Actually announced? Because DW 6 was an "exclusive" as well. Not saying you're wrong, just wanting details.

Don't know how I feel about the Fire Pro game. On one hand, I nearly crapped myself in excitement when I saw "Fire Pro Wrestling". And while I do trust Spike to put out something good, I can't see it being anywhere on par with traditional Fire Pro games. It looks more like it's geared for a more casual audience and will likely have an arcade feel to it.

That said, I'll buy it if only for the chance of another true Fire Pro or KOC game being released in the states. It's a good sign that they're making this, since they did say they would never make another wrestling game. Though that can be taken two ways. Either they're testing the waters again or it's not a true wrestling game, like Fire Pro or KOC.

http://www.destructoid.com/dynasty-w...e-184064.phtml

As long as they go back to the original movesets I'll be thrilled, can't stand the changes in the last 2-3 of them.

5 was probably the best of the series (If you don't count Warriors Orochi 2). 6 was utter shit.

Hate how the online games ruined the continuity of the Final Fantasy series. There are a million Final Fantasy spinoff series like Crystal Chronicles and Tactics, why couldn't they just call it "Final Fantasy Online" and "Final Fantasy Online 2" or something.

When did they change the movesets, 6? I know 6, 6:Empires and Strikeforce all had the retarded, 6 unique movesets.

Activision considering an experiment on making cutscenes in a game a pay to play feature. The idea is to treat cutscenes from a game like a movie and since you have to pay to watch a movie in theaters or on dvd, you would have to pay to access the media or else you get nothing.

The plan would be around $20 to $30 just for the cutscenes on top of the normal prices for a video game. Activision did hint that this plan wouldn't be a reality until at least another 4-5 years or next console generation.

If for some chance it becomes successful, it wouldn't take long for the other big companies to join on this new money making scheme.

http://kotaku.com/5639929/activision...game-cutscenes

Ok, we all laughed at Cliff Blezinski when he suggested paying extra for game endings, and we ended up paying for online in used games...

I want to laugh so hard at the idea of paying for cutscenes since it's the one part of the game lots of people skip over anyway, but you never know. Especially since they're suggesting it for the next generation, which means they'd doubtlessly be near movie levels.

The only reason it's coming out at all is because MS commissioned it. If it sells well, they'll probably pat themselves on the back and say it was due to avatars and commision a sequel.

That said, I wonder if it plays more like KOC than FPW just because it's 3D. They may have called it FPW because it's a better known brand than KOC but who knows.

It might not play like either of them and just be dumbed down crap, mind.

Fuck that. I disagree with making people pay 10 bucks to play used games online, I get why companies are doing it tho, but this is just utterly retarded.

Totally. But, if they can screw for $10 now, they'll just keep edging up the price over the next 5 years so you won't even notice the fact the game is $90 in total so they get rich and still find a way to cry about piracy or used games or the fucking pope.

3's still a hallmark.

The only game with a significant change is 6, and I'm afraid theyll keep up that shit. I have a PS3, so I'll get it if they don't, but the shitty movesets, renbu system, etc., really killed that game for me.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/foru...-Premature-End

APB is already dead. Holy fuck.

Damn.

Was pretty close to buying that, lol.

They should just release the code under the GPL or something and let the community build it. No reason not to do that, really. Other than reusing the engine.

Damn who saw the trailer for The Last Guardian. From the same team that made Shadow of the Colossus/ICO. Same art style and everything. Looks amazing

Yeah, pretty psyched for that.

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GAY

Only a rumor as of now but Epic Games is considering buying the rights to All Points Bulletin which failed after just 90 days and caused its developer to shut down it doors.

Apparently Realtime Worlds and Epic Games have some sort of connection where the boss of Realtime Worlds is a personal friend of the VP from Epic Games. Once Realtime Worlds collapsed as a studio, they contacted Epic Games to see if they were interested in buying the rights to the game before contacting other companies.

Most likely Epic Games wouldn't take over APB and restart the servers but it would give them the source code and pre-made engine/environment to build a future MMO if they were ever interested.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...00x_apb_01.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5640623/gears-of-w...buy-failed-mmo

might just play ICO all night, it turns out if you don't grab some fucking stick the game is impossible and you'll be stuck at the beginning for over a year

I still don't get the avatar craze. You've always been able to make wrestlers in FPW. Who thought "You know what would be cool? If we took away years of customisation and tossed in shitty deformed versions of some loser's ideal self!"

It's huge with the casual crowd, so it makes sense. I'm really not surprised by their direction. This FPW will sell better than Fire Pro R did (in the US). I guarantee it.

