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Been wondering exactly whatSonic Adventureis going to look like on your current-gen consoles? If so now is your chance to answer that questions. I know it’s been burning a hole in your soul since you found out Dreamcast games were coming to XBLA andAdventurewas coming to PSN. I actually popped the game into my Dreamcast just the other day, and it’s aged… well, let’s just keep it at that. It’s a mite bit better than the many 3D Sonics that came after it, but boy does it have some major problems....

Continuing the pattern of announcing game titles with no information other than a few pictures, Nintendo has let us know that there will be aKingdom Heartsgame coming to the 3DS. Literally all we have are the header image, the two tiny screenshots in the gallery below, and a title ofKingdom Hearts franchise game. That’s it. No date, no description, no plot, nothing. It’sKingdom Hearts, and it’s 3D. If you think you know what this will end up being, feel free to speculate away in the comments....

Man, I feel terrible for Blake Griffin. First, he gets drafted by the perennially hapless,possibly cursedLos Angeles Clippers. Then, before he even plays a single NBA game, the Clippers reveal that he has a stress fracture in his left kneecap; the injury sidelines him for the entire 2009-10 season. And now, it appears that he will go down as the last cover athlete in EA Sports’NCAA Basketball series. In a fiscal report earlier today, Electronic Arts laid out its slate of planned releases for the rest of its fiscal year 2010....

A couple of months ago, we told you about the departure of game maker David Jaffe (God of War, Twisted Metal) from Sony to start his own company with Scott Campbell, and they named itEat Sleep Play. NowLevel Uphas the first look at the company’s new logo. As you can see, the logo is a pop top bottle cap. Pretty clever, eh? We’ll let Eat Sleep Play explain what the logo represents:...

Bethesda has revealed that the overhauled menu system inThe Elder Scrolls: Skyrimwill draw inspiration from a rather trendy source — Apple’s iTunes. In fact, the studio wants to makeSkyrimlook like Apple designed a fantasy game … seriously! “You know in iTunes when you look at all your music you get to flip through it and look at the covers and it becomes tangible? One of our goals was, ‘What if Apple made a fantasy game?...

PC gamers have been shooting each other up in id Software’sEnemy Territory: Quake Warsfor quite a while now, but the time has finally come when console owners can partake in the team-based multiplayer fragfest as well.That’s right, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions ofQuake Warsare out now in the U.S., and will be released on May 30 in Europe and Australia.I’ve never been a huge team player, so when I tried the PC beta forQuake Warsa while back, my team got destroyed more often than not....

A Harmonix developer going by the screen name “HMXHenry” told fans onthe officialRock Bandforumsthat Energizer and Harmonix have teamed up to give out free DLC forRock Band. The content is being given out in packages of Energizer’s Advanced Lithium batteries. No word if they’re specially marked or not, but it’s probably safe to assume the packaging will say something about the offer. From the post: I thought you RB.com forum regulars may be interested to know that the fine folks at Energizer have decided to give away DLC with their new Advanced Lithium Batteries....

As well asSuper Punch Out!!, the ESRBhas spilled detailson some brand new games as well. This one,Hospital Hysteria: Emergency Ward, is heading to the PC and Wii, so I’m sure you can all pretty much imagine what this one is going to entail. “This is a strategy game in which players earn money for treating a steady stream of walk-in patients at a hospital,” states the ESRB summary. “Treatments include brief, over-the-top animations of patients being zapped in an X-ray machine, being soaked in green fluid during skin treatment, and getting folded in half inside an infirmary bed....

Fresh off the heels of Leipzig, Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian has stated that Europe’s importance in the global games market is increasing. The analyst stated that Europe’s industry is now equal in size to North America’s. That means it isn’t small, by the way. Sebastian expects “significant growth” from game publishers in Europe, and name checked THQ and Activision Blizzard as two companies he expects to be soaked in garlic and fish n’ chips as time goes on....

In screenshots and videos,Red Dead Redemptionhas never looked anything but impressive, so here’s another gameplay video to whet your appetite for the game’s April 27th (as far as we know, anyway) release date. This particular one takes a look at the early-20th-century weapons with which you’ll be kicking ass. Red Dead Redemptionoffers a wide array of authentic killing implements, including buffalo rifles, shotguns, revolvers, knives, and even Gatling guns. But it’s not just the variety of weapons that’s appealing; as this video explains, the technology behind the game — NaturalMotion’s Euphoria engine and Rockstar’s proprietary RAGE — makes the injuries that the weapons cause look very, very realistic....

The press release for the two upcomingFinal Fantasy: Distant Worldsconcerts contains the phrase “See Chocobo Dance”. If that isn’t enough reason to sum up why I am excited about the opportunity to see the music of my favorite RPG series performed live, I don’t know what else would be. But in fact, there’s more to the story. A few years ago, the Final Fantasy Dear Friends concert took place on May 10th, better known as my birthday....

If you missed last night’sepic live streamof theFinal Fantasy XIIIdemo (and the hilarious chatroom fanboys that accompanied it), a selection of videos have made their way onto Youtube which shows off the whole thing in loving detail. The five videos show most of the demo, which details the turn based battle system, the awesome graphics and the rather swanky music. Hit the jump for the full footage and do let us know what you think....

Androgyny fans need not be disappointed. Square Enix has recently opened up itsFabula Nova Crystallis(ugh)Final Fantasy XIIIsite portalfor all the gaze at in awe and wonder. Not toreadthough, because very few of us can understand the scary wordpictures that Japan fills the Internet with. At the very least, we can enjoy all the lovely images of this gorgeous looking title. Also, someNeoGAFposters have commented that the site’s sidebar looks like it has room for more entires in theFabula Tabula Crystal Novolo Bonobo HD Remixseries....