Friday, December 19, 2008

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You Have Been Spared This Garish Xbox 360 Faceplate

11:00PM December 19, 2008 | Luke Plunkett

Microsoft are in the process of sending out XBLA faceplates to the press, fan sites, those types. The design is a simple one, and although an aesthetic disaster, it retains a certain charm.

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Video: Let’s Read Famitsu With Us!

10:30PM December 19, 2008 | Kotaku US Edition

You may have seen “Famitsu” credited as a source on a million blogs. Maybe you’ve never seen the actual magazine; maybe you don’t want to. Either way, here’s a guided tour of this week’s issue!

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Pucker Up For Some Lips Downloadable Content

10:00PM December 19, 2008 | Luke Plunkett

Lips is getting its DLC act together, with Microsoft today announcing a raft of new tracks to be made available over the next few weeks. Most suck. But not all. There’s still Bobby Brown.

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DJ Tiësto’s Management Says He’s Not In Activision’s DJ Hero

9:30PM December 19, 2008 | Luke Plunkett

Oops! Looks like the “newsletter” that did the rounds a few weeks back, purporting to “reveal” that Dutch disc jockey DJ Tiësto would feature in Activision’s DJ Hero, was a load of baloney.

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Online Shoppers, You Are In The Minority

9:00PM December 19, 2008 | Luke Plunkett

Research firm Frank N. Magid Associates looked into you, the gaming public’s buying habits. Looked at how you bought your games, where you bought them. The results? You buy them in stores.

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Shocker: Famitsu Does Not Love White Knight Chronicles

8:30PM December 19, 2008 | Kotaku US Edition

Japan’s Weekly Famitsu (suggested slogan: “The Only Magazine In The World”) reviewed Sony and Level-5′s White Knight Chronicles in their latest issue; shockingly, they did not love it.

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Well, at least Midway Austin didn’t lose …

8:15PM December 19, 2008 | Luke Plunkett

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Warning: Producer of Metal Gear Solid touch *is* Female

8:00PM December 19, 2008 | Kotaku US Edition

This week’s Famitsu has an interview with Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear Solid Touch producer Yasuyo Watanabe. The headline for the story is very careful to accentuate that Watanabe is female. How careful, you ask?

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I’m So Sorry – If Oblivion Was a Music Video

7:30PM December 19, 2008 | Mike Fahey

I tried my best to avoid ever sharing this epic creation by Chris Dane Owens, but someone at Bethesda thinks it’s a good representation of what Oblivion would look like as a music video.

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Atlus Unleashes Hammerin’ Hero On PSP

6:45PM December 19, 2008 | Mike Fahey

Atlus once again takes care of its fans first with an exclusive reveal of their upcoming PSP title Hammerin’ Hero delivered directly to their Atlus Faithful community.