Sega finally revealed all the playable characters in the new Sonic game currently named “Project Needlemouse”. Who are they?

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A few nights ago, the Distant Worlds concert, which is a Final Fantasy music concert for those not in the know, played for the first time music from Final Fantasy XIV.

The first song is for one of the towns and the second one a battle song. Enjoy.

Distant Beliefs, from Final Fantasy XI was my favorite Final Fantasy song and I’m hoping to see a new favorite in XIII or XIV.

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I don’t know why, but companies almost never release games in December. I have no idea why either since Christmas is coming. But it’s like that every year. The list is mindblowingly short. I couldn’t even find 10 games to put on here.

So sit tight and see the few noteworthy titles in the month of Christmas!

Read on and be sure to comment if I actually forgot anything.

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This past Friday, G4 showed an exclusive video showcasing the combat of Mass Effect 2.

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Well October has been a great month, with quite a few noteworthy releases and fun games overall.

Now november is coming with a few big guns as well, but seemingly a less fun experience in general. Also, no noteworthy 360 exclusive releases. Let’s see what November has for us!

Read on for the list! And be sure to comment if I forgot anything.
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Released last year in Japan, White Knight Chronicles is still on its way to North America.  Even if you’ve played the Japanese version, you might be interested to know that there’s a bunch of new online features coming in the NA version.

The Playstation Blog introduces us to the new features (GeoNet, Georama, and Subquests) today.

GeoNet

GeoNet is a social networking service for WKC online players, where you can meet and interact with other players to get set for multiplayer quests.

Does that mean they’ve added Facebook in WKC so that you can Facebook while you play the game?

Georama

Georama is where you can design your own “HomeTown”, which serves as a lobby for the online mode. There are 3 different fields to build your Georama in with 18 different combinations. You’ll drop in buildings, infrastructure, and even modify the earth itself. A 2D city sim this is not. Examples were shown where players could make hedge mazes or pixel art in the towns. What’s cool is you can recruit NPCs from the story mode to come live in your town. The NPCs have jobs of different levels, which will further change the town. Also, you and others can shop in the shops that you create. Up to a dozen players can enter one Georama at once, and from there you can head out questing. Hundreds (or more) parts and elements were shown – it’s pretty deep. Of note: North American players will be able to visit the Georama town of European friends, and vice versa.

I think just that alone would sell me the game. I assume this is akin to Dark Cloud’s town building system.  I love this stuff in RPG for some reason.  It was my favorite part in Breath of Fire II too.

Subquests

unlike the story mode, which centers around Leonard, you control your own avatar in this mode. As the story unfolds, quests will become available. When you are successful, you’ll accumulate points which will build your guild rank. The higher the rank, the more quests and weapons that are available for you. You can quest with friends or use the random matching system to be paired up with like minded strangers. 50 subquests will be available at launch, and new ones will be added along the way online.

And that should lengthen the game even more for those people enthusiastic enough to do more quests.

Finally, Jeff Rubenstein confirms voice chat and that it’ll be patched into the Japanese version, alongside what seems to be pre-made sentences you can use to communicate. The feature apparently is already existing in Rogue Galaxy (Live Talk feature).  The game will also feature at launch all the updates the Japanese version has seen up to today.

So there you have it folks, plenty of new bonus content for this game. Will it make up for the huge delay? You guys will be the judge.  As for me, this kind of sold me the game, whenever it’ll be out.

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Just watched a new video over at gamespot, which focuses on the new character, which hints at a total of 10 new characters(we’ve met Grunt and Thane), in the upcoming Mass Effect 2.

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Just received an email from SOE requesting that I take part in a survey to help them churn ideas around the next Planetside game!
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This is it. Our 365th day on the interwebz. I’m happy we’ve made it this far, and we’ll keep going at it.

We started this for fun, and up until now I did have a lot of fun with this, and I’m sure the other writers did as well. I really loved just writing about games and other random stuff for this first year, and will continue on as long as I can. We started low, barely getting 20 visits a day(and actually being happy when we passed 50 visits in a day), and now we’re nearing 1000 visits a day, which is awesome.

I’d like to thank everyone that visited our site and commented on our posts and gave us feedback.

So cheers to everyone who visits us and of course everyone on the team for supporting the site, and let’s go for another year! More reviews and other random stuff will keep coming for sure!

Thanks everyone!

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Well, September is passing along nicely, giving us a few interesting releases.

But October… oh man, there’s tons of great stuff coming. Both on the multi-platform side and for system exclusives, there’s tons of potentially great releases. Even the PSP has some interesting releases.

Check it out and make your list of games you’ll be getting!

As usual, the game title is in bold, the release date is italicized, and for multi-platform games the systems they are coming for are between parenthesis. Only 1 game on the list this month is a japanese release so I’ve marked it appropriately.

And If I missed something, don’t hesitate to comment and tell me.
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