Month: December 2008
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Virtual Console Update – Star Tropics 2, Maboshi, Pool Revolution
This week’s Wii-kly update brings two new WiiWare games and one virtual console game: Zoda’s Revenge: Star Tropics II, Cue Sports – Pool Revolution, and Maboshi’s Arcade. Cue Sports and Maboshi Arcade are both WiiWare games, and Zoda’s Revenge is a port for the virtual console originally on the NES.
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Suda51 on No More Heroes 2
One of the big downsides to the original No More Heroes, for me at least, was the Santa Destroy open environment. I’d run into walls that weren’t there, there wasn’t actually much to do in it, I felt like Santa Destroy was just generally annoying and an after thought. Well, Suda51, in an interview with…
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Free Radical Up For Sale
Following up on a previous story, Free Radical is not closing down, but is now officially up for sale. 140 of the companies employees will be let go at the beginning of the year, leaving only 40 workers remaining. If you’re a fan of Free Radical games, it’s founder, Steve Ellis, left and created a…
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Castle Crashers Finally Getting Patched
Sure, it’s been like forever since Castle Crashers was released. It was really fun but there were a ton of problems with the game such as data loss issue, networking issues, and other bugs such as these. Well, The Behemoth and Microsoft will finally be patching the game today, hopefully addressing the various issues players…
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New Final Fantasy XIII Screens
A few new screens have surfaced for Final Fantasy XIII in V-Jump, a Japanese video game and manga magazine. There are a few details about the game we have been able to decipher despite knowning no Japanese. There appears to be a very prominent red-headed female character that is reminiscent of Rikku from Final Fantasy…
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Factor 5 Shutting Down?
Kotaku has reported that Factor 5, the creators of Liar and the Rogue Squadron series, has closed it’s doors. Factor 5 is just one of many recent video game companies that has either shut its doors or laid off a large number of employees. A post over at the IGN boards by Matt Casamassina leaked…
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New Resident Evil 5 Boxart
Capcom released new box art for Resident Evil 5 yesterday…the Xbox 360 box art is after the link (they’re pretty much the same). Bad ass “5” there.
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Free Radical Shuts Down
The developers of Time Splitters and Haze, Free Radical, have reported shut down permanently. Apparently all the employees came to work to find themselves locked out of the building, which is a pretty dick way to shut down a company. I mean seriously, is that necessary? I guess they had a meeting later in the…
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Atlus Announces The Dark Spire
The Dark Spire is a first person role playing game for the DS. Seems a bit like Etrian Odyssey, but darker, it looks really cool. There is a “classic” interface (crappy graphics) and a “modern” interface (less crappy graphics). [ The Dark Spire ]
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Street Fighter IV Collector’s Edition
Street Fighter IV Collector’s Edition stuff, for North America. I wonder what the “secret additional downloadable content” will be? 1. The game (duh) 2. A limited-edition (ie., not sold anywhere else) figurine – Ryu in the PS3 box, C. Viper hotness in the 360 flavor. Decisions, decisions… 3. Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind:…
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Lux-Pain
Lux-Pain actually looks kind of interesting. It’s a text-based adventure game for the DS being published by Marvelous Interactive Inc set. It’s set in Kisaragi City, I don’t know if that’s a real place or not (more on that later). Apparently a worm is infecting people and making them do bad things. Obviously, this is…
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Valve Patches Left 4 Dead on the 360
It turns out you could cheat in the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead. Like, spawn tons of enemies or use infinite Molotov cocktails. It sounds like fun, I guess, until you’re playing against some guy doing it. Anyway, Valve found out and patched the game today. It’s too bad, I was really looking…