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Gamers all around the world are being made to wait for Dementium II. I should have been playing that game right now! Unfortunately, North America was slapped with a bit of a delay. Let’s hope the same situation doesn’t pop up yet again. At least we have an official date for [...]

#screens Seeing as I forgot anyone was working on a fourth entry in the Gothic series, I'm pleasantly surprised to see these screenshots for Arcania: Gothic 4 looking as fine as they do. More »

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Sunsoft has started to revitalize its brand with the help of Gaijinworks' Victor Ireland. The strategy includes re-releases of classic games on Nintendo's Virtual Console, including Blaster Master, and the creation of original content -- also Blaster Master, actually. If a new rating by the Australian OFLC board is any indication, Sunsoft is planning a Virtual Console release of Ufouria: The Saga, a rare NES game that never made it to North America.

Ufouria is a Metroidvania-style NES game starring Bop-Louie, who falls into a crater and is separated from this friends. Bop-Louie then explores the world in search of his lost companions, with his friends becoming playable once they are located. The game was released in Europe with an English translation, so if it does become a Virtual Console import, we'd even be able to read the text!

[Via Aussie-Nintendo]

#delayofgame Proving that public beta tests aren't just for early free access, the team behind Ubisoft's deception-based strategy game R.U.S.E. are postponing the game's release until late September based on community feedback. More »

#captivate2010 Earlier this month Capcom did an about face, declaring that despite initial intentions, upcoming fighter Super Street Fighter IV would indeed get an arcade release in Japan. More »

Anyone that invested in last year's mix-master sim, DJ Hero, is already familiar with DJ Shadow. Not only did he provide some of the game's freshest cuts, he was featured as a playable character. With creepy glowing eyes. And a hood. And a hat, which we found to be a tad redundant.

In a recent interview with Radio One, Mr. Shadow commented on his work on DJ Hero, saying, "It was interesting, I'm actually working on the next one as well. But yeah, it was a trip." That's the second artist to confirm his contributions to the follow-up, which is schedueld for release later this year. Activision has still to name the sequel and provide any official list of mixers. May we suggest you get some DJ Tanner in the house?

[Via VG247]

#clips How do you make sure people play something other than a Jedi or Sith in Star Wars: The Old Republic? By making sure the other classes can kick Force-sensitive ass. More »

#expansionism After two years of tweaking the main game, Funcom has nailed down a May 11 release date for Rise of the Godslayer, the first full expansion pack for massively-multiplayer online role playing game Age of Conan. More »

Next week's Rock Band DLC contains three random singles from the '90s. With that said, Harmonix clearly knows all too weel the most vocal members of its Rock Band community, as the developer mounted a counter-attack regarding the latest update. HMXHenry notes for all the "Chicken Littles out there" that there is "loads more content in the pipeline, tons of awesome RBN tracks that are now coming out on the Xbox360 AND the PS3." He also points out that Green Day: Rock Band is coming out in a little over a month and that more Rock Band 3 news is coming soon. Now that's a developer that knows its audience.

Check out next week's full DLC release list after the break.

#captivate2010 Okamiden manages to walk the fine line between artistic and interesting, delivering a portable gaming experience that is a pleasure to watch and play. More »

The boffins behind the new Formula 1 game explain how it'll leave previous F1 racers in its dust.

#gettingold People who live to age 100 are awesome, I think. It's good, right? Living to triple digits? Apparently so-called centenarians are not just impressive people but potential video gamers. That's got me thinking, what would I play at age 100? More »

First expansion to the best-selling MMO 'Age of Conan' launches 11th of May 2010.

Australian rockers take on Rock Band.

Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, the portion of the giant company responsible for Xbox operations (as well as Zune and Games for Windows) brought in $165 million in profits during the company's third quarter of fiscal 2010, which ended March 31. In the same period last year, the division lost $41 million.

The soaring profits were a result of a record third-quarter revenue haul of $14.5 billion for Microsoft, with the E&D division accounting for $1.67 billion in revenue. CFO Peter Klein cited Xbox Live as one of the factors responsible for the company's growth. In fact, Xbox Live, and the reduced cost of Xbox 360 manufacturing, helped the E&D division profit despite console shipments falling year-over-year, from 1.7 million shipments in Q3 of fiscal 2009 to 1.5 million in 2010. Tacking on to the last reported figures, Xbox 360 shipments have now surpassed 40 million units worldwide. (Additionally, Xbox 360 and PC software revenue has dropped $240 million year-over-year in the first nine months of fiscal 2010.)

With so many Xbox 360 units in the wild, Microsoft's Q3 Form 10-Q document [.docx] brings up a very good point: "Our hardware products such as the Xbox 360 console are highly complex and can have defects in design, manufacture, or associated software." You don't say.

Wii adaptation of fantasy classic receives new teaser website.

Fight the evil Ashurin Empire in Konami's all-new downloadable puzzle PRG game.

Soloing isn't so lonely.

A beginner's guide to Capcom's multi-million selling phenomenon.

#captivate2010 Lost Planet producer Jun Takeuchi may not be the artist Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune is, but that didn't stop him from whipping up this awesome little drawing for us at Captivate on the iPad. More »

No hammers necessary.

Honestly, Rockstar didn't even really need to do anything new with the multiplayer in Red Dead Redemption -- we would have been happy to simply see our childhood cowboy shoot-em-up battles reenacted in shiny HD. But it looks like they went ahead and surprised us anyway. As you can see in the new trailer above, every battle starts out with a Mexican standoff, with the winner getting a head start on the map. The reworked Dead Eye system is available in multiplayer, too, letting you paint targets and then unleash a hail of gunfire. And bringing in old-school cannons and a turncrank gatling gun is a nice, old (olde?) Western touch, too.

All of those tools are available across multiple modes, including normal and team deathmatch, and a few capture-the-flag variations based on bags of gold: Hold Your Own is standard CTF (on a large scale in some maps), Gold Rush gives multiple bags to chase around, and Grab the Bag has everyone going after just one. All of the modes grant progression across weapons challenges, with golden guns serving as the ultimate reward. And here we thought it was fun just chasing the other kids around the living room pointing our fingers at each other.