It’s official. Sega doesn’t know what to do with Sonic.

As if working on two versions of Sonic Unleashed isn’t enough (360/PS3 and Wii/PS2) isn’t enough. Sega decided to make another Sonic game too. And it’s this. Sonic and The Black Night. This picture of it was found on the September Issue of Nintendo Power. Apparently, the game is a Wii Exclusive and is a sequel to Sonic and the Secret Rings. I’m not even going to bother ranting on why this idea is horrible, I’m pretty sure everyone can figure it out.

If you wish, you can discuss it here, at the D-Pad Forums:

http://forums.d-padnetwork.com/index.php?showtopic=1615&pid=29583&st=0&#entry29583

Japanese Chrono Trigger DS “Site” Launched…

Well as I mentioned last night, something cool was about to happen… in Japan, at least. They’ve opened up a domain for the game: http://chronotrigger.jp. Meanwhile if we go to http://www.chronotrigger.com/ we see what was once a Chrono Trigger fansite, but now down for “reconstruction.” The same thing happened with Diablo3.com though, it was once a fansite but then Blizzard took it over, so Square-Enix could be doing the same thing here.

Anyway, the Japanese page for Chrono Trigger DS now has a spiffy intro movie, as well as a big chart telling about the game but in some foreign language unknown to man so we can’t read it! Meanwhile in North America, nothing good happened! There’s not even a countdown! Just a clock! Who needs clocks?!

Blizzard may not have shared Everything New…

Blizzard Entertainment has recently announced the development of Starcraft II and Diablo III, but is that really all that they have planned? Speaking at the Invitational was Blizzard’s Rob Pardo, who said that “there is still one unknown project” currently under development at Blizzard, which is being worked on by “another development team”.

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Europe may not be getting Rock Band 2 in September

European gamers will be heartbroken yet again to learn that there actually isn’t a currently set release date for Rock Band 2 in their Europe.

EA originally confirmed that Rock Band 2 would be released in Europe and the US in September 2008. EA however now claims that there was a “misunderstanding” and the game actually won’t be released to Europe in September, and there isn’t a set European release date.

Additionally, the September, USA release will be for the Xbox 360 only and other consoles will follow later into the year.

Xbox 360 Price Drop Coming in Two Weeks

According to a leaked K-Mart advertisement, the Xbox 360 “Pro” bundle (with 20 GB HD and HDMI) will be getting a $50 (or 15%) price cut on Sunday, July 6. The wording in the advertisement of “New low price” as opposed to “sale” hints that it’s probably a universal price drop.

No word yet on the Arcade bundle, but if Microsoft decides to drop the price it will likely end up costing less than the Nintendo Wii.

This drop is probably in response to MGS4’s console-moving momentum in the US and Japan. The PS3 is widely expected to outsell the Xbox 360 for the month of June, and sales numbers over the past three months haven’t been too favorable for Microsoft either.

Source: “Master X” from Hidefdigest Forums, via CheapAssGamer

Back From Beyond the Dead, it’s Beyond Good & Evil 2

I wasn’t expecting to be interested in anything happening at Ubidays - maybe some info on the new Raving Rabbids or Tom Clancy games, but lo and behold, Ubisoft has just warmed the hearts of niche gamers everywhere. (more…)

Virtual Console Monday: April 25 & May 5, 2008

Since last week only had one game released, I decided to just merge it to this week, rather than devote an entire post to just one game, which is why there was no article on Monday that week. Fantastic! (more…)

Virtual Console… Tuesday?? (April 21, 2008)

Or, in other words, “Virtual Console Monday: Let’s Forget it’s actually Monday today” Edition. Monday or Tuesday, it doesn’t change what the console served up for us yesterday. (more…)

Virtual Console Monday: April 14, 2008

After a few rather underwhelming weeks, the Virtual Console dishes out both Mega Turrican and Fantasy Zone for those who felt a bit let down (like me) have a good moment. How extra nice of them!

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Virtual Console Monday: April 7, 2008

It looks like Nintendo’s getting into the baseball mood as well as most people, since it’s giving VC users some Baseball on the Virtual Console. How nice of them!

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