Fire Pro is like the opposite of casual tho, so this has train wreck written all over it.

Which would be a horribly unfair comparison. Comparing a full-price 2D cult game with zero marketing budget against an XBLA-priced 3D game with Microsofts money behind it.

If it sells, I don't think anyone can logically say that it had any tiny thing to do with avatars.

Yeah distribution of FPR was atrocious.

Even without understanding the language, Pokémon White is amazing.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...h/57bf8453.jpg

Since it's not Professor Oak, I shall call her Prof. Whoreface.

Harada (Tekken producer) announces "TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2" via Twitter!

Yeah, it was a retarded empty statement. It also neatly missed the point, w hich you and Fagnuts caught.

Come to think of it, it's only missing a kliq statement and a shitty unfunny photoshop to be the ultimate Xero post.

Ape Escape Shake! Shake! for the PS3 Move to be an on-rails style shooter but replacing weapons and bullets with gadgets from the series.

Unlike other Ape Escape games, there is no actual exploration but instead the only thing done in levels is to catch monkeys on the screen while the camera guides the player in a linear path.

Rumored to have a release date of November 1 at a $40 retail price.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...scape_move.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5641392/ape-escape...gadget-shooter

Hideo Kojima doesn't rule out the possibility of making a Metal Gear Solid 5 game even though he previously said he was done with the series and that MGS 4 would be the last in the Solid storyline.

Original plan was to let another person take over the series but in a new direction or storyline while he would only give suggestions or help if the new team needed him (similar to Miyamoto being used as an adviser for Metroid Prime series).

http://kotaku.com/5641618/hideo-koji...l-gear-solid-5

what is pokemon white

The next Pokemon game.

Yeah, White and Black.

Hopefully it's not Raiden or whatever his name is. Don't like him.

Raiden who's getting his own game? Probably not.

Does Solid Snake have a son? Maybe it will be him.

Or if he has a daughter they could go that way...

He can't has kids. Sunny, however, is the tech geek daughter of a mercenary raised by another soldier and an even bigger tech geek.

I'd totally like to see how she turned out.

Oh look, Kojima's full of shit again.

Secret of Mana getting really hard near the end what the fuck!

It's a JRPG, of course it will.

Capcom have had their lowest profits since 2004.

To be fair, bar SSF4 which ha a lower margin anyway, they've not really done anything of note.

Or maybe people are broke as fuck. Chips are fucking 35c now.

Yeah, despite it not happening to other companies, that's it, Kal. :roll:

Tougeki 2010 has come and gone. Here are the results for the world's most prestigious arcade fighting game event. (Missing results will be added as they are confirmed and sent in.)

Street Fighter 4 (Vanilla, Arcade)
1st - Kindevu (Rufus) / Momochi (Akuma) / RF (Sagat)
2nd - Daigo Umehara (Ryu) / TKD (El Fuerte) / Bonchan (Sagat)
3rd tie - Tokido (Akuma) / Mago (Sagat) / Nemo (Chun-Li) & Dashimaki Tamago (C. Viper) / Nen (Rufus) / Denpa (Sagat)

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
1st - Kuroda (Ken) / Nitto (Yun) / MOV (Chun-Li)
2nd - Kokujin (Dudley) / Haitani (Makoto) / Nuki (Chun-Li)
3rd tie - KO (Yang) / Ochibi (Yun) / Tokido (Chun-Li) & Mester (Yun) / Raoh (Chun-Li) / Higa (Ibuki)

Super Street Fighter II X
1st - MAO (Claw) / Futachan (Ryu) / Ito (Dee Jay)
2nd - Abebin (E. Honda) / Sasori (Ryu) / Oonishi (Dictator)
3rd tie - Nuki (Chun-Li) / Muteki (Guile) / Shiki (Boxer) & Tsuji (Boxer) / Inro (O. Chun-Li) / Danjiri (Dhalsim)

Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core
1st - Shounen (Testament) / RF (Faust) / Ogawa (Eddie)
2nd - Inoue (Order Sol) / Machaboo (Testament) / FAB (Potemkin)
3rd tie - Isamu (Venom) / Roi (Sol) / LOX (Jam) & Ina (Millia) / Nage (Faust) / Mitsurugi (Zappa)

Melty Blood
1st - GO1 (Akiha) / Ieda (Kohaku)
2nd - Hato (V.Akiha) / Leo (Warc)
3rd tie - Kaimaato (Kouma) /Inoshi (V.Sion) & Tatsuya (Ciel) / X (Nero)

