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It’s a case of handbags at dawn as two Japanese RPG developers got involved in a little verbal jousting over Mistwalker’s upcoming Wii game,The Last Story.Mistwalker boss andFinal Fantasycreator Hironobu Sakaguchi was mocked byFinal Fantasy Gaidendirector Takashi Tokidafor “rehashing” the very series he built. While most likely in jest, Sakaguchi still took the opportunity to justify his game. The debate started when Tokida asked Sakaguchi, “How about stopping with theFinal Fantasyrehashes?...

2D platformers fell out of favor with publishers a long time ago, which is why titles likeRayman Originsmake me happy. Here’s a shamelessly old school platformer, and it’s looking damn sexy. This new trailer shows off some of the accolades won at E3, and invents a few of its own. I’d say it deserves them from what we’ve seen thus far.

Project Natal and the Sony Wiimote have been with developers for a while, and the world waits with a mixture of anticipation and dread for the unique games (as well as horrible shovelware) that the “new” technology will bring to Xbox 360 and PS3 users. Sega looks like it’ll be among the first to announce motion control games for these systems,hoping to revealthe fruits of its labor early next year....

The winter of 2011 will see more than a few big EA releases, including the sequel to horror-titleDead Space, anotherNeed for Speed, as well as thatEpic Studios shooterwe’ve been hearing so much about. But here’s a surprising tidbit: expect something “far-reaching” from theMass Effectseries (or team?). Towards the middle of the riveting EA conference call, COO John Schappert busted out the news of somethingMass Effect— something “far-reaching” — is set to hit in fiscal 2011....

We already learned thatSonic CD would be hitting Xbox Live Arcade, thanks to Microsoft’s announcement earlier this week. But now that it’s formally been announced, it appears that Xbox 360 owners aren’t the only ones to get Sonic love. It appears that the re-release ofSonic CDis coming to basically, well, everything. By everything I mean Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, iPhone, iPod, iPad, PC, Android, and Windows Phone. (Yes, Windows Phone....

The new Yankee Stadium is currently being finished up in time for Opening Day, which is scheduled for an April 16th game pitting the Yankees against the Cleveland Indians. Built at an astounding cost of $1.3 billion, it’s going to be a state-of-the-art facility — and you probably won’t be able to walk two feet inside it without seeing something advertising Sony. This afternoon, the teamannounced a deal with Sonyto bring “a corporate marketing and high-definition technology relationship” to the House thatRuthSteinbrenner Built....

After a disappointing showing in their annual report for 2009, Sony’s PlayStation division is moving back to black with their financials. Nikkei is reporting that the consumer electronics giant will announce a return to profitability when they release second quarter figures on Thursday. This is also in stark contrast to Sony’s first quarter performance last year, where the division saw a loss of 25.7 billion yen. Cutting costs seemed to have been the cure....

Sony has told publishers to expect the PlayStation Store on May 24. That’s according to a memo sent to various companies, which of course found its way to the proles of the Internet. Aspreviously revealed, Sony plans to update the Store multiple times per week. Content scheduled for April 26 will be included in the first update, followed by May 3’s content three days later. The rest of the content will go live on May 31 and June 1....

Outside of theSkyward Swordtrailer shown at Nintendo’s pre-Tokyo Game Show 3DS conference last night, I think there was only one other video (of which there weremany) that caught my eye. It was the new Square Enix gameBravely Default: Flying Fairy. Specifically, the art style. “Wow,” is pretty much all I can say. That’s one way to design around hardware limitations. It’s not so apparent in the screenshots as it is in the trailer,so give that a watch....

I’ve got no beef with Uwe Boll. The industry is full of really sh*tty movies, and Boll is just another guy out there trying to make a buck. I think he’s become an easy guy to blame. In the end, movies, like games, are for fun, and I think that we sometimes forget that and become too critical of these forms of entertainment. But, for some reason, Stride Gum does have a beef with Uwe Boll....

“What are those little blue things?!” shrieked the tiny elderly woman guarding the front desk at the Larkspur Hotel in downtown San Francisco. I found myself sitting at the hotel bar last week with Joel DeYoung, the Director of Game Technology for Hothead Games. He explained to me how the idea forSwarm, Hothead’s newest brainchild, evolved from nothing more than PhD research into a full blown commercialized game. That might explain why it’s been in production for nearly five years....

After yesterday’s newsabout the incentivesforpre-purchasingBioShock 2on Steam, it’s probably wise for us to look over the system requirements and the DRM specifics, which are probably more important than anything else to a good number of you. For the minimum and recommended specs, you can either hit up the game’s Steam page again, or simply click through past the break. It’s standard stuff, really. Anyone with a gaming PC that’s a few years old or newer should be just fine....