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Posted by PlayStation Blog Nov 12 2010 23:06 GMT in PlayStation News
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PopCap has already brought you Bejeweled 2 and Zuma for the PSP, and I’m excited to tell you that we have brought the full Peggle experience to the PlayStation Store on PSN!

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I was the Associate Producer of Peggle and Peggle Nights for the PS3, and I know a number of you wanted to see this game come to your PSP so you could take it on the go. Remote Play is awesome, but you don’t always have an internet connection when you want to play, right?

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Our expert Peggle Institute Programmers were able to get the full, original Peggle Experience into your PSP. All the original Masters, challenges, and levels in adventure mode are here! There were some late nights and long meetings with Bjorn and Master Hu, but we got there! Peggle on the PSP took us a lot of time to get right to make sure we created a game that looked good on the smaller screen (I hope your PSP has a smaller screen than your TV!) and felt right with the PSP controls.

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I hope you are all as excited about this as I am, and thanks for liking our games as much as we do! It’s a pretty awesome feeling to get such a warm reception for the games we release on the PlayStation Network. Look for Peggle on PSP this Tuesday for $9.99.


Posted by Kotaku Nov 12 2010 22:40 GMT in Donkey Kong Country Returns
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#wii The new Donkey Kong Country also has a new Kong and features the second appearance of Nintendo's helpful "Super Guide", the help system introduced in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. This is our first look at Super Kong in Donkey Kong Country Returns. More »


Posted by Kotaku Nov 12 2010 23:00 GMT in Gaming News
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#ruhroh An ad agency has taken the fall for a guerrilla marketing stunt that had the city of San Francisco threatening Facebook-games maker Zynga with vandalism and other charges. The agency will pay the city $45,000 in fines. More »

Posted by Joystiq Nov 12 2010 23:00 GMT in WWE All Stars
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Get ready to get super buff. European sites including CVG and Eurogamer say THQ announced that UFC Personal Trainer, the UFC-themed exercise game for Kinect, Move, and Wii, will be released in Europe on April 1 of next year, bringing with it THQ's firm (but completely unspoken) guarantee that regular use will make you look exactly like Brock Lesnar. Out the same day: WWE All-Stars, a similarly casual-focused game, but with wrestling instead of whatever you call what happens in UFC, and arcade-style controls instead of motion.

Both games are headed for a similar release window in North America. During an investor conference call this month, THQ cited them as highlights of its "March quarter."

Posted by IGN Nov 12 2010 22:44 GMT in Nintendo News
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The Club Nintendo platinum award has arrived. Photos galore.

Posted by Joystiq Nov 12 2010 22:30 GMT in Kinect
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Just a couple of days after the release of an open-source Kinect driver, coder floemuc has developed a proof-of-concept PC application for the sensor. In the video after the break, floemuc uses Kinect to track his hand movements, allowing him to manipulate and resize photos. He hasn't released the software, unfortunately. "I thought I'd get the mandatory picture-browsing stuff done," he said in the YouTube description, "so it's out of the way and everybody can focus on more interesting things."

It's nice to find out that people are thinking about using Kinect to do the cool Minority Report stuff, instead of just the gross ad-personalization bits.

Posted by IGN Nov 12 2010 22:28 GMT in Gran Turismo 5
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When can you put the pedal to the metal in Australia? Find out now.

Posted by Kotaku Nov 12 2010 22:00 GMT in Metroid: Other M
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#wii Nintendo wanted to sell a million copies of Metroid: Other M, which wasn't a bad game. They won't, not by the end of the year in America, and now they're trying to figure out why. More »

Posted by Kotaku Nov 12 2010 21:40 GMT in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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#rockstargames Mac owners, get ready to game like it's 2001, as the Grand Theft Auto III trilogy has finally come to Apple computers. More »

Posted by Joystiq Nov 12 2010 22:00 GMT in World of Warcraft
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This is the second part of Joystiq's in-depth discussion with Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, in which we've covered his side of the Brutal Legend situation, Activision's Bungie partnership, and why Kotick's been cast in the role of video game industry villain. Up second: The Call of Duty business, from Xbox Live to DLC to a rotating stable of development teams.
"You know, Call of Duty games probably represent more than 50% of the total Xbox Live traffic," Bobby Kotick told me when I asked him about Microsoft's recent $10 Xbox Live price hike. You see, Activision is tasked with monetizing an immensely popular online game through a traditional - and inflexible - system: a retail disc played in a video game console controlled by another company. And despite a constant refrain of Call of Duty subscription rumors, the only subscription you may pay to play it online isn't to Activision at all; it's to Microsoft.

"I think the thing that sometimes even I don't fully appreciate - and I think I have a greater appreciation for it today, having spent a lot of time up with Microsoft recently - but they invest billions of dollars in the Live platform. Billing, credit collection, things like foreign currency conversion, being able to manage point systems. All of that is extremely expensive to manage and maintain." Of course, this is all to say that it deserves something, but how do Activision and its customers factor into Microsoft's agenda?

"Because of our Blizzard experience we have an incredible understanding of how important the provision of appropriate customer service is," Kotick said, citing 2,500 World of Warcraft customer service employees for the US and Europe alone. "What we'd like to ideally see is that the investment in the subscription fees going towards the provision of a higher level of customer service [...] to see some portion of the subscription fees go towards game enhancement." Activision does enjoy a "very modest amount of the subscription fees," Kotick told us, but he's more interested in seeing any cost increase in the service go towards "directly benefitting the Call of Duty players."

Posted by IGN Nov 12 2010 22:00 GMT in Nail'd
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"That other guy f**king landed on top of me."

