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SEGA Finally Announces Sonic Unleashed: Due Out Late 2008

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Sonic Is Unleashed!SEGA’s newest Sonic title is set to combine amazing next gen capabilities with classic Sonic 2D gameplay!

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO (April 3, 2008) – SEGA® of America and SEGA of Europe Ltd., today announced that everyone’s favourite hedgehog will be breaking new ground yet maintaining his roots, in the upcoming title, Sonic Unleashed™. Developed by renowned studio Sonic Team, the latest installment in the multi-million selling franchise, will take players on an unforgettable high-speed journey around the globe in a way never before experienced in the world of Sonic. The game is set for release later this year and will be available for the Xbox 360™ videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, Wii™ home video game system from Nintendo and PLAYSTATION®2.

Sonic Unleashed is built on a powerful new “Hedgehog Engine”, which introduces seamless 3D to classic 2D camera transitions, whilst delivering a rich and expansive world with multiple paths to choose from. Under development for three years, the Hedgehog Engine produces a visually rich next generation look and feel with elements of classic Sonic gameplay mechanics. The Hedgehog engine will help re-define the gameplay experience for Sonic fans and newcomers to the franchise alike.

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Star Wars Force Unleashed Dated (NA Boxart) Update: Press Release
18 years ago

Star Wars Force Unleashed Dated (NA Boxart) Update: Press Release

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Today Lucas Arts announced that Star Wars Force Unleashed will be hading to NA Sept. 16, Southeast Asia and Australia on Sept. 17 and Europe on Sept 19.

“Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is one of the most ambitious projects LucasArts has ever launched. The combination of a great new Star Wars story with revolutionary new technology and game play means more fun than you’ve ever had in the Star Wars universe,” said Peter Hirschmann, Vice-President of Product Development, LucasArts. “We can’t wait until gamers get their hands on it this September.”

Also Lucas Arts has teamed up with Spike TV this weekend, during an Stars Wars marathon, to show segments which shows off different aspects of video of Star Wars Force unleashed. Check out the times below.

• April 6 at 7:58 p.m. ET/PT – between the premiere of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith

• April 11 at 10:52 p.m. ET/PT – At the end of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
• April 12 at 12:00 a.m. ET/PT – throughout an episode of GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley filmed at LucasArts’ headquarters in San Francisco
• April 12 at 5:06 p.m. ET/PT – before Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
• April 13 at 5:06 p.m. ET/PT – before Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back

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Update: Official Press release after the jump.

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7 Video Game Currencies Stronger Than the U.S. Dollar
18 years ago

7 Video Game Currencies Stronger Than the U.S. Dollar

COIN (Super Mario Bros.) Worth: $37,000 (U.S.) Methodology: 100 coins = 1 life. Human life = $3.7 million, according to the Environmental Protection Agency What It Means: …
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Skate Heading To Wii and DS?
18 years ago

Skate Heading To Wii and DS?

Yesterday, IGN.com briefly had a story announcing that Skate would be making an appearance on the Wii and DS. The story was then quickly taken down with …
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Computer & Video Games returns to the newsstand

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Future’s gaming legend blasts back with unofficial GTA expose!

03/04/08 – Future, the UK’s leading publisher of video games media, is delighted to announce the return of the Computer & Video Games (CVG) brand to newsstands after a four-year absence.

Reborn as a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the biggest events in gaming, the first issue of CVG Presents goes on sale Wednesday, 16th April and marks an exciting new dawn for the UK’s longest-established games media brand.

The first issue of CVG Magazine went on sale in 1981 and was published monthly until December 2004, when it went online only as www.cvg.co.uk. The website is now an unmissable part of Future’s GamesRadar web network (www.gamesradar.com), which attracts more than 6.3m unique users a month. The spirit of CVG has always lived on through the website, breaking the biggest games news stories first, as well as offering its own irreverent insight on just about everything else in the industry.

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Chaos Coming to Crisis City as Emergency Mayhem for WiiT Goes Gold.

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New video reveals most accident-prone city of all time in meltdown!

Thursday, 3rd April (2pm UK) – Putting the urgency into emergency, Codemasters® today announced that Emergency Mayhem™ has gone gold and is set to ship to U.S. retail stores on April 15th with the European/PAL launch on April 18th. Coming exclusively to Wii™, catch the chaos in the new gameplay video now available to view or download from www.codemasters.com/emergency

In Emergency Mayhem, Crisis City is living up to its name and its citizens are panicking. Fires rage, bombs are ticking, monkeys have taken over the supermarket and everyone’s calling 999…

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NCAA Football 2009 Features

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Wide Open and Authentic College Style Gameplay
It’s Wide Open

* Bigger holes, cutback lanes, and open receivers, making the game feel more wide open than ever before
* Directional pump fake on the R stick
* New college specific tackling engine

Home of the 12th Man and Home Field Advantage with new mini-game components

* Pre-play confusion and difficulty making adjustments when on the road against tough teams
* All new toughest places to play with dynamic rankings

All-new Mascot Mode with User Controlled Celebrations

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Japanese Software Sales: March 24th to March 30th

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01./00. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) – 880,000 / NEW 02./01. [NDS] Pokémon Ranger: Batonnage (Pokémon) – 106,000 / 348,000 03./00. [NDS] Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Bandai-Namco) – …
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Mario Kart Web Site: Widgets, videos and more!
18 years ago

Mario Kart Web Site: Widgets, videos and more!

The sweet Mario Kart Wii Web site is up and running! The music is great, but there isn’t too much there at the moment. But be sure to grab …
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LucasArts Gets EA Exec Rodriguez As President

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Publisher/developer LucasArts (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed), the video game division of Lucasfilm, has announced the appointment of Electronic Arts and Disney veteran Darrell Rodriguez as president beginning in mid-April.


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Famitsu Review Score Shows Love For Mario Kart
18 years ago

Famitsu Review Score Shows Love For Mario Kart

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Just for the sake of making a larger post I went over to gamerankings.com to check out the other review scores.

  • Famitsu Score-10,9.9,9 – 37/40
  • Official …
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Capcom’s Okami Artwork Site
18 years ago

Capcom’s Okami Artwork Site

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Capcom released their Okami Artwork site, which offers many wonderful wallpapers, images and fan artwork.

Check it out here.

Smash Brothers Director Wonders: Wheres The New Characters?

It’s an incredible number of characters and a group of really well-known series. And to think that they all had their beginnings in Japan…wow!

When they’re all lined up …
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