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   Nintendo's next video game console will be called the "Wii U" which features a controller that's fitted with a 6.2" touchscreen as shown in the photo to the left. The Wii U is slated for release between April - December 2012 but hardware costs were not announced by Nintendo. The Wii U will be the first Nintendo gaming console to output HD graphics. 

   The Japanese version of the Nintendo 3DS is being released on February 25, 2011 but Nintendo has finalized the details for the North American release of the 3DS. Nintendo is pricing the 3DS in N.A. at a suggested retail price of US$249 and the handheld ships on March 27, 2011. The 3DS will be available in Cosmos Black and Aqua Blue and each retail package includes the following items:    » Nintendo 3DS handheld and Stylus  » Charging Cradle and AC Ad ...
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   Lightning, Sazh, and company may have another adventure in store for them now that it has come to light that Square has registered the domain name "finalfantasy13-2game.com." Guess anything shorter was already taken by squatters.    The domain registration was spotted by "superannuation" who tweeted the news to his followers. The registration was processed on January 11, 2011 for a length of 2 years and handled by "Corporation Service Company" who performs doma ...
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   Nintendo has confirmed that the Nintendo 3DS hardware is region-locked and will only play software from its original territory. For example, the Japanese version of the 3DS that is being released next month can only play Japanese-region software. This region-restriction applies to both card-based and downloaded software.

   Square Enix has filed a trademark in the European Union for "Final Fantasy Type-0" which was accompanied by a logo in black calligraphy script as shown below. No additional details have been divulged by Square concerning the project.

   World of WarCraft Cataclysm, the third expansion in the wildly popular game series is being released tomorrow. Blizzard's lead systems designer Greg Street spoke to CVG today and mentioned that the fourth expansion would likely add a brand new continent. Street said:http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=279290    "I think the next expansion will be something more like a new continent approach. More like the Burning Crusade or Nothrend, where we send ...
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   Live in the UK and still in the market for a Playstation 2? Y'know, that previous generation console which has been supplanted by the Playstation 3? If so, you might want to look at Sony's new Bravia KDL-22PX300 22" TV with an integrated Playstation 2 console which is located in the rectangular base.      Who would buy this you ask? Well, folks are are still in the market for a PS2 as previously mentioned and TV buyers who enjoy a good gimmick. The ...
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  Ubisoft has commissioned a UK-based polling company to conduct a survey on what the Assassin's Creed demographic would like to see in the next game. However, the target demographic isn't easy to determine because I wasn't allowed to take the survey even though I'm a young and virile male who plays Assassin's Creed. Is this a new "design by crowd-sourcing" methodology that game developers are turning to nowadays? In any case, the following questions are i ...
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The following is a blog posting from Onlive which reveals a new monthly service. http://blog.onlive.com/2010/12/02/onlive-playpack-all-you-can-game-for-9-99month   Imagine dropping into a world of amazing video games where you can pop in and out of any game instantly whenever you want, for as long as you want—all for a low monthly rate. Blaze through a little of this, leap over a little of that, puzzle, role-play and multi-play. Channel surfing for games.    Y ...
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    After being a career Capcom employee for over 23 years, Keiji Inafune left the company in late October 2010. Keiji has resurfaced with a personal blog where he espouses his future plans and goals. According to his posting, Keiji is looking forward to producing new types of games in the social networking and online areas. Keiji added, “I’d like to challenge things that I couldn’t do during my salaryman era and greatly exceed my former self,” in ...
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   In a Gamasutra story released yesterday, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has built a supercomputer made up of 1,760 Playstation 3 consoles. According to the AFRL, the PS3-supercomputer named "The Condor Cluster" is the fastest interactive computer in the Defense Department. The cost for the project was $2 million and the Condor Cluster uses 1/10 of the power of comparable supercomputers. The Condor is currently located in Wright-Patterson AFB in Rome, NY.