Blazblue: Continuum Shift
1st - Tsujikawa (Taokaka) / Chou (Litchi)
2nd - Satoshi (Bang) / Hiroshi (Jin)
3rd tie - Goro (Lambda) / Fumo (Arakune) & Dora (Bang) / Hima (Arakune)

KOF13
1st - Oeppu (K' / Mature / Raiden)
2nd - Jaian (K' / Mai / Iori)
3rd tie - Kyabetsu (Andy / K' / Kula) & Ho Kun Xian (Elisabeth / K' / Takuma)

Tekken 6
1st - sumairu X (Marduk) / nesuchan (Devil Jin) / tatatatatatatata-ku (Lars)
2nd - daipan (Steve) / pandamania (Panda) / pekosu (Bob)
3rd tie - Addung (Asuka) / Naengmyun Sungin (Roger) / Narakhof (Marduk) & seikingu (King) / ide (Bob) / agichi (Leo)

Virtua Figher 5: Final Showdown
1st - serori (Kage) / morimoto reota^do (Vanessa) / hiraganadeaoki (Jacky)
2nd - Jaga (Goh) / Kurobo~ (Lau) / Yoroshiko (Jeffry)
3rd tie - Gorgeous (Eileen) / Joseph (Akira) / Yuutenji (Lau) and ???

Arcana Heart 3
1st Kasumi LOVE (Akane) / Tono (Konoha)
2nd Shirogoma (Angelia) / Kyouken (Zenia)
3rd tie - Banbaban (Heart) / Andou (Catherine) & Buchi (Yoriko) / Ooen (Kira)
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Hey look, they don't give a fuck about MvC2. Hmmmm.....

People could be dropping gold bars when they shit and they still wouldn't buy Dark Void.

Perhaps they should rethink the whole 'western influence/guest devs' thing. It's a huge cultural misunderstanding of the last three years.

Did Capcom do the one time currency exchange similar to Nintendo and Sony ?

Not sure how bad the exchange hurt Sony but in Nintendo's case, they made a profit for the year/quarter but due to the strong Yen vs weak Dollar, they ended up posting a loss for the year/quarter.

Yo so, was Ninety Nine Nights 2 any good, or was it pretty terrible? Want a decent hack n slash game. Because I can't find Warriors Orochi 2 any where and the new DW have the craptastic move sets, I don't even wanna bother with them.

Hi-Rez Studios trying to convert as many disgruntled All Point Bulletin MMO players by offering a 30% discount to former APB players for their own MMO called Global Agenda.

Discount is good until September 24, 2010 and available to anyone who wants to play their game. The game's price would be $20.99 after the discount is used.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...40x_global.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5642986/global-age...ht-apb-players

A HALO MMO? Sweet.

For those that like World of Warcraft and Plants vs Zombies, new expansion has a quest that is very similar to Plants vs Zombies in appearance and gameplay.

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http://kotaku.com/5643666/plants-vs-...ld-of-warcraft

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/image...nkshock_01.jpg

Gotta love that the first bullet point is the vibration feature.

YEAH I WENT THERE

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Rich Hall is hosting this years Golden Joystick Awards, which is the 28th GJA and will be taking place on the 29th of October. Wonder if it'll be online somewhere, eventually.

gog.com only took it's site down and stopped people from downloading games they own for a publicity stunt.

I own 5 games from GOG... But they can fuck off now.

Seriously, I will take old games that cost twice the price of GOG and loaded with securrom before I ever, ever buy another game from GOG.

what is gog

Nintendo Power reveals Cave Story going to Nintendo DS with a TBA release date.

The game will be only for DSiWare for the time being but no details on a cart version for non-DSi users.

So far the game has been released on the PC (free) and WiiWare ($10).

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image..._story_dsi.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5645202/nintendo-p...going-portable

Sorta worked. A lot of people who had never heard of them know about them now.

Will they buy? Well, I probably won't. But the day I become mainstream, you should all be very, very scared.

Super Meat Boy for Xbox Live Arcade is going to offer free DLC by including a special chapter in the game where the developers can upload as many chapters and DLC content for free even though Microsoft sets limits on free DLC allowed.

By using a chapter called "Teh Internets", they can go around the Microsoft requirement and give out as much DLC for free as they want.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...00x_smb_02.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5646314/super-meat...-teh-internets

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Unless his top priority is Half-Life 2: Episode 3, I don't care.

Honestly though, at this point they should just release Half-Life 3 instead.

