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Well, I was excited up until the “Wii” part. Nevertheless, Ubisoft is bringing a brand newTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesgame to Nintendo’s white waggle box, a 2.5D fighter with a variety of modes and an online function which is claimed to beat outSuper Smash Bros. Brawl‘s. Here are the details that have been shed so far: -published by Ubisoft-official development started Jan. 2008-concept started Oct. 2007-to be released in Sept. 2009-2.5D Fighter-Interactive Stages-4 player versus-Story Mode-Battle Royal-Tournament-Winner Stays-Loser Stays-Practice-Unlockable Characters-Unlockable Stages-Online aspects said to be better thanBrawlimplementation-Each character is color coded with glowing effect to make 4-player battles easy to follow...

Continuing theninjabuloustheme of today’s postings, not many details have come to the fore about this new project, but a very intriguing little scheme be a-brewing in the world of movies and games. Two influential forces in their respective genres, the movie world’s John Woo and the video game world’s Warren Spector, are set to collaborate on a joint game/film venture about traditional ninja fighting modern day yakuza. “The game concept is actually based on facts that the Yakuza and the Russian mob are involved in tons of gold being stolen in South Africa,” states Terrence Chang, Woo’s production partner....

For Black Friday week, Nintendo sold about 800,000 Wii consoles and about the same number of DS systems. That’s more than double the 350,000 sold this time last year. “I see no negative signs so far,” Iwata, 49,said in an interview yesterdayin Kyoto, Japan, where Nintendo is based. “Until the end of this calendar year, sales will be in line with our expectations.” “When the economy is strong, people tend to buy three things from the top of their wish list,” he said in an interview withReuters....

I knew Nintendo was big and powerful, but you know things are crazy when they start controlling the skies! Today Nintendo sent out a press release that seems say that they’ll be controlling the heavens on September 18th… in select cities across the US. So they don’t quite have the power of God yet, but they’re getting there. Nintendo says that “evidence points to the reemergence of a luminous entity that citizens from all walks of life will appreciate....

After launching without it (much to the dismay of many gamers), it looks like online cooperative play is finally coming to Lara Croft and the Guardian of Lightfor Xbox Live Arcade. Developer Crystal Dynamics has confirmed that the patch is hitting on October 27. Aswe were told when we spoke with them a few weeks back, the first downloadable content back will be free, with the developer adding “thanks for your patience....

Who doesn’t hate orcs? Robot Entertainment certainly does, and has revealed its latest project,Orcs Must Die!. It’s a third-person action strategy title, tasking players with defending a fortress being invaded by — you guessed it! — bloodthirsty orcs. “Don’t negotiate with them. Don’t just maim them. You must kill the orcs,” says ocr-hater and Robot Entertainment CEO Patrick Hudson.Orcs Must Die!is slated for a release later this year as a digital download for both PC and consoles....

This week’s P.A.D. is filled with many wonders and Dubsteps too! I was so excited to be sent on location to interview the hottest Dub-stepping group out there16-BIT! They are great, I love them! I have all of their downloaded albums. Shortly after graduating from Bulgarian Community College of Journalism — I had a very short lived Dub-stepping career, so Dubstep is like second nature to me. Come along with me and these two jolly old Englisher’s....

Gaming analyst and mutant superhero Michael Pachter knows thatGrand Theft Auto 5is in development. And he’s predicting that the inevitable follow-up to the venerable franchise will hit at some point in 2010 or possibly 2011.Neat. “Management declined to state when the game will launch, but has confirmed to us that the game is in development, has been for over a year, and is using the same game ‘engines’ as the last version,” Pachter said....

EA Sports stopped making retail PC games a couple of years ago; instead, they’ve been moving into the free-to-play space with games such asTiger Woods PGA Tour OnlineandFIFA Online. The latter game has now moved out of a closed beta into a worldwide public beta, a week before the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. If you don’t want to pony up the $60 for the full-on PS3/360 game of the tournament,2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, you can register for the beta for free athttp://fifa-online....

It’s a sizable read, but Gamasutra’s feature on thePortal 2alternate-reality game is worthy of your attention. Written by Rob Jagnow from Lazy 8 Studios (Cogs), it reveals the story of how Valve got a bunch of indie developers together to make — and formed a community around — a compelling ARG. Most interesting to me is page four, which details what went right, as well as the elements that didn’t turn out as anticipated....

By now, you’ve alreadyheard quite a bitaboutRock Band 3. No sense in repeating too much information, so here’s the scoop: it brings in vocal harmonies, it adds a new keyboard peripheral to the mix, and extends gameplay (and the potential for real-world musicianship) with a “Pro” mode. But those are the details at their most basic. When looked at a whole, you’ll see thatRock Band 3is actually adding an overwhelming amount of content above and beyond what we’d seen previously in the genre....

Back in 2007, an epic fan movie calledPress Startwas released. While most videogame movies are complete garbage,Press Startwas the one exception to the rule. The movie made fun of those typical videogame clichés in a way that any gamer with a sense of humor would find funny. Find out why the original movie was so good inour review here. Today, Dark Maze Studioshave announcedthe sequel, cleverly titledPress Start 2 Continue. The sequel is set to reunite the heroes from the original movie as they have to save their world once again....

Avatar. James Cameron. Huge budget. Big deal. Of course it’s going to get a game or two. But who would have expected a lovingly crafted platformer for the iPhone? I surely didn’t, but that’s exactly what I saw when Gameloft had me out to check out their upcoming game,Avatar. It has been in development for over a year, in cooperation with Mr. Cameron and the folks at Fox. The assets and artwork were passed along, as well as ideas and guidance....