    In a press release this morning, Sony marked a milestone in sales of the Playstation Move which has reached 4.1 million units sold globally since its release on September 17, 2010. With an installed base of 41.6 million Playstation 3 consoles in the world, the Move has reached nearly 10% of the userbase. It’s still too early to determine if that sales figure is good enough for publishers to continue developing Move-compatible software.     Micr ...
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    In an interview with Bloomberg yesterday, EA CEO John Riccitiello described potential acquisitions as “too expensive” thus far and went on to say, “There are probably 25 companies on our radar that would make sense for us at somewhere between 5 and 10 percent of the asking price.” When asked about the possibility of acquiring Harmonix which produces the Rock Band rhythm games, Riccitello stated, “While buying the Rock Band music video ga ...
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  Akihabara News has been sleuthing around recent patents filed at the United States Patent and Trademark Office website and they've found seven patents filed by Sony Computer Entertainment of America. The diagrams included with the patents appear to indicate a touch-sensitive screen of some sort, a thin clamshell design, text entry capabilities, a mini keyboard, and a mass storage port or built-in device.   Akihabara News and other sources that have picked up on the news ...
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   Following the stunning sales of the Kinect in the United States, the Xbox 360 hardware accessory has met a more muted response in Japan. According to new data from Media Create, the Kinect sold 26,000 units in its first two days of sales on November 20-21. Earlier this month, Microsoft sold a million Kinects in the first 10 days of availability in the United States. The Kinect currently retails for JPY14,800 which converts to roughly US$175.

