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Sega’s newly formed development studio PlatinumGames has announced four new games slated for 2009 release, and has named three of them. The titles are MadWorld for Wii, Bayonetta for the PS3 and 360, and Infinite Line for the DS.

MadWorld is a hyper-stylized and campy action game looking like a cross between Sin City and No More Heroes. The game will focus on finding creative ways to dispatch your enemies through environmental hazards, and has a “lighthearted” tone, despite all the exaggerated carnage.

Bayonetta is a game with few details revealed, but you’ll be playing the role of a witch who has a unique fighting style involving strapping guns to her feet. The director Hikedi Kamiya has high hopes for the title, looking to give the 3D action genre its swiftest kick in the ass since his own Devil May Cry.

Infinite Line is an RPG with a focus on extreme customization, from your spaceship, to your maximum of 150 crew members that will inhabit it. As Kotaku reports, “The ships themselves will be designed modularly so you can place different components where ever [you] want.” Sounds a lot like another big-name title coming up…

Seeing as how the team is comprised of members responsible for games like Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, and Okami, it looks like Sega’s got some killer titles in the works, and I can’t wait to see how they turn out.

Bayonetta ‘Debut’ trailer HD

Mad World ‘Debut’ trailer

[Kotaku] [GameVideos.com / via 1up.com]

Alright guys, the May Comment Extravaganza is still going strong. You have been commenting and discussing more than before. Keep at it, remember every comment is one more chance to win the $50 gift certificate.

And talking about that, we have a few updates! Righstuf confirmed their availability for letting us buy an unofficial gift certificate since they dont officially have those. So go and do some window shopping at RightStuf, start making your shopping list.

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So keep commenting and discussing, if this contest goes well we might give stuff away again more often, much more often.

A while ago we told you about the new Slayers project that was announced back in March. Suposed to span two seasons and be pretty much a clean break from previous storylines but following the same premise. Well the project finally has a name, Slayers Revolution, which goes pretty well with previous titles of the franchise.

Apparently there was some talk about Lina not being the lead character this time around but not much more is known, a big announcement regarding the project is expected in about a week from Dragon magazine in Japan.

Its hard to overstate my gleeful anticipation of this project.

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Bright-eyed and excited as usual, Cliff Bleszinski discussed everything from the storyline, themes, characters, and gameplay mechanics of Gears of War 2 in this new interview from Gametrailers.com.

First Bleszinski explains that the Locust have returned, and are back with a vengeance, so you’ll be up against similar foes as in the last installment. He then explains that the game is going to focus on a theme of “intimate violence,” which will play into the more central role of the chainsaw. For one there are now Chainsaw duels, which “are a simple b-button mash.” There are also more weapon-specific executions.

Perhaps the best news concerns the multiplayer: Gears 2 will ship with more maps than the original, will have more multiplayer modes, and can accommodate five vs five battles.

Overall, Bleszinski wanted to hammer home the messages that Gears 2 will be “bigger and more badass,” will have a deeper storyline, and will feature “buckets and buckets of blood.”

You’ll be able to chainsaw enemies “from their taint to their throat” on November 30th.

[Gametrailers.com]

The latest issue of famitsu comes loaded with some new images from Resident Evil 5. Image captions and information don’t reveal much except that light mechanics, where moving from a light to dark area and viceversa will play a much more important role than previously hinted at. There is also some talk about previous enemies making a comeback, such as the nosferatu from Code Veronica.

Who’s the girl in the red dress? Could it be you-know-who?

[Dark Zero]

Doki Doki Majo Shinpan Duo is trying to one-up its predecessor. The sequel to the controversial DS game where you had to touch some jailbait hunt witches by way of inspecting them physically appears to be putting more emphasis on the watching as much as the touching aspect of the game.

If the box-art of the game is any indication this time around you will be equipped with some sort of X-ray device that allows you to…. analyze your subject much more thoroughly. Oh boy, remember when Nintendo was too much of a prude for M rated games? When did we jump from that to this. Talk about a change of heart, not that I’m complaining.

[DS Fanboy]

The design of Guitar Hero 4’s drumkit has just been revealed in the latest GameInformer via Destructoid. It has six buttons in total, including the bass pedal.

While the kit is highly influenced by Drummania’s, there are some important differences. On closer inspection the hi-hat and cymbal pads are more elevated, and between the snares and toms. This means that players won’t be bullied into crossing over their arms to play the faster hi-hat/snare patterns which often pop up in Drummania. Also the tiered pads should allow players to move and roll between notes with greater fluidity, which is definitely a plus.

