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  Champions Online Cares Where Your Force Beams Come From

  In the latest edition of their Champions Online Q&A feature, developer Cryptic details how powers in their upcoming superhero MMORPG can be tweaked by players for a more customized hero. A big issue for me in City of Heroes, which was also developed by Cryptic, was the fact that I had a superhero with a…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2009
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  Square Brings Disgaea 3 To Europe In February

  For the Disgaea fans to cheap to import or too unversed on the English language to read this article, Square Enix is delivering Disgaea 3 to European PlayStation 3 owners next month. Squeenix plans on liberally distributing the latest Nppon Ichi prinnyfest, Disgaea 3, throughout PAL territories come February 20th. The latest game in the…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2009
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  Rock Band Branded Memory Cards Come to the Wii

  SanDisk today unveiled a Rock Band branded 2GB memory card for the Wii. The SD cards will sell for $13 a pop and are set to hit the U.S. this spring. With songs taking as much as 50 megs each and the Wii only sporting 512MB of onboard stoarge, extra external memory seems like a…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 7, 2009
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  MySims Line Expands With Inevitable Kart Racing And Party Games

  EA begins to slowly work the MySims brand into the ground with the addition of two all-new and completely predictable games for the Wii and DS – MySims Party and MySims Racing. Yes, the adorable little MySims are ripe for exploitation, so here comes a mini-game compilation and a kart racer! MySims Party features more…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2009
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  Skate Early With The Skate 2 Demo

  Skateboarding fans eager to experience the second game in EA’s Skate series will find satisfaction in the coming week, as the company announces a Skate 2 demo for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Skate 2 demo features both single player modes as well as two of the game’s online party play modes –…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2009
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  IGF Finalists Include PixelJunk Eden, The Maw, Cortex Command

  Increasingly, the Independent Games Festival is where smart game publishers go to find tomorrow’s big hits. Games like Braid, World of Goo, flow and Everyday Shooter all had their start here. So it’s worth checking out which games have piqued the interest of the judges for this year’s festival. The list of finalists includes five…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 7, 2009
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  Tough Times

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Beat to Hell As you know, rough night for the folks at EGM/1Up. Really hope everyone there is able to pull through okay and come out on the other side better, faster, stronger. What you missed last night Rumor: NiGHTS Sequel Was Originally An Xbox 360, PS3 Game New X-Blade…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 7, 2009
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  PC Sales Charts

  Two charts in one week! What a treat. Monday’s were for the week ending December 20, and were late thanks to the holiday slow-down. These are for the week ending December 27. NPD Sales Charts December 21-27 [via Shacknews] 1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe 3.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2009
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  In Defence Of Prince Of Persia

  Ah, Prince of Persia. You either love it for what it tried, or hate it for what it tried. We love it, though, and Tom Cross at GSW does a good job of explaining why. Mostly because he takes everything the haters hate and breaks it down, then points out the game’s most endearing legacy…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2009
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  Gundam Senjou no Kizuna Is PSP Bound

  Rumor confirmed! Japanese arcade title Gundam Senjou no Kizuna is getting a PSP version — minus the cockpit display complete with 180 degree screen. Besides the obvious screen differences, the number of players per multi-play team has been halved. Instead of the 8 player vs. 8 player arcade set-up, the PSP version will be 4-on-4.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 7, 2009
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  British Sales Charts

  Looks like lots of people in Britain got Wiis for Christmas. And lots of people also got a second controller to go with it. Least, we reckon that’s what happened. After all, Wii Play isn’t going to top the charts on the strength of that escalator game, is it? No. No it is not. [British…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2009
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  Sony Exec Wants More Thrilling Episodic Content

  Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios Europe (SCEWSE?) exec Michael Denny is not thrilled with episodic content. He wants it to be more exciting, you know, more cliffhangery. For me, true episodic gaming needs to be more than just selling a traditional game split into chunks. It needs to be games that are specifically designed from…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 7, 2009
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  Wii Fit Sells Three Million In Japan

  Wii Fit was released in Japan in December 2007. Proved to be, despite its liberal use of the word “fit”, a hit. So much so that it’s now sold three million copies. Yup. Three. Million. Which is up 200,000 from the last round of numbers we saw (gotta love those Christmas sales!) Think Iwata &…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2009
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  You’d Most Like To Be Alone In The Dark With…

  Darth Vader. The “Alone With The Darth” boxart has been chosen by Kotakuland as its favorite finalists. Congrats to all who entered and a word about contest hijinx after the jump. We actually had to go through and ban people for getting off topic while voting. If you’d like to discuss what you think of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 7, 2009
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  X-Blades PS3 Trophy List

  Hot of the presses, it’s a full list of PS3 Trophies for X-Blades – complete with easy accomplishments and balls-hard feats. Hit the jump for the full list. And check out the new screens that dropped today. Easy Walk
 – Complete game on Normal difficulty Everyday Business – 
Complete game on Hard difficulty Oops, are…

  By AJ Glasser Published January 7, 2009
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  Your English Language Rhythm Heaven Boxart

  While Amazon isn’t the place to pin your hopes and dreams on for game info, the web retail appears to have revealed the English language Rhythm Heaven boxart. What’s more, Amazon prices the game at US$40 and gives it a November 30 release date — both could be placeholders, though. Rhythm Heaven

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 7, 2009
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  Game Sales Up 17% In The UK

  Music sales are down, movie takings are down, consumer spending is down…lucky for British retail, then, that game sales are on the up! In fact, they’re so up that it’s making everything else look good. Data released today by Britain’s Entertainment Retailers Association show that total entertainment sales – which combine the sales of DVDs,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2009
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  House Of The Dead: Overkill Devs Want Arcade Machine Feel

  Does House of the Dead: Overkill brings arcade shooting to the Nintendo Wii? Yes, says the game’s developer Headstrong Games. According to Lead Designer Alastair Halsby: “We have done our utmost to ensure that it feels like playing an arcade machine — albeit an arcade machine that is out to entertain a paying customer, instead…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 7, 2009
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  1UP Sold To Hearst Corporation, EGM To Close [Update]

  What began as a rumour last month has now escalated into full-blown fact; Ziff Davis have officially sold the 1UP network to competitors Hearst, owners of UGO.com. Hearst – who more importantly own many of the nation’s biggest newspapers along with ownership stakes in ESPN and the History Channel – will however only be taking…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2009
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  Fred Willard’s Nintendo Shilling Lets Us Down

  Nicole Kidman. Liv Tyler. Fred Willard? Nintendo has roped in Spinal Tap actor Fred Willard to promote Personal Trainer: Cooking in this disappointingly disappointing clip. Be warned, the below clip is blergh. And it’s not because it’s for some casual cooking game — that’s not the problem at all. It’s that it’s something like seven…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 7, 2009