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“I remember calling it Developers May Cry, it looked that good.” God of War III’s game director Stig Asmussen confesses in the upcoming God of War Directors Live event, when asked about his art direction days on the original God of War. Devil May Cry; its headliner, Dante; and the entire DMC mythology have sprung installments on multiple consoles, comic books and an anime series. Dante is an iconic figure in the video game world, so imagine the reaction when Lead Producer Alex Jones and Chief Creative Director Tameem Antoniades were tapped to change everything we know about Devil May Cry and start from scratch. The result? DmC.

Clearly, Ninja Theory and Capcom were anticipating a strong reaction and fan skepticism, but after my conversation with the new DmC team, I grew more confident that Dante and the cast of DmC are in good hands. It’s daring, crazy and extremely challenging to change an 11-year-old franchise. But, if Christopher Nolan can do it with Batman Begins, maybe Ninja Theory can do the same for Devil May Cry. I’m sure you’ll agree when I say that I feverishly await more details behind the new DmC. Expect both Jones and Antoniades to visit the PlayStation.Blog in the future.

I like the new hair. There, I said it.

Filed under: Podcasts While the cat's away, the mice will riff. In Chris' absence, Ludwig and Justin carry on with a new iteration of the Joystiq Podcast sub-show, Just Riffin'. They're riffin' this week about life, love, Halo: Reach, Minecraft and oh so much more.

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These bad-boys won’t be out until October, but they look like they’re pretty high-quality. Who wouldn’t want a set of these swanky notebooks to take to school with them?!

The Seacrest County Police only drop their spikes and break out the road block for the most wanted. But for all we know, this guy's just got one of those stuck accelerator pedals. Didn't you hear? It's spread to Porsches now.

#clips With more than 50 classic Mega Man weapons represented, upcoming fan made game Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch has something to kill everyone. More »

Steven Wadsworth is out as head of interactive media and therefore head of Disney's video games, The New York Times reports. We last ran into Wadsworth in February when he was hyping Club Penguin, then-upcoming Split/Second and still-upcoming Epic Mickey. More »

If you want to play Cave's Xbox 360 shmup Deathsmiles, but don't need a big box or a faceplate, you'll be able to pick it up cheaply next week. A listing on GameStop.com revealed a standard version of Deathsmiles, coming out for Xbox 360 on September 28 for $29.99.

A representative of Aksys Games confirmed the release to Joystiq, saying that "the Deathsmiles Standard Edition will be $29.99 at GameStop for now." If you buy this and then something falls on your Xbox 360, cracking your current faceplate ... be sure to tell us. We'll do our best to be sympathetic while marveling at this unlikely, ironic happenstance.

As bad as this sounds, I keep forgetting that this game is coming down the pipeline. I’m honestly not that interested in it. I’m sure it’ll have a few games that surprise me, though. Are you guys getting hyped up for this one?

Sorry UK gamers, you’re not going to get a banana pouch for preordering Donkey Kong Country Returns. Looks like North America will be the only location getting this bonus. No word on a different bonus for those that preorder in the UK, but things aren’t looking too good right now.

Previewed Killzone 3, Bioshock Infinite, Red Faction: Armageddon, Yakuza 4, Lord Of The rings: War In The North, Shaun White Skateboarding, End Of Nations, Fist of The North Star: Ken’s Rage, Revenge Of The Titans, Rift: Planes Of Telara, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge and Brink Reviewed Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow, Enslaved: Odyssey To The West, Dead [...]

#ps3 New controllers from major third-party game controller manufacturer Mad Catz won't explode or otherwise malfunction when connected to PlayStation 3s running unofficial-controller-hating firmware, 3.50. They're fine. But three old models won't work, the company tells Kotaku. More »

RARE…seriously, how many more times do fans have to ask for another Battletoads game? Hasn’t it been long enough?! We haven’t seen these guys in action since the Super Nintendo days! It’s time to bring them back! The Turtles have been around ever since, so surely we could get one more [...]

I don't know why I'd be surprised about a Level-5 game being fun. Aside from a few missteps, the company is one of the most consistently great developers in Japan, with the sales to prove it. And yet, I was only driven to try out the PSP game Danbol Senki when I noticed that it had no line at the Level-5 booth, and I was not at all expecting to be won over as I was.

LucasArts' free-to-play, lightsaber-brandishing title, Clone Wars Adventures, recently reached an impressive milestone with just a week of availability under its belt. According to the press release embedded after the jump, the kid-friendly Jedi simulator has already reached over one million users. To celebrate, players will receive a free Golden Mouse Droid -- in-game, that is. If those things existed in real life, we'd like to think we'd own a few already.

An in-game party will also be held today at 6 p.m. ET, and a far more exclusive event will be held in the Officer's Club at 7 p.m. for players who pony up the $5.99 per month for the game's additional features. You peons have fun at the early party -- we'll be rolling in style at that after-party. We hear Ja Rule is going to be there!

#nintendods Cave Story, the delightful shooter-platformer released via WiiWare early this year, looks like it will hit another Nintendo platform soon. The new issue of Nintendo Power lists Cave Story for DSiWare in its new game index. More »

As foreseen yesterday by the Enslaved: Odyssey to the West Twitter account, Xbox Live Gold members now have access to the game's previously PSN-exclusive demo. Additionally, Major Nelson points out that Arcania: Gothic 4 also got a demo. That means killing robots with a giant baton in the post-post-post apocalypse and exploring the unknown depths of the Southern Islands are just two downloads away! Click through for each below.



Xbox.com: Add the Enslaved: Odyssey to the West demo to your Xbox 360 download queue
Xbox.com: Add the Arcania: Gothic 4 demo to your Xbox 360 download queue

In iCarly 2: iJoin the Click!, you’re the new kid at Ridgeway and Carly and the gang will help you to make the best iCarly webisode yet! You’ll explore all of the cool hangouts that the crew goes in the show like the Groovie Smoothie, the Pacific Place Mall, and even Carly’s bedroom. Compete in [...]

This one comes from RubyEclipse, a team member at SEGA… Hi everyone, Just a little heads up that we will be officially revealing the Sonic 4: Episode I release date next week. We were supposed to have this game sometime in the Summer, but the release date was pushed back in order to tweak the game. Let’s [...]

#screengrab Super Mario playground from the Wii Games: Summer 2010 summit earlier this month, as seen on PopCultureGeek's Flickr stream. More »

#gameface Blizzard co-founders Mike Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham were honored this week as Artistic Visionaries as part of Orange County's 11th annual Cultural Legacy Awards. Photo by Nicholas Koon. More »