GG Weekly Videogame News 
Nintendo's Stock Back on the Rise
Likely in anticipation of Nintendo going to the Nikkei.
industrygamers.com news
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Japanese Retailers Phasing Out 360
Halo Reach bundle goes for $130. Games for $1.30.
industrygamers.com news
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Vita RAM Cut Put to Rest
System still has 512 MB, rumors said it was slashed to 256 to cut costs.
1up.com news
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Pop Cap Anxious To Start Working on EA IP
"I do see a lot of synergies for, probably, cross promotion."
industrygamers.com news
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El Shaddai Review from 1UP
"B" "Is El Shaddai unconventional just for the sake of being different, or were the developers going for something bigger?"
1up.com impressions
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Xenoblade soundtrack availible to anyone who registers
You can look forward to downloading the official soundtrack.
news
gamingeek
N-Europe reviews Xenoblade - 10/10
"The biggest and most ambitious game on Wii by a long-shot. Xenoblade Chronicles reignites the JRPG and adventure genres in one classy swoop"
n-europe.com impressions
gamingeek
PS Vita gets a warioware like game
With the worst advert known to man
multiplayer.it media
gamingeek
Head to a tropical paradise in Go Vacation
Europe: Break out the beachwear
nintendo.co.uk news
gamingeek
Konami Bringing Out Lemmings Style Kinect Game
Called "Leedmes". Could they be less transparent?
andriasang.com news
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Blizzard Still Wants to Bring Diablo 3 to Consoles
The PC beta hits in September.
1up.com news
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Gamepro hands on RE Revelations
Capcom's trying to give it the feel of a TV show, where individual episodes are standalone storylines complete with cliffhangers
gamepro.com impressions
gamingeek
Edge Reviews Xenoblade
Xenoblade Chronicles manages to impress, enrich and, best of all, inspire wonder - 9
next-gen.biz impressions
Iga_Bobovic
Notch Wants to Settle "Scrolls" Suit With Duel
Challenges Bethesda to a Quake III tournament to resolve lgeal issue.
ripten.com news
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Gabe Hopes EA Can Come Back to Steam
"We have to show EA it's a smart decision to have EA games on Steam".
1up.com news
aspro
Dark Souls May be *Too* Difficult (Hands-On)
Even the game's producers is dying over 200 times a day.
1up.com impressions
aspro
New Skyrim Screens Show Playable Races
Argonian, Dark Elf, Khajiit, Nord, Orc, Redguard and plenty more.
ripten.com media
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Listen to Wu-Tang and watch Kung-Fu
That's awesome. Needs women players in massive dresses, though.
Played Tropico 4's demo. It plays...EXACTLY LIKE THE THIRD ONE!!! I gues that's unfair, though. Never made it too far with the third game. There's probably loads of new stuff going on there, but I can't notice them because I never spent enough time with the previous game.
Also played the Bastion demo. This game is as fun as plucking the hairs out of one's scrotum. Bleh.
Why is it ludicrous? It's possible. Not likely, but still. Hasn't the PScheaP only been announced for Europe?
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds
while the pessimist fears this is true.
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It's ludicrous, because it's obvious to me that at some point they'll release it. Why paint themselves into a corner when they already have credibility issues? Just say, "No comment". It's like the way they continue to make statements about "having no plans" to release the GBA games that the ambassadors are getting.
Yeah, I think from the descriptions I read about Tropico 4 was they added, like VOLCANOS and that was it. But I'm guessing it's a lot like SimCity, in that they don't want to mess with a stable formula.
And Edge also gives Xenoblade a 9.
I told you guys. Everyone that is surprised by these rating have not been paying attention.
FYI don't expect Last Story to score as high. I am thinking around 8s for that game.
I'm not surprised at all.
Monolith are one of the most talented RPG teams in Japan, and have been for a long time. Xenoblade is the most ambitious thing they have done since Xenosaga...only now unlike then, they are part of a 1st-party hardware maker who gave them the time they needed to make a complete game. The only thing that surprises me is NOA's complete failure.
Is this the most high profile game (games) with the highest review scores, that a branch of Nintendo has ever refused to release for no good reason? It has to be damn close.
Soma Bringer also made by Monolith for the DS was never released outside of Japan. Eartbound was never relased in Europe and Mother 3 was never released outside of Japan. All AAA titles.
I got Xenoblade and have played several hours of it.
When to begin, ah the combat looks complicated with all the menus on screen in the videos, but is pleasently simple and accesible to use. You choose your target and choose fight. Your character auto attacks whilst all you do is move him about with the c-stick to position him in good attack or defence positions. Then with the d-pad you can just select all sorts of special moves.
When you play the game in 16:9 it's full screen, if you play on a 4:3 set you get large top and bottom borders.
Voice acting is a mix of good and bad but the bad is kind of endearing and it's never terrible. Graphics swing from low poly, low resolution blurriness to staggeringly overwhelmingly huge, grand and beautiful backdrops - running at a good clip too. Menus are easy enough to navigate but there are tons and tons and tons of customising options and different things you can do should you choose too. You RPG nuts will be in stat heaven, to me it's feels sort of bewildering yet I haven't been stuck in the game get because I haven't been tinkering.
The map isn't bad, not good though, you can't zoom into it and text is rather small in the whole game aside from speech bubble text. It's sort of like those HD games when you play on an SDTV and you have to lean forward to read it.
The camera is bothersome playing with just the remote and chuk. You have to hold down the C button before moving it, I may change to the classic controller just so I can move the camera more easily and that is what you will want to do - to get breathtaking views of the landscape. Characterisation seems good so far, nothing original or great, but fun and likebable.
Music is gorgeous, that reminds me, I have to download the free soundtrack.
Didn't you say that you started exercising and noticed your back pain was gone?
A whole cube by that analogy.
If a Rancor is that powerful than why didn't he bust out of Jabba's jail?
They said they had "no plans" for it. By the look of things it's a UK exclusive for now.
Currently downloading my free Xenoblade soundtrack
Sweet GG keep the impressions coming. Iga where is your copy?
I'm so fucking bored when it comes to gaming as of lately. Can't get hooked onto anything even though I have a fair amount of quality stuff in my backlog. This is, somehow, because of all of you, assholes. Don't know why, but I know it's because of you. I'll think of a reasonable explanation.
^ You are probably burned out. Take some time and do something else. Eventually a new shiny game will come along and get you excited again.
MGS 3DS
Is he taking a huge shit?
It's because you now feel the need to watch Thundercats. Am I right or am I right?
Damn the environments in Xenoblade are so big, you have to push the camera over and above the edge of the screen to see the top peaks of canyons. Have any of you guys ever seem one of the wonders of the natural world like the Grand Canyon?
Same sort of feeling here.
Also because the game scale is so big much of the environment is meant to be viewed at a certain distance, you may never come face up to a texture on some of the backdrops. It means that artistically they've gone to town on them. Remember RE4, some of the rock textures looked awesome until you jammed your face up to them? Same idea here.
Unfortunately the close up visuals, especially in the cutscenes is a little assy, there is some sub-Dreamcast looking stuff but you have to forgive it because that allows for this super scaled world.
I don't like playing as Shulk purely because of his character model, it's a little small and meek so I choose Rein as my party lead with a hulking sword on his back. But Shulk has the Monado sword.... damnit, which should I choose?