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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending Yesterday, From Software unveiled Ninja Blade, and the pre-rendered trailer looked pretty great. Then again, pre-rendered trailers have a way of doing that, so we were left with a whole bunch of questions about how the game would actually play. Questions that have now been answered! IGN spoke with the game’s producer, Masanori Takeuchi, at yesterday’s MS Japan presser, and he says that the game will be around 12 hours long and will feature a bunch of stuff that…well, it sounds fairly run-of-the-mill. Scanning, weapons upgrades, the gradual unlocking of ninja abilities (even though you’re already a ninja), that kind of thing. Then again, these kind of games are rarely swinging for the fences as far as revolutionary content goes, so we’ll hold off on saying nasty things about it til we see how solid the controls and camera are.
Good news, fans of the internet. The PSP will be getting direct access to the PlayStation Store this fall, eliminating the need to travel through the tubes via your PlayStation 3 or PC to secure downloadable goodies for Sony’s handheld. According to a report from IGN, a future firmware update will let PSP owners surf the store from the comfort of their toilets or local coffee houses, making theme-grabbing a breeze.
Don’t junk your PS3s yet, though, as Sony is also planning to introduce a new feature that will let you take your ad hoc-only PSP games online, simulating infrastructure mode by way of your PlayStation 3. That means select titles that were previously playable only locally will be playable with folks nationwide. Note that “select”, because it looks like not every title will make the jump online via your PS3.
Nintendo has dated Disaster: Day of Crisis for Europe, pegging the Wii action-adventure for October 24, curing it of its previously reported “indefinitely delayed” status.
From developers Monolith Soft (Baten Kaitos, Xenosaga), Disaster puts gamers in the shoes and beard of Raymond Bryce, retired U.S. Marine and former International Rescue Team operative, as he takes on terrorist organisation SURGE and various natural disasters. “What kind of natural disasters?” you’ve clearly asked — earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, with a dash of “roaring pyroclastic flow” thrown in.
Bryce will punch boxes, shoot bears and be manly as he tries to stop global destruction and rescue a brilliant but helpless woman.
No announcement yet on the stateside release date for Disaster: Day of Crisis. Nintendo of America’s press site has removed all mention of the title, so we’ll poke their flesh and blood resources for more details.
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan also announced today that the revamped PSP (PSP-3000) has a Japan release date: October 16th. According to the press release, the new PSP will be priced at ¥19,800 ($A220). What’s more, Sony announced that the upcoming PSP bundles for titles Gundam vs. Gundam, Patapon 2 and DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY will of course be packaged with the PSP-3000. Those bundles will hit later this year and be priced at ¥24,840 ($A275), ¥23,800 ($A262) and ¥25,890 ($A285) respectively.
Square Enix execs may be considering going the Prologue route with the PlayStation 3 release of Final Fantasy XIII. The Japanese demo for the title, planned to ship bundled with the Blu-ray release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and said to clock in at two hours, is supposed to hit in March of next year.
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has just announced a Bluetooth wireless headset for the PS3 — which we previously covered. The headset is priced at ¥5,000 ($A55) and will be released in Japan on October 30. It is bundled with a cradle that can be used to charge the headset, and the headset offers up to 8 hours of talk time and up to 300 hours of standby. It has an operating range of up to approximately 10 meters — or roughly 33 feet.
Hit the jump for the press release.
Rare has just launched a community site for Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise. By Signing in with your LIVE ID, you can display your game stats as well as share pictures of your Gardens and any Piñata Vision cards you have found.
Hey, Rygar: The Battle of Argus! Long time no see! Tecmo just announced that you’ll be shipping out on Wiis in North America this December, making us remember that you existed. The publisher also handed us a new batch of screens of the PlayStation 2 Wii-make of sorts, fresh shots that will have your brown-o-meter pinging hard.
Crecente quite enjoyed his taste of Facebreaker at PAX (or maybe he just enjoyed beating up his son, it was hard to tell) although he found the gameplay a little simplistic. Will the just-revealed soundtrack for Facebreaker keep you pounding away into the night?
Sure, you may have lost interest in the seemingly endless procession of Halo 3 repaints, but have others? Nunh unh. They’re still buyin’ ‘em, so McFarlane will keep sellin’ em. These five figures – two Elites, a Brute Stalker and two Spartans – are the latest to roll off the factory line, and will be available only at Wal-Mart and Toys ‘R’ Us. galleryPost('newhalo', 5, 'New Halo 3 Figures');
