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SNK Playmore dates and details Japan launch of downloadable emulator.Japan-based publisher and developer SNK Playmore has announced that Neo Geo Station will go live on December 22 in Japan.
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Four rookies on the prowl in New York.
Atari and Sony’s PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 downloadable top down Ghostbusters game Sanctum of Slime sees a maximum of four players each assume the role of a rookie.
Each is hired to save New York City from ruin. There are jobs to complete, haunted environments to explore and ectoplasmic threats to deal with.
Huge bosses that require a concerted effort to defeat with Proton Streams are promised. Other weapons include the Plasma Inductor and the Fermion Shock.
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Square Enix details impressive PSP line-up.
PSP games Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy, The 3rd Birthday, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together and Lord of Arcana will all be released in Europe between February and the end of spring 2011. Who says the PSP is dead?
First up is new four-player action game Lord of Arcana, scheduled for release in February. It’ll be released as a special Slayer Edition, which includes a copy of the game in a Slayer Red case, a 44-page hardback art book and a mini soundtrack CD.
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, a reinvention of the classic strategy RPG, will launch “shortly after”. Members of the original development team, including director Hiroshi Minagawa, designer Yasumi Matsuno, character designers Akihiko Yoshida and Tsubasa Masao and composers Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata, have joined forces for the project.
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Cloud-based gaming service preparing to take on Netflix with films-on-demand.US-based gaming service OnLive plans to offer film and TV content next year. In an interview with Reuters, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman says: “Streaming technology is available to anybody. We want to work with the studios. All of these guys want to offer content, we’re just here to distribute."
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Big user numbers for social game giant’s latest release underline the steady popularity of Facebook games.US-based social game company Zynga has called CityVille its biggest-ever launch. According to Inside Social Games 290,000 people played the game in its first 24 hours of launch.
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A patchy attack.
Sony’s going to update your PS3 hard-drive any moment now with a new dollop of firmware.
Yet all patch v3.55 adds is boring security.
Ah, but security for what? Perhaps a global digital virus is spreading and will devour the PlayStation 3! Or maybe I’m just filling space.
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“Comprehensive” update promises to fix game.
A patch for openworld role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas will soon be released.
In a post on Bethesda Softworks’ forum the company said work on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Steam patch was complete and waiting for approval at the platform holders.
The update is described as “comprehensive”, and tackles an Xbox 360 save issue among other problems.
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New workouts for Ubisoft’s fitness game.
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved is due its first DLC pack today, publisher Ubisoft has announced.
There are two new workout packs available: the Toned Body Program boldly pledges to “strengthen all your muscles” and give you “a firmer body”, while Cardio Boxing Platinum is a new advanced level for the Cardio Boxing mode.
Ubisoft also announced that its sturdy Kinect keep fit title will see another 12 new exercise packs during the first half of next year, with further details coming soon. Prices will range from 320 to 560 Points. New screens are below.
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First proper Tomb Raider details emerge.
The brand new Lara Croft will only be 21 years-old and, each time you make a mistake, you’ll graphically see her demise: a boulder pinning her leg before another rumbles down and crushes her face, for instance, or a man brutally stabbing her chest before he stoops over to close her eyes.
The new Tomb Raider also ditches auto-lock aiming, according to NeoGAF’s detail-pillage of the Game Informer piece. Crystal Dynamics says the new shooting system will compete with any other game out there – Uncharted obviously being the benchmark. To that end, the new Tomb Raider will employ a hefty dose of performance capture, and this will extend to the various other humans on the island.
There’s a waft of the open-world about the new Tomb Raider, as base camps become places for you to combine and perhaps create new items. There are new areas where you can develop Lara’s skills using an upgrade system. Our heroine won’t begin as a hardened survivor, but over time she’ll scavenge new gear and with it new abilities that will make accessible more of the island to her.
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Azeroth transforms as Cataclysm hits the streets.
The globe’s most well-known massively multiplayer online game–World of Warcraft–receives another boost in the form of yet another major expansion pack this week, with World of Warcraft: Cataclysm hitting Asia today, December 7. Cataclysm isn’t your average upgrade, however; as well as introducing two new races, this expansion completely transforms the world of Azeroth, giving both first-timers and longtime WOW fans new sights to see.
The fantasy world of Azeroth isn’t the only option for gamers this week. For those with a technological bent, Tron: Evolution is also hitting stores, with the movie tie-in taking place inside the world of a computer, as well as being a prequel to the upcoming film Tron: Legacy.
To find out what else is out this week,* check out the list below:
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (PC)
Tron: Evolution (360)
Yogi Bear: The Video Game (DS)THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9
Ape Escape Fury! (PS3)*Dates based on confirmed Singapore release.
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“Asia Shippin’ Out: December 7-10” was posted by Randolph Ramsay on Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:27:16 -0800