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Dead or Alive Dimensionsimpressed many of us last week when theMetroid-themed stagefor the 3DS fighter was shown off. But the burning question on everyone’s mind was about Samus Aran — is she playable? No, unfortunately. Team Ninja explained the decision to Eurogamer: “Actually for theMetroidcollaboration, we had help from Nintendo and they’re really friendly with us. But the concept ofDead or Aliveas the best version of the game means Samus Aran orMetroidis something different....

I just found this awesome toy site! It’s called Tomopop. Whoever puts that place together should really get into the videogame blogging business, that’s for sure. Look how well they covered the news of anew line ofMetal Gear Solid 4figures. Didn’t even know there was an old line? Well there was, and evidently they did pretty darn well (as did the game they were based on). So that means we get more....

Here’s someHalo: ReachFirefight action for your Monday evening. This is straight seven minutes from a match brought to you by the folks over at Halo Waypoint. Brutes were bad enough, but having to fight Elites in Firefight now is just insane. While on the subject of Firefight, I forgot to mention a couple ofthings in my preview. Firefight matches will now scale based on how many people are playing. A person will be able to drop out during a match without causing the match to end as well....

Well, it doesn’t say it outright, but that’s certainly the implication. On the surface of it, the video merely depicts a duel of honor between a samurai of the Takeda clan (the four-diamond crest on red is unmistakable) and asoheiwarrior-monk (likely from the Uesugi clan), but those last moments at the end clearly notes thetruemessage of the trailer:The guys in the castle are assholes who shoot winning dudes in the damn back....

There’s some of you out there (I won’t mention any names) that swear up and down that Atlus Japan is not working onPersona 5. Impossible, I say. They have to be. I’d bet anything that they announce it at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, set to go down next month. My basis for saying that? It’s all from my heightened fan-sense — I can sense production on a game, even over oceans....

Remember that videoJim posted yesterdaythat featured Ryu and Wolverine going at it with the comic book backdrop inMarvel vs. Capcom 2? The art style was pretty sick andCapcom Unitywas nice enough to upload thecomic pagethat inspired that trailer. There’s also an awesome wallpaper version of one of the panels that you canget here. The art was done by Joe Vriens, who was featured onArt Attack Fridaynot too long ago. I’m glad that we’re getting this extra art element withMarvel vs....

If Sega’s good at one thing, it’s releasing old Genesis games on every platform that exists. With that in mind, you’ll all be thrilled to know that the classicSonic the Hedgehog 2is coming to the iTunes Store next week. Badical! Sonic 2is pegged for an April 19 release and will sell for $5.99. That is, of course, entirely too much and a somewhat arrogant price, but we’ve come to expect that from the bigger publishers on iTunes....

According to aGameStop listing, United Front Games’ upcoming create-play-share racerModNation Racersfor PlayStation 3may also be making its way to the PlayStation Portable. Simply listed asModNation(and separate from theModNation Racerslistingfor PlayStation 3), the PSP title looks slated to ship no earlier than June of next year. “Unfortunately, we can’t comment on rumors or speculation related toModNation Racers,” a Sony rep told us when we contacted them about the potential PSP racer....

At Sony’sPlayStation Day, president Kaz Hirai admitted that the PS3 had a rough year last year. He also confessed that the competition was passing them up, and that the system’s software selection has been fairly weak. Wow, they do hear us! “It’s fair to say that the first year of PlayStation 3 was somewhat a difficult one,” offered Hirai. “There were some teething problems, success from our competitors, and our customers were a little underwhelmed by the range of titles that were available....

I gathered from my conversation withBrink’s lead writer, Edward Stern, that the game’s developers at Splash Damage believe certain problems to be endemic to the shooter genre, and that they’re trying to provide creative solutions to them inBrink. I’ve already written about how the game isall multiplayer, all the time— which gets rid of the single-player/multiplayer divide — but Stern listed many more issues, and explained what Splash Damage is doing to neutralize them in order to make the game more fun....

Nice! The official Street Fighter IV FightStick controller for the PlayStation 3 is on sale at Buy.com today. Maybe you were on the fence. Maybe you’re a casual player that didn’t want to drop the list price on a stick you wouldn’t use that much. Maybe you just need another one.Buy.com has a 57% off sale on the PS3 stick, making it only $29.99. Oh, and free shipping. For some reason,the Xbox 360 version is $5 more....

Street Fighter IVmay have had an impressive Japanese launch. Capcom’s title reportedly sold86,000 copies — a stunning 58k of those were to the PlayStation 3 version — on February 13. That’s a lot. A grandmother would break it down by saying that more copies were purchased than “Quaker has oats,” which seems like an apt analysis. We knewSFIV‘s launch would be good, but these launch numbers aremassive. Capcom’s community manager Seth Killian (s-kill) wrote about the numbers Friday, and dropped a bombshell....

According to survey data from SquareTrade, widespread Xbox 360 problems — yes, we’re talking about the “Red Ring of Death” — are on the decline. According to the data collected in an independent survey, the introduction of the “Jasper” chipset in the later part of 2008 could be the catalyst, possibly having “solved” the red ring problem. The study backs up Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg’s claim that rampant hardware issues are athing of the past....