anyway, is Tomenasanna , a series of cell-phone games that Konami has been putting out for the past year o...
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How's a special soundtrack CD grab you? By Kevin Gifford , 07/15/2009 Excited about Platinum Games' Bayonetta ? You oughta be. The explosive action game now has an official release date -- in Japan, anyway. Sega announced that the latest from the company behind MadWorld will hit Japanese ...
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Night-vision goggles and download vouchers make for a pricey package. By Steve Watts , 07/15/2009 The News: The other day we covered the Modern Warfare 2 "Prestige Edition," which comes with night-vision goggles among other goodies. We speculated that the NVGs would drive up the...
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The popular iPhone tower defense game becomes part of Sony's downloadable games initiative for PSPgo. By Dustin Quillen , 07/14/2009 The decision to go download-only with the PSPgo isn't the only thing Sony's picked up on from the success of the iPhone; they've also managed to borrow some of...
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Double Helix slated to handle development. By Kat Bailey , 07/14/2009 Most of the major Marvel and DC heroes have now received multiple movies and video games, but until now the Green Lantern has languished with Wonder Woman in the background. That'll change in a couple years though, and tha...
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Anticipated sequel pushed back to perform better in the marketplace. By Steve Watts , 07/13/2009 Take Two has confirmed that BioShock 2 has been delayed to 2010, reports Shacknews. Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick said the company "concluded that moving the release of BioShock 2 in...
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