Monday, January 5, 2009

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Valkyria Chronicles Wants YOU

11:00PM January 5, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Valkyria Chronicles hasn’t done so well. Shame, it’s a gorgeous game. Can’t help but wonder what’d be like if Sega had managed to actually draw our attention to marketing like this before 2009 ticked over.

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PC Sales Charts

10:30PM January 5, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Holiday’s over, PC sales charts. You had a grand couple weeks off, now get back to work. We need to be shown how Blizzard are able to afford to sprinkle gold dust on the canteen doughnuts.

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Hideo Kojima Thinks ‘Way We Make Games Won’t Translate Globally’

10:00PM January 5, 2009 | Brian Ashcraft

It’s foreign game panic day! Like Jun Takeuchi, Hideo Kojima is worried about Western games and Western developers. He tells Japanese magazine Famitsu what he’s going to do about it.

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360 Finally Gets Mouse & Keyboard Support

9:30PM January 5, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

This 360 has mouse & keyboard support! Yay! Except, sadly, it’s not official support. Just the work of a modder. But hey, if he can do it, maybe you can do it too.

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Last Year, Japanese Game Market Experienced Shrinkage

9:00PM January 5, 2009 | Brian Ashcraft

According to Famitsu‘s publisher Enterbrain, the Japanese game market is, like a frightened turtle, getting smaller compared to last year. But what was the biggest selling game hardware? Games?

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Sony To Close ‘Major Divisions’ Next Month

8:30PM January 5, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Times are tough all over right now, but times are especially tough at Sony. They’ve only just announced plans to axe thousands of employees, and already The Times reckon things are about to get worse.

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Massive Gundam Pod Arcade Game Getting PSP Version

8:00PM January 5, 2009 | Brian Ashcraft

Japanese arcade title Gundam Senjou no Kizuna is rumoured to be getting a PSP version. Interesting (odd, even) as the original has pod-shaped networked arcade cabinets with panoramic screens.

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Resident Evil 5 Producer: ‘Japan Is Target Of Western Developers’

7:00PM January 5, 2009 | Brian Ashcraft

Watch out, Japan! Western game developers are out to getcha. This concerns Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi a bunch. But should it?

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Where Bad Games Go To Die (RIP Tabula Rasa)

6:30PM January 5, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Upon their death, great men are afforded a sending off befitting of their stature. Pity Tabular Rasa, then, as EB Games in Canada seems more content to roll its lifeless corpse into the nearest ditch.

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Square Enix President Sends New Years Greeting In Poetic Prose (No, Really)

6:00PM January 5, 2009 | Brian Ashcraft

Doom! Gloom!! Bittersweet optimism!!! Square Enix president Yoichi Wada rallies the troops with a New Years message titled “Riding The Current.” It’s corporate poetry.

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