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Gears of War 3 gets golden, cuts some cake

Travis Bruno
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Seems like video game developers really like celebrating their successes with cake. Just a few weeks ago Atlus made a Catherine cake for selling the most units ever in their history. Destructoid has some pictures showing the Epic Games’ crew cutting some Gears of War cake to celebrate the fact that Gears of War 3 on the Xbox 360 has gone golden.

What this means for you is that there won’t be any delays or problems from here until September 20th when the game hits store shelves and is bought up by all the Gears fans like MasterAbbott. The cake that they are cutting looks like a Gears of War Xbox 360 slim, though perhaps it is a bit deformed looking. Better yet, they cut the cake with a golden retro lancer. Talk about class. Now time to sit back and watch as everyone else tries to make similar cakes and celebrate in the same fashion.

Dead Space hitting Xperia Play and RIM’s Playbook

J. Bradshaw
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Electronic Arts has always endeavored to port their most successful games to every platform imaginable. And now they are doing the same with the Dead Space franchise. Of course, when a game is actually enjoyable on a mobile platform, thats a good thing. Luckily, Dead Space is a good mobile game, albeit far from the likes of its console brethren.

Regardless, Dead Space is now available on the Playbook tablet and the Xperia Play Android phone. Other Android phones are also expected to get the game soon. Dead Space has already premiered on iOS, so if you have that brand, you can also get in on the horror.

The Playbook version of Dead Space is priced at $9.99. Similar pricing is assumed for the Android versions, although this is unconfirmed.

Incubus coming to Rock Band 3

J. Bradshaw
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Rock Band keeps slowly growing its collection of music playable with plastic instruments. Next week, Harmonix will release 3 Incubus tracks for the rock simulation game. On August 23rd, get ready to enjoy all of tracks named below on either your Xbox 360, PS3 or Nintendo Wii.

The Incubus Pack 01 includes all tracks for 440 Microsoft Points, 550 Wii Points or $5.49. You can also buy each track separately.

“Adolescents” priced at 160 Microsoft Points, 200 Wii Points or $1.99.
“Pardon Me” priced at 160 Microsoft Points, 200 Wii Points or $1.99 – A seperate Pro Guitar/Bass DLC pack can also be had for an extra $1.
“Wish You Were Here” priced at 160 Microsoft Points, 200 Wii Points or $1.99.

Senran Kagura’s full opening animation released

Travis Bruno
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Despite the fact that Senran Kagura: Portrait of the Girls may never actually see the light of day in the West, you can now watch the game’s whole opening animation. Marvelous, the developer of the game, released the opening which you can catch below. Beware however, maybe you should take a look around you before watching.

Senran Kagura: Portrait of the Girls is about more than the bouncing and torn clothing however, though the game’s opening animation doesn’t do much to sway that opinion, what with pulling scrolls out from between their chests and all. In fact it will actually be focused around hack and slash gameplay. Either way, Senran Kagura will be released in Japan on September 22nd, though with the 3DS’ region lock you’ll need a Japanese 3DS to play any import. Or of course, pray that someone decides to localize it for Western release because we need more 3DS games… yes that’s it.

Play ‘Hutball Warzone’ in the Old Republic

J. Bradshaw
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Sometimes even Star Wars fanatics get a little tired of playing Sith vs Jedi and good vs evil. It may sound sacrilegious, but it is the truth! With that in mind, Bioware has created “Hutball,” which is a warzone game type similar to Grifball, except with lightsabers, lightning and dangerous environments. This gametype will be intense for even the most hardened Sith Lords, make believe and virtual.

Like nearly every trailer we post on the site, this one is also awesome! Showing off the gameplay, rules and other details of “Hutball,” this trailer is all you’ll need to jump straight into the PvP action when The Old Republic launches.

Housemargue bringing new game to iOS

J. Bradshaw
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The devs behind Dead Nation, Outland and Super Stardust HD have decided, in a slightly strange decision (there games have been highly successful on consoles), to bring their next game to the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Releasing in the Autumn of 2011, Furmins will feature odd, furry, hamster-looking animals in a physics puzzle game. Check out the 30+ second teaser video below for slightly more information.

It will be interesting to see how this game does for the famed dev, and whether they will continue to support home consoles, or branch further into the money maker of the future: mobile phone gaming. Who would have thunk it 5-10 years ago: cell phones vying against current-gen HD powerhouses.

Saints Row The Third’s Smooth Criminal Edition outed by EB Games Australia

Travis Bruno
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Occasionally you hear about a special edition of a game that is being offered overseas, but not in your own country. Then you contemplate just how expensive it would be to get that special edition delivered to your door overseas. Such is the case regarding the recently revealed Smooth Criminal Edition of Saints Row The Third.

EB Games Australia posted up a detailed listing for this package, claiming they have it exclusively and will be selling it for your standard overpriced $128.00 Australian. The package comes with your relatively standard bonuses, such as a soundtrack and a fancy unique packaging. But how about getting a pair of sunglasses, bullet-shaped ice cube trays and literal Saints Crest cuff links that are silver plated. This collector’s edition has everything and more. Lets hope it will be released in North America with this Smooth Criminal Edition, because if not then I’m going to have to pay a ton in shipping.

Star Wars: The Old Republic sales will be limited by EA at first

Travis Bruno
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Star Wars: The Old Republic sales will be limited by EA at first

You can easily assume that EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic will be nigh impossible to find in stores when it is released. Well, maybe. Though there is a good chance that anyone who didn’t happen to pre-order the game won’t be very lucky when the game is actually released in stores. Though there is always the digital download method through the Origin service right?

It won’t be that easy it seems, because in a statement to Game Informer, Electronic Arts says that they will be limiting the sales both digital and retail to provide an easier ride for new players. This methodology is perhaps a smart move by EA, as many if not all new MMOs have difficulties at launch with their server. This could cause either extreme amounts of lag or flat out crashes. By regulating the amount of purchases they can help keep the tide of players at a steady pace. Though if I was one of the consumers left out in the cold for a few days because of this regulation I’d probably be pretty angry.

Dark Souls’ website provides a map and 23 pieces of music

Travis Bruno
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Games based around horror and extreme difficulty can sometimes have the best soundtracks around. Especially when they are set in medieval times because then, the songs usually have an older feel about them. Such is the case with Dark Souls, because if you want to hear what type of music you’ll be listening to as you die over and over again then you may want to head over to the Japanese website for the game here.

Besides having 23 audio samples to listen to, you can also catch a glimpse of some of the map that you will be traversing as you try not to die in any number of gruesome and painful ways. It’s always nice to have a little sample of a game before it is released, even if it is only the music. FromSoftware’s Dark Souls itself will be released on October 4th for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The Knight’s home in Trine 2 created piece by piece in latest video

Travis Bruno
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Things were quiet for a long time involving Trine 2, but now we have two new videos from FrozenByte in as many days which show off the wonderful looking Trine 2. The first video we saw showed off the co-op gameplay while today is a piece by piece video of how the creators of Trine 2 created Pontius, the Knight’s, home.

The home itself is on a farm full of giant pumpkins and at the end looks almost nothing like it did even thirty seconds into the video. It just goes to show the level of detail that is going into the creation of Trine 2’s beautiful world. You can check out the video below and Trine 2 itself when it is released later this year.

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