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Nintendo: We Have “No Plans” To Release Classic Controller Pro In America

Like the looks of that Classic Controller Pro Nintendo unveiled the other day? Might want to pay your import retailer of choice a visit, then, because Nintendo don’t sound keen on releasing it in America. A Nintendo representative has told GameSpot “At this time, we do not have any plans to launch the Classic Controller…

Konami Still Pondering Trophies For Metal Gear Solid 4

Stealth action title Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots went on sale last June. A month later PlayStation Trophy achievements were introduced. Game company Konami still hasn’t added Trophy support in a retro-active update. However, that doesn’t mean Konami has forgotten about MGS4 trophies. Recently Konami’s Brandon Laurino posted in the comments on…

PC Sales Charts

Let’s take a one-week break from the WoW/Sims duopoly and congratulate Relic’s Dawn of War II, which has, for the first time in this writer’s memory, managed to come tops across all three charts. That’s right. Dawn of War II stands astride the NPD, Steam and Direct2Drive best-seller lists like a colossus, leaving even Sega’s…

The Street Fighter Character Actor Chris Klein Always Plays

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is a flop — even American Pie actor Chris Klein can’t save it. Well, not that he ever could. Still, cinematic blunders aside, Klein loves Street Fighter. While Legend of Chun-Li actress Kristen Kruek has only played the game once, Klein grew up playing the game. “Although I’ve played…

Hello March, Here Are Final Fantasy XIII Screens

The latest screens from role-playing-game Final Fantasy XIII show bandanna-wearing beach blonde Snow Villiers and his resistance group Team Nora. Besides Snow, the Team Nora fraction is made up of orange haired Gadot, googles-wearing Maqui, and black-haired Lebreau 『ファイナルファンタジーXIII』”ノラ”とは？ [Famitsu]

Why Capcom Don’t Care If The Street Fighter Movie Sucks

The latest Street Fighter movie sucks. No doubt about it. But do you think Capcom give a damn about the quality of the movie? They might, but they care more about the money. Speaking with GameDaily, Capcom PR man Chris Kramer says in response to haters of the current Chun-Li flick: Critics were unkind to…

PS3 Exclusive Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) Sold 300,000

PS3 exclusive Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) went on sale February 26. How’d it do? Let’s hear what its designer, the very tanned Toshihiro Nagoshi, has to say: First and foremost, it sold 300,000 copies. Thank you very much. Nagoshi’s post is quite terse, and he doesn’t explicitly say Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 sold…

2004 Build Of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Released (And Yes, It’s Playable)

When STALKER emerged from development hell in 2007, the final product met with an unexpectedly positive reception. For those more interested in a slice of that development hell, though, developers GSC have you covered. An early, playable build of the game – dated October 18, 2004 – has been released by the team, giving you…

White Knight Chronicles Creator In PS3 Ad

Sony’s game creator ads continue. Previously Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 designer Toshihiro Nagoshi skipped stones with the game’s main character. This time, Level5’s Akihiro Hino talks up the PS3’s power near a construction site while the White Knight from PS3 exclusive White Knight Chronicles walks into the frame. Check out, Hino’s feathery hair! Amazing. Next…

Now Rock Band Is Going Toe-To-Toe With A Record Label

Warner Music are just spoiling for a fight! Having had a public falling-out with Guitar Hero publishers Activision last year, this year its Rock Band publishers MTV Games‘ turn. At the root of the issue is the complaint Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. has that music game publishers aren’t paying enough for the…

More Boozin’ With Japanese Hostesses Screens

Japanese game company D3 has released more screens of its booze-with-night-club-hostesses game Dream C Club. The Xbox 360 lets players spent weekends getting sauced up with saucy cabaret ladies. As we previously pointed out, the game features a drinking system called “IIS,” which has players control their drinking using the Xbox 360 controller’s analog stick…

French Boy Stabs Sister Over Nintendo DS [Update]

A five year-old boy in the French town of Uckange has stabbed his ten year-old sister with a kitchen knife following an argument over a Nintendo DS, Le Post reports. The incident occurred on Saturday night, and was prompted by the sister’s refusal to allow her brother to play with her Nintendo DS. Upset over…

Which Game Consoles And Console Makers Impress Young Japanese Women?

Online research group goo Research questioned 1,102 women between the ages of 20 and 26 years-old to find out. Here’s the sample group broken down by region: 33.2 percent from the Tokyo area, 33.6 percent from the Osaka area and 33.2 percent from the Nagoya area. While the survey does not show what all Japanese…

You Got Ninjas In My PSP

Tenchu: Shadow Assassins sneaks onto the PSP this month, totally wrecking my resolve to save up money for a PSP2. This was a pretty understated port. Ubisoft announced it via Twitter post this morning and Wii platform pages on various press sites were amended with tiny “PSP” tags. Two screenshots also emerged, showing comparable graphics…

How’s The Dexter Video Game Looking?

Pretty odd, but considering the combination of Mark Ecko Entertainment, the iPhone and Showtime’s serial killer drama Dexter, we can’t say we’re surprised. A little more surprising is the combination of gameplay genres. According to the official update on the game, Dexter will feature “puzzle solving, stealth tactics, mini-games, and ‘slashing’ with the iPhone itself”…

Halo 3: 1,000,000,000 Games And Counting

Halo 3‘s got a somewhat popular online component, and has had one since it launched (hey, it’s Halo). Ever wonder how many multiplayer games that actually equates to, though? Try over one billion. Yup, Bungie’s near-OCD obsession with tracking numbers means that we now know that at 18:36 PT on February 28, a four-player Infection…

You Haven’t Seen The Last Of Sonic The Werehog

Sonic the Hedgehog fans (read: masochists) will be delighted to learn that, should Sega see fit to subject them to another Sonic Unleashed title, the lumbering, stretchy “werehog” is almost guaranteed to return. Sonic and the Black Knight director Tetsu Katano tells Videogamer “You will see the Werehog again.” That’s despite the general shunning of…

Lay Off The Sequels Says Harvest Moon Head Man

Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada says “the games industry worldwide is in danger if we keep making sequels,” just weeks before the 19th installment of Harvest Moon hits PSPs in Japan. Speaking to Eurogamer Italy, Wada went on to say that consumers are bored by sequels and excited by variety. That may or may not…

The King of Fighters XII Hits PlayStation 3s This Summer

.html We thought this U.S. debut trailer for The King of Fighters XII was just going to be an excuse to ogle the SNK Playmore game’s beautifully animated characters. How naive we were. That’s because the game apparently has a North American release window, which was, frankly, (good) news to this casual King of Fighters…

Rockstar’s Dan Houser Tops Industry’s Hottest Developer List

Edge Online has published its annual list of the industry’s “hot” developers, a hundred men and women whose names you should know. Topping the list is Rockstar Games co-founder and VP of Creative Dan Houser. Houser beats out Nintendo’s Hideki Konno and Shigeru Miyamoto, both of whom placed in the top ten alongside industry movers…