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Reports are coming in that, due to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Sony’sMotorStorm Apocalypsehas been delayed in Europe. The racing title centers around a post-apocalyptic city area that is influenced by California’s Bay Area. Retailers, including GAME and Gamestation, have even pulled pre-orders for the title which was to be available this Friday. Oddly, Gameplay.co.uk shoppers may already have a game in the mail. “A very small amount of Gameplay....

While at Electronic Entertainment Expo, I hooked up with Nathan Fouts. He’s the developer of the award winning Xbox LIVE Community GameWeapons of Choiceand probably soon-to-be-award-winning Indie titleGrapple Buggy— agame announced only weeks beforethe big event. Grapple Buggyis likeBionic Commando, except you’re not in control of a man with a freakish arm. Instead, you control an alien car (buggy) with two freakish arms and two alien drivers. The buggy’s wheels can grip the planet’s surface, but the preferred method of travel is through the buggy’s mechanical arm — an arm that can grapple and propel the craft throughout the game’s environment....

Not much else is looking that good this week. I was excited for this week’s Virtual Console releases, but it looks like Nintendo hates everybody and changed the lineup at the last second. Oh well, at least there’sSplatterhouse 2. What’s looking sw33t to you this week? WVC:Wild Wild Guns, Splatterhouse 2, Sonic the HedgehogXBLA:BraidPC:Beijing 2008,Ford Racing: Off Road,DS:The Cheetah Girls: pre-teen hoes,Quick Yoga Training,Little League World Series 2008,Little League World Series 2008,GRIDWii:Little League World Series 2008,Summer Athletics,Summer AthleticsPS3:Monster Madness: Grave DangerPS2:Hannah Montana: got molested by Workman,B-Boy...

Nintendo has a few goodies for us today. For WiiWare we haveBIT.TRIP FATE(800 Wii Points), and Hudson’s celestial body viewer,My Planetarium(500 Wii Points). That’s it. DSiWare has a few more: Play as a firefighter inGo! Go! Island Rescue!(500 points) or as a spotter of differences in…Spot The Difference(500 points). Get your defense on and hold off countless waves inGo Series Defense Wars(only 200 DSiWare Points). The big release this week is obviouslyFlashlight....

You know how you could potentially (not realistically) go through Metal Gear series games without killing a single enemy? That tradition continues withMetal Gear Solid: Rising, set to be released next year. Konami confirms that the no-kill is possible with Rising and hints that there may be Achievements for those that make it to the end of the game without taking a life.IGNsays that you can opt to slice an enemy’s weapon instead, causing them to run away....

You know what game is violent? Raven Software’s upcoming action gameX-Men Origins: Wolverine. We’re talking limbs hacked off, body-impaling, dude losing a head to helicopter blades violent. At New York Comic, publisher Activision pulled back the curtain on the upcoming title, which is set to ship alongside the film of the same name this May. While the game has yet to be rated by the ESRB, let’s save them the trouble — just slap an “M” rating on this baby and ship it....

PAX East is over, which makes me sad. Thankfully, the show went out on a good note, at least for me. The last game I got to play at the show wasResident Evil Mercenaries 3D. If you’ve been following a long, you’ll know that this is a game I’ve been pretty nervous about for a while. Thankfully, I walked away from the game with total confidence that it would be worth the purchase, even with thefirst person perspectiveandwalk-shooting....

Damn, XSEED. Look at you! There are several great games on XSEED’s line-up for E3 this year. You recently heard aboutFragilecoming to the US. We were also excited to hear thatLunaris coming to the PSP, and now we know it’s coming to the US by way of XSEED. These and several other relatively high-profile titles are scheduled to be shown on the show floor this year. Check it out: Nicely played, sirs....

We recently told you aboutthe PS Jailbreak USB PS3 mod chip that lets you rip/copy/backup games to your internal harddrive or another external and then run them. Some doubted its existence, but now it’s actually selling. Get your orders in, pirates, as some outlets are shipping the chips as early as next week. For example,Gadget Asia(authorized reseller, they claim) says that orders are welcome now, with planned shipping to happen as early as next Monday....

I guess the PlayStation.Blog wasn’t kidding whenthey said on March 20ththat the next PS3 firmware update would be available “in the next few days”. Theofficial announcement press releasefrom Sony mentioned a “late March” release date, though there had been some speculation that the update would come as late as April 8th. That’s the release date forWalk Hard: The Dewey Cox StoryandThe 6th Dayon Blu-ray Disc, the first movies from Sony Picture Home Entertainment to feature BD-LIVE (a....

It’s not often that we get to hear about those “experts”notstupid/lazy enough to blame the world’s ills on videogames, so it’s always nice when we have a story about one. Prof. Christopher Ferguson of Texas A&M International University has foundno “significant” linkbetween videogames and those rare school shootings we see hyped on TV, going so far as to call videogames a “strawman” in such cases. “Moral panics may emerge from ‘culture wars’ occurring in a society … politicians, news media and social scientists, arguably [have] motives for promoting hysterical beliefs about media violence, and video games specifically,” states Ferguson....

OH HAI. It’s been quite a while since I wrote one of these posts, and nothing could make me happier right now than to be doing so. Actually, scratch that. If Hatsune Miku suddenly materialized in my lap, holding a slurpee and the keys to a shiny new Impreza, that would make me happier. But only a little. Anyway, we’re back! This week’s show will be all about the things we missed while we were away, including a fewexcitingannouncementsregarding the world of retro....

Once again, it’s Wednesday, and since Wednesday is a day filled with magic andMarshmallow Peeps; the Retroforce team will be recording yet another episode of the award winning* podcast,RetroforceGO! After last weeks ratherheady topic, we’ve decided to lighten today’s show up a bit. So, instead of pondering the social ramifications of gaming violence vs. reality vs. pancakes vs. Jack Thompson vs. a donkey; we’re just going to talk about mascots. Warm fuzzy mascots....