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Retailer Lists "Hardened" and "Prestige" Versions of CoD: Black Ops

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:21:00 +0000

Is Activision planning to release elaborate “Hardened” and “Prestige” editions of Call of Duty: Black Ops , just as they did for Modern Warfare 2 last year? Quite possibly, as IGN reports online retailer Buy.com briefly listed both versions before quickly pulling the listings from the site

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Bethesda Has No Plans to Develop for iPhone, Wii, Facebook

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:33:00 +0000

Remember way back over a year ago when Bethesda was considering developing an iPhone game?

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Force Unleashed Producer Haden Blackman Resigns from LucasArts

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:15:00 +0000

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed executive producer and and writer Haden Blackman has resigned from LucasArts. Blackman announced that he is moving on after a 13 year career with the studio (via IGN ). In a statement, Blackman thanked LucasArts and said that he’s “really grateful for their ongoing support.” “While the decision to leave LucasArts did not happen overnight or come easily, I really feel that now is the best time for me to move on and explore new creative challenges and I look forward to the next phase of my career,” he said.

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Capcom Records Massive Drop in Profits

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:24:00 +0000

Following Nintendo’s disappointing financial results , Capcom have also reported “sluggish” results, with a 90% decrease in profit down from the same time last year — though the company still managed a profit; admittedly a mere 213 million yen, or roughly 2.4 million dollars. As with Nintendo, Capcom blamed an unfavourable exchange rate, particularly as a result of “US and European markets shrinking under the stagnating economy.” However, the poor results may have some wide-ranging results for Capcom’s future release schedule. The company recently announced that they intend to increase the output of releases in their most popular franchises, and their financial report squarely places the “drastic decline” in profitability on the “increase of new flagship titles release from the same term of the previous year, when most sales were made of repeat titles.” This “resulted in higher game development costs.”

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Nintendo Posts Financial Loss Following Declining DS Sales

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:58:00 +0000

Declining sales of Nintendo DS hardware and software, as well as an unfavorable exchange rate, caused Nintendo to post a rare loss in the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year.

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Lost in Shadow Coming in 2011

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:52:00 +0000

Hudson’s Wii platform adventure Lost in Shadow will not be released in the United States until next year. According to a new trailer released today by publisher Hudson (below), the game’s release date is scheduled January 4, 2011

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Tales of Graces Coming to PS3, Two More Tales Games Confirmed

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:03:00 +0000

Tales of Graces hasn’t been released in North America yet, but Namco Bandai may be biding its time ahead of a high-definition release. Three news Tales games were announced in the recent Jump magazine, one of which will be Tales of Graces for the PS3 (via Adriasang ). Titled Tales of Graces F, the high-def update will feature new special attacks and a new outfit for the heroine Sophie along with the expected visual improvements

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New, "Less Simmy" WWE Franchise Coming Next Year

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:49:00 +0000

THQ has already revealed a new WWE franchise this year with WWE All Stars (pictured above), but that’s not the only new WWE game that it has in development besides Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 .

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Aonuma Explains Zelda: Skyward Sword’s Painterly Art Style

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:45:00 +0000

When Nintendo revealed The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword at E3 back in June, you would have been forgiven for thinking at first glance the graphical style was simply a compromise between Wind Waker’s cel-shading and Twilight Princess’s more realistic design. But it turns out the semi-cel-shading style was more inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto’s love for impressionist art, and it also turns out it actually serves a gameplay purpose. “One of the reasons we’ve chosen the art style we have with Skyward Sword is that it is a better vehicle to showcase the exaggerated characteristics of some of the characters,” explained producer Eiji Aonuma to Official Nintendo Magazine (via Nintendo Everything ).

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All About Metroid: Other M’s Gameplay

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:47:00 +0000

The way that Team Ninja leader Yosuke Hayashi puts it, Metroid: Other M — the Wii action game his group’s developing under the watchful eye of Yoshio Sakamoto, father of the Metroid series — kicked off with the idea that it’d be a truly Wii-ready action game. “Sakamoto wanted to make a 3D action game that could be played with a single Wii remote,” he told Famitsu magazine in an interview published this week

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