Weekly News Roundup: 9/27/2009

Games

What ever other animals The Last Guardian's creature may look like, it's going to break your heart when it dies at the end. Just from playing the previous  games you know there is a strong possibility this will happen.

  • There will be a limited edition white Final Fantasy XIII PS3 with a light pink image of Lightning emblazoned upon it. It is quite classy.

  • At the Tokyo Game Show Capcom gave away a Dead Rising 2 jacket. It's the same one the character Chuck wears in the game and only two exist; the other one belongs to creator Inafune.

  • BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is an update to Calamity Trigger that has at least one new character. It will be out in Japanese arcades soon and could be ported to home systems. I hope there is more than just one new character, otherwise that would be a lousy update.

  • If you didn't buy the limited edition life-sized Lancer from Gears of War, here's your chance to by a much more expensive one that doesn't do anything. TriForce's replica Lancer costs an astounding $949.00.

Movies

  • Robert Rodriguez's Predators will be going back to the original design of the Predators.

  • There might be an X-Men 4. So would the focus be on Wolverine like every other X-Men movie?

- Shawn - 9/27/09

Weekly News Roundup: 9/13/2009

Games

The new 2D Sonic's graphics will look something like this., but in HD.

  • Sega is developing a brand new 2D HD Sonic the Hedgehog game that won't be on a handheld system. It's about time, Sega. There isn't much to see right now except a teaser that shows absolutely nothing. The game will be out sometime in 2010.

  • The newest addition to the Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom lineup is the awesome Tekkaman Blade. Rumors are that Frank West from Dead Rising will be another character.

  • In celebration of Dreamcast's 10th, ScrewAttack made a list of the Top 10 Dreamcast Games. None of the choices are particularly surprising, but it's a good list.

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  • More concept art for Grin's sadly cancelled Final Fantasy game has arrived online. Who knows, maybe Square-Enix will let some other developer work on it.

  • Vivid Entertainment wants to sell porn on the PS3 and is in the process of drafting a letter to Sony for such a request.

  • If you ever wanted to make your own Big Daddy costume but didn't know how to go about it, Volpin Props has everything you need to know.

  • There is now some new Vision Library face recognition tech for the PlayStation 3 that tracks individual faces and makes a creepy anime face or a cow face on yours.

  • Ever wonder what Street Fighter IV characters would look like in Street Fighter III? Wonder no more as a Shoryuken.com forums member has made SFIII sprites of SFIV characters. He even made a Dan Vs. Abel scene for the original Street Fighter.

Movies

  • The live-action Akira movie is alive again. The movie is now being written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Otsby, who previously wrote Children of Men and Iron Man. The movie is rumored to be set in Manhatten, which would be weird especially if two Americans are calling themselves the Japanese names Tetsuo and Kaneda.

  • Warner Bros. has pulled out of the He-Man movie. This is probably a good thing because producer Joel Silver and possibly that ludicrous script they were going to use won't be involved.

  • The fifth Resident Evil movie may be a reboot of the series. It it currently called Resident Evil Begins and will be about a group of people that fight a super-computer that has changed scientists into zombies. How about they just stick closer to the games instead of making movies that aren't actually Resident Evil.

- Shawn - 9/13/09

Weekly News Roundup: 9/6/2009

Games

Staring at Chibiterasu's infinite cuteness for too long will make your eyes bleed rainbows.

  • The cutest thing ever made its debut this week: Chibiterasu, the star of the new DS Okami game, Okamiden. Okamiden takes place a few months after Okami and has the same kind of celestial brush, combat and style. Chibiterasu will have to partner up with various characters to pass puzzles. There are  watch the very brief silent teaser.

  • The Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Limited Edition is actually going to be a limited edition. You can't buy it; you have to win it. They will be awarded as prizes in the multiplayer demo, Home and other to-be-announced places. Called the Fortune Hunter Edition, the game comes in a very, very large box and with a replica dagger.

  • Gold4Jetpack.com is a brilliant marketing tool for Dark Void. Capcom will have an upcoming contest to win a super awesome Dark Void Tesla Air travel kit. It contains a travel pillow, sick bag, postcards, travel blanket, sleep mask, and toiletry case all in a sweet Tesla bag.

  • If you're wondering what the multiplayer for BioShock 2 will look like, watch this trailer. I'm not to keen on playing as random psychotic Splicers, but I'll try it out at least.

  • The new MechWarrior game is in a little legal trouble. Harmony Gold has issued a cease and desist order to IGN of all places, claiming that some of the mech designs in the trailer are the same as some Robotech designs.

  • Cave's poll last week received so many overseas requests for region free versions, that Cave is considering making Mushihime-sama Futari region-free. Here are the results of the Cave poll for a new XBLA game: 1) Guwange 2) ESP ra de 3) Dodonpachi 4) Progear 5) Pink Sweets 6) Mushihime-sama 7) Dangun Feveron 8) Muchi Muchi Pork 9) Espgaluda 10) Ibara.

  • People who have not played Ninja Gaiden II will probably be offended by the end of this Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 commercial where Ryu slices the Statue of Liberty in half.

  • Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time will be on shelves on October 27th.

  • The Galaga world record has been annihilated by Phil Day. The previous record was 2.7 million. Day's score was 3.44 million. That is quite the higher score.

  • The God of War Collection is coming to the PS3. The collection includes both God of War I and II which have been re-mastered in 720p, anti-aliased graphics, and with Platinum level Trophies for each game.

  • Members from the ilovebees team is working on an ODST meta-game radio play called Sadie's Story with artist Ashley Wood.

Movies / TV

  • Tron Legacy will in theaters December 17th, 2010, but that may be a bad idea. Also coming out that day are The Smurfs, Yogi Bear, and The Green Hornet. Unless Hornet gets delayed again, Tron will have some fierce competition from 3 movies that weekend.

Figures

  • Diamond Select will release red striped Cylon figures from the Battlestar Galactica series finale. The variants will be in both the 7-inch and Mini-mates lines. When and where these will be out has yet to be determined.

- Shawn - 9/6/09