   Japanese developer Imageepoch announced 8 upcoming games yesterday to some fanfare. Four of the games are expected to be released next year and they're all J-RPGs with the remaining four planned for future delivery. What is a J-RPG you ask? Well, it's a Japanese-style RPG in all of its linear, formulaic, and highly conventional splendor. The four games that were announced yesterday are:PSP Black Rock Shooter (http://fps.jrpg.jp/)PSP Tale of the Last Promise (http://brs ...
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   In a nod of support to the 3D revolution, Sony SCEE studio director Mick Hocking spoke at the Develop Conference earlier today in the UK and stated that 3D games are in Sony's future. According to Hocking, over fifty 3D games are being developed for the Playstation 3 by Sony and fellow publishers. Hocking said, ""We're applying 3D to more than 20 internal games at Sony. It's a very positive thing to see the great level of interest in 3D from our development studio ...
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Bethesda released a newsletter last Friday which included information on the upcoming Fallout New Vegas DLC titled, "Dead Money." The full text follows below:http://www.bethsoft.com/newsletter/newsletter-11.19.10.html   On December 21st, Fallout: New Vegas' first DLC, Dead Money, will be available exclusively on Xbox 360 for 800 Microsoft Points. To give you a sneak peek at the content, Senior Designer Chris Avellone answered a few of our questions about the heist-themed conte ...
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   Citing the inability to give away free items on the Xbox Live network, Blueside CEO Sejung Kim announced that Kingdom Under Fire II is headed to the Playstation 3 instead of the Xbox 360. Kingdom Under Fire II is a real-time strategy game where players control a hero who leads armies into war ala Koei’s Dynasty Warriors.       In addition to single-player action, KUFII also features a multiplayer online mode where hundreds if not thousands of playe ...
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   The chairman and chief executive of Vivendi which owns a controlling stake in Activision spoke to investors in Barcelona yesterday at the Morgan Stanley TMT Conference. Jean-Bernard Lévy praised the recent success of Call of Duty: Black Ops which has raked in $650 million in global revenue in the first five days of its launch. The figure bests the previous 5-day sales record of $550m achieved by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. According to Activision, over 2.6 million gam ...
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Yars' Revenge Remake in Development The classic Atari 2600 game "Yars' Revenge" is undergoing the remake treatment courtesy of Killspace Entertainment. In the game, players control a fly-like insect known as a Yar who retailiates against an alien species known as the Qotile. Yars' Revenge is slated for release in 1Q 2011 and will be available as a download for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.  Portal 2 Pushed Back Valve has delayed the release of Portal 2 by ...
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  According to the brain-related research of Professor Osamu Shinohara of Tokyo University, playing Tetris stimulates the frontal lobe of the brain and may prevent dementia. This bit of information isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of Tetris since observing the mating ritual of the humpback whale is probably just as stimulating... in terms of the frontal lobe. In any case, Tetris is a ubiquitous game and gamers have played hundreds of variants, clones, public domain iterations, a ...
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   4Gamer.net has listed the Media Create software sales data for the week of November 11, 2010 and PSP Tactics Ogre leads the pack with 176,153 units sold. PS3 Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2 follows in second place and Wii Super Mario Bros 25th Anniversary Collection came in third. An incentive that was given away with copies of Tactics Ogre may have contributed to its stellar sales - a deck of tarot cards courtesy of Square Enix.    Rounding out the top ten were: (4) NDS Po ...
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   Capcom finalized the ship date for their upcoming 2D fighting game which pits the camps of Marvel and Capcom against each other. The game will be available in a regular edition as well as a Gamestop exclusive limited edition which is packaged in a steelbook case. Bonus inclusions: Prologue comic book, an annual subscription to Marvel's Digital Comics online library and two DLC codes to unlock Jill Valentine and Shuma Gorath about a month after the game launches.   ...
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   Since its launch on November 4, 2010, Microsoft has sold 1 million Kinect units and bundles in the first 10 days of availability. The Kinect is Microsoft's answer to the Wii's motion-sensing Remote and Nunchuk controllers which allows gamers to play video games without using a handheld controller. Microsoft is expecting to sell a total of 5 million Kinects by the end of 2010 which is up from the company's earlier projection of 3 million units.     & ...
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   The ninth annual Games Japan Festa 2010 (http://www.games-j.or.jp/) took place at ATC Hall in Osaka, Japan over the weekend. Admission to the show is free and an estimated 30,000 attendees visited the venue.   Sony and Microsoft were the main exhibitors along with smaller publishers but Nintendo doesn't do shows. That's right, Nintendo doesn't exhibit at the Tokyo Game Show or Games Japan Festa and they opt to hold their own press conferences and the occ ...
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   In an interview with Kotaku, Reggie Fils-Aime stated that Nintendo is looking to sell at least another 15 million in the United States before considering the launch of their next console. Nintenso has sold 30.4 million consoles in the U.S. market thus far. Despite the competition from Microsoft's Kinect and Sony's Move, Reggie didn't see a pressing need to address the Kinect or the Move now.       "After we've reached an installed base of ...
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   Sony confirmed on Friday afternoon (November 12, 2010) that the latest chapter in their Gran Turismo 5 franchise will ship on November 24, 2010. Last month, Sony raised hackles amongst the racing game literati by announcing a delay of the game from November 3, 2010. The official press release follows:New Release Date Announced for Gran Turismo 5Last Updated : Nov 12, 2010   Sony Computer Entertainment today confirmed that Gran Turismo® 5 will go on sale throughout ...
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   That's the consensus from an outfit known as UBM TechInsights which provides IP lifecycle management services. According to an article in the EE times, approximately $17 goes to the camera, sensors, the microphone array which contains four mics, and the processor. The remaining $39 in costs is parceled out between the memory chips, the camera interface controller, subprocessors, USB connectors, and the snazzy black plastic shell that encases the whole shebang.    ...
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    Nintendo has filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the phrase, "It's on like Donkey Kong." Really. This is another case of corporate douchebaggery where a somewhat common phrase that's used in the American vernacular is sought to be leashed and owned by a big corporation.       Does Nintendo really need to own that phrase? Are ...
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    If you're a Spaniard or visiting Spain anytime soon, you'll be able to step on and meet senoritas on the "Avenida de Super Mario Bros." Unveiled this past Saturday in the suburb of Zaragoza located in northern Spain, the street is the first in the world to be named after a video game. From CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/08/spain.super.mario.subdivision/index.html    The government-sponsored Arcosur project aims to build more than ...
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   The Call of Duty: Black Ops review scores are out this morning and the professionals are ranking the game as "worthy." On Gamespot this morning, an amateur reviewer gave the game a score of 3.5 which is apparently based on first impressions.Jeff Gerstmann of Giant Bomb writes the following:   To be clear, Black Ops is not a Vietnam game. But the middle of it most definitely is, complete with cliched examples of licensed music from the era. At one point, you're tra ...
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   Bethesda Softworks is basking in the glow of Fallout: New Vegas after announcing that over 5 million copies of the game have shipped to retail since its North American release on October 19. In this morning's press release, Bethesda touted  strong retail sales and downloads of the game which have brought in over $300 million in revenue thus far.    In the game, players take on the role of The Courier who's nearly killed at the outset of the adventure by ...
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   The highly-anticipated Call of Duty: Black Ops ships this week for all major gaming platforms including the Nintendo DS but not the Sony PSP. Call of Duty has been a lucrative franchise for publisher Activision with cumulative sales of over $3 billion dollars for the game series. The official press for Call of Duty: Black Ops may be viewed below:  Call of Duty: Black Ops    The biggest action series of all time returns. Call of Duty: Black Ops is an entertainment ...
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   Sony announced that 1 million Moves have shipped to retail in North America since its debut on September 19, 2010. Sony has big plans for the Move and a slew of upcoming releases will be compatible with the device including LittleBigPlanet 2, Killzone 3, and SOCOM 4. Sony previously announced that 1.5 million Move units have shipped in Europe and the accessory was recently released in Japan.

