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Namco and Capcom Teases Pac-Man as a Playable Character in for the Vita's Street Fighter x Tekken

Just recently, thanks to the news from Joystiq, Capcom released a new trailer for their upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken game. The trailer basically goes over the confirmed characters as well as showing a few new ones like Tekken's Paul Phoenix Xiaoyu and as well as Street Fighter's Vega and Balrog (or Balrog and Mike Bison if you follow the Japanese version of Street Fighter). However, that's not the big news right now.
At the end of the video, Capcom talked about their development for [...]

Assassinate in the Mediterranean with the Assassin's Creed: Revelations - Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack

Fans of Assassin's Creed: Revelations will be glad to know that in the next weeks, there will be more multiplayer maps for you to explore. The Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack extends the AC: Revelations multiplayer experience by giving you an additional six multiplayer maps. Each of them will be introducing new ways to assassinate anyone through various terrain and hideouts of places like Jerusalem and Constantinople.
So if you're looking to find a new place to take out your targets, might as well fork over 800 Microsoft Points [...]

Sorry, No PS4 at E3 This Year

Despite all the predictions and speculations, Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Corporation have come out and denied that the Playstation 4 will be unveiled at at this year's E3 in June. According to SCE's Andrew House (found here at this article on Kotaku) stated the following:
"I don't think we're contemplating talking about anything to do with future console iterations at this point."
Sony's Kaz Hirai followed up with a similar statement:
"Andy (House) is absolutely right in that we are not making any announcements at E3. I've always said a 10-year life cycle for PS3, and [...]

Silent Hill HD Collection Puts Silent Hill 2 & 3 in Eerie High Definition

Time to return to Silent Hill on March 6th, as Silent Hill Re-Mastered Collection combines both Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 to the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 for the first time ever. These classics will be remastered in high definition graphics. So you can experience the fairly terrifying journey through the fog covered city of Silent Hill. You can find more information about the re-release of these two games at this Gamespot page about them.
Now I'm usually on the fence when it comes [...]

You Cannot Get Rid of the PS2. It Will Continue to Go on in Sales

The Sega Dreamcast, the Nintendo Gamecube, that gaming console Apple released but no one bought, they all have gone the way of the dodo bird. No one is buying them except for video game collectors from second hand stores or booths at flea markets. However, one console is still being sold today and at a healthy number as well. Sony's Playstation 2 is still being sold well around the world. And while its numbers aren't as strong as its earlier days, it's enough to bring notice [...]

Activision Buys the Rights to BlackOps2.com

Just recently, according to this article on Joystiq, Activision, has bought BlackOps2.com via the use of a proxy. Fusible (a technological news website) did some detective work on the acquisition of the site's URL. Now early last year, Activision bought up Black Ops domains last year from Black Ops 1 through Black Ops 6 through a brand protection company called MarkMonitor. Black Ops 2 however, was already secured.
While this doesn't guarantees that Black Ops 2 is 2012's Call of Duty, it does mean that MarkMonitor is under orders to protect the brand for the future [...]

Victor Reznov's Voice Actor Appears on Conan and Talks about Call of Duty

Gary Oldman. You may know him as Commissioner Gordon in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and in this summer's Dark Knight Rises or maybe you know him as Sirius Black in Harry Potter. However, many gamers know him as the voice of Victor Reznov in the Call of Duty series. Well known for his voice acting work in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Well thanks to this article and video on Joystiq, it seems there are a lot of gamers on Conan O'Brien's staff and Conan might be a [...]

Battle Duty: Modern Field 3 Trolls Everyone While Bordering Copyright Infringement

At first, I thought this was a joke, but according to Joystiq, it is not. A company named Imba Entertainment made a satirical shooter that is basically trolling both Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3. Battle Duty: Modern Field 3 is an actual game available right now on the App Store for your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (if its iOS 3.2 or higher).
Since it claims that it's a satirical game, it can get away using real content from both games. The content includes cutouts of in-game characters, vehicles, weapons [...]

The Ministry of Defense for the UK Wants BF3 and MW3-like Simulators for their Military

It's no secret that today's soldiers train on video game style simulators. Both the Secret Service and British servicemen use Virtual Battlepace 2 as part of their training regiment. The VBS2 is a product of Bohemia Interactive, who also made the first Operation Flashpoint games. However these simulators need an update from it's 2007 model. And in the video game world, that's about the equivalency of being ancient. With recruits already having experienced the better graphics and gameplay of titles like Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare [...]

South Korea Has Some Issues with Diablo III's Auction Mechanics

In South Korea, Blizzard games are huge. And when I mean huge, I mean it's their national sport. In other countries, soccer or baseball is broadcast over the airwaves. In South Korea, it's Starcraft. While Starcraft has its following in the country, Diablo has its own in Korea and throughout the world.
However, the country's governmental Game Rating Board could delay Diablo III's launch. According to The Korea Times, the reason is because of Diablo III's in-game virtual auction and how sensitive the government is to concept of gambling, especially on "jackpot [...]