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Sega: Impossible To Please All Sonic Fans With One Sonic Game

As Sega targets 12-and-under gamers as its core Sonic market, company leaders told Kotaku that it has re-thought how to please all Sonic fans. To understand how Sega thinks about its most famous mascot, one must appreciate how differently people responded to 2008’s werewolf version of Sonic, the Werehog. That creature, who was playable in…

Meet Muramasa’s Momohime

Ignition Entertainment has released a Muramasa: The Demon Blade character profile trailer for Momohime, following the possessed princess from battle to bath time. Momohime is the female lead of Muramasa: The Demon Blade, driven by the evil spirit inhabiting her body to seek out the 108 cursed demon swords. She then uses the powers of…

Buy Avatar Clothes From Your PC

Now you don’t even have to leave your computer to buy clothes for your little Xbox person or purchase full 360 titles, as Microsoft adds the Avatar Marketplace and Games on Demand to Xbox.com. I’m not sure if there are people who sit around work all day, watching the clock for their opportunity to rush…

Onyxia Gets A Makeover For WoW’s 5th Anniversary

Once the most-feared name in Azeroth, the Onyxia is making a comeback for World of Warcraft’s 5th anniversary, transforming into a bigger and badder brood mother than ever before. Once a level 60 40-man raid, Onyxia has become a bit of a joke over the years. Now that the level cap is 80, her head…

CrimeCraft: Blow Stuff Up And Be Trendy While Doing It

CrimeCraft developer Vogster Entertainment is allowing its players to dress fashionably thanks to a partnership with Atticus Clothing, according to a press release, new screens, and a trailer released recently. According to the press release, “Gamers will be able to choose from real-world Atticus designs when customizing their characters, or outfitting their entire gang in…

Rock Band Metal Pack Throws Up Horns In October

ESRB entries and leaked achievement lists be damned! MTV Games and Harmonix have officially announced the Rock Band Metal Track Pack, a stand-alone disc with 20 tunes guaranteed to shake the very foundations of heaven. On top of the five songs already revealed through the various leakages, the Rock Band Metal Track Pack features fifteen…

Fairytale Fights Features Naked Man With A Sword

Don’t worry, the latest new character for Fairytale Fights isn’t always a naked man with a sword. Sometimes he has an axe. Two new characters join the lineup for Playlogic’s Fairytale Fights today, bringing the roster for the hack n’ slash Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 title up to four characters. Joining Snow White and…

Lionhead Teases Impending News with Che’s Head?

This morning, visitors to Lionhead Studio’s webpage were greeted with the iconic visage of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. Under the black and white image is a single quote from Guevara: “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.” Che Guevara (1928 –…

Need For Speed Nitro Gets All Artsy

Need for Speed Nitro for the Nintendo Wii capitalizes on its stylized graphics, signing up tokidoki, Upper Playground and i am 8-bit to provide exclusive car skins and artwork for the game. Nitro’s animated style gets a bit more animated with the inclusion of custom car skins from celebrated brands tokidoki and Upper Playground and…

Army Of Two: The 40th Day Is In January

EA has nailed down a January 2010 release date for Army of Two: The 40th Day, with exclusive access to the game’s Extraction multiplayer mode for those putting down their money early. Army of Two: The 40th Day is the eagerly anticipated sequel to Army of Two, in which Salem and Rios struggle to ignore…

Sega Will Celebrate Dreamcast’s 10th Anniversary Quietly

9/9/09 will not produce any major Sega events commemorating the Dreamcast launch of 9/9/99, but the company is thinking about the future of its last gaming console in one key way. The head of Sega West, Mike Hayes, told me Wednesday that, despite the pride Sega has in the Dreamcast, it has no formal celebration…

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What Exactly Is A Hamburger?

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: QuakeCon Kicks Off Tomorrow Lunch time conversation: What makes a hamburger a hamburger? Is it the burger or the hamburger buns? Meaning, if you put a hamburger patty on sandwich bread and not buns, what is it? Is it a burger? What about if you put a patty on, say,…

PAL PlayStation Store Update: Curly Moustache

Big, big update for the PAL PlayStation store this week, with a host of quality PS3 games, demos and even a couple of downloadable PSP games you might be interested in. Headlining the week’s update is of course Marvel vs Capcom 2, arriving in a far more timely fashion than it’s HD predecessor, SSFIIHD. Those…

Nintendo’s Lifetime British Sales Numbers Are In

Retail tracking company Chart-Track have released an updated set of figures for the British market, revealing how many units of the Nintendo Wii and DS (all versions) have been sold since launch. The figures show that while the Wii has a pretty sizeable install base for a country of 60 million people, it’s got nothing…

Rockstar’s PSP Music Game Is Real, Coming Next Month

Don’t look now, but Rockstar’s borderline mythical music title Beaterator is coming, it’s coming this year, and it’s coming to the PlayStation Portable. Rockstar sent the word out this morning that the music creator, which has long been kept under wraps since first debuting as an online time-waster, will be out on September 29 in…

Is Monster Hunter 3 Underperforming?

Wii title Monster Hunter 3 came out of the gate like gangbusters in its first week this August, selling half a million copies. So why is it already in the bargain bins? The Monster Hunter series on the PSP has been one of the real success stories — not just for the PSP, but Capcom.…

Trackmania Finally Barrell Rolls Its Way To The Wii

It appears that after nearly two years of talk (and little else), cult create-a-racer Trackmania is finally making its way onto the Nintendo Wii. It’s been announced that Firebrand Games – the team behind the recent Trackmania DS – are on development duties, with the game set to make a public appearance at Germany’s big…

SNES Portable Case Mod Does Not Stop At Case Mod

There’s also a custom box creation. French modder darthchris13 whipped up the creation and then compared it size-wise to a SEGA GameGear. The SNES Portable sports a 2.5 inch screen, and according to darthchris13, the tricky part was getting all the SNES wiring into such a small casing. Nice work. Une magnifique Nintendo SNES Portable…

Tropico 3 Box Art Is So Despotic It’s Adorable

As seen on Giant Bomb.