NInja Gaiden 3 Collector's Edition

Tecmo Koei announced today that a collector's edition will be available for their upcoming Ninja Gaiden 3, which is due to hit stores March 20.

The jam packed collector's edition offers customers the game, art book, soundtrack, a collectible figure set and downloadable characters in the Dead or Alive 5 demo stage (Ryu Hayabusa, Hitomi, Ayane and Hayate).

If you pre-order a non-collector's edition at either GameStop or Amazon, then you will land a voucher to receive two demo characters from Dead or Alive 5; GameStop's will include Hayabusa and Hitomi whereas Amazon includes Ayane and Hayate.

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Kid Icarus: Uprising Comes Bundles With A Stand In Japan

Masahiro Sakurai, director of Kid Icarus: Uprising, showed off a new peripheral device for the 3DS that comes bundles with Kid Icarus: Uprising.

When Kid Icarus: Uprising ships out in Japan, a 3DS stand will be bundles with the game in order to keep your system stable as you play the game.

Along with a stand, Kid Icarus: Uprising will be compatible with the Circle Pad Pro in order for easier use for left-handed users. Kid Icarus: Uprising will be available in Japan on March 22.

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Robert Rodat Rewriting Thor 2 Script

With Alan Taylor taking over Patty Jenkins as the new director of Thor 2 there now needs to be a rewrite of the current script, and Marvel supposedly already has the man - Robert Rodat.

Rodat, the screenwriter for Saving Private Ryan, is being reported to rework a draft already submitted by Don Payne. It is also being reported that Disney is going to start work on the film later this year for it's 2013 release.

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Sega Releases Binary Domain Trailer

Binary Domain, Sega's next game that includes robots, guns and Japan, has been delayed from February 7 to February 28. To make up for it though, Sega has released a new trailer for the game (a pretty impressive trailer), that shows the premise of the game; that being that robots are capable to look very similiar to humans and that drives everyone nuts.

Binary Domain will comes out for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

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Sony And Taco Bell Gives Away PS Vitas

Imagine a world where Taco Bell and Sony teams up to give away PlayStation Vitas for free. Now imagine that they will be giving away one of those Vitas every 15 minutes. All you have to do is spend $5 and enter a code online.

Being called Unlock the Box, the new promotion allows Taco Bell to team up with Sony to give away codes that are on the $5 Buck Box, which the code is then entered online for a chance to win a PlayStation Vita.

Winners will be getting a PS Vita 3G/Wi-Fi model, a copy of Little Deviants, one 4GB Vita Memory Card and a choice of one of the following games:

• ModNation Racers: Road Trip
• LittleBigPlanet
• MLB 12 The Show

There are also two other ways to participate without buying food. Participants can download the Reality Fighters Dojo app and battle friends to win or you can submit a photo or video online that shows how much you really want a PS Vita.

This promotion will be starting January 26 and will go all the way until March 11 at participating Taco Bell locations.

For more rules and information, check out the PlayStation Blog.

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Kazuo Hirai Says No PlayStation 4 Information At E3

A few days ago MCV was convinced that Microsoft and Sony was going to announce new consoles at E3 this year alongside the Wii U. Well today Kazuo Hirai, Representative Corporate Executive Officer and Executive Deputy President of Sony, put half of that rumor to rest.

Hirai has reported that there are no plans for Sony to release a console anytime soon.

“I’ve always said a 10-year life cycle for PS3, and there is no reason to go away from that," says Hirai at the Consumer Electronic Show.

There you have it, Sony will not be releasing any information about a console this year, but Microsoft is still uncounted for for their rumored console.

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Live Action Star Wars Finally Given A Name - Star Wars: Underwold

For quite some time, a Star Wars live action TV series has been planned (when I say quite some time I mean for a few years). At first I was afraid that the whole idea was canned, but now today we have more information about the project that is in current development still.

IGN was able to have a talk with Rick McCallum, producer of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Star Wars: Trilogy Special Edition, where he explains that the series is on hold but a working title has been announced - Star Wars: Underworld.

Budget has been a major role in which why the live action version has not been released yet, McCallum explains how LucasFilms has to spend a lot of money for weekly one hour episodes as much as they did for each film.

