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Bye bye Army of Two, Tiger 10, Madden 10.
EA has earmarked another 18 online multiplayer servers to be shut down this year.
The first, larger batch will be switched off on 11th August 2011. Among the multiplayer servers disappearing will be those for Army of Two (PS3, 360), Skate (PS3, 360), Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (PS3, PSP, Wii, 360) and Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (360).
On 1st October, two more online multiplayer services will disappear: Madden NFL 10 (PS3, 360) and NHL 10 (PS3, 360).
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Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura has revealed a few small details about Kingdom Hearts III in Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu (via Andriasang)…
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NES Tennis in 3D was too tricky.
Nintendo has admitted there are problems remaking old games in stereoscopic 3D.
Designers got stuck adding the extra dimension when they found out that it altered gameplay. Nintendo’s Takao Nakano, leader of the 3D Classics remakes, told Satoru Iwata that large portions of game code had to be completely re-written.
“In the original version, the game unfolds on a flat surface,” Nakano explained, talking of upcoming re-release Xevious. But in the new version, the player’s ship Solvalou is seen to be floating in mid-air.
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“Bejewled Battlefield Blitz.”
EA has bought casual gaming giant PopCap Games in a deal worth $1.3 billion.
The Bejeweled, Zuma, Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies creator will receive $650 million in cash and $100 million in stock. PopCap will be given an additional $550 million in bonuses in next few years for hitting money-making milestones. I’d like that kind of dosh please.
PopCap has 400 staff.
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Original title was “Kyaba Jo Pi”; name change due to reduce ties with hostess profession.
It seems female gamers are more partial towards
portable and mobile titles, a fact which may have led Level-5 to create something to entice more girls into pursuing the hobby, particularly in Japan. The Fukuoka-based company recently announced Girls’ RPG Cinderella Life for the Nintendo 3DS on Famitsu.com, a simulation tailor-made for female audiences.The game is based on a popular cell phone title called Kyaba Jo Pi where players manage a hostess club to entertain VIPs, some of them being characters from series like Lupin III. However, the 3DS title was renamed as such to reduce the game’s ties with the hostess profession. Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino, who will also be the game’s executive producer, said that people might be against the idea of playing a game billed as a hostess simulator. Hino also stated that the game’s core development staff is female.
Players control a custom avatar who has to work as a Neosienne in a grand lounge-slash-nightclub called the Castle in the town of Neo Ginza. A Neosienne (a possible portmanteau between “Neo” and the “-sienne” in “Parisienne”) entertain clients by talking to them, getting them to order food, and showing them a fun time be it idols, politicians, and CEOs. The game will use the 3DS’ Spot Pass system that lets you exchange digital business cards with other players and have their customized Neosienne in another player’s Castle nightclub. Players can spend their nightclub earnings by buying new clothes and furniture for their custom home in Neo Ginza.
According to the official website, the game is slated for a 2011 release, though both the exact release date and even an English version has yet to be confirmed.
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Professor Layton developer’s Cinderella Life simulation aimed at creating more girl gamers.
It seems female gamers are more partial towards
portable and mobile titles, a notion which may have led Level-5 to create something to entice more girls into pursuing the hobby, particularly in Japan. The Fukuoka-based company recently announced Girls RPG: Cinderella Life for the Nintendo 3DS on Famitsu.com, a simulation tailor-made for female audiences.The game is based on a popular cell phone title called Kyaba Jo Pi, where players manage a hostess club to entertain VIPs, some of them being characters from series like Lupin III. However, the 3DS title was renamed as such to reduce the game’s ties with the hostess profession. Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino, who will also be the game’s executive producer, said that people might be against the idea of playing a game billed as a hostess simulator. Hino also stated that the game’s core development staff is female.
Players control a custom avatar who has to work as a neosienne in a grand lounge/nightclub called The Castle in the town of Neo Ginza. A neosienne entertains clients by talking to them, getting them to order food, and showing them a fun time, be they pop idols, politicians, or CEOs. The game will use the 3DS’s Spot Pass system to let players exchange digital business cards with others and have their customized neosiennes appear in each other’s nightclubs. Players can spend their nightclub earnings by buying new clothes and furniture for their custom home in Neo Ginza.
According to the official website, the game is slated for a 2011 release, though the exact release date and even an English version have yet to be confirmed.
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L.A. Noire – Reefer Madness Case Guide
by RedKiller666 (alightshow | Hotmail)Reefer Madness (Ad-Vice Case)
So this case is after the Black Caesar, and it is on Disk 2 (if anyone is
wondering). So you start out at the Station where the commander tells you to
go see a man known as Freddie Calhoun. He is known to have evidence on a reefer
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American Mcgee’s
Alice: Madness ReturnsPS3 and XBox360 (Based off PS3
version)Guide/
Walkthrough by WishingTikal(wishingtikal[at]gmail.com)
http://www.youtube.com/WishingTikal
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I’m a big fan of indie game developers. A lot of the most innovative games of the last decade have come from tiny teams where financial risk isn’t really a factor, where pleasing major investors or shareholders doesn’t enter the decision-making process. But creating a great indie game is highly reliant on not aiming for something beyond the capabilities of the development team. That’s why games like World of Goo and Terraria work, and why Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising does not…
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Comedy Central game studio creative director confirms new title based on cartoon series en route for Microsoft’s platform.
Unlike the aesthetically crude Comedy Central show it was based upon, South Park’s first brush with gaming in the late ’90s was objectively not good. However, Microsoft and Comedy Central went a long way to righting the franchise in gamers’ minds with their 2009 tower-defense title South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play.
Now, it appears as if a second South Park game is headed exclusively to the Xbox 360. Speaking to Joystiq, 345 Games creative director Prithvi Virasinghe confirmed that his studio is collaborating with Microsoft on a new title based on the tiny-town travails of Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman.
“Right now, South Park is actually in a first-party deal with Microsoft Studios, who published the first game, and they’re doing a second game as well,” Virasinghe said. The head of 345 Games, which is Comedy Central’s internal game development arm, went on to note that the second South Park game will mark the end of its exclusivity deal with Microsoft. Additional details on the title were not revealed.
Beyond South Park, Virasinghe also indicated that he’d like to create a game based upon mock right-wing talk show host Stephen Colbert. “It has to be the right combination of game idea meets property,” he said.
Microsoft had not responded to a request for comment as of press time. For more on the original South Park title for Xbox Live, check out GameSpot’s review of South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play..
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