Pre-order Donkey Kong Country Returns at Gamestop and get a collectible banana pouch to store a Wiimote when it is not being used.

Deal is exclusive only at Gamestop and supposedly in very limited numbers.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...ng_bananas.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5646405/donkey-kon...es-are-bananas

Gay.

Got a Turbo Grafx 16 today with three games Neutopia, R-Type, TV Sports Hockey.

Can I subscribe to your twitter

According to Gamespot (I think by way of IGN), You Don't Know Jack is returning.

Newest PSN firmware update 3.50 manages to disable or kill off a good number of non-Sony brand or licensed PS3 controllers.

Mad Catz confirms most of the pre-2008 controllers now won't work on an updated PS3 while their fighting pads and arcade sticks are guaranteed to still be working. Logitec controllers are not affected by the update due to being considered officially licensed by Sony. Rock Band instrumental controllers also assumed to not be affected by the update.

This update comes at the same day Sony warns consumers to not buy counterfeit or non-licensed controllers since they could catch on fire or explode while playing.

http://kotaku.com/5647346/ps3-update...tz-controllers

http://kotaku.com/5646780/sony-block...-of-explosions

I saw the exploding controllers bit. LOL.

I saw the exploding controllers shit.

LOL.

It said it couldn't post the first one. :wtf:

Postal 3's also coming evidently.

Hasney got a thread with a bunch of videos. Looks like cheesey over the top violent shit straight out of the 90s, but worth a few laughs.

For what? Postal 3?

Apparently I got into the Dead Space 2 multiplayer beta.

Edit, its "meh" imo

Just beat Secret of Mana with my friend. Overall this game was fucking retarded and unintentionally hilarious. Only things I liked were the music (aside from the parts where it would cut out because sound effects took up the layers) and being able to upgrade weapons and stuff.

We started Seiken Densetsu 3 and 40 minutes in it is already way better than Secret of Mana.

Anyone ever played the Sengoku Basara series? I'm not sure if I want to get SB3 or not. Looks like a more over the top Samurai Warriors, so it could be fun. I like crowd combat. It's certainly pretty and all, but I skipped the first one (In part because of the changes they made to the US version) and the second didn't make it to America as far as I know.

I found Devil Kings fun, but only because I'm a sucker for over the top hack and slash. Wish I could get SB3.

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-00-3-x...ide-49-en.html

That might help if your games haven't come out stateside. I'm assuming you're using 360s for this, of course. I'm sure the PS3 has its equivalent guide.

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The similar guide for PS3 is that every single game is region free.

One of Sony's better moves.

Don't have a Wii, I take it? I know already you don't have a PS3.

Well, this title's a PS3/Wii only game. Since it's two platforms, it's hard to call it exclusive. The prior ones were PS2 releases, but since I don't know about the series itself I wouldn't import SB2 anyway.

Kinda ironic, since Sony were one of the people who pushed hardest for region locking and to block imports.

Occasionally they do something like this that has me thinking they've learned. Then they do something like pretend the PS3 is the best selling console in the world, and I /headdesk even harder.

Ayane and Kasumi's new duds for 3DS' Dead or Alive game:

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/1849...ge-noscale.jpg

They're unusually overdressed.

Tekken Producer Harada's Strange Tweet:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/phot...3DMjfUBrrRE%3D

Fuck dead or alive.

DOA > Virtua Fighter, at least. It has its moments.

Fuck DoA, all you gotta do is stand still and counter to win.

Stop playing your little sister.

BTW, sick of extreme claims to a games difficulty/competitive level. And I understand how simplistic certain DOA mechanics are, but like hell you're gonna win pressing back+free. Get serious.

"Just use ultras in SF4 to win."
"No strategy in Smash, anybody can win."
"Tekken's a button masher."
"Soulcalibur's a button masher with scrub ringouts."
"Thermal's for noobs."
"Reach's bloom is for noobs."
"Stand still and counter to win in DOA."

And so fucking on. Almost always from people who spent all of 8mins with the game. And what gets me is what is actually brain-dead and scrub shit never gets called out or is in fact celebrated. Aim bloom in Reach; "scrub shit". Flag juggling in Halo 3; "being strategic". Mega Crash in TvC, "scrub shit". Spamming assists in MvC2, "being skillful".

Not a rant specifically at you LoDown but god damn.

Now you're just being silly.

I do prefer DOA4 to Tekken 6 or Soul Calibur 4 though.

I can see that. Your tastes were made well and clear.

Kalyx knows becayse he regularly beats hsi friend at tournaments.

Kalyx wants to fight each and every one of you guys.