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Originally Posted by wraggster

Standalone expansion Fall of the Samurai has been announced for Total War: Shogun 2.It will be released in March 2012. As mentioned, you won't need the original Shogun 2 game to play it.Fall of the Samurai tells of an approaching industrial age, as British, American and French military muscle is coveted to the detriment of classical samurai warfare.Sounds a bit like that Tom Cruise film Last of the Samurai. I liked that.Fall of the Samurai offers six new clans, including modernists Satsuma and classicists

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Zen Studios' well-received pinball series Zen Pinball fires onto the 3DS eShop this Thursday.Versions of Zen Pinball are already available for PS3 and iPhone. Xbox 360 alter ego Pinball FX has been out since 2007.Zen Pinball arrives on 3DS priced £4.50 and comes with four tables borrowed from existing Zen Pinball incarnations: Earth Defence, Shaman, Excalibur and Eldorado.Local hot seat multiplayer, online leaderboards and plenty of unlockables are available.Players are ranked based on their Pro

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Originally Posted by wraggster

If Square Enix was to remake RPG classic Final Fantasy 7 it might not be able to resist the temptation to make significant changes to the original game, according to veteran franchise producer Yoshinori Kitase.Speaking in an interview with OXM, Kitase explained that it wouldn't be very interesting to just do a straight remake."If I may speak as a game creator, if we were to produce a remake of 7, for example, I would be really tempted to delete things and add new elements, new systems or whatever

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The developer behind Activision's unloved Tony Hawk: Ride is asking for donations to help get its new Kinect project off the ground.As reported by 1Up, Chicago-based studio Robomodo has opened a Kickstarter page for a planned Xbox Live Arcade title called Bodoink, calling for generous donors to contribute to the $35,000 total it needs to proceed with development.The studio explains that it's opted for Kickstarter over the traditional publisher route so that it can retain the rights to the game."Robomite's

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Third-person photo shooter Beyond Good & Evil HD is the star discount in today's (hnnggghhh) "Cyber Monday" sale on Xbox Live. It's down from 800 MSP ($10) to 240 MSP -- that's $3 for one of last generation's most charming and thoughtful adventures. If you find the lack of inverted camera bothersome, perhaps you can put some of today's savings toward brain inversion surgery.

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