For more, watch the interview below.

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New Assassin's Creed Revelations DLC H it This Month

Later this month, Assassin's Creed Revelations owners will be getting a new DLC pack titled The Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack.

The Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack includes six new multiplayer maps; three of them are from Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, which includes:

• Florence
• San Donato
• Siena

The new maps are:

• Constantinople
• Dyers
• Jerusalem

The Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack will comes out January 24 on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 for $10 or 800 Microsoft Points. 

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Ghost Recon Future Soldier Pushed Back, PC Version Will Be Made

Ghost Recon Future Soldier won't be coming out until May 22 in North America and in Europe, May 24, announced Ubisoft today. There will be a beta for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 though with a PC beta version on it's way, yes, Ubisoft is bringing Ghost Recon Future Soldier onto the PC.

Originally Ghost Recon Future Soldier has a March 6 release date, but it is now being pushed back due to Ubisoft wanting players to have a more enjoyable experience with the game.

Ubisoft's decision not to allow the game on the PC was due to them believing that the game would be pirated anyways, so they saw no reason to put Future Soldier onto the PC.

For a more information, watch the apology video Ubisoft posted on Youtube.

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5th Cell Announces Run Roo Run

Run Roo Run is the next game 5TH cell will be developing that involves the player who takes control of a kangaroo and helps her get back her son by venturing through over 400 levels.

Run Roo Run will be available only on iOS devices starting this Thursday,  January 12, for $.99 on the iPhone and $1.99 on the iPad.

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Layoffs At id Software

With id Software currently developing Doom 4, some employes were unfortunately let go due to "standard business practice", but at the same time they are still recruiting and hiring developers.

Here is Bethesda's statement on the layoffs:

As part of its standard business practice, id regularly evaluates staffing to ensure it has a workforce that meets the needs of the studio. As part of that process, some id employees were recently let go.

Id is still recruiting and hiring qualified developers, and development work on future id titles continues unabated.

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Diablo III Heading to Consoles

You certainly heard me right, Blizzard has announced that they will be hiring developers for the console version of their long-awaited sequel to the Diablo series. Community Director Micah Whipple made the announcement via twitter.

"Yup. Josh Mosqueira is lead designer for the Diablo console project."

And Mosqueira also tweeted that Blizzard is also hiring designers for the console development team.

"Are you a game designer? Do you love Diablo? What about Diablo on console? If so we're looking for you..."

No specific consoles were announced or the long awaited release date. It's gonna be interesting how the console version will be like.

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Kinect For Windows Comes Out Next Month

Microsoft has announced that they will be allowing Kinects to work on Windows starting February 1, but you won't be using the Kinect device just for video games.

Third party companies are jumping on board with the Kinect for Windows that will allow the camera to see objects as close as 50 centimeters without a loss of accuracy or precision. Kinect for Windows also gives customers a source development kit, which is needed in order for the Kinect to Windows to run on PCs, in order to do some nifty little things since the main focus is commercial development.

As for a price, the Kinect for Windows will be costing you $249.99, which is a bit more than Kinect for the Xbox 360.

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Netflix Available On The PlayStation Vita

The PlayStation Vita isn't just about gaming on the go, it is also about music, movies and other media on the go as well by using apps, and Sony has just announced that on app is going to be using is the Netflix app.

On February 22, when the PlayStation Vita launches, Netflix will be available for all owners of both Netflix and the PlayStation Vita, which Sony has announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012.

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Namco Forced to Pull Offensive Advertisement

Soul Calibur is famously known for starring voluptuous women wearing very revealing armor, and Namco likes to embrace this feature while also poking fun at it with this poster featuring Ivy's exposed cleavage with the phrase "Go big or go home" written in Japanese.


While this advertisment only made it in Japan, it still caused some eyebrows to raise. But it's nothing compared to their second advertisement, which was force to be pulled. The new poster featured a shot of Voldo's Codpiece with "Curious?" written in Japanese.


Namco Bandai, had this posted on their facebook page earlier today but was pulled shortly due to a massive amount of complaints for the image. Honestly, Ivy's image showed a lot more than just some spiky banana hammock. Here's hoping that their next one will be even edgier.

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