Potpourri

Kotaku has put together a nice little round-up of the good and the bad from April Fools day yesterday. According to the picture above, even …
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“This isn’t just about keeping the Umbrella family together, or making sure our 10,000 employees have paychecks to put food on the table. It’s about hope. It’s about mom, baseball, …
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Warning This Is An April Fools Joke! But a good one at it, with press release and everything.

The launch of Qube™ and Relax™ announced at the Game Connection in San Francisco and the denial of rumors relating to an April Fools’ Trick.

Milan – 1st April ’09 –
The announcement made at the Game Connection in San Francisco which has caused both a sensation and great expectations around the new generation of videogames which, with its abbreviation “iii™” or “3i™” (Immersive Individual Interaction), promises a revolution in the gaming world.

The curiosity of those working in the sector and end-users towards Qube ™ and Relax™ is concentrated on the game concept, player interaction and the peripherals used in gameplay.

All of the most famous international video game player communities (numerous mentions in all of the forums that picked up this news) were highly surprised by the news. However, the clamor caused by the new generation of 3i™ games was such that there were those who, following the launch, even cried “fake” o “April Fools’!”. Pub Company®, to dispel any doubt, confirms the existence of these products and the fact that they function as specified previously.

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“More and more retailers are experimenting with the used game model. We have products that consumers want to hold onto. They want to play all of the levels of …
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In our view, there is untapped opportunity in packaged (Wii) software to have an online element. We’re seeing more and more of that: downloadable content with ‘Rock Band,’ with ‘Guitar …
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GameStop Email

Best New Debut: LittleBigPlanet Beating out Braid, Sins of a Solar Empire, World of Goo and Soul Bubbles

Best Audio: Dead Space Beating out L4D, MGS4, Gears of War 2

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Taken from this weeks Famitsu:

Nomura: ” Next week, we plan on making a special announcement regarding the Kingdom Hearts series – please look forward to it.”

Tetsuya Nomura …
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Today President Obama and some luck elementary school students made a quick phone call to the astronauts in the international space station. One question that was asked, …
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – March 24, 2009 – Activision and Feld Motor Sports, Inc. announced today the championship round of the Monster Jam: Urban Assault National Tournament, taking place at the Monster Jam® World Finals in Las Vegas’s Sam Boyd Stadium this Saturday, where one of nine finalists will be crowned as the new National Champion. Eight of the nine finalists qualified for an expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas to compete in the Monster Jam: Urban Assault National Tournament by winning their regional qualifiers at Monster Jam events during January and February. The finalists will challenge each other using the Monster Jam: Urban Assault game on Wii™.

The tournament consisted of 16 regional qualifying rounds that began back in January and took place at the top Monster Jam stadiums across the country. Players competed on Wii™ gaming platforms in front of thousands of screaming Monster Jam fans. The eight fastest winners have been awarded expense-paid trips to Las Vegas, where they will compete against each other for the national championship in the Monster Jam World Finals at Sam Boyd Stadium. The winner will become the second Monster Jam Video Game National Champion.

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Summary

GDC
– Iwata keynote, only first five minute are allowed to be filmed

– Punch-Out!! Playable
– Thinks looks like a remake
– 10 Characters return
– 3 original characters
– Looks like it plays like the old game
– Calls GAF out for bashing the SNES version

NPD Talk
– House of the Dead Overkill, pretty low
– Laughs at VGchartzzzzzzz
– Looking for MadWorld sales and will post it. Talked with the VP from Sega; they are happy with their first results of the sales of MadWorld

ExciteBots
– Everything you like about Excite Truck, times 10
– Spinbar controls are good
– Randomness makes no sense, but awesome
– Tracks and pieces of levels look identical to first Excite Truck
– Short game, but you keep playing for the S ranks
– Online multiplayer and more stuff they can’t talk about
– Controls are more tight and more responsive
– Don’t know for sure if Excite is at GDC
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“Well, you know, Zack and Wiki…Another one in a long line of very highly rated Capcom games that unfortunately did not sell very well. We can take a part of …
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In a heated letter that calls out violent video games as “murder simulators”, Thompson has requested that Obama implement a total ban on all violent video games. …
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“As for Monster Hunter Tri…We’ve got some amazing stuff in it. The graphics for the Wii are like nothing you’ve seen on the system before. It’s a really pretty game. …
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At first I saw this picture as pretty funny. When I started to think about I couldn’t imagine myself shooting the dogs head off.

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Out of the movies talked about only three didn’t make any money. Out of those three this has to be the worst of them.

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