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• December 30, 2009



• Games of the Decade: Part 5

  The staff of Video Games Daily complile their ultimate list of the decade’s 65 greatest games. Part 5: Adam.

• December 30, 2009



• Games of the Decade: Part 4

  The staff of Video Games Daily complile their ultimate list of the decade’s 65 greatest games. Part 4: Edwin.

• December 30, 2009



• Games of the Decade: Part 3

  The staff of Video Games Daily complile their ultimate list of the decade’s 65 greatest games. Part 3: Alex.

• December 30, 2009



• Games of the Decade: Part 2

  The staff of Video Games Daily complile their ultimate list of the decade’s 65 greatest games. Part 2: Stuart.

• December 30, 2009



• Games of the Decade: Part 1

  The staff of Video Games Daily complile their ultimate list of the decade’s 65 greatest games. Part 1: Rupert.

• December 29, 2009



• Takahashi Meijin to make long-awaited comeback as vocalist on new CD album

  Remixed and Auto-Tuned to hell…

• December 29, 2009



• Hot new Japanese (re-)release: The Conbini 200X (Xbox 360)

  Two pints of Yebisu and a packet of Pocky.

• December 23, 2009



• Annual all-night Famicom festival returns to Tokyo in January 2010!

  Chiptune till the break of dawn!

• December 23, 2009



• SEGA’s giant comedy Tetris coin-op drops into Japan’s arcades

  デッカい！

• December 23, 2009



• Hot new Japanese release: Neo-Geo Online Collection Complete Box (PS2)

  Two volumes, 36 games, 20,000 yen.

• December 22, 2009



• Japanese keitai phenomenon Itotooshi now available on iPhone

  10 million downloads and counting!

• December 22, 2009



• Gyakuten Saiban (Phoenix Wright) released on iPhone in Japan!

  No objections, right?

• December 18, 2009



• Biggest Christmas bonuses in Japan once again paid out by Nintendo

  NCL more generous to its employees than Japan Railways, Asahi Beer and Toyota…

• December 18, 2009



• Yahoo! Auctions watch: ridiculous Final Fantasy XIII cosplay edition

  How much would you pay for a pink wig?

• December 16, 2009



• XIIImas Eve: Square Enix blitzes Japanese TV with FF ads

  One day to go.

• December 15, 2009



• Red Dead Redemption First-Hand Preview

  We belly up to the saloon with Rockstar to hear the legend of John Marston.

• December 15, 2009



• Hot new Japanese release: Zaxxon (Virtual Console Arcade)

  Something to keep you entertained until FFXIII.

• December 14, 2009



• Heavy Rain Hands-on Preview

  The cautionary tale(s) of Scott Shelby. VideoGamesDaily dissects a pre-release copy of Quantic Dream’s dark, daring PS3 adventure.

• December 13, 2009



• First in-engine Halo Reach footage

  “You picked a hell of a day to join up.”

• December 12, 2009



• The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Review

  Nintendo’s evergreen hero doesn’t veer too far off track in this spectral sequel.

• December 10, 2009



• Mass Effect 2: Gamestop ad shows off badass gun

  This is my BOOMSTICK. For preorders only.

• December 10, 2009



• Will FFXIII bring the JRPG back in the West?

  Final Fantasy is back in the headlines, but is it the last and best of a dying breed?

• December 10, 2009



• Final Fantasy XIII Elixir spills into Japan’s conbinis

  *Drink not guaranteed to Restore faith in series.

• December 10, 2009



• Gaijin Gamer’s most wanted Japanese PlayStation Classics

  On J-PSN please, ’cause discs are minging.

• December 9, 2009



• Burn calories with No More Heroes 2

  The Desperate Struggle to lose weight.

• December 8, 2009



• New IP can take “years of iteration” to get right – Singularity producer

  Don’t count your chickens before they’ve been blown to bits with plasma grenades.

• December 8, 2009



• The first LEGO Harry Potter vignette

  Harry Potter must not go back to Hogwarts… or he’ll be MERCHANDISED.

• December 8, 2009



• Dark Void Preview

  We fly into the void with an Xbox 360 build of Capcom’s jet-powered action-adventure.

• December 8, 2009



• PlayStation Awards 2009: big win for Mohan as SEGA’s Nagoshi leaves audience temporarily blind

  Dark glasses essential.

• December 8, 2009



• Professor Layton’s cinema debut approaches

  Get down to yer local Toho Cinemas on December 19th, fellow gaijin!

• December 5, 2009



• Mass Effect 2 Interview

  Game producer Adrien Cho on BioWare boozing, pushing Unreal Engine 3 to its limits, comparisons with Star Wars: The Old Republic and a “holistic” approach to development.

• December 4, 2009



• New Brink gameplay footage is boss

  Pushes our expectations right to the… well, you can probably guess.

• December 4, 2009



• Mass Effect 2 producer: devs “pamper” gamers

  Bioware’s second sci-fi shooter will have “serious”, “delicious” consequences, like in Demon’s Souls.

• December 3, 2009



• The secret to Mass Effect 2′s textures? Beer

  Game producer to get lead cinematic animator wasted if technical issues are overcome.

• December 3, 2009



• It’s… the Video Games Daily scoring system

  More arbitrary numbers to violently disagree with.

• December 2, 2009



• 5 game settings I wish Rockstar would steal

  “He’s got the whoooole world, in his hands…”

• December 1, 2009



• James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game Review

  Failure is Alien to James Cameron’s nature, but is the Xbox 360 adaptation of his upcoming Avatar a Titanic success, or something you should Terminate on sight? Time for our verdict.