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Our good friend of DCEmu Uk Ron has released a new homebrew for the Dreamcast tonight, heres the details:


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Starting tomorrow, echochrome's getting a booster shot of levels. Over on the PlayStation Blog, Kumi Yuasa, associate producer on the title, announced that 20 new, user-created puzzles will be available for players to peruse between May 15 and May 21.

"The additional levels will appear at random in freeform mode if you set your difficulty level to 2 or 3," Yuasa wrote. "The difficulty level is represented by the bars at the bottom right of the loading screen between freeform levels, and the difficulty for the next level can be set while the next level is loading by pressing left or right on the d-pad. Levels are picked randomly from all levels in your 'gallery,' 'portfolio,' and user-created levels."

The puzzle creators will get their just rewards as well because Yuasa will be revealing the PSN IDs for each level being distributed. ...

via Computer and Video Games


Microsoft is "confident" that the Xbox 360 will live out at least a 7 year life-span, accommodating all three games in the Too Human trilogy, Microsoft Game Studios boss Shane Kim told CVG.

Speaking at the Microsoft spring media summit in San Francisco, Kim said it was the plan from the beginning that the 360 had a "long tail".


Sony has already gone on record that it has a "ten year plan" for the PS3, so it's not entirely surprising that Microsoft is also planning for the long haul with Xbox 360.

When quizzed on what this means for the Xbox 360 hardware, which will probably start to age down the line without a hi-def disc format and mandatory hard drive, Kim said Microsoft would continue to tinker with technology.


Hit this link for the full interview. ...

via Eurogamer


Metal Gear Solid 4 will have an unlockable Altair costume in it after all.

Originally shown in a video released on April Fools Day, the Assassin's Creed character model will actually be in the game when it ships on 12th June worldwide.

How you unlock it is a mystery being kept by those to whom the secret was revealed in Tokyo this week, but it's not the only bizarre collaboration in MGS4.

According to GameSpot's account of the MGS4 wrap party, Snake also has an iPod in-game, which lets him play music he collects, with additional tracks set to be offered as DLC.

There's also a lot of raw product placement, like Triumph motorbikes, Sony Ericsson mobile phones and even some real-life clothing.

This being a Hideo Kojima production, and this being the last in the MGS series (at least until they change their minds again), goodness knows what else we'll discover - Psycho Mantis doing horoscopes, perhaps, or a radio contact who doesn't want you to lie on your tits in a warzone having existential discussions about soldiering.

We'll have to wait and see. The full game's out on PS3 on 12th June and we'll have a review for you very soon. In the meantime, check out our hands-on impressions of the finished game, which Oli was lucky enough to play in its entirety. ...

via Computer and Video Games


Microsoft Game Studios boss Shane Kim has played dumb when quizzed on the rumoured Xbox 360 motion controller, at the Xbox spring showcase today.

The Xbox 360 'Wii Remote' was said to be codenamed 'Newton', and speculated to be on the market by the end of the year, but Microsoft isn't saying anything (much)...

"The stock answer is that we don't comment on rumour and speculation," Kim told CVG this afternoon, and then commented anyway.

"I will say, look, we have a lot of research and development going on all over the place, in Live and in Hardware and we have a ton of success in the accessory business - and that's probably a story that doesn't get told enough.

"We're going to continue to look at new ways we can introduce different things - the third parties are doing this as well with the music controllers. So there's opportunities for us there too. We're an R and D company at heart."

Talking hypothetically, Kim said Microsoft would have to be careful with the 'me too' trend if it did decide to craft its own motion-sensing controller.

"What's interesting is that you have a lot of third parties that are trying to rush to the Wii phenomenon, but if you look at the data, the vast majority of software that has sold on Wii has come from Nintendo. So it's not turned out to be a great third party eco-system.

"But I've never heard of a motion sensing controller... I don't know what you are talking about..."

Read the full interview with Kim here. ...

via IGN


Microsoft has announced its next set of Xbox Originals that will be put up for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace on May 19. Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse and Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows will be made available at a cost of 1200 Microsoft Points ($15 US) each. Gauntlet will not be up for sale in Japan and Korea while Stubbs the Zombie won't be sold in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Korea and Japan.

Xbox Originals are digitally distributed versions of Xbox titles. They run on the same backwards compatibility software that allows you to run Xbox titles in an Xbox 360 and so the experience is largely identical. ...

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We'll all agree that the first Banjo game was massive back on N64. Not just in terms of sales but in size too. But what does the man who helped crate Banjo Kazooie think about a game's length in today's terms?

"I guess people are now less tolerant of really, really long games," Rare's head of design, Gregg Mayles, told CVG. "Or if you're going to have a really long game it has to be structured in such a way that the majority of the players play the game up to a certain point and are happy with it, but that section is shorter and then make sure the tail-end of the game suits the people that want to carry on."

He continued, "The trick is not forcing everybody to play it for a colossal amount of time. So if people want to try and complete it in like 20 to 30 hours that's fine. If people want to then carry on, that's fine." ...

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Team Ninja's Tomonobu Itagaki has declared Ninja Gaiden II the last game in the fantastic series.

The series has reached its peak with the 360-exclusive sequel, reasoned Itagaki, who says he looks to move onto something "completely new".

"Personally I think we were able to create the definitive 3D game in this series so I'm not planning on making any other games in the series," said Itagaki, adding: "So I hope fans treat this as a swan song for the franchise.

He went on: "I think we were able to achieve everything we wanted with this game so anything else would be extraneous," according to Kotaku (featuring a photo of Itagaki with a bloke that looks strangely like a less-green Incredible Hulk).

Itagaki brushed off the possibility of a "swan song" NG game for PS3 as "ridiculous", presumably while donning his iconic giant shades.

So what's next? Itagaki says he wishes to move on to something "completely unrelated to anything I've done before. Not any part of any existing franchises," expressing an interest in working with a US developer on "a game based on the Pacific Theater," or a game set in space.

Boo. More angry ninjas and decapitations, please. ...