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  Arr! Director Chooses BioShock Over Pirates

  Next year, the fourth installment in the US$2.6 billion grossing Pirates of the Caribbean franchise goes into production. After spending the past years on the series, director Gore Verbinski is moving on. Instead of directing the fourth Pirates, which is once again starring Johnny Depp, Verbinski has told producer Jerry Bruckheimer that he has opted…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 8, 2009
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  First Peek At Tales Of Vesperia Anime

  As previously announced, Xbox 360 title Tales of Vesperia is getting a PS3 version and a big screen anime. The animated feature, due in theaters this year, is set before the game. Titled Tales of Vesperia ~ The First Strike ~, the anime is being produced by Production I.G., the studio being Ghost in the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 8, 2009
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  PC Sales Charts: All Over The Place

  The beauty of PC sales charts is that, as often as they’re depressingly repetitive, other times they’re an explosion of strangeness and absurdity. Like this latest batch, where we have three very different games atop the three major sales charts. Lich King at #1 on the retail charts, we’d expect that. Left 4 Dead, surging…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2009
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  Banana Eating Cat Ear PS3 Game Not Expressive

  PS3 soul breeding role-playing-game Agarest Senki ZERO once again has players battle monsters and chat up girls. This time around, the fair maiden’s facial expressions change based on the options you select while talking them up. Check out the gallery below. Their outfits can also change as well — and sometimes there are banana-eating cat-ear-wearing…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 8, 2009
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  So, How Many Wii Games Are Any Good?

  Picture the scene: your mum walks into GameStop. She walks to the Wii section, and picks out a game for your birthday. At random. What are the odds she picks a good one? Let’s find out! Just like they did for both Xbox 360 and PS3 games, market research firm EEDAR have rounded out the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2009
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  When Game Sales Do Matter…

  Yesterday, Brütal Legend and Psychonauts creator Tim Schafer told us not to worry our pretty little heads about game sales. Today, he clarifies: I think games sales matter a lot. I just think that the people who should worry about sales are the people who have vested financial interest in a game. If your money…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 8, 2009
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  This Is The New Multi-Platform tri-Ace RPG

  As teased last week, developer tri-Ace’s new role-playing-game is End of Eternity, a collaboration between tri-Ace and SEGA. Set in futuristic towering megapolis Bazel, EoE‘s main characters are 17-year-old Private Military Firm (PMF) mercenary Zefa, 26-year-old ex-solider Vashron and 19-year-old young woman Test Subject No. 20. She’s escaped from a research facility where she was…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 7, 2009
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  One Of These Men May Appear On The Cover Of Madden 2010

  Many sports games make a fuss over their respective cover athletes, but really, the only one people give a damn about is the guy who turns up on the front cover of Madden. Partly because it’s one of the biggest-selling games in the world. Partly because some people have attached a ridiculous belief structure to…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 7, 2009
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  Rumor: Resident Evil 5’s Versus Mode Was, Yes, On The Disc All Along

  Capcom caught more than a little flak for charging extra for Resident Evil 5’s VS mode. Their excuse? That it was “beyond the initial scope of Resident Evil 5”. Seems Capcom may have a strange way of defining what was in the “initial scope” because, as anyone who has downloaded the add-on will have found,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 7, 2009
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  Tales Of Vesperia RAGE!!

  Imagine that you don’t own an Xbox 360. Maybe, you don’t even want one. But then a game comes out on it, a game you really want, and it’s an exclusive. To play it, well, you’d probably buy the console, take your “Only On Xbox 360” game home and play the crap outta it. Then…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 7, 2009
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  Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! Officially Announced For PSP

  NIS America has made an honest game of Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This? announcing the PSP game for a July release, confirming what we reported last week. Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This? (or HIOPB!WDIDTDT? to be brief) is the English-language release…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 7, 2009
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  Patch This Game: Far Cry 2

  It’s been almost seven months since Far Cry 2 hit the shelves, scoring all kinds of crazy-good reviews, but according to GamesRadar, the game is still crazy-broken. The four page article “Warning” Far Cry 2 is still a broken game” details the chronology of the game’s issues from the first reports of crashes to the…

  By AJ Glasser Published April 7, 2009
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  Nielsen: People May Buy Wiis, But Do They Use Them?

  Entertainment research firm Nielsen have released a fresh set of usage statistics, giving us an insight into not how many consoles are out there, but how long they’re actually being used. There are all kinds of charts and colourful graphs contained within the report, but the key findings were: – That the PS2 is still…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 7, 2009
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  MAG Site Launches With Little Signal, Lots Of Noise

  The official web site for Sony’s MAG, the “massive action game” for the PlayStation 3 from SOCOM developers Zipper Interactive, has gone live. Don’t expect to absorb too much, other than some radio chatter. The official Massive Action Game site features little more than some carefully camouflaged screen shots of the game and a preview…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 7, 2009
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  Iwata: Wii Video Download Service May Transfer To DS

  Nintendo’s video on demand service, planned to launch in Japan sometime this year, might not just be limited to the Wii. According to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, it may also come to the Nintendo DS. Iwata tells the Wall Street Journal that the advertising-based video service—currently announced for availability in Japan this year, but reportedly…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 7, 2009
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  Spice Up Your Rock Band Skills With A NES Emulator

  If you’re not digging SpongeBob Squarepants and Nirvana updates, this nifty NES emulator program might be just the fix for Rock Band/Guitar Hero fatigue. 8BITar Hero takes audio generated from a NES game run on an emulator and runs it into a “Rock-Band game” with up to four separate music tracks. If that isn’t straightforward…

  By AJ Glasser Published April 7, 2009
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  Halo Encyclopedia Shoots For Bookshelves This Fall

  Halo fans with a thirst for referential material will be queuing up for the Barnes & Noble midnight launch of the Halo Encyclopedia, which has been announced for a fourth quarter release at book stores. DK Publishing, fine reference book publisher of things all things useful, historical, mundane and incredibly nerdy, will pack 350-plus pages…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 7, 2009
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  Time Warner Bandwidth Caps, Gaming And You

  Broadband internet provider Time Warner Cable is making good on its plans to charge its subscribers for the amount of bandwidth they consume, a decision that could have a serious impact on your cable bill. It could also have an impact on your video game buying habits, as Gamers With Jobs explores in a new…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 7, 2009
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  That’s Lunch

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Moving is Hard Spent the day writing. Not writing, writing, but mostly blogging. Still, I managed to avoid doing much administrative crap today, which makes me exceedingly happy. My stomach bug has mostly passed, though my lunch of two egg sandwiches was probably, in retrospect, not such a hot idea.…

  By Brian Crecente Published April 7, 2009
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  Meet The Lovely Ladies Of Dream C Club

  We’re not quite sure why the Xbox 360 has become the lonely Japanese otaku voyeur’s console of choice, but D3Publisher’s Dream C Club is only going to further entrench the console as perv-worthy. Dream C Club‘s premise, if you aren’t familiar, is to recreate the visual wonders of a Japanese hostess bar, letting the player…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 7, 2009