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  Rolando 2 Trailer Enters The Third Dimension

  Despite being a blast, people knocked the first Rolando for looking too much like LocoRoco. Wonder if those same people will knock the sequel for looking too much like LittleBigPlanet?

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 7, 2009
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  Love Plus Has Your Virtual Girlfriend Experience Covered

  Konami’s upcoming DS dating sim Love Plus is anything but your typical dating sim game. It’s a dating sim plus. The first part of the game is standard fare: Players court three girls, trying to get them to fall in love. That’s where most dating sims end — Love Plus is just getting started. The…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 7, 2009
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  Project Gotham Racing Devs Explain Last Days With “Corporate, Cocky” Microsoft

  Bizarre Creations, the development team behind the renowned Project Gotham Racing series, used to make games for Microsoft. Now, they make games for Activision. Why the split? Speaking with Edge, the studio’s creative director Martyn Chudley has told of Bizarre’s final weeks with Microsoft, as development on Project Gotham Racing 4 (which I maintain is…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2009
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  Can You Guess The Devil Kings Drink?

  Action game Devil Kings, aka Sengoku Basara, is so popular in Japan, that the game has its own canned drinks. There are various flavors, but which is which. The flavors include Chinese tea, green tea, pineapple, grape, black currant plus orange and “sports drink”. The answers are below… In Japanese! Sengoku Basara Drinks Reviewed [GIGAZINE…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2009
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  Street Fighter Blu-Ray Is A Photoshop Disaster

  The latest Street Fighter flick was a mess. From the casting to the plot, top to bottom, a mess. And so it is with the movie’s impending Blu-Ray release! Look at that cover! It should come with a disclaimer: contains 5% actual Kristen Kruek. And also a warning: Chris Klein is not actually Nicolas Cage.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2009
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  Disney Porting Toy Story Midway Mania! Theme Park Ride To Wii

  Disney’s looking to its own theme parks for new video game opportunities, bringing its interactive Toy Story-branded theme park attraction to the Wii. The publisher will be officially announcing Toy Story Midway Mania! later tonight. The attraction, which gives theme park goers wearing 3D glasses a vehicle mounted cannon, has been available at Disney’s Hollywood…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009
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  Square Enix Doesn’t Consider Final Fantasy XIII a JRPG

  Final Fantasy XIII is a Japanese-made game. It is also a role-playing-game. Yet, don’t tell FFXIII producer Yoshinori Kitase that it’s a JRPG — he’ll set you straight! “There’s a trend these days to strictly categorize games as western RPGs or Japanese RPGs, but Final Fantasy is something that we don’t try to categorize as…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2009
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  Piston Honda Returns To Punch-Out!!, Mostly Intact

  The latest classic boxer to return to the Wii version of Punch-Out!! will be Tokyo, Japan born and bred Piston Honda. Or at least a close approximation of Piston, as Nintendo has changed his name. The return of the Japanese pugilist, who first (and last) appeared in the NES version of Punch-Out!! comes with a…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009
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  Capcom Try To Fix Stupid Bionic Commando Demo

  Funny thing, that Bionic Commando demo. Here’s a game with quite a complex control mechanism, but instead of using the demo to teach you that, they just drop you into a multiplayer match. Which is leading many to install the demo, fire it up, and hate it. How are they meant to kill people when…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2009
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  3D Realms “Situation” Won’t Affect Duke Nukem Trilogy, Apogee

  Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms is reportedly out of gum, allegedly planned to close its doors this week. But that won’t affect the other Duke Nukem game currently in development or Apogee Software. Following rumored reports that Duke Nukem devs 3D Realms had given up the ghost, reps for publisher Deep Silver issued a…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009
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  Somali Showdown Lets *You* Take Down Virtual Pirates

  The developers behind the episodic KumaWar series are once again capitalizing on deadly real-world events, putting players in the shoes of the plundered with Somali Showdown: Pirates on the High Seas. Kuma Games has quickly turned the recent spate of Somali cargo hijackings into a free to play video game based on the real world…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009
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  College Football Players Joining EA Madden Lawsuit Mob

  A class action lawsuit filed against EA Tuesday alleges that National Collegiate Athletic Association allowed the company to use unpaid college athletes likenesses in Madden games unlawfully. A similar lawsuit went down not long ago where retired NFL players had their likenesses unlawfully used in Madden NFL games. The plaintiffs in that case won their…

  By AJ Glasser Published May 6, 2009
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  Is Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Gone For Good? [Update]

  3D Realms, still plugging away at the slightly delayed Duke Nukem Forever, may have given up the ghost, as the Texas-based developer is rumored to have shut down. We heard from an anonymous tipster earlier today of 3D Realms demise, with Shacknews reporting the very same thing, citing a “very reliable source” close to the…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009
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  THQ CEO Sees No PlayStation 3 Price Cut At E3

  If the asking price for Sony’s PlayStation 3 is currently too rich for your blood, you may have to wait until later this year for a price drop. Or so thinks THQ boss Brian Farrell. The publishing head honcho said during today’s quarterly earnings call that the royal THQ “we” isn’t expecting Sony to cut…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009
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  Meme Created

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Earlier today I posted a pic of GameTrailer TV’s Geoff Keighley dual wielding an iPhone and a Blackberry as a lark. He’s been carrying around multiple devices for years, but I’d never seen him use both at the same time. The photo, I thought, was funny. But much funnier were…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 6, 2009
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  Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Box Art Is Truly Next-Gen

  How can we tell? It’s not the visual clarity or high-res 3D models on the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen box art. It’s the sparks! Everyone knows that particle effects like that require serious hardware. Unfortunately, my theory is blown when one realizes that the same box art is being used for the PlayStation 2…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009
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  Texas May Force Sex Offenders To Register Gamertags

  Legislators in Texas have proposed a bill that would expand what registered sex offenders would be required to disclose, including the release of online screen names. That could potentially even cover online gaming social networks. While the bill, publicized by GamePolitics, doesn’t explicitly name video game communication services like Xbox Live and PlayStation Home, it…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009
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  Henry Hatsworth Creator Left EA On His Wedding Day

  Kyle Gray achieved his biggest goal at EA and now has three or four more. Having filed his taxes early this year, Kyle Gray, 27, had April 15 free to do two other important things. Dressed in a suit and bowler hat, he went to work at EA Tiburon, the studio where he led the…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2009
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  Prototype Pre-Order Promotional Products Pimped

  Plan on picking up Prototype? Perhaps you’d prefer to pre-order, as Activision is pimping the pre-order possibilities from three of its partners, each proffering its own collectible pre-purchase products. Activision will be offering up three pre-order product possibilities at GameStop, Game Crazy and Amazon, giving serious fans of Radical Entertainment‘s upcoming open-world, super-powered action game…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009
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  EVE Online Celebrates 6th Anniversary With Cake

  With EVE Online turning six years-old today and surpassing the 300,000 active subscriber mark over the past few days, there was really only one way for developer CCP to celebrate – spaceship cake. While other massively multiplayer online games have drawn huge numbers and then struggled to retain them, CCP’s EVE Online has spent the…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2009