    The theme for the London Games Conference 2010 that took place yesterday was stated as "Survival And Profit In A Changing Industry" with keynotes from Ben Cousins, General Manager, Easy (EA) and David Reeves, COO, Capcom Europe. Accoding to Ben Cousins, EA wanted to "disrupt" the old world order of console manufacturers with quality free-to-play offerings. He further went on to say that EA's rivals were "resting on their laurels" with respect to investments ...
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   At the SEMA Trade Show which opened up in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Gran Turismo producer Kazunori Yamauchi mentioned that Gran Turismo 5 discs are being pressed and stamped. Last month, Sony announced that the game would be delayed and issued a new release date of "Winter 2010." If Kazunori isn't mistaken, then GT5 should be making its way to retailers in the next few weeks.

Keiji Inafune, the man responsible for designing Megaman aka Rockman and giving him that natty blue suit is leaving Capcom. Keiji started his career at the company 23 years ago where he produced the Megaman canon as well as Rockman EXE and Rockman Zero. Most recently, Keiji worked on Dead Rising 2 which suffered from poor sales. Keiji cited a need to "recharge" as his reason for leaving Capcom.

Right, time has passed and I've been slacking and working loads of nights lately sooo...Ye, screw you.   We've had some game releases during my absence and general working! Such as!   Lost Planet 2! Huge beasts to be taken down with your elitist soldiers wearing gear that looks to be completely useless if you ask me due to restricted mobility and can be compared to having a rabid panda on your back being high with massive diarreah.   Video Games | ...
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Left 4 Dead throws us a debut trailer of our favorite zombie apocalypse without unicorns and with Britney Spears...oh wait, it's just a Spitter, nevermind. Video Games | Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing | Launch Trailer HDXBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

The latest DLC to U2: Among thieves provides the new online option "Invasion" which is like Halo 3: ODST and Gears of War Firefight/Horde mode. The biggest twist i changing location on the map to different ones forcing the party to move. This offers a fun session of teamwork and gameplay which can make you enjoy yourself. This also brings two extra maps for multiplayer for you to run around and shoot stuff on. Worth checking out? I'd say so.

Lost Planet 2 are on the way back with more and bigger Akrid than ever. Will two forces combine to defeat a bigger threat thats not the Akrid but it's in fact just their own race? This trailer was immensely cool and I wanted to share it. Video Games | Lost Planet 2 | UK The Final Episode Trailer HDXBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Gametrailers TV has exclusive footage of the Halo Reach Beta Multiplayer and some other fun facts about the game also some world first sneak peaks at new games such as Splatterhouse, singularity, blacklight: Tango down and split/second. It seems like sprinting and rolling are some new features, weapons, veichles and more. Also what looks really nice, assassination executions, armor abilities (Finally MJOLNIR gets a run for it's money). And alot of other fun stuff, make sure to check it ...
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To all the speculants out there Gametrailers.com was kind enough to provide a pop-block on the Debut Trailer of the new Gears of War. What intrigues me most is the probable 4co-op campaign. Here's to holding our thumbs. Video Games | Gears of War 3 | GT Pop-Block: Debut Trailer HDXBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

More delayed than an airplane from the north pole which has been hijacked by polarebears wearing tights and singing french lullabies to the penguins(this is one actully impossible, and yes I'm saying the other stuff isn't!) I finally pulled my thumb out of my ass and wrote this review. NOT LIKE YOU'RE READING THE NEWS ANYWAY! LOLOLOLOLOL. Internet rage aside. I will cut this review short due to the fact that I spent over 200 hours with this game and no one can see why. ...
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Right, Gears of War. I love it, blood, an alien race, guns, blood, gore, carnage, destruction, blood and assault rifles....WITH CHAINSAWS ATTACHED TO THEM! OK!? Third installment looks to be rather overwhelming and a new threat seem to join the ranks. Oh dear humanity. Never fear! CONSOLE GAMERS ARE HERE! Release in April 2011(for now). ...I'm getting it. Video Games | Gears of War 3 | Ashes to Ashes Debut Trailer HDXBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

First upcoming reviews of Nethster are approaching. Already got a Mass Effect 2 review cooked up as soon as I get my stationary computer up and running again. However! This is just to headline the coming Final Fantasy XIII Review that I'll be writing. March 09. A VERY important date. That to me will decide Square Enix value to me in the future. Because, let's face it. The latest Final Fantasys has been..... Worse and then they've been slightly Manwhorish. Lovely to watch a ...
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This being the first official news post of GorgeousGamers.com, we wanted to give everyone a re-cap on some of the best recent releases, and what we're looking forward to in 2010. Best Recent Releases There have been a few titles that have really captivated us over the past 5-6 months, each unique enough to hold our interest since they launched. The first being one of the greatest RPG games of all time; Dragon Age: Origins, the second being one of the best MMO's of 2 ...
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