Category: Industry News
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Sam Raimi To Direct Warcraft Movie
Yes, I knew there was going to be a Warcraft movie. What I didn’t know? Sam Raimi is going to be directing it. No word on when to expect the movie, or really any other major details (though there is some more information about the movie here). I have some concerns, mostly revolving around the…
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Microsoft’s Next Dashboard Update Coming August 11
Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 dashboard will be released on August 11th and feature a number of improvements and new features, including: A new “Xbox Live Games On Demand” service, allowing users to download whole Xbox 360 games. The service will launch with 30 games, including Assassin’s Creed, BioShock, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Mass…
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Club Nintendo Rewards Available Now
Nintendo has announced their rewards for Club Nintendo gold and platinum members. Basically, certain Nintendo games and systems can be registered at the site, and you gain coins each time you register something. You can also gain additional coins by filling out surveys about those games/systems. Once you’ve amassed enough coins you gain gold or…
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Weekly Releases – 02/16/09
It’s a pretty exciting week, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon on Monday, Street Fighter IV and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned on Tuesday, and Noby Noby Boy onThursday. The full release list is below…
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Tales of Vesperia Anime Announced
Apparently they’ve decided to make an anime movie out of the anime inspired Tales of Vesperia game. It’s being directed by Kanta Kamei and will feature the characters shouting spell/attack names over and over and over again. [ via Kotaku ]
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EA at Comic Con
If you missed New York Comic Con, like I did, EA has a lot of nice info up at their website. They cover pretty much everything EA related from the show, there are a bunch of videos, interviews, and pictures (like spikey-head-I-have-no-idea-who-you-are guy, above). Games covered include Warhammer Age of Reckoning, Spore Galactic Adventures, Godfather…
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Starcraft 101
UC Berkeley’s StarCraft 101 class began last week, a class that teaches game theory using Starcraft as a model. What I wouldn’t give to have had a class where some guy read The Art of War to me with Starcraft playing in the background…Actually, I think the idea behind the class is a good one,…
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Atlus Delays Some Games
I’m not sure why, but they are. Maybe it’s because they can, and they want every one to know they can. Tokyo Beat Down for Nintendo DS™, an old-school arcade beat ’em up that will literally pound the nostalgia into your face, is now scheduled for release on March 31st. Hammerin’ Hero for PSP® (PlayStation®Portable)…
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Nintendo’s 2009 Lineup
There’s Fire Emblem, Punch-Out!!, Mario and Luigi RPG 3, and Sin and Punishment 2. I guess it could be worse, really.
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Top 10 Overrated Games of 2008, According to Sci Fi
http://fidgit.com/archives/2008/12/10-most-overrated-games-of-200.php Sci Fi needs to stick to crappy made for T.V. movies, this list horrible. It’s basically the top 10 games for 2008. Why does Sci Fi even have a blog about video games?
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Robo’s Theme – Never Gonna Give You Up
Kotaku kind of ruined Chrono Trigger / Robo’s Theme for me the other day, pointing out the theme is basically just Never Gonna Give You Up (combined here). I would have never noticed. The interesting part is the composer of the Chrono Trigger soundtrack, Yasunori Mitsuda, swears he never heard of Rick Astley before: “It…
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Club Nintendo Site Launches
You can’t really do anything yet, but Nintendo of America has launched it’s Club Nintendo page. They’ve also provided some details about what the hell Club Nintendo is, exactly: Earn Coins for registering Nintendo products and completing surveys Redeem Coins for limited edition Rewards Earn a set amount of Coins each year to gain Gold…