Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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Don’t Expect More PixelJunk PSP Ports Just Yet
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Kyoto-based developer Q-Games has brought its home console PSN PixelJunk experience to the PSP with PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe. It’s a first for the company, and perhaps, a last. More »
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Report: Nintendo Might Cut Profit Forecast
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | According to Bloomberg, Nintendo could very well cut its earning forecast and announce that annual profit will decline. The reason? Decreasing Wii sales and the strong Japanese yen. More »
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Japan Gets New “Value” Elite Xbox 360 Bundle
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | On October 29, Microsoft is releasing a new Xbox 360 Elite bundle in Japan. Packaged with Lost Planet Colonies and Ace Combat 6, this “value pack” is priced at ¥29,800 (US$330). More »
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Epic Mickey’s Animatronic Donald Gives Me The Creeps
8:30PM AJ Glasser | Game Informer’s keeping a steady stream of Epic Mickey articles coming between its November 2009 reveal issue and its online supplements. This article takes a look at character design and art. More »
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One Day, Hideo Kojima Will Make ZOE3, Promise
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Zone of the Enders 2, known in Japan as Anubis, was not a huge hit. While it did go over well with the press, it was a modest hit for designer Hideo Kojima. More »
Culture
7:30PM AJ Glasser | Here’s what you missed if you didn’t catch The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror XX special: Dolph as Venom, Kearney as Heath Ledger’s Joker and Jimbo in the guise of Master Chief. With sneakers. More »
Jimbo Jones As Master Chief
7:30PM AJ Glasser | Here’s what you missed if you didn’t catch The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror XX special: Dolph as Venom, Kearney as Heath Ledger’s Joker and Jimbo in the guise of Master Chief. With sneakers. More »
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Famitsu Awards Bayonetta A Perfect Score
7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Japanese game magazine Famitsu has four separate critics score games on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best score. The four scores are then tallied, and 40 is perfecto. More »
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So Apparently No One Cares About Valve’s Conflict-of-Interest
6:30PM AJ Glasser | We’ve heard one developer say they didn’t feel exploited by Valve, despite Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford’s assertion that that’s exactly what Steam does. Today, Ars Technica lets us hear from a few more. More »
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Where Are The Nipples?!
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Japanese developer System Soft Alpha held an event for upcoming Moe Moe Niji Taisen sequel. Jin from website My Game News Flash had a very important question: Where did the nipples go? More »
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