Friday, March 6, 2009

In Real Life

Happy 200th Issue, Edge

11:00PM March 6, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Game magazines come and game magazines go, but there’s one game magazine I’ve bought on a regular basis since I picked up the first issue all the way back in 1993. And that’s Edge.

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News

PAL PlayStation Store Update: Epilogues & Arse Crack

10:30PM March 6, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Watchmen’s out this week. Not interested? You may instead want to spend those hard-earned Pounds/Euros/Dollars on Prince of Persia’s “Epilogue” DLC, then, or the delayed “Femme Fatale” pack for Street Fighter IV.

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Square Enix Execs Take Self-Imposed Pay Cut

10:00PM March 6, 2009 | Brian Ashcraft

Financial forecasts slashed, stocks plunging. Times are hard for Japanese role-playing-game maker Square Enix.

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In Real Life

Now You Too Can Play Resident Evil 5 Dress-Ups

9:30PM March 6, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Sensing that there will be grown-ups willing to part with serious cash money in the wake of Resident Evil 5′s release, Capcom are continuing a long-running trend of theirs: releasing Resident Evil dress-ups.

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News

I Am Alive Developer No Longer Developing I Am Alive

9:00PM March 6, 2009 | Brian Ashcraft

Upcoming disaster game I Am Alive was being developed by independent French Darkworks for publisher Ubisoft. Was because Ubisoft has yanked Darkworks off the project and is finishing the game itself.

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The Red Steel 2 That Never Was

8:30PM March 6, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Red Steel 2 is coming. But did you know the version we’ll be getting sometime in the next 12 months or so is the second Red Steel 2 that’s been in development?

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Police Warning Parents About DSi

8:00PM March 6, 2009 | Brian Ashcraft

Watch out parents! The DSi could put your kids at the mercy of child predators alert Arkansas police.

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One Last Chance To Break EA’s NFL Monopoly

7:30PM March 6, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

EA’s exclusivity deal with the NFL is bad news. Why? Competition is good for the consumer. FIFA only got better as a soccer game, for example, because of competition from Konami’s Pro Evo.

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Tekken Dev Reckons Game Will Influence Design Of Next Xbox

6:30PM March 6, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Need a new reference point for the old saying “delusions of grandeur”? Look no further than Tekken 6 head Katsuhiro Harada, who thinks his game might help influence the way Microsoft makes the next Xbox.

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Nintendo To Let Market Decide Fate of DS Lite

6:00PM March 6, 2009 | Brian Ashcraft

When Nintendo introduces a new product, it phases out the older model. Presently, though, handheld consumers have two choices: the DS Lite or the DSi. Does that mean eventually we’ll only have one choice?

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