The producer for the current generation of Final Fantasy games, Tetsuya Nomura, has let it loose that the ‘concurrent-quel’ for Final Fantasy XIII (not in the same universe) will actually feature some of the best features of the original Final Fantasy games that we all know and love.

Kevin Butler, Sony’s proverbial VP of Everything, has released a new video dealing with the PlayStation Move. While it doesn’t show anything new about the devices that wasn’t already shown at GDC, its a worthy watch simply for its ridiculousness. However, there was one bit of fine print that caught our eye: PlayStation Eye sold seperately. This appears to go completely against what Sony was promising with the device, which was said to come as a pack with the device, an Eye, and a game. Hopefully this is simply an ala carte option for those who happen to already have a PlayStation Eye (all five of you), but nothing can be said for sure.

Mr. Penn…I say this with the utmost respect, shut up already. It’s been proven by my favorite fighter Georges St-Pierre (twice now) that you’re not the ultimate thing in the MMA world. I can understand that you’re one of the more recognizable faces in the MMA world and certainly for the UFC, and this makes you valuable for the game because of the people you’ll draw, but c’mon man…claiming that GSP cheated by having Vaseline rubbed into his body, that’s bad sportsmanship.

Here it is people! The super overpriced God of War 3: Ultimate edition that isn’t worth the price of admission. Should I have put a spoiler at the beginning of this post? I’m a huge fan of the God of War series so it was a no-brainer that I would be picking up this “super” collectors edition. Honestly, I would have been more happy with my purchase if it was 30 dollars cheaper. Oh well, you live and you learn. Enjoy the video and be sure to leave some feedback! I’ll be decapitating people in the mean time.

As announced on the latest Major Nelson podcast, Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling dropped the pricing bombshell. 1200 spacebucks, or $15 for five multiplayer maps. Of the five, three are new and two are remake maps. The map pack is scheduled to drop on March 30, the same day as the first map pack for Battlefield Bad Company 2. Only BFBC2’s map pack is free if you bought the game. Guess which one I’ll be playing.

Yesterday 2K released their first piece of downloadable content for Bioshock 2. The “Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack” contains an increase in the level cap for multiplayer as well as weapon upgrades, two new characters, trials and masks for the mode. This costs $4.99.  However, coming from the 2K forums are comments from customers who have downloaded the DLC and are now saying that the file size for the DLC is only 24kb, if the picture above, taken from the Games for Windows Live download screen, is to be believed. From this, the assumption has been made that the downloadable content is in fact already on disc, as when DLC tends to be this small, it is usually just a key for unlocking on-disc content. If so, then 2K are denying paying customers from content that they already should be able to access.

We have contacted 2K and we will update you if we receive a reply.

Source: 2K Forums

Update: In the same forum thread, 2K Community Manager Elizabeth has admited that the content is on disc as to not “split the player base” due to all parties needing the same content to play MP. Seems like a pretty stupid reason to me.

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You must have seen them by now, the PlayStation Arc controllers that look like a cross between a Wiimote and a sex toy. The EyeToy mandatory motion sensing peripherals are probably going to be a big topic for the Sony presentation at GDC tonight when the company is set to stream their keynote over Ustream.

The only thing that could have saved this game series from becoming the endless set of repeated games with additional characters and modes (which I lived through with Street Fighter II, mind you) was adding in a character that could make the people playing laugh their asses off. They’ve done just that with Hakan.

I find it fitting that there’s a train in the trailer when I’m about to start up the hype-train for this game. Following the demo that came out a while back, the guys at Capcom have now released a trailer that shows a hell of a lot more than you’ve seen in the others and more than the demo could.

Well, tonight is the night that many of us Final Fantasy fanatics have been waiting a hell of a long time to come, we North American gamers will finally get a chance to play Final Fantasy XIII. This all started this weekend when I got a text message from my local Gamestop notifying me that MY very own copy of the game will be available for pickup at precisely 12:01 AM tomorrow morning.

The folks over at Ubisoft must feel like they have been teasing us long enough. They’ve finally released another video of their upcoming Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands to satiate our appetites for new media. Lucky for us, there’s only a few months left before the latest version of the Prince of Persia franchise is in our grubby hands.

Oh…my…this game has got me so excited. I played the living hell out of Fallout 3 (still playing it in fact). It may seem like they took most of the systems from FO3 and just copy pasted the code to New Vegas, but I can see some subtle differences that has got me squealing in delight.

For some unexplained reason, over the last couple of years…the idea of Multiplayer games just really soured my experiences with any game I was thinking of getting. Therefore, anytime a game that comes and shuns the industry standard of MP first, SP experiences second, I’m immediately interested. Vanquish just might be the game I’ve been waiting for when it comes to 3rd Person Shooters.

Who out there remembers the DIVX players that came on to the scene a few years back when the DVD industry was just kicking off? I certainly do and I even think that I have a few in my basement. However for those of you who don’t remember what the hooplah was all about is that you’d essentially pay $1 ~ $2 to actually pick up a physical disc that you’d take home and put into your DVD player that would let you watch it once or twice. It seems that Sony wants to try and do the same thing with their games.

If you hadn’t noticed, it seems that the guys at Polyphony Digital can’t seem to settle on just what exactly Gran Turismo 5 is supposed to be. Today, it’s been announced that there will be a NASCAR mode included in the final game when it’s released SOMETIME this year, maybe.