Month: September 2008
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Virtual Console Update – Mega Man 9, Vectorman, and Super Dodge Ball
This weeks Virtual Console and WiiWare update is a good one, with three great games coming out. Vectorman, in particular, was one of my favorites on the Genesis. It’s also the main reason I don’t feel bad littering: In 2049, the human population of Earth embarks on a migratory voyage to try and colonize other…
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Mega Man 9’s Awesome Retail Package
If Mega Man 9 wasn’t going to be a download-only release, this is what the packaging would look like. Pretty awesome, I’d totally buy the game for the packaging, alone. They’ll only be making these available to the press, but the post also mentioned they might be making 200 or so available for purchase. Be…
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Microsoft Closes Ensemble Studios
Microsoft has officially confirmed that it will be closing down it’s eternal developer Ensemble Studios. Ensemble Studios is probably best known for their real time strategy Age of Empires games, as well as the upcoming Xbox 360 Halo Wars. Halo Wars is still scheduled for release, Ensemble will be shut down once the game comes…
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Left 4 Dead Demo Coming for PC and 360
Valve’s Gabe Newell has confirmed plans for a PC and Xbox 360 demo of their upcoming survival horror game, Left 4 Dead. The demo will contain both single player and online co-op modes. There’s no set release date for the demo yet. Left 4 Dead is scheduled for release at the end of November, and…
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Atlus-O-Weenie 2008
If you’ve ever wanted to dress up as an Atlus character AND win fabulous prizes (not just for fun), now’s your chance. Basically you just dress up, take a picture, and send it to Atlus, it’s that easy. If you have the best costume, you’ll win: * Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 Poster signed…
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Virtual Console Update – Cho Aniki
So, Cho Aniki. It’s basically a shooting game, but replace spaceships with half naked guys. I’ll just take Wikipedia’s description: For various reasons, the popularity of the Cho Aniki games has endured since the series’ debut. Depending on which specific title one looks at, highlights include in-game music, innovative control schemes or sheer kitsch value.…
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Castle Crashers Future DLC: Chainsaw, Necromancer, the King
Since the release of Castle Crashers there has been a lot of speculation about finding certain weapons or unlocking additional characters. Apparently, while they were testing the game through Xbox Live, someone was able to download the then incomplete game and make a video of themselves playing it. In the video were two additional characters,…
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Ex-Gamestop Employee: Gamestop Sucks
If you could somehow remove all the mumbling, and slow down this guy’s speech, you would be able to tell that he’s super pissed off at Gamestop. So much so, in fact, that he’s decided to post like nine different Youtube videos on how much Gamestop blows. When I can understand what’s being said, he…
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Take a Trama Center Survey, See Nurse in Swimwear
I received an email from Atlus the other day asking me to take a survey about the Trama Center series, to help determine if they should put it on another platform, basically. I’ve only played the DS versions of the game, and I honestly find it hard to imagine on a system besides the DS…
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Dead Space Release Date Pushed Forward?
It’s not often that a video game release date gets moved forward, I honestly can’t remember the last time a game has come out early. Well, until now that is. Dead Space will now officially be coming out on October 14th. And by October 14th I mean shipping on the 14th and you won’t be…
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Castle Crashers – Fastest Selling Xbox Arcade Title, Bugs
So, it looks like a LOT of people decided to pick up Castle Crashers. Which is good, the game is totally awesome. Apparently, it’s sold about 78,545 units in 3 days, breaking Arcade sales records (at least according to vgchartz). Additionally, a post on the Castle Crashers developer’s blog addresses the bugs some users are…