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January 19, 2012
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
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January 19, 2012
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
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January 19, 2012
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:
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January 12, 2012
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
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January 11, 2012
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 to everyone.
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January 07, 2012
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
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January 05, 2012
An Illinois Family Creates a Guinness World Record with Pokemon
The Arnold family of Frankfort, Illinois is a five-person dominate force when it comes to Pokemon battling power. This family managed to form a championship winning team and has managed to land themselves in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2012 as the Largest Competitive Pokemon Video Game Family. Yep, that's a real title as according to this Kotaku article.
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January 05, 2012
EA Brings Out a Remake of Hard Hitting NFL Blitz
So if you haven't heard the news, EA sports decided to remake another popular sports series (and personally one of my favorites), NFL Blitz. Yes sir, the sports arcade title that was responsible for my love of football and hard-hitting tackles is back and remade into a high-definition arcade downloadable game.
While there are a few new modes to the game like online Blitz Battles and an Elite league where you can create dream teams via collecting cards, the main mode everyone is looking forward to is Blitz Gauntlet, where you
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January 04, 2012
Despite Lack of Sales in the Region, They're Opening a XBox 360 Store in Japan
As you have read in my previous blogs, Microsoft's XBox 360 isn't doing that well in Japan. Microsoft's lack of success is huge as it only sells from two to three thousand consoles a week in Japan. And with news of pulling most materials for the console from Japanese stores, it hasn't stopped one shop in Yamaguchi Prefecture from making a store dedicated to the XBox 360 (according
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December 30, 2011
Nintendo Releases the Official Zelda Timeline to Stop all the Debating of the Timeline
Kotaku got their hands on the newest art book for the Legend of Zelda and to everyone's surprise, it contained a Japanese layout of the series ever-so confusing timeline. The book has been out now for sometime, giving plenty of time for proofreads and translations. And now, finally, Nintendo can end all of the internet debates on exactly how the timeline of Zelda is really played out.
And while there are some doubters out there about the entire timeline, it should