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Toshihiro Nagoshi Promoted to Chief Creative Officer within Sega

Dustin Spencer
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Sega have a new Chief Creative Officer, as Toshihiro Nagoshi, the mastermind behind Super Monkey Ball, Yakuza, and Binary Domain recently got promoted to the position. After forming a studio for Yakuza last year, this is great news for fans for Nagoshi’s work as we are sure to see more sequels and love given to AiAi and Kazuma.

This corporate ladder change-up has also effected quite a few others as well, with Naoya Tsurumi set to serve as COO, and Shigeru Yamashita and Yuki Sugino will move up to managing directors. Hopefully, Nagoshi’s insight will go in to the big mystery collaboration that Sega has planned with Capcom and Namco, but as of now a change in pay and power is all that should be effected for the time being.

Gravity Rush finally dropping on North American PS Vitas June 12

Travis Bruno
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It was quite disappointing when we learned that the highly anticipated Gravity Rush would not be released alongside the PlayStation Vita. It was even more disappointing to learn that it had slipped completely from the release window of the Vita to a time undetermined. However Sony has finally decided to place a release date on Gravity Rush, and that release date is on June 12… quite a ways away.

It is great to see that this game finally has a cement release date, as it is easily a game that motivated a lot of gamers to probably pick up their PlayStation Vita’s at launch with its gorgeous graphics and interesting gameplay concepts. Shouldn’t be too hard to guess who’s going to be picking this one up when it is released?

Zone of Enders HD coming this Fall

Travis Bruno
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The much anticipated Zone of Enders HD collection finally has a more narrowed down release window. Rather than a release sometime in 2012, it has now been narrowed down to autumn this year according to Konami in Europe. While this doesn’t mean a Fall release date for North America, it will likely be released alongside the European version.

This Zone of the Enders HD Collection bundles Zone of the Enders and Zone of the Enders 2nd Runner Special Edition, plus Sunrise, the animation studio that handled the production of Code Geass and The Vision of Escaflowne anime are working on a new animated opening for said collection.

New Screens for Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat Emerge

Dustin Spencer
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Fans of Deadliest Warrior have their very own retail title to look forward to, as Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat is set to launch on April 17th for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. For those unfamiliar of this battle of the best, Ancient Combat will be a compilation of 2010’s Deadliest Warrior: The Game and last year’s Deadliest Warrior: Legends, and will pack in extra episodes that have never seen the light of day as well as the Graveyard level and 30 new weapons.

345 Games have released some new screenshots for this retail version, which show off the new Graveyard stage and some of the legendary figures that players can do battle against. Everything is looking great thus far, and you can see for yourself by feasting your eyes upon the new screens down below.

Binding of Isaac will not come to 3DS eShop due to Nintendo restrictions

Travis Bruno
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While plenty of people love The Binding of Isaac on the PC it seems that the game will not be making its way to the Nintendo 3DS despite its popularity. Team Meat’s Edmund McMillen had been working on getting the game onto the 3DS for quite a while, however he received bad news from Nintendo today as he revealed on Twitter.

“Attention: After a long internal debate Nintendo has decided NOT to allow the Binding of Isaac on the 3ds. :(“ He went further to say that the reason for Nintendo’s decision was due to the game’s “questionable religious content.” Perhaps this has to do with the fact that the game involves playing a young child running away from his mother after a godlike voice tells the mother to sacrifice him. It’s a shame that Nintendo refuses to let Team Meat put this game on their console, I mean… that is what ESRB ratings are for…

Windows 8 Consumer Preview launches

J. Bradshaw
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Leap Day 2012 wasn’t just about airplane simulators and Avengers. Microsoft’s latest version of their popular OS also launched a publicly available beta today. If you want to try out Windows 8, head on over to the Microsoft download page. In order to run the preview, your computer must match the following minimum system requirements:

  • 1GHz processor
  • 1GB (32-bit) / 2 GB (64-bit) of RAM
  • 16GB (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit) available disk space
  • DirectX 9 graphics with WDDM 1.0 or higher
  • 1024 x 768 minimum screen resolution

If you downloaded it and tried it out, be sure to leave a comment telling us about your experience.

UK retailer GAME will not stock Mass Effect 3 or future EA games

Travis Bruno
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Well, this is some unexpected news. UK retailer GAME (a video game store obviously) has revealed that they won’t be selling Mass Effect 3 when the game is released next week. In fact, they are even cancelling all pre-orders for upcoming EA titles which include FIFA Street, Tiger Woods 13, and Sims 3 Showtime.

This news comes from an internal memo which was acquired by Eurogamer. In this memo Game channel Director Tom Devine wrote “”Last week we held an event for our publishers in the industry and explained the challenges we are facing in the short term – and we asked for their support. We will not stock products if the terms are not right for our business – a position we believe is critical to our long term health as a business – we have taken the very difficult decision to not stock EA’s March releases, including Mass Effect 3.”

Microsoft Flight takes off today

J. Bradshaw
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Microsoft’s latest flight simulator launched today. This free to play version of the game allows you to fly all over the island of Hawaii in a limited variety of planes at no cost. However, extra locales and planes will cost you some money, and it is almost guaranteed that Microsoft will be releasing more premium content later on. Nevertheless, for the price of free, you do get a pretty good experience.

Fly on over to the Microsoft Flight download page to take off.  Don’t forget to check out the official launch trailer below either. If you have tried the game, leave us a comment with your impressions.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning ‘The Legend of Dead Kel’ DLC arrives on March 20

Travis Bruno
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EA has revealed that they will be releasing the next piece of DLC for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on March 20th and this time around it is going to be called The Legend of Dead Kel. The DLC will cost 800 MSP or $9.99 on all other platforms.

EA is claiming that this DLC will add 15% more space to the overall world map of Reckoning, which is already quite expansive. The areas will include new enemy types, dungeon areas and loot as well as the introduction of Gravehal Keep. No details were given as to what fans of the game can expect in ways of story, but it will likely have to do with something undead…

You can still earn Trophies on used PlayStation Vita games

Travis Bruno
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Sony has pulled a little trick when it comes to the PlayStation Vita and its games. Most if not all Vita game carts will lock themselves onto one save data per PSN account, which means that if you buy the game used, rent it, or borrow it from a friend you won’t be able to unlock Trophies unless you sign in on the original account.

Thankfully, Pocket Gamer has already found a way to avoid this little piece of annoying security through a simple three step method.

  • Click “No” when you get the warning message telling you that you can’t earn Trophies with the current application.
  • Touch and hold the Vita home screen until you can rearrange icons. Press the “…” bubble attached to the icon of the game you want to play. Choose to format the card, which will wipe the data on it.
  • If you get the message warning you that the data shall be deleted, you should be golden. Boot up the game and it’ll now be tethered to your account.

Performing this method won’t hinder or undo the Trophy progress of the previous owner, making it very simple for people who buy used games to continue to earn Trophies like any other normal person.

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