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Before the Nintendo Wii launched, Koei announced an exclusive title for the system calledSamurai Warriors Wave. An announcement was almost all that was made before the game seemingly disappeared off the face of our world with nary a further mention. However, when I spoke to Koei a short while ago, I’d heard thatSamurai Warriorsfor the Wii was far from dead. Rebranded asSamurai Warriors Katana, this first person sword slasher has thrown out a brand new trailer showing off its waggle-based gameplay....

One of the most hilariously controversial debates surroundThe Legend of Zeldais the question of whether or not there’s anofficial timeline. More fuel’s been thrown on the fire with Nintendo’s Dan Owsen revealing that Nintnedohasa timeline, hidden away under lock and key. “You know, at one point we had drafted a timeline and wanted to make it available online,” he said. “We showed it to the guys in Japan and they basically told us that it would be best if we didn’t post it....

The Level-5 Vision Press Conference that recently took place was chock full of good news like a new Professor Layton gamecontaining an extra RPG, details on the Professor Layton movie and more, but surelyMother 3fans will have to still their beating hearts when they get a good look atFantasy Life, a new DS title being worked on byBrownie Brown, who also gaveMother 3its iconic look. Check out more screens from the game over atFamitsu....

Looks like Sony has found asmart little wayto hawk its PlayStation Eye product to budding game builders who might want personally captured images inLittleBigPlanet. It seems that using Sony’s peripheral is the only way to get custom imagery into the game, so you better save up some extra pennies. The news was caught hidden away in a comment made by PlayStation Blog writer Chuck Lacson. When one pussy stroking gamer asked if he’d be able to import pictures of his cat, Lacson answered with: “Yes (If you have a PS Eye, that is....

As reported last week, Jack Thompson plays too many “dirtbag simulators.” But in other news, Dtoid faithful and champion ball-in-a-cup athleteRaspberry Jowlshas paid tribute to the best Wii-bashing game site on the net. As youmay remember, Raspberry is attempting to get permission to display “prominently the climactic Mario vs. Bowser scene of SMB1 in the center of campus during our Annual Interactive Multimedia Showcase on a massive brick wall” at The College of New Jersey....

Not surprising, the all-powerfulGame Informerlooks like it’ll have the scoop onDead Space 2in its next issue, which hits stands (and your mailboxes) on or around December 16. In the meantime, the magazine is hyping up its preview with what appears to be the first official image of the game. Sure, it’s just concept art (although if the game was styled likethat… wow!), but it does reveal a few things. For one, it looks like the game’s main monster-slicing bad ass, Isaac Clarke, is a getting a bit of a makeover....

While the Christian masses are busy crusading greasy diners and suburban stovetops to find the next Virgin Mary grilled cheese, a most humble gamer recently uncovered an estranged onion ring which most precariously seemed to resemble the Chimera’s Auger weapon fromResistance Fall of Man. Readily aware of its failure as an onionring(and its success as an onionstickwith loopy appendages), the gamer assisted the artifact home to show to his friends and to eventually immortalize its unique similarity on theResistanceforums....

“Love and marriage, love and marriage… they go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can’t have one without the other…” Ah, Married With Children’s opening theme song indeed tells a true tale. If you are in love with someone truly and plan to spend your life with them, chances are you’re going to have to buy that rock. However, the song fails to talk about the relationship between gaming and marriage....

Rockstar’sMax Payne 3has been delayed a few times, and recently fallen off the map. That left some to wonder if we’d ever see the game at all. According to Rockstar, you can bet we will. The company’sofficial Twitter accountspit out two new images of the game, along with the message “He’s coming.” I’m assuming that also means “the game is coming out, so hold your horses already.” We’re looking at a May 17 releases forL....

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walkeris coming in a Collector’s Edition, just as you’d expect from the special edition loving boys at Konami. The dudes at Joystiq found thatGameStophas a listing for theMGS:PW Collector’s Edition. It turns out that it will cost $50 and will include an exclusive artbook. They also point out that for ten additional bucks, this had better be a kick-ass artbook. There’s no picture or anything, so it could be anything....

A “special” demo ofMirror’s Edgewill make its way to both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live at the end of the week, just in time for Halloween. Actually, PS3 owners will get their demo early on the 30th, while Xbox 360 owners will get their treat on the 31st. In this demo, you’ll get to check out the prologue of the game, which will then put you through a tutorial and a segment of the single-player story....

No offense to all of the annoyed early adopters in the audience, but that’s more or less the name of the game. Even though there was some outcry when we first heard that the map packs forModern Warfare 2would be $15 a pop, a ridiculous number of people bought the add-on content anyway. For the rest of us, our time has finally come. This week, Xbox LIVE Gold users can get the map bundles for $7....

So how didlast week’sbrowserDiablo 2clone game go? Did you point and click to your heart’s content? Good. Because now I’ve got much more of a “mind teaser” game for you, and it comes in the form of everyone’s favorite game design mechanic: adjusting time and/or dimensions over and over. By now time traveling game mechanics are far from original or fresh, but I’ll be surprised if I’m not a geezer in the future who is literally almost dying to get my hands on some new game that has “this really cool time adjusting mechanic!...