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Originally Posted by wraggster

NIS America is going to save you Disgaea superfans a little time, by allowing you to buyDisgaea 4 and a tie-in toy at the same time. The publisher announced a Premium Edition, which will be available at "GameStop and other retailers" at the September launch, and contains an artbook and an exclusive Nendoroid figurine of Fuka (above, snapped for the Japanese Disgaea blog).

If you really want a big box

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Microsoft revealed at MIX 2011 that the Angry Birds phenomenon will be catapulted into Windows Phone 7 on May 25, and that it will support multitasking. There's no word yet if the various spin-offs are also incoming.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/14/an...e-7-on-may-25/

Originally Posted by wraggster

Marvelous's new 3DS game, Senran Kagura, is a side-scrolling action platformer starring a group of five ninja school students battling evil mercenary ninjas. You can juggle enemies in aerial combos, double-jump and dash around the screen. Sounds awesome, right?

Oh, by the way, all the characters are young women, "ranked" by bust size. During the game, their clothes tear off, and occasionally the

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Originally Posted by wraggster

A new super-sized twist on the Pac-Man franchise has just hit the web.

As detailed on Gamasutra, The World's Biggest Pac-Man is a new, free-to-play browser version of the game with a focus on user-created levels.
Developed by Australian web specialist Soap Creative in tandem with Namco Bandai and Microsoft, it allows users to make their own levels via a Facebook application.
The individual levels are then jigsawed together into one enormous maze with screen exits offering

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Another entry in EA's third person Army of Two co-op shooter series is in the works, according to a new set of job listings.

Posts on the publisher's recruitment site, as spotted by Gamerzines, call for a senior producerand lead environment artist "for the Army of Two franchise" to join the Visceral Games team in Montreal.
It would be the third game in the series following Army of Two: The 40th Day in 2010, which won7/10 from Eurogamer.
"There's little doubt

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