And he can do that forward flip twice and I was pressing every buttn to figure out how to do I but never did it

There's a a lot of mechanics I simply do not agree with. Still feels like an unfinished game. Ugh. The online set-up is ass, even worse than SF4.

How long before I can afford cool items to dress up people? Where do I go to earn money anyway?

In that lame single player mode where you travel around to different arcades.

Fuck that.

Arghhh, why am I at my mums for Christmas when the new Virtual-On hits the net.

People who send friend requests to you just because you were on the same winning team as them. We didn't even chat, coordinate, or anything. C'mon.

Columbus Nova buys out Harmonix from Viacom and MTV Studios for an undisclosed amount and years.

As part of the deal, Viacom and MTV Studios gave away the Rock Band and Dance Central properties for Harmonix to own. The new owners have also green lighted Harmonix to continue working on both series for future releases.

Harmonix is expected to stay as an independent studio but with Columbus Nova as their main distributor. CN not expected to actually be involved in game development or company decisions as part of the new deal. It would be similar to Ubisoft and EA only being distributors for games from Japan (Ubi) or Valve (EA).

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In other news, people started to compare the videos and graphics of PS3's version of Mass Effect 2 to the older Xbox 360 version and found out the Xbox 360 version looks better.

Of course, the differences are marginal and based on what you use for comparisons but it does show EA can't do a clean port of the game while the ME3 engine does have some differences when used to port the previous games in the series.

I've heard this is partially due to the fact that the engine is built on the Unreal engine, which from it's initial design, works better for the 360. I've seen the side by side, and the differences are really minimal. I'm really not a fan of the stupid "comparisons", since the differences are usually so small that no one gives two shits.

It also helped that during the creation of the 360, Epic was asked for advice and they wanted more RAM to make ports easier since the 360 structure was already similar to the PC unlike what the PS3 had for RAM and structure.

Only reason everyone goes to EA to port the Unreal engine is due to them having the experience and the tools needed to do as clean of a port as possible. Valve using EA for games on the PS3 occurred for the same reason once EA was able to adjust the Half-Life engine after a few years for PS3.

Motorola wants a ban or temporary stop on all Xbox 360 hardware sales after it filed a complaint to the ITC dealing with Microsoft potentially violating several patents of Motorola.

This move appears to be a counter from earlier in the year when Microsoft sent a complaint about Motorola charging unfair amount for royalties for their parts.

The US International Trade Commission could issue a temporary restraint on sales similar to when Nintendo was under investigation involving the Classic Controller. At the time, Nintendo stopped producing the controller and when the lawsuit was tossed out, resumed production.

US ITC won't announce its ruling and any order to halt production of Xbox 360s until early 2011.

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Just ordered Blazblue: CS

Still gotta get that

Does your brother have it? Wanna say yes. Think I saw him playing it.

I win FINAL FANTASY 8

You want I should tell how to get Lionheart?

He has it. I have BlazBlue: CT. Waiting for a price drop for CS after their lack of information on a Canadian release/massively delayed release of CT ended with me paying $124 for it.

SoulCalibur 5 is ON!:

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ready for the PlayStation servers to be down all day.

I win Zone of the Enders

Been eyeing that model for a while.... want it so bad.

cool I wonder what special characters will be on there.

Honestly I rather they have extra Bonus characters rather than guests. But if it's gonna happen, hook up with Square Enix. They got some weapon swingers.

Yeah, it's in the Steam thread and only for UK.

Bought it for £3.50 like the day I found out about it. Oh well, Steam > EA Download Manager at least.

You can use a UK proxy to get it. I did it, and had no problem linking it to my US account.

Finished Bayonetta's Normal mode (after replaying most of the stages many times). Hard mode is worthy of the title. Much more satisfying, though.

Too many things came out during my hard mode effort. Might have to give it another crack.

Fire Pro XBLA is coming to the west, but it's avatar only fighting.

Yeah, but what's the gameplay like?

Even stripped down, it might be fun.

No, exactly. It's the first 3D Fire Pro and if the gameplay stays the same (and my avatar can still have a Deadly-Go-Round finisher) then it's all good.

Not for me. Too spoiled by FPR and KOC II. I want a new, all out puro game. This thing really does nothing for me.

Hopefully it does well though, and gives them reason to make a real fire pro.

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Leaked playable Zelda prototype!

http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?t=2471

Kind of at a loss as to why everyone is going apeshit over that.

I honestly don't think an easy version of zelda, with mismatched bgm is anything to go nuts for.

It was an unexpected surprise. Loads of us go apeshit over lots, I've got close to 100 Sonic prototypes.

Never even knew this prototype subculture existed.

Yeah, the holy grails right now are Resident Evil 1.5 and Sonic Xtreme. There was a tech demo leaked of the latter, but Resident Evil is a totally different game to what was released.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXnymHTvHrE

The only two I've really known about was the cancelled Sonic one and what Comix Zone was going to be.

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