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Originally Posted by wraggster

Capcom has confirmed that its upcoming Resident Evil remakes RE4 and Code Veronica X will get a retail release alongside their digital releases.

Furthermore, both games have now been given a North American release date, with RE4 arriving on September 20th and Code Veronica landing on September 27th.

The pair had already been dated for September 8th in Japan.

It will be interesting to see how the digital and retail RRPs compare. With pressure on the High

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Japanese sales success Inazuma Eleven will hit UK shelves on August 26th, three years after its original release.

It’s an RPG-style football game for DS with over-the-top moves and over 1,000 in-game players to choose from. It originally went on sale in Japan in August 2008 and entered the sales charts at No.3.

Since then the series – developed by Professor Layton studio Level-5 – has sold well in Japan. The third title went on sale last year and topped the Japanese

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Developer New World has announced a brand new F2P first person shooter called Lethal Enterprise – and it will be powered by Crytek’s impressive CryEngine 3.

NowGamer reports that there are not yet any details regarding platforms or release dates. The PC is obviously the most likely contender, though the studio says it also works on platforms such as Xbox Live and PSN.

“Besides the game being about the drug war we don’t want to reveal too much,” New World boss

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Originally Posted by wraggster

At the Comic-Con panel for Kinect Star Wars earlier this week (the same panel where that R2D2 Xbox was announced), Microsoft's head of Kinect Jorg Neumann told the story of how the game itself came about. Back in 2008, when Kinect was still called Project Natal, and basically consisted of just a camera in a back room at Microsoft, Neumann and his colleagues found an engineer playing with game

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Originally Posted by wraggster

As much as we love writing about video games here at Joystiq, it pales in comparison to our real hobby: crushing hopes and dreams. If you were looking forward to playing through every single God of War game in the God of War Master Collection that was spotted on Amazon's German site, and you don't actually live in Germany, you're out of luck.

When asked about the listing, Sony informed Joystiq

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