2009 hasn’t been the best year for the games industry. Month after month, we hear reports of reduced sales figures, company closures, and layoffs. Things may be turning around, though, as EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich believes software sales during September 2009 have actually gone up from 2008, the first time in seven months thanks to strong sales of Halo 3: ODST, Wii Sports Resort, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Madden NFL 10 and Batman: Arkham Asylum.
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EEDAR: Game sales slowdown turned around in September
by: Nathan MurrayNEWS – Impulse adds new publisher, releases new games New Runaway – Twist of Fate Screenshots are pretty Capcom wants to blow up your iPhone The Weekly Sponge: The a smelly bum slept in my car edition THQ Shooters Highlight Weekend Deals on Impulse Playrix launches Elementals: The Magic Key Shhhh..Capcom is having a secret Dark Void event on Monday, October 12th Retrocrush looks back at the 1978 Atari Catalog MX vs. ATV Reflex getting new —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts
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News Roundup: Runaway horse riders Ride Tiger Dragon
It’s up to the South Park kids to stop a steady stream of enemies from terrorizing their town in tower defense game South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! The game has players use coins to build a variety of towers that do things like shoot snowballs, cherry balls, ice and pee-snowballs at incoming enemies like old people, Mongolians and terrorists. Killing baddies causes them to exploded into bits and sometimes shoot out coins which can then be used to buy more towers, build walls or —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web.
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South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! Review: Throwing Snowballs [Review]
The US has invested a healthy amount of money into combating the terrorist threat — certainly a bit more than $100. According to a CNN report, one of a few experimental methods being used to identify suspicious dudes at the airport uses Nintendo’s Wii Balance Board (sans Wii Fit Plus).Scientists part of the Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) program have taken the Wii Fit peripheral and adjusted it to measure how a person shifts their weight. Scientists hope to find “a level of —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts
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Balance Board used in experimental airport screening study
While the idea of getting wet at the movies doesn’t sound all that great (wet clothes and air conditioning don’t mix, people!), the prospect of a Wet movie is certainly something we can get behind. That’s just what voice of Rubi Malone Eliza Dushku proposed during an interview with MTV, stating that the game “maybe could turn into a live-action Dushku vehicle.”Of course, it’s best to keep in mind that there aren’t any actual plans yet; Dushku isn’t confirming things are in motion to make a —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts
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Eliza Dushku interested in live-action Wet
Final Fantasy XIV has gotten a steady stream of information since its announcement at Sony’s E3 press conference earlier this year. And now, the game’s official website has loosed a flood of information on its classes, enemies, how the classes break down into “disciplines,” and much more. Aside from all the new text, the site also got a handful of new screens (including the fancifully bearded, screaming face you see above).Rather than waiting for us to poorly contextualize the nitty gritty —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web
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Final Fantasy XIV’s North American website gets massive update
It’s very unclear if Bungie will be returning to develop another entry into the Halo series, other then next year’s Halo: Reach. However, Microsoft is hellbent on continuing the franchise. So much, in fact, that they’re planning on continuing the Halo series well into the next decade with, or without, Bungie’s help.“We do have a —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web.
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Halo Series Continuing Into The Next Decade
In an interview with Official Nintendo Magazine, the Level 5 CEO Akihiro Hino has said the studio has no plans to bring Professor Layton to the Wii, despite the series’ strong popularity on the DS. Hino said the current trilogy will close out with “Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel,” and a new one will open with “Professor Layton and the Flute of Malevolent Destiny,” to be released in Japan. “The new trilogy will also be based around solving puzzles, but will also include greatly —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web
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No Plans for Layton on Wii [No Plans Watch]
Two things came to mind when we first laid eyes on Dragon Age: Origins’ gelatinous boss, the Brood Mother: Wow, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen Blade Man, she really looks like Sting’s uncle But, we digress. The new villain is gigantic in size, has a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth, and has more teets than the most blood-thirsty cow. It’s, uh, pretty much a really disgusting thing.Gallery: Dragon Age: Origins – Brood MotherDragon Age: Origins’ Brood —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web
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Dragon Age: Origins’ Brood Mother looks like she’s from House Harkonnen
Sega’s made some strides in trying to reach the Western market and its choice for the new head of Sega of America would seem to indicate the company wants to keep the progress going. Masanao Maeda will serve as the branch’s new chief operating officer, Sega has announced. Though not a Bernie Stollar-level household name, Maeda has helped the company expand into the West from Sega’s Japanese HQ, so it’ll be interesting to see how effective he can be in the effort stateside.
