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Eric Nofsinger, chief creative officer at High Voltage,has criticizedwhat he believes to be the short-sightedness of game developers. He’s accused games of having bloated budgets with little regard to the future, claiming the industry has “stars in its eyes.” ‬”I think that we,‭ ‬as an industry,‭ ‬have become dazzled by the bling,” claims Nofsinger. “We’ve all got stars in our eyes for Hollywood,‭ ‬with twenty,‭ ‬thirty,‭ ‬forty million dollar budgets over night and hundred-person teams working for years on titles without ever running a P&L to see if anything could support that....

On paper, Monte Cristo’s upcoming PC title Cities XL sounds like like a wet dream for fans of simluation titles. Building on the foundations of and experience with their earlier titles like City Life, it’s a title that promises to have it all. “We really tried to do something new and different by integrating social networks and online gaming with the whole tycoon gameplay that we have,” Monte Cristo’sAlexandre Zambeaux tells me in a phone interview....

If you are excited about the newAce Attorney INVESTIGATIONS: Miles Edgeworthgame for the Nintendo DS, let me hear you say “Eureka!” EUREKA! Man, I can’t wait for this game. Sadly, since I couldn’t make it to Comic-Con this year, I did not have a chance to get my Phoenix Wright-obsessed little hands on the game. But luckily there is something to satiate my scary, somewhat stalker-esque need to play. Capcom just dropped us a note this morning to let us know the officialINVESTIGATIONSWeb site has gone live!...

Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airu Village, that adorable little spin-off game, is just around the corner for the PSP, so Sony and Capcom teamed up to create a bundle for MH fans (and Airu fans). For 19,900 yen (about $200), you’ll get a Lilac Purple PSP-3000 system (like Hannah Montana?), a the game, the standard PSP accessories, and a voucher for a Hello Kitty custom theme for your new system....

You shouldall be aware by nowthat Codemasters, Atari and a bunch of no-name developers have clubbed together to pursue as many as 25,000 software pirates in the UK. Now, the tactic of trying to squeeze £300 out-of-court settlements from each of these pirates may seem a little shady and somewhat suspicious, but ifGI.Biz’s editorialanything to go by, “a little bit shady” doesn’t begin to cover it. Among the things that ....

Beloved Japanese developer Level-5 has announced a brand new game for the 3DS,Time Travelers. Very few details have been revealed, but the game apparently revolves around a young girl and a terrorist who know what’s going to happen in the future. Story will be a major focus and it all looks very Japanese, so if you like such things, this is worth keeping an eye on. Level 5′s Time Travelers Confirmed For Nintendo 3DS[Siliconera] Beloved Japanese developer Level-5 has announced a brand new game for the 3DS,Time Travelers....

Normally this would be something that was all up in theWeekend D, but Hamza missed it and I’m a sucker for these things. At some point you would think I’d grow bored of literal lyrics and the joke would get old, but nay, good sir, it has not happened. This time Tobuscus takes us through theHalo: Reachtrailer, laying out exactly what is going on. Finally the answer to the question “What is in his hand?...

Time again for Backlog, the nightly effort to clear my collection of unfinished games. Following a particularly annoying boss encounter, we’re back to solving puzzles and collecting treasure inZack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure. I’m certain that there will be no unforeseen consequences to reassembling the talking, skeletal remains of a legendary pirate. Come and help me out because these puzzles are starting to get wicked clever and I was educated by public schools in the United States....

[Tune in toSaturday Morning Hangoverevery Saturday at 10am Pacific for the latest Xbox Live Indie Games, co-op play and assorted hijinks. We have a couch! Come join us live onDestructoid’s Justin.tv channel!] We’ve been at this early morning live-streaming business for many months now, but this may well be the first time one of us truly lives up to the name Saturday Morning Hangover. If you caughtConrad on Backloglast night, you’ll know what I mean....

While last night was a night for Konami, they have a thoughtful policy of including Hudson in the festivities. Off in a separate room, Hudson was showing off a couple of Wi titles they have planned for this year. One of them was the quirky Lost in Shadow. Equal partsEchochromeand shadow puppets,Lost in Shadowis a game that switches gamers perception on gameplay, and requires them to think outside the box of what they think is really going on on the screen....

Hold on, let me put on my Samit hat. Fresh off the news thathe will be retiring, John Madden is back in the news, but this time he probably won’t be celebrating anything. Former Cleveland Brown Bernie Parish says that a group of retired NFL players will begoing after EA and Maddenfor their part in using the player’s likenesses without compensating the players in any way. The group of players just won a $28 million lawsuit against the NFL Players Association which alleged that the NFL unionrecommended that EA “scramble” the players’ likenessesso that they wouldn’t have to pay the players or compensate them....

Marvel.com has just revealedthe return ofMarvel Vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes. Oh likeyou didn’t knowthis was coming! It’s set to hit this Summer on Xbox LIVE Arcade and the PlayStation Network. So far, the only thing that looks like they’re going to add to the game is some new artwork. Otherwise, expect it to be the same game you all know and love. So who’s excited to get theircurleh mustacheon?...

Marvel Comics and 343 Industry are teasing yet anotherHalocomic book, “an epic Marvel Comic book event” scheduled to take be released Fall 2010. The teaser was found on the official Halo Waypoint Facebook site, and appears to be taken from an issue of Marvel’s five-part Halo mini-series,Halo: Blood Line. The image features a short dialogue: “What’s your name?” “I’m John.” “It’s very nice to meet you. I wanted to ask you what you were doing?...