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  Wii MotionPlus Sales Off To A Good Start

  June may not have been a good month for the video game industry, but the prospects for Nintendo’s motion-controller are looking promising. First month sales for Wii MotionPlus were what we’d consider a pretty good start. First month figures for the Wii Remote add-on were “nearly 374,000” according to the NPD Group. That was split…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 16, 2009
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  The Fantastic Fieldrunners Makes The PAX 10

  Fieldrunners, the pretty successful tower defense title for the iPhone, landed a spot today in the Penny Arcade Expo’s PAX 10 indie game selections. If you don’t own an iPhone, you might know the game from a panel I covered at a Game Developers Conference 2009 called “No Publisher? No Problem! iPhone for Indies.” Fieldrunner…

  By AJ Glasser Published July 16, 2009
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  Fun With Feynman

  To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Photoshop Alternative? Are you familiar with Richard Feynman, Safecracker, bongo-player, and, oh yes, physicist? While his eccentric personal life (he used a topless bar as an office while at Caltech and included among his hobbies safecracking, juggling, bongo painting and painting.) helped propel his name to fame, it was his…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 16, 2009
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  NPD Instant Analysis: Things You Should Note [UPDATE]

  EA finally gets the Wii, and not in a way that will excite hardcore gamers. Ghostbusters goes missing. PSP jumps. And more observations you can use at cocktail parties from today’s June NPDs. (Check out our software and hardware reports for June here… then read this analysis and add yours.) EA Nails The Wii, Thanks…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 16, 2009
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  Prototype, UFC Beat Up The Competition In June

  U.S. consumers liked what they saw in Activision’s Prototype making the open world action game June’s bestselling title by an impressive margin. Last month, its single-console sales doubled those of the game it was often compared to, Infamous. The same was true for THQ’s UFC 2009 Undisputed, which topped U.S. game sales in May. The…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 16, 2009
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  U.S. Console Sales Take Another Big Hit In June

  The NPD Group‘s sales figures for the month of June are in and they are not pretty. On the hardware side, sales dropped a painful 38% year-over-year, with nearly every console seeing a drop in sales from June of 2008. Month-to-month, things improved over May’s sales. But seeing big declines from the previous June were…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 16, 2009
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  PlayStation Store Update: Summer Savings

  North American PlayStation 3 owners looking for cheaper PlayStation Network games should run, not walk, to the online store. In addition to plenty of new stuff, the old stuff has been kindly marked down. Savings can be had for the next week on games like Wipeout HD, Savage Moon, PixelJunk Eden and more, some of…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 16, 2009
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  New Pro Evo 2010 Screens: Liverpool vs Barca

  While Konami are reluctant to show any gameplay footage, they’ve no such qualms about releasing in-game screenshots of the upcoming Pro Evo 2010. Here you’ll find some in-game shots, pictures of the new “card” strategy system, along with shots highlighting the improvement to the player models over last year’s version.

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2009
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  Is Team Fortress 2’s Soldier Trying To Tell Us Something?

  Yesterday, Team Fortress 2‘s Soldier class took over the game’s official blog to inform players of new avatars and instruct them on the ways of military masculinity. Some speculative TF2 fans believe there’s something more substantive to that update. One theory currently running through the game’s Steam forums—a dark and dangerous place—is that the Soldier…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 16, 2009
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  Resident Evil 5 PC Dated, Benchmarked

  Capcom not only brings us the final September release date for Resident Evil 5 on the PC, but a benchmark program to see if we’re better off buying a console instead. New costumes, an improved Mercenaries mode, and support for NVIDIA’s new GeForce 3D Vision tech will have PC gamers lording their superior versions of…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009
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  Taking Tony Hawk For Another Ride

  I came. I saw. I fell off the skateboard. Once. Gently. Not being known to be exceptionally skilled at video games, I play them anyway. But having limited athletic skill and no ability to roller-skate, I’ve never tried to skateboard more than a foot. Who better to try out the new Tony Hawk game played…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 16, 2009
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  New Star Wars: The Force Unleashed DLC Spoiled By New Achievements

  LucasArts may be ready to drop some new downloadable content for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, as five new Xbox 360 achievements have expanded not only the possible gamerscore, but the game’s character roster as well. Warning, spoilers ahead. The five new achievements boost the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed achievement count from 1220—220 of…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 16, 2009
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  At Least Sega’s Monkey Ball Countdown Is Interactive

  It may be another countdown clock, but Sega’s mysterious Jackpot page does have one thing most others don’t – a clickable button. Between that and the hidden Super Monkey Ball reference, we’re intrigued. It’s just a tiny difference, but we’ll take what we can get. The countdown page, located at www.Sega.com/Jackpot, features a circular tumbler…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009
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  And Now For The Games Inspired By Summer Blockbusters…

  We took a look yesterday at the games based on Summer’s biggest blockbuster movies. Today, let’s switch things up, and look at the games inspired by the movies. There’s a key difference! Unlike licensed fare, which are forced to stick to the plot and characters of the film, these games simply take a motivational cue…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2009
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  Sony Specs Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines PSP Bundle (Mostly)

  Ubisoft’s wee Assassin’s Creed adventure is getting its own PlayStation Portable “Entertainment Pack,” a bundle that might make it worth your while to invest in Sony’s portable platform. What’s in the box? Obviously, you’re getting Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines when the PSP game ships this November. But you’ll also get the standard Entertainment Pack stuff, included…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 16, 2009
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  Droplitz Micro-Review: Dripping With Strategy

  From the creators of the Burger King promotional Xbox 360 titles comes Droplitz, a pipe-connecting puzzle game for Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Best known for filling GameStop locations around North America with countless used copies of Pocket Bike Racer, Sneak King, and Big Bumpin’, Blitz Arcade has left the King behind to…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009
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  Unbound Saga’s Lori and Rick In The Plastic Flesh

  Unbound Saga hits the Playstation Network today for the Playstation Portable. To celebrate, Vogster sent along these amazingly-detailed figures. Unbound Saga is based on Dark Horse’s comic book of the same name. In it you play as Rick Ajax, a self-aware comic book hero, as he takes on “The Maker”. The game includes 20 levels.…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 16, 2009
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  See How Easily Dragon Quest IX Outsold The Competition

  Square Enix released Dragon Quest IX on the Nintendo DS in Japan last week to long lines, over 2 million in sales, and virtually no competition. Want to see how impressively the portable role-playing game outsold its competition? Dragon Quest IX‘s 2.3 million in sales over the course of three days bested its nearest competitor,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 16, 2009
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  The French Won’t Be Blocked From Enjoying Modern Warfare 2’s Goggles

  In a bit of triumphant news for the French, word to Kotaku via Infinity Ward’s chief Twitterer is that the Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition will be available in the land of the Eiffel Tower. The tweet came out of the blue today from Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling: fourzerotwo @stephentotilo – good news,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 16, 2009
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  Kojima On Peace Walker: “This game is an MGS5-class game”

  In a press release Q&A issued by Konami today, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima stresses the importance of the PSP installment of the Metal Gear Solid series, calling it, “a MGS5-class game.” While the PlayStation Portable is no stranger to side stories and throwaway tie-ins to otherwise major game franchises, that simply isn’t the case…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009