Sonic The Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka will present a session at the Eurogamer Expo, showing off new creation Ivy the Kiwi to a 500-strong audience.

Naka is the latest developer to join the event, which will also showcase upcoming titles such as Fable III, Motorstorm: Apocalypse, LittleBigPlanet 2 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

The Eurogamer Expo allows 20,000 consumers hands-on time with forthcoming hit titles including Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2011, Microsoft's Gears of War 3, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood from Ubisoft and Bethesda's Fallout: New Vegas, amongst others.

There will also be the best indie titles at the Expo as part of the Indie Games Arcade, and GamesIndustry.biz will also be hosting its annual Career Fair, as well as co-hosting Game Invest 2010 with partner Screen Yorkshire.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...eurogamer-expo ...

Pokemon Black and White has completely dominated the Japanese software chart this week, going straight in at number one with 2,557,779 units sold, according to Japanese chart experts Media Create.

The figure makes it the fastest-selling Pokemon title in Japan ever, beating previous number one, Diamond and Pearl, by a million units.

Earlier this week, rival sales tracking company Enterbrain claimed that Black and White had sold in excess of 2.6 million copies on its first two days on sale alone, alongside over one million pre orders.

Elsewhere in the chart, translated by Andriasang, Microsoft's Halo: Reach debuted at number four, selling just over 44,000 copies.

This impacted the hardware chart somewhat buy doubling weekly sales of the 360 console, although only 5,800 units of the system were sold. Nintendo sold 47,379 DSi units and 31,254 DSiLL units, which were first and second in the hardware chart respectively.

Other new entries to the software chart included Square Enix's PS3 title Front Mission Evolved at two, and Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds Tag Force at three. Full charts are below, previous week's sales figures, where applicable, are shown in brackets.

01. DSi: 47,379 (16,345)
02. DSi LL: 31,254 (19,076)
03. PSP: 29,866 (30,761)
04. PS3: 21,096 (19,907)
05. Wii: 14,833 (15,031)
06. DS Lite: 7,137 (4,328)
07. X360: 5,804 (2,915)
08. PS2: 1,390 (1,363)
09. PSP go: 863 (809)
01. Pokemon Black & White (Pokemon, DS): 2,557,779
02. Front Mission Evolved (Square Enix, PS3): 51,084
03. Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds Tag Force 5 (Konami, PSP): 45,879
04. Halo: Reach (Microsoft, X360): 44,413
05. Wii Party (Nintendo, Wii): 36,547 (997,025)
06. Monhan Diary Poka Poka Felyne Village (Capcom, PSP): 28,627 (428,677)
07. One Piece Gigant Battle! (Namco Bandai, NDS): 28,123 (159,977)
08. Blue Roses (Nippon Ichi, PSP): 9,846
09. Taiko Drum Master DS (Namco Bandai, DS): 8,729 (215,513)
10. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo, Wii): 8,178 (825,541)
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...d-opening-week

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Upcoming Xbox Live Arcade platform game Super Meat Boy will be capable of downloading additional content which sidesteps Microsoft's standard approval processes.

By using the Title Managed Storage system, developers Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes (aka Team Meat) will be able to push new levels to the game, which players can download for free.

Because all new content is made using a standardised level creation tool, Microsoft will allow additional levels to be made available without going through the certification it otherwise forces onto all DLC.

"In a world where it costs $2 to unlock content in a game that you've already purchased," explained Refenes, "it is nice to have the power to totally say 'f--- you' to that system and go our own way."

Microsoft has not been resistant to Team Meat's unorthodox methods, Refenes claimed. "In the end they actually welcomed it because they want developers to do anything and everything with their service that makes them stand out.

"No one has ever done anything like this in the history of XBLA as far as we and our people at MS know." Team Meat have released a schedule of planned approval-free DLC running early next year.

Following the later release of a PC version with a level editor, the pair also intend to publish the best user-made content to the XBLA edition of Super Meat Boy.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...-certification ...

We're not sure why anyone would buy a knock-off DualShock 3 or SIXAXIS gamepad, considering the trouble Sony's taken to make sure they don't work, but the PlayStation 3 manufacturer has another reason you might want to steer clear of counterfeit pads -- they could be tiny Li-ion bombs poised to explode. Talk about force feedback! Yes, the company that brought us exploding laptop batteries says that third-party products "which are practically identical in appearance to genuine PlayStation®3 wireless controllers" may burst into flame, and as you might expect, Sony suggests that you run out to your nearest retailer and purchase the real deal instead.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/23/p...could-explode/ ...

OnLive, the cloud based gaming platform, could cause next-gen consoles to fail in years to come if it can provide a similar level of quality.

That's according to Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter who spoke to IncGamers about the potential of OnLive and the effect it could have on consoles such as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720 in the next four or five years.


"I'm not sure where OnLive will be by then," he said.

"If they can deliver a similar 3D/virtual reality experience (to Move and Kinect), we may not see new consoles succeed."

We'll put our money on Microsoft and Sony pulling through just fine.

Although OnLive does look like it will be able to compete on some level with the likes of Mass Effect 2 being listed as launch titles, Sony made it clear there was no threat to consoles from the service earlier this year.

OnLive's pricing might be the biggest stumbling block.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...l-rss&skip=yes ...

A little birdy tells us something new about the final version of the 3DS – backlit buttons are on the cards.

The 3DS rumour mill continues to grind away, and we’ve just got hold of a juicy little nugget. The buttons on the front of the 3DS are likely to be backlit. That’s the D-Pad, the A, B, X, Y Start, Select, Power and Home buttons – as well as the 3D depth indicator to the right of the unit.

This information comes from a reliable contact, and the source is an individual working for a major developer. Unfortunately, we can’t get more specific. Having said all that, this news should still bear a great big “Rumour!” disclaimer around its neck.

Due caution aside, let’s get speculating! There are a few bits of cumulative evidence that support the info. Firstly, there’s the fact that back-lighting buttons is becoming a standard practice in handheld devices – gadgets like mobile phones have been doing it for years.

The 3DS’ buttons all feature white markings – pale colours are suited to backlighting – and in contrast to the DS, there’s a bit of white writing or a symbol on every one.

It should also be noted that this lighting hasn’t been there in the preview models of the 3DS seen so far.

I doubt backlit buttons will be a deal breaker for anyone still sitting on the fence about the 3DS – but they are another example of the little extra touches Nintendo are renowned for. It’s also good to know that it’ll be easy to play Resident Evil: Revelations in the dark!

http://www.nintendo3ds.org.uk/3ds-bu...+(Nintendo+3DS) ...

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