Archive for January, 2009

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete Works Info

Tweet Famitsu has some news on the re-release of FFVII:AC in March.  Square has decided to release three versions of what is called the Complete Works of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. So, what’s that mean exactly?

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Wii-kly Virtual Console and WiiWare Update

Tweet This week Nintendo is delivering an absolute NES classic to the Virtual Console with Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse, a game any vivid Virtual Console user should not be without. As for the WiiWare, a card game of Jungle Speed and a futuristic adventure on Planet Pachinko are available. Hit the jump for the full [...]

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Tony Hawk developer Neversoft is no longer Tony Hawk developer

Tweet Joel Jewett, founder of Neversoft, has told Great Falls Tribunal that his company will be dropping the Tony Hawk series in favour of focusing on Guitar Hero. The source mentions that “the company has let the Tony Hawk series go to another developer.” As EDGE notes, it’s likely to be Robomodo, as they announced [...]

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Rumor: Bioshock Coming to OS X This Year?

Tweet Ah, rumors. They are the fuel that keeps gaming journalists buzzing, and though I’ve said many times that they tend to be crazy, this one seems a bit more realistic. According to Macworld (which, in this article, refers to the eponymous expo that was held this past week, though they have no affiliation) there [...]

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New Game Releases: Jan. 11 – Jan. 17

Tweet Another slow week of game releases as it officially seems like the holidays are now over. I’m honestly not looking forward to any new games this month as I’m still playing some of the games I got back in November. Actually when I think about it, the only game I’m really excited about that [...]

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Final Fantasy XIII: New Name and Battle Information

Tweet Square Enix’s much anticipated game for 2009, Final Fantasy XIII, is finally leaking a bit more information, and I can help pass that info on to you.

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Sony Statistics from CES ’09

Tweet Consumer trade show CES is currently underway, and after a relatively muted Sony conference accentuated by an amusing Tom Hanks and a thrusting Usher, we have a few PlayStation statistics to share with you.

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Wii Sex: The Game

Tweet From the official description: “A guy’s girlfriend is holding back sex from him so he has no choice but to use his interactive Wii Sex game.” So no, anyone thinking that this was about Wii consoles having sex with each other is sadly mistaken. Watch it.

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SOCOM: Confrontation 1.30 Patch Available, Brings Trophies

Tweet SOCOM: Confrontation‘s highly anticipated 1.30 patch has finally been released today, January 9th. The update was put into effect early this morning during the hours of 5AM EST/2AM PST. The patch brings with it Trophies, D-pad lean-in, a Quick Match/Party system, as well as important bug fixes and new features. The patch will also [...]

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GH Tighty Whitey World Tour Adds Country Rock

Tweet So you’re sitting in front of your TV with your partially unbuttoned dress shirt and your tighty whitey underwear asking yourself “how can my plastic guitar rock experience get any better?” Well, the first thing you can do is invite a few of your buddies over and recreate the Tony Hawk, Kobe Bryant, A-Rod, [...]

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One Whack Jack: WoW 3.0.8 Mining Node Change

Tweet If you’ve ever had a rich mining node ninja’d from under you after clearing the mob of surrounding trash, then you will likely welcome this change with open arms. Blizzard is instituting a mining change in their upcoming World of Warcraft patch — specifically, you will now be able to mine any node with [...]

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Street Fighter Stop Motion Action Figure Video

Tweet Look out Tim Burton, the guys over at Pushing Play have got some stop animation Street Fighter action for your ass. Check out the boys and their toys in the video above and make sure to head on over there and show them some love. Cheesy beat box sounds for the win!

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Halo Wars Demo Hitting XBL February 5th

Tweet During its CES 2009 keynote, Microsoft announced that the Halo Wars demo would be arriving to the Xbox Live Marketplace on February 5, just a few weeks before the actual game hits stores on February 28. Being a fan of the Halo series, I’m kind of skeptical about this game because it’s not an [...]

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Mass Effect 2 to feature at GDC ’09

Tweet Bioware are set to be delivering a lecture at the 2009 Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco about the level design process of Mass Effect 2. A detailed description of the level design process is to be shown, and “graphical examples of a level” will be used to back this up. Of course, this [...]

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Sessler Predicts a Huge Year for Sony, an Absent Year for Nintendo and Microsoft with Aces Up Their Sleeves

Tweet Adam Sessler gets his prophet on in this weeks 2009 Prediction edition of Sessler’s Soapbox. As per usual, Sessler has an El Dorado’s worth of insight at the center of a jungle of rant and quirkiness. Click the jump for the synopsis and video.

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