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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Since Nintendo won’t be releasing a Kid Icarus game on the Wii any time soon, OTT Games decided to release something very similar in Icarian: Kindred Spirits. Turns out it might have been too similar.
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The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus asks that Canada, Russia, China, Mexico, and Spain please cut down on the software piracy. Thanks!
Every year, Nintendo documents the worst countries in the world in terms of rampant Nintendo game piracy, issuing a report to the U.S. Trade Representative requesting help. What countries made the list this year?
According to a report from newspaper La Vanguardia, by way of GamePolitics and Google’s Spanish to English translator, Spain’s cabbies are calling for a ban on Grand Theft Auto — Grand Theft Auto IV, we presume. After a Thai teenager was arrested on suspicion of murdering a taxi driver, claiming to have been inspired by GTA, the game was pulled from shelves in Thailand.
Now, Josep Maria Goñi, secretary general of the Catalan Taxi Federation, is asking the Spanish government to do the same, citing the Thai murder case.
We’re going to make an arse out of ourselves and assume that Mr. Goñi knows as much as the Grand Theft Auto series as just about everyone else in his position and hope that cabbie murder hysteria blows over before it gives the series a bad rap. We can’t have our games being scapegoated for society’s ills, now. What a horrible precedent that would set.
Spanish Cabbies Want GTA Banned in Wake of Thai Taxi Murder [Game Politics]
Metal Gear Solid 4 has launched pretty much everywhere. Well, everywhere save for Spain. The game hasn’t yet launched there because of a transportation strike against the high price of gasoline. Konami Europe isn’t able to get the game to stores. Here’s the statement from Konami Europe:
Konami Digital Entertainment Spain regrets to info of possible delays, through no fault of the company, may occur in the distribution of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for PLAYSTATION 3 in the coming days.
Although the official launch globally is June 12, 2008, the product will be unavailable this week in Spain due to the transport strike.
In the continuing effort to maintain the best gaming experience for our users, Konami Digital Entertainment deeply regrets that this contingency affect the date of launch of a long-awaited title.
Will be informed shortly of the date on which the product will be available in our country.
Bummer that the launch had to be pushed back due to a transport strike. The price of gas isn’t anything to be happy about, either.
Comunicado sobre la fecha de lanzamiento de Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots [Konami Thanks, Lauren!][Pic]
Now to be honest, the latest game sales charts out of Europe show Funcom’s PC MMO Age of Conan beating out Grand Theft Auto IV in only two of three countries charted, the odd country out is Spain, which – no offence to our Spanish readers – is the European country I forget exists nine times out of ten. Face it, you guys are quiet over there. You and Portugal, just kicking back on the beach, playing Wii Play and Mario Kart.
Sure, why not. Two new DS colour schemes have been spotted on a couple of Spanish retail sites, one a deep shade of red, the other a very fetching, very tropical shade of lime green that looks refreshing enough to throw in a glass and stick an umbrella on top. I know, the picture quality on the site is awful, so these are far from being officially confirmed, but one of them is the website of GAME, only the world’s second-largest specialist gaming retailer, so we can’t totally discount them. Guess we’ll know the truth as we get closer to June 13, which is the supposed release date for the pair.
Nintendo DS Lite Verde [GAME, via Leonsito @ NeoGAF]