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Sega of America taps Maeda for COO
Randy Pitchford says Steam creates “conflict of interest” and exploits smaller developers due to lack of competition. Gearbox Software got its start in the industry back in 1999 working hand-in-hand with Valve, creating add-ons for the Bellevue, Washington-based developer’s influential Half-Life series. Still, despite those beginnings, Gearbox president and CEO Randy Pitchford is wary of the control his former associate has on the future of digital distribution, itself considered by many to be the future of the game industry.
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Xbox 360 | Valve’s domination of digital distribution dangerous – Gearbox CEO
When Forza Motorsport 3 ships on October 27, the retail package will include two discs: One with the actual game and a second with additional content. While the process of importing the tracks from disc two is a relatively simple procedure, we’ve developed a quick video to show the process in action.In order to get all of the game’s additional content, racing fans will need to have 1.9GB of hard drive space available to import the entire disc.
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Video: Importing content from Forza 3’s second disc
In the second part of our interview with SCEA’s Eric Lempel, we chatted about the simultaneous release of PSP Go and PSP minis. In addition to discussing the hands-off approach Sony is taking with the pricing of minis, we talked about the possibility of the minis program moving to PS3, and eventual Mac support for the PSP’s MediaGo application.Joystiq: Are any Sony first-party studios working on PSP minis? Eric Lempel: Right now, to my knowledge, they’re not.
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Interview: SCEA’s Eric Lempel on PSP minis, scrapped UMD conversion
Talking to VentureBeat about, fittingly, his new venture, Will Wright made it clear how he relates to the gaming industry these days — and provided clues as to what he will do next to entertain us. Wright tells reporter Dean Takahashi that his post-EA venture, the expanded Stupid Fun Club, is staffing up but staying small, adding some ex-Maxis employees but keeping headcount under 30. At least three projects are underway, all of which will have a web component and all of which seem that —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web
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Will Wright Now A Part Of The "Play Industry" [Stupid Fun Club' ]
click to redeem for a larger screenshotFrom the first trailer, we’ve been hankering to see more from Rockstar’s open-world treatment of the Wild West, Red Dead Redemption. That said, there was considerable hootin’ and hollerin’ around the ‘Stiq when the dev dished out these latest screens today. As good as RDR looks, its gameplay sounds equally impressive given the demo we got during PAX 2009
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These new Red Dead Redemption screens aren’t horsing around
During an interview at the Tokyo Games Show, Yoshinori Ono; producer of Street Fighter IV and upcoming ‘Super’ Street Fighter IV, made a statement that Capcom currently have no plans for an arcade release for this next fighting game expansion. As such, fighting game fans around the world have decided that the decision could ruin the arcade scene for good, and drive newcomers to the genre away with the lack of a new installment.The arcade version of Street Fighter IV has already been lacking the —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web
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No Arcade release for ‘Super Street Fighter IV’?
It’s a big week for Grand Theft Auto trailers! First we got a new Episodes from Liberty City clip, and today, Rockstar sent out a trailer for the PSP version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, which comes out on October 20. We didn’t realize it was so soon! Of course, if you have a DS, it comes out a lot sooner — seven months ago, in fact — but no matter how many times this wonderful game is released, it’ll be exciting every time. The graphical update on the PSP version looks nice, even if —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web.
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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars looking grand in new PSP trailer
For players who find “expert” difficulty too easy in Left 4 Dead, it appears that Valve is upping the challenge for the sequel with “Realism” mode, a game modifier that made an early appearance last night. The folks at 1UP spotted the Realism modifier nestled away in one of the game’s options, then squeezed Valve for details. According to marketing VP Doug Lombardi, Realism is designed for the Left 4 Dead 2 player more skilled, more masochistic than Valve’s own testers.
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Left 4 Dead 2 Gets "Realism" Mode For Hardcore Zombie Killers [Valve]
In an interview with Famitsu, Super Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono did a lot of hinting, but didn’t really offer any specifics about the new Street Fighter IV update. For example, he declined to explain what’s going on with the changed Ultra Combo gauge, though Famitsu speculates the mark in the middle is a Roman numeral I, to denote the first of multiple meters filling.
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Super Street Fighter IV producer wants to expand online mode, add more original characters
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