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  New Xbox Japan Ads Are Reminiscent of Old Dreamcast Ads

  For those living outside Japan, the country’s Xbox 360 commercials have been interesting. There have been a boy band and a song about kicking the shit out of the recession. The latest series of ads features a trio of salarymen from the “Xbox Mission Department”. The guy with the Xbox 360 logo for a noggin…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2010
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  Microsoft Facing Lawsuit Over Xbox Live Pricing

  Samuel Lassoff, an attorney in Philadelphia, is taking Microsoft to court over claims that the Xbox 360’s currency system – Microsoft Points – exists to “unjustly enrich” the console manufacturer. The basis of Lassoff’s complaint will no doubt also the basis of many of your complaints over the system. Namely, that prices are engineered so…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2010
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  Ubisoft’s PC Games Will Soon Require An Internet Connection

  Fresh off copying from Xbox Live with its “Uplay” service, Ubisoft is now taking a leaf out Valve’s book (The Big Book of Steam), introducing a range of new anti-piracy measures for the company’s PC games. Ditching the controversial “StarForce” system of digital rights management, Ubisoft will now be moving its PC game copy protection…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2010
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  Ayane Is Not Cheap

  Ninja Gaiden II Σ character Ayane is getting immortalized in resin. Again. Her assets, too. You know, the two weapons she bears. Like, her dual swords. Ayane, who usually appears in fighting series Dead or Alive, appears as a playable character in PlayStation 3 action game Ninja Gaiden II Σ. This Ayane statue measures in…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2010
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  Monster Hunter Frontier’s “Debut” 360 Trailer

  Monster Hunter Frontier, a 2007 PC game, is old. Old as the hills. But Monster Hunter Frontier on Xbox 360 is new, and so is this trailer. Cutting edge. Click to view

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2010
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  First Look At Gears of War In Your Lost Planet 2

  The Lost Planet 2 trailer featuring Gears of War characters has leaked onto the internet. Click to view Check out Gears characters Marcus and Dom as they battle their way through a snowy environment against an alien Akrid enemy. YouTube – CAPCOM vs Epic Games – LOST PLANET 2 vs GEARS OF WAR [digilog86@YouTube Thanks,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2010
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  Super Street Fighter IV Goes All Gonzo

  Super Street Fighter IV is a 2D fighting game. And what’s the best way to promote a 2D fighting game? With some classy 2D animation, of course. This trailer for the game was whipped up by GONZO, the Japanese animation studio behind stuff like Afro Samurai. And, yeah, it’s pretty great. Take that, Chun-Li. Click…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2010
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  Transformers: War For Cybertron Gets Its Own Toy Line (Update)

  Transformers: War For Cybertron is an upcoming video game based on a toy line. There’s now going to be a toy line based on the game which is based on a toy line. Ah, cross-promotion. First hinted at via leaked prototype shots a few weeks back, there’s now been confirmation from Hasbro that a range…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2010
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  Dead Rising, The Movie

  We’ve come full circle. Capcom’s zombie horror series Dead Rising is based on George Romero’s zombie films. Now, the game series is making the leap to live action. The movie is set in an alternative reality in which areas affected by outbreaks are strictly quarantined, and those living in the area are cordoned off from…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2010
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  What Are Gears of War Characters Doing In My Lost Planet 2?

  In a collaboration with Capcom, American game developer Epic is lending Gears of War’s main characters Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago to upcoming action title Lost Planet 2. The appearance of both Gears characters in Lost Planet 2 was revealed in a trailer shown today at Xbox Japan’s Capcom event. It is believed that the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2010
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  Xbox Japan’s Big Capcom Announcements Are…

  PC title Monster Hunter Frontier is coming to the Xbox 360. It was announced at the Xbox Japan event today in Tokyo. But that’s not all. The game first appeared on the PC back in summer 2007. A closed beta test will begin this May in Japan. Initially, there will be a PC server and…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2010
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  X10 Sees Microsoft Return To Hosting Its Own Game Show

  Having abandoned the show to the Canadian wilderness in recent years, Microsoft is bringing its “X” event back into the limelight in 2010, with a showcase night planned to take place in San Francisco next month. The last proper “X” event was all the way back in 2006, when Peter Jackson was in attendance promising…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2010
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  What Is Xbox Japan’s Big Capcom Announcement?

  Later today, Xbox Japan is holding a special event in Tokyo with game developer Capcom. The event was teased last week with an image that simply read: Capcom x Microsoft 2010.01.26 CAPCOM TITLE PREMIERE FOR XBOX 360 But what is this new title? There is a scan floating around that purports to announce Monster Hunter…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2010
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  Rumor: LA Noire’s Development More Of A Mess Than We’d Imagined

  We were this morning pointed towards the Twitter account of a certain “veracious_shit”, who says they are a source close to Team Bondi’s long-in-development LA Noire. And veracious has some interesting things to say. Cataloguing the long, drawn-out history of one of the most mysterious games of this hardware generation, veracious claims to reveal a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2010
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  A Week In Comments

  Heavy Rain’s First Nine Minutes Hit The Shower, Down Some OJ Comment by: evolutionman Nominated by: Donutta You know, watching this, I have this gut feeling that this will be the game that destroys video games. I look at it, and I think “Pfft, that’s just getting me to push buttons at the right time.”…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2010
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  We Could Have Had (Another) 2D God Of War

  While God of War on PSP was a good enough game, the real achievement was in how developers Ready At Dawn managed to translate the console experience onto a handheld. But did you know they almost didn’t bother? In an interview at IndustryGamers, RaD’s Dana Jan said “There were early discussions of making Chains of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2010
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  Report: Warner Bros. Rebooting Mortal Kombat (The Movie)

  According to a report on Bloody Disgusting, Warner Bros. Studios is looking to start production on a reboot of 1995 film Mortal Kombat. Having bought the rights to the franchise when it picked up Midway last year, BD say that Warner is looking to get Oren Uziel to write up a script for the project,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2010
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  Kotaku Off-Topic: Mildly On-Topic

  Earlier today we were wondering what would be the onomatopoeic spelling of the Xbox Live Achievement Unlocked sound.. At first I suggested “bloo-ick” but Fahey corrected that with “bo-deet.” Now I think it’s more like “buh-plock.” This is the kind of crap you think about after an eight-hour drive up I-5, beginning at 6 a.m.…

  By Owen Good Published January 25, 2010
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  + Muscle, + Stamina, – Fat

  Poster seen by reader Reagan M. in a gym – not in Ganton, but New Zealand.

  By Owen Good Published January 25, 2010
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  Classic Stadiums Will Be Unlockable, Won’t Be Easy

  This makes me feel like your 88-year-old grandpappy, but MLB 10 will have the old Polo Grounds. Back in the day, its centerfield ad read “Always Buy Chesterfield,” a cigarette. Guess SCEA didn’t want a T rating for tobacco reference. As we mentioned earlier, the Polo Grounds will be available as preorder DLC for MLB…

  By Owen Good Published January 25, 2010