Posted by GoNintendo Nov 12 2010 21:39 GMT in Nintendo Stuff
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It looks like the next issue of Game Informer is going to have some information on the next, true installment in the Tomb Raider series. For awhile now, we’ve known that the next Tomb Raider game was going to feature a younger Lara Croft that ends up getting shipwrecked. This image would fit [...]

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CAUTION - SPOILERS I will place the list of level names after the jump, in order to avoid spoiler issues. Partial (alliterative) stage list: Jungle 1-1 Jungle Hijinxs 1-2 King of Cling 1-3 Tree Top Bop 1-4 Sunset Shore 1-5 Canopy Cannons 1-6 Crazy Cart 1-B Mugly’s Mound Beach 2-1 Poppin’ Planks 2-2 Sloppy Sands 2-3 Peaceful Pier 2-4 Cannon Cluster 2-5 Stormy Shore 2-6 Blowhole Bound 2-7 Tidal Terror 2-B Pinchin’ [...]

Posted by Joystiq Nov 12 2010 21:30 GMT in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
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After teasing the project yesterday, Ubisoft has fully unveiled the particulars of UbiWorkshop's next project, Assassin's Creed Ascendance. The short animated film will serve as a primer into the shady, conspiratorial dealings of 16th century Rome, and will release on XBLM and PSN next Tuesday, November 16 -- the launch day of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Check out the full trailer for the short after the jump.

Ubisoft promises the film "bridges the narrative gap" between the series' last installment and its fraternal sequel -- however, with a suggested MSRP of $1.99, we're not sure how many people are going to spring to purchase it. Especially not since we can bridge that gap for you, right now, for free: Some people with names you can't pronounce stabbed each other. You're welcome.

Posted by GoNintendo Nov 12 2010 21:08 GMT in Kingdom Hearts: Re:coded
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Now you can get a bunch of stickers to plaster all over…well…anything you want! Let’s just hope the game is worth a purchase, because a sticker bonus isn’t going to cut it when you get a poor-quality title!

Posted by IGN Nov 12 2010 21:07 GMT in Dynasty Warriors Online
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All those innocent soldiers defending their homelands should have never crossed you!

Posted by Joystiq Nov 12 2010 21:00 GMT in Mortal Kombat
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The Mortal Kombat trailer after the break offers some backstory for Sub-Zero, explaining why he joined the deadly tournament. Does he need much motivation, though? He's a ninja who freezes people with his hands. Nobody's going to spar with him at the Y. This is basically his only way to keep fit.

Posted by PlayStation Blog Nov 12 2010 21:03 GMT in LittleBigPlanet 2
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Remembering Costumes

Remember the first time you played LittleBigPlanet? Remember the first thing you did? For us, it was opening the POP-IT and customizing our own little Sackboy (or Sackgirl). I’m sure most of you remember dressing your own little Sackboy – and as we reminisce, we’re reminded of a few community gems that we thought we should share…

Costume Montages

sposim94 has creatively put together a two pieces we love with tons of LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2 beta costumes:

sposim94: We can’t wait to see what you do with the costumes in LittleBigPlanet 2!

Say Cheese!

Over on LittleBigPlanetCentral, they got together and created a brilliant group photo…

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Leftover Birthday Cake on The PlayStation Store!

Speaking of costumes – remember all the “Special” DLC that popped up for free on the PlayStation Store? Well, they’re coming back!

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We just celebrated LittleBigPlanet’s second birthday, and had some leftovers. Head to the PlayStation Store on Tuesday, November 16th and be sure to download it before its gone.

Your Costumes!

After all that, we naturally we looked the internetz to see more, and got stuck looking at all the Sackboy Halloween costumes. I’m still working on mine (one made from balloon animal balloons). Love these!

And then there’s this …sooooo wrong.

New LittleBigPlanet Addition to PlayStation Home

While we’re talking customized personas, for those of you doing that in PlayStation Home, don’t forget to check out the latest addition to the LittleBigPlanet Home space.

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Random Goodness

  • MediaMolecule.com tells us how Sackboy became to be
  • Sackboy Parade in Toronto for Santa!
  • Five more days to enter the Sacktastic’s “Prequel to the Sequel” level design contest – Win a Crown
  • New servers = new features
  • Sackboy as 400 pinecones

An hour with the Media Molecules & community (Everything you wanted to know about LBP2)

My stab at a Sackboy balloon animal

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Posted by Kotaku Nov 12 2010 21:00 GMT in Gaming News
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#retro Flickr user Sirekat likes to take Lego mini-figures out on the town. To the Louvre. To the Centre Pompidou. To the artsy places in Paris, including a museum for video games, seen here. More »

Posted by Joystiq Nov 12 2010 20:30 GMT in James Bond 007: Blood Stone
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What's that? You want another Black Friday deal post? Well ... okay, but you'd better finish your vegetables first. All done? Great. Best Buy has some killer deals on console bundles, with the best probably being the Wii (black or white) bundled with Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, a Wii Remote Plus and a Nunchuk, all for $169.99. If you're in the market for a PS3, Best Buy is bundling the 160GB model with LittleBigPlanet, ModNation Racers and a Cars Blu-ray for $299. Meanwhile, 4GB Xbox 360s will be packed with LEGO -- namely LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, LEGO Batman and Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures -- all for $199.

The store is also stocking the red and green DSi bundles first spotted in the Sears Black Friday ad for $149. Finally, several big titles will see impressive discounts. Check out some of the highlights after the break.

Posted by Kotaku Nov 12 2010 18:40 GMT in Gran Turismo 5
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#ps3 According to the instruction manual for The Sly Collection, a PlayStation 3 game released this week, Gran Turismo 5 is out now. We know that is wrong. More »