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  Secret Agent Clank Also Getting The PSP To PS2 Treatment?

  Looks like Sony will be bringing former PSP exclusive Secret Agent Clank to the PlayStation 2, one those 70 games coming to the last-gen PlayStation, according to a new listing from GameFly. Ratchet & Clank fans may remember the previous PSP outing, Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters also went from the PlayStation Portable to the…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009
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  Nike’s Nintendo Shoe Blitz Continues With Wii Blazers

  The checklist of Nintendo-themed Nike brand sneakers gets a 1-UP today, with the first peek at another Wii-inspired shoe, this time of the Nike Blazer variety. WeeklyDrop tipped us off to the new shoe, due this Summer, which joins the Wii inspired Nike Air Force 2 High—complete with Wii Remote condom details—and the Nike Air…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009
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  Even In-Game Advertising Is Hurting, IGA May Be Up For Sale

  IGA, one of the companies that serves up dynamic in-game ads for games like Burnout Paradise, is feeling the advertising pinch, reeling from a recession that has spawned mass layoffs and closures. VentureBeat reports today that the in-game advertising group—not to be confused with Castlevania developer Koji “IGA” Igarashi—is in the process of securing funding,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009
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  Assassins Creed Discreetly Shivs The iPhone In The Back

  Assassin’s Creed 2 may be well underway, but it’s not the only AC game on the horizon, as it’s been announced today that mobile port specialists Gameloft will be bringing the series to the iPhone. Apparently the gameplay will still feature free-running over city rooftops and across multiple cities, though we’d think these would be…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2009
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  LittleBigPlanet Team’s New Project Is “Really F*cking Cool”

  The creators of LittleBigPlanet and the highly marketable Sackboy aren’t resting on their laurels, ready to churn out Sackboy Kart Racing as their next project. Media Molecule co-founder Alex Evans has even begun teasing. He tells Gamasutra in a recent interview that there’s already a secret LittleBigPlanet project underway, one that capitalizes on what he…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009
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  Burn Zombie Burn!: It Is What It Sounds Like

  Typically, Friday the 13th is a day reserved for black cats, bad luck and Jason Voorhees. But this year, in which we get three Friday the 13ths, I’m willing to make an exception for zombies. Actually, there’s been a lot of zombie this month. Between Burn Zombie Burn!, the Resident Evil 5 release and a…

  By AJ Glasser Published March 13, 2009
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  The Rock Deems Doom Movie A Failure

  Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, like everyone else, says that the 2005 Doom movie adaptation was an example of “trying and failing” at making the jump from video game to movie. Yes, he went there! Strong words coming from the star of Race To Witch Mountain. Johnson tells MTV News’ giggly Josh Horowitz that the “writing…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009
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  Batman: Arkham Asylum Collectors Edition Has A Batarang, Bruce Wayne Budget Price

  The upcoming release of Eidos and Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum is getting the collector’s edition treatment. The bad news? It’s a cool $100, forty dollars more than the standard edition. The good news? Batarangs!! According to solicitations from retailer GameStop, by way of a Kotaku tipster, the pricey collectors edition comes equipped with a 12″…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009
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  Killzone 2 Podcast

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Four Months In, What Micro-Bash Can Do We recorded our next podcast today, this time inside Killzone 2 with some of the folks from Guerrilla Games. Fun times. As usually we were reamed. Of course, they did make the game, so it’s only to be expected that we would lose…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009
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  Clash of the Gaming Titans

  Nintendo’s popular DS handheld hit a milestone earlier this month, topping 100 million of the portables shipped worldwide. But a much more important milestone looms. While 100 million is an impressive number, the Nintendo DS still has quite a bit of catching up to do if it wants to topple the Playstation 2 as the…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009
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  Adventure Island Wii Could Really Use Some Cel-shading

  Hudson’s Adventure Island was never my thing. Master Higgins’ penchant for 8-bit shirtlessness was kind of a turn off to me. I like my platforming protagonists to exhibit a modicum of decency. Nintendo’s WiiWare service is giving Hudson another opportunity to turn sidescrolling platforming fans onto this whole Adventure Island thing. That means more Master…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009
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  Spoiler Alert! How Big Daddies Appear In BioShock 2

  Rumors on 2K Marin’s BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams began swirling about the 2K Games forums today, flooding the board with supposed details on the BioShock sequel. Too bad they were mostly bunk. 2K and Game Informer both responded, saying the rumors that BioShock 2 would be Big Daddy-free were untrue. The rest of the…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009
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  Microsoft Settles Its $90 Million Halo Suit

  Someone at sue-happy company PalTalk just got paid. Microsoft has settled with the company that filed suit against the Xbox 360 maker over patent infringement claims related to Halo multiplayer. Make it rain, PalTalk! PalTalk hit Microsoft with a suit over a pair of patents in 2006, claiming that the multiplayer tech that powered some…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009
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  Man Solicits 11-Year-Old For Naked Pictures Via PS3

  A Kentucky man has been arrested today for allegedly convincing an 11-year-old Houston girl to send him naked photos using his PlayStation 3 console. Anthony Scott Oshea of Somerset, Kentucky, was taken into custody by local authorities, charged with with three felony counts, including promotion of child pornography and online solicitation of a minor, after…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009
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  Watchmen: The End is Nigh II Sounds Familiar, Saucier

  The Entertainment Software Ratings Board has weighed in on the second downloadable Watchmen episode, which is unfortunately not titled Watchmen: The End is Even Nigher. It sounds like more of the same, just slightly sexier. Watchmen: The End is Nigh II has been rated M for Mature by the ESRB, described as featuring “Sexual Content”…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009
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  F.E.A.R. 2 Toy Soldiers DLC Is Gigantic And Free

  Monolith and Warner Bros. addressed pricing concerns for their upcoming F.E.A.R. 2 multiplayer Toy Soldiers Map Pack today, revealing that the downloadable content would be released completely free of charge next month. The Toy Soldiers Map Pack, announced on Wednesday, is a multiplayer add-on for F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin that adds a number of new.…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009
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  Stormrise: What Does Verticality Mean?

  So what do Sega and The Creative Assembly mean when they hype verticality in their upcoming real-time strategy game Stormrise? The latest developer diary explains it all. Basically, verticality means just what it sounds like. Rather than the flat-surface combat of your more traditional real-time strategy game, Stormrise lets you get up above and/or down…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009
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  What Are You Playing This Weekend?

  Thanks to Sony, Sega, Microsoft and Rockstar Games, the Kotaku Towers West staff won’t be lacking in games to play this weekend. However, this Saturday will definitely be dedicated to Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Copies of MadWorld, Sonic and the Black Knight, Phantasy Star Portable, Empire: Total War and Ninja Blade all appeared this…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009
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  Grand Slam Tennis Trailer

  This first glimpse at Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii in action gives us a glimpse at oddly large-headed versions of a bunch of pro Tennis players. The list includes Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Bjorn Borg, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg and Pete Sampras, whose head looks just right. Why do the…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009
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  Frankenreview: Resident Evil 5

  Deadly hordes of bloodthirsty biological weapons rampage across Africa in Resident Evil 5, the latest entry in Capcom’s classic survival horror franchise. Resident Evil makes the jump to current generation consoles in this fifth installment, which features the return Chris Redfield as a Bio-terrorism Security Assessment Alliance agent investigating an incident in the African desert.…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009