Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen.
Guess what guys, it’s the slow season. Not much is going on…at all…
Let’s celebrate the start of this week with some Phoenix Wright!
The folks over at OCRemix have put out some mixed versions of the songs from the soundtrack.
Man do I love this series. OBJECTION! Classic.
No Yakuza?
In some seriously sad news, it seems that Yakuza 3 won’t be making its way to Western shores. SEGA smartly cites the 40,000 units of Yakuza 2 as a valid reason not to bring the sequel stateside. Can’t blame them, I guess.
EDIT: The interview where this was stated has been amended with claims that SEGA America’s statements were not an “official SEGA statements”
The Examiner further said
SEGA still hasn’t made any mention of an upcoming release or revealed plans to release it stateside.
Minor News
Fat Princess finally came out this week. I’ve yet to try it out.
Dragon Quest IX is up to 3.2 million units sold in Japan. Keep on rolling, you can hit 5 if you really try Squeenix!
Declining Rock Band sales have accounted for an 8% drop in revenue for Viacom. If you recall from last week, Rock Band and Guitar Hero sales are down almost 50%, resulting in this huge decrease in revenue for Viacom.
If you’re the type of person who cares (I’m not), Uncharted 2 will not have a mandatory install.
World of Warcraft sales are reported to be somewhere around 8.6 million. Just in the US! That’s insane.
L4D2
Obligatory L4D2 mention of the week!
Common Uncommon (or are they calling them Uncommon Common?) will feature bulletproof horde or zombies who were cops in riot gear before they were infected. Since they will be bulletproof (thanks to their riot gear), you’ll have to melee them down and then shoot their exposed backside.
On a totally different note, Rochelle can be seen in artwork wearing a Depeche Mode t-shirt. Why? The band asked to be in the game (and probably shelled out some cash). Not a bad idea. The whole story is that Valve was soliciting a few labels and bands and DM came through in a big way, allowing the use of their music, likenesses, and merchandise. If we get to shoot Depeche Mode zombies, I’m going to call this one of the greatest games of 2009.
Who am I kidding? This will probably be my game of 2009 like L4D was my game of 2008.
20 Years of Mother
The Mother series is 20!
It’s a terrible shame that we haven’t seen more than Mother 2 hit US shores. Perhaps I’ll pick up a Mother 3 cart while I’m abroad…
Comic-Con Cosplay!
Who’s that Pokémon?
It’s PIKACHU!
Speaking of Pokémon, Platinum players will be able to get the Member Card through Wi-Fi gift from 3 August to 13 September. Be sure to get it or you won’t be able to catch Darkrai!
And that’s all he wrote for this week folks! See you next week!
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