Another nifty inclusion is the ability to accept velocity data, which I’m guessing will lead to a wider range of drum sounds. The bass pedal is the only thing that looks like it belongs in a Rock Band kit, but hopefully won’t be as stiff and frustrating to use.

GameInformer’s first hands-on experience with the new hardware was “very positive,” and I wouldn’t be surprised if it blows Rock Band’s model out of the water in terms of comfort and playability.

[GameInformer / via Destructoid] 

During today more information regarding the new Banjo-Kazooie game was released, including a trailer which you can see above.

The game, which is now called Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, spans across many genres, its like Banjo-Kazooie meets Legos meets Diddy Kong Racing. You get to build vehicles using a wide arrange of parts and using said vehicles to clear levels that range from platforming to aerial dogfighting.

Being such a unique game some fans are already calling this a spin-off on the franchise and not a faithful sequel. Be what it may, its still an interesting concept worth checking out.

Also what’s with the 8-bit Mario getting beheaded in the trailer near the end? Rare breaking free from the spiritual bond the franchise shares with the big N? Marketing stunt? Whats your call?

Still bugged the Wii lacks any media capabilities? Well the buzzing Wii Homebrew scene has the answer! A recently released application called Wii Media borrows a page from XBMC, the famous Xbox media center software, in turning your Wii into a functional media center, being able to play audio and video from an SD card as well as listening to ShoutCast radio online.

This is just the first release of Wii Media, V.01 so don’t expect it to be perfect by any measure. The project is set to go open source after the base code is cleaned up which should speed up development and who knows, in 6 months or so your Wii could be a mean, lean, media machine.

[Wii Media]

The witchblade series has been around for a long time, it started here in America as a comic series, and then it got a brief running as a television series on TNT, the incarnation most are familiar with in this crowd, is the Witchblade anime that came out in 06′.

Top Cow Productions, Arclight Films, and Platinum Studios are teaming up to bring you a live action version of the original. Im not sure what the differences are, mostly because i haven’t seen any of these series, but i would expect it to be pretty cool for witchblade fans, hopefully.

[ICV2]

A member of the NeoGAF forums posted a couple of screenshots he claims are from Rare’s upcoming game Banjo Threeie. The supposed leak happened at an Italian forum, which should make you take them with a grain of salt. They are consistent with the style shown in the teaser for the game and if real it means the game will look beautiful. Also after reading ‘Mumbo’s Nuts’ plastered over the first screen its pretty obvious that Rare’s good ol’ sense of humor is still there, alive and well.

[NeoGAF]

Remember when video games were not the scapegoat for violence and murder? When video games where fun for the whole family, toys for kids to enjoy. It was a simpler time, a kinder time, it was around 1988.

Here’s an Inside Edition piece from back in ’88 with Howard Phillips on the Nintendo craze that was taking over the US.

Always remember, you are the Mario brothers and don’t you forget to state that next time you commit a violent crime obviously inspired by video games.

Well, there you have it. Justin Chatwin, as Goku. Doesn’t look too bad if you ask me, but time will tell. We can also look forward to the next issue of Weekly Young Jump for a full article about the upcoming movie, which premiers in Japan next March, and April here in the U.S. If nothing else, this is most certainly a step in the right direction. What do you guys think?

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Oricon Inc. (You know, that Japanese statistics page) surveyed 900 people in search for the most interesting anime movie of all time (and topics for such lists are getting almost ridiculous. . .). A lot of surprises there, FMA didn’t make it to the #1 spot, not even to the list! (American fans are gonna be sooo pissed), and we’ll see a lot of Studio Ghibli, taking up 60% of the places.

Number 1, Laputa: Castle in the sky. I think it’s a good one, not #1,but a very good option.

Number 10: Evangelion 1.0 You’re not alone. No comments there.

The list with pictures for each movie can be found here.

[Japan Probe]

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It seems America isn’t the only place that the police is cracking down on media pirates. The “Kyoto Prefectural Police’s High-Tech Crime Task Force” recently arrested three well known anime video cappers that were allegedly uploading recordings of most popular anime television shows to the Japanese P2P network, Share. If you have watched a few fansubs in the past couple of years, chances are the raw video came from one of these guys. While it is currently legal in Japan to download unauthorized copies for personal use, it is not legal to upload them.

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