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The Great Xbox 360 Robbery

Last Sunday, the city of Mississauga in Southern Ontario, Canada was the scene of a mass Xbox 360 theft. A truck carrying over 1,300 Xbox 360 consoles was stolen from a trailer yard at 4 AM. The total value ballparks at around US$670,000. According to police, four or five suspects in dark clothing stole a…

Starcraft II’s Tech Tree In All Its Glory

In the olden days, you used to get this sort of thing as a lovely big poster, which came folded neatly inside your game’s large cardboard box. These days, you’ll have to make do with viewing your Starcraft II tech trees online. These shots come courtesy of the gentlemen at Giant Bomb. And before you…

Dream C Club or Dragon Quest IX?

Gemaga magazine has polled its readers about which upcoming title they want the most. The front runners: Hostess game Dream C Club and role-playing-game Dragon Quest IX. Before we start, realize that this list is not what the ENTIRE NATION OF JAPAN wants, but rather, the readers of Gemaga — the readers who respond to…

And Now There Is A Girl…

To recap: First there was a landscape and the number four. Then a dragon. After that, a boy. And now? A girl. There looks like there is enough space on the back of that dragon for at least another rider, maybe more. Check back tomorrow! It should be oh so thrilling. NEW Game [Square Enix…

Xbox Game Creator Software Now Out, Available For Download

Microsoft’s “Kodu Game Lab” – often labelled the “LittleBigPlanet of the Xbox 360” – is now available for download via Xbox Live Community Games. It’s only $5, which considering that it lets you create many different types of game, is a pretty good deal. Kodu comes with some basic single and multiplayer game modes includes,…

Tekken 6 CLAMP Outift In Focus

Worst thing about blurry magazine scans? They’re blurry. Here’s a crystal clear look at Jin Kazama’s outfit for TEKKEN 6‘s PS3 console version. So spiffy. Famed female manga collective CLAMP (xxxHolic) designed this home console exclusive. TEKKEN 5 on the PS2 also had costumes by various artists. Take A Closer Look At Clamp’s Tekken 6…

Forza 3 Screens Make Even A Toyota Yaris Look Good

Here’s some new screens from Forza 3, featuring a wide range of vehicles, from the humble Honda Jazz to an Impreza STi all the way up to some LeMans-lookin’ cars.

Ads Coming To Xbox 360 Dashboard?

Sean Alexander, director at Microsoft’s Advertising Business Group, has suggested that you could soon be seeing advertisements every time you fire up your 360 dashboard. Apparently, Microsoft “plans to bring IAB specifications for rich media technologies, including Silverlight, to Xbox Live within the year”. With Silverlight being Microsoft’s version of/competitor to Flash, MediaPost say “Silverlight-powered…

Why Is There A Tanned Fairy In Dragon Quest IX?

With golden skin and bleached blond hair, fairy Sandy doesn’t look like your typical Dragon Quest character. She talks and dresses like the Japanese equivalent of a Valley Girl. Dragon Quest IX producer Ryutaro Ichimura describes a meeting regarding what kind of character would be best for the pivotal role of guide for the adventure.…

Damnation Developers Laid Off

Several former employees at Blue Omega, developers behind the recent Damnation, have confirmed with Kotaku today that the entire dev team has been laid off following “issues” with Codemasters, Damnation’s publishers. They allege that there were a raft of lawsuits behind the sackings, which stem from Blue Omega being “taken off” their own game by…

PS3 Slim Entering Production, Ready By July

According to Taiwanese site UDN, Sony have signed production contracts with two companies to begin manufacture of the rumoured PS3 “Slim”, with a delivery date of…oh, next month! Now, with a PS3 price cut heavily expected around August, and with stocks of the existing 80GB PS3 supposedly dwindling, a July delivery date for the “new”…

MySims Agents Preview: Spy vs. Sims

MySims Agents marks a shift in the MySims series away from free-roaming Sim with adventure game elements to actual adventure game with Sim flavorings. The MySims series started out as a cutesy, cartoony version of the Sims series for PC and Wii that would let a younger generation of gamer take a crack at the…

And The StarCraft II LAN Petitioning Commences

Angered by news that Blizzard has decided to leave LAN multiplayer out of StarCraft II, fans are doing what fans have done in such situations since the dawn of time – signing a letter. The “LAN in StarCraft 2 Please” petition isn’t really all that much of a petition when you get right now to…

Drinks at the Saucer

To: Ash From: Crecente We’re leaving for New Orleans tomorrow. Tonight Trish and I are going to head over to the Flying Saucer in Fort Worth to have a few drinks. If anyone wants to swing by around 7ish I’d love to say hi and talk games. If the flight time weren’t so long and…

Spectrobes Now In Convenient Novel Format

Disney continues to stand behind their answer to the Pokémon, releasing a series of junior novels based in the Spectrobes universe. Disney’s enthusiasm for the series they had created from the ground up is admirable, and there tenacity is something to see. They aren’t just fostering a video game franchise, but attempting to sow the…

Vandal Hearts: Flames Of Judgment Falls Into Winter

Konami’s downloadable strategy RPG Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment looks to have slipped from its September release window, now listed with an ambiguous winter release date. When I spent some hands on time at E3 2009 with the prequel to the original Vandal Hearts on the PlayStation, I was told that the game was due…

Resonance Of Fate Trailer Showered With Spent Bullet Casings

Sega is bringing tri-Ace’s Resonance of Fate is eventually coming to North America, and by the looks of this gameplay trailer we might not have enough bullets. I’ve not seen much of Resonance of Fate, formerly End of Eternity, outside of the Americanized butt rock trailer McWhertor posted back in May. It actually looks rather…

2009 Is Half-Done: What’s Been Great So Far?

Let us not forget the following games six months from now (and prove that button wrong)… Today marks the halfway point of 2009, a year that brought Grand Theft Auto to the DS, our eyes to the bottom of an Avatar’s shoe and some other guy to my old MTV desk. We and the rest…

Maloof Money Cup DLC Rolls To Skate 2

We’ve got some fresh screens from the Maloof Money Cup Pack for EA’s Skate 2, bringing the world’s largest skating championship to your console on July 9th. The Maloof Money Cup is the largest-pursed event in professional skateboarding, and EA is bringing both the park and the thirll of competition to both the PlayStation 3…

Acclaim Re-Develops The Chronicles Of Spellborn

Acclaim is hanging out their “Please Pardon Our Re-Development” signs on their MMO The Chronicles of Spellborn, transforming it into a free-to-play, transaction-based game by next year. We’ve heard of patching, or major content updates…heck, we’ve even heard of an MMO game getting Star Wars Galaxied, but re-developed? That’s what Acclaim is called the process…