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Lost Planet 2 Review

A cold frigid land awaits us in the brink of the black canvas. Wait… isn’t this Lost Planet? Isn’t this EDN III? Well yeah it is, but… it’s tropical! That’s right, the second installment of the Lost Planet series takes us back to EDN III to envision a lush tropical land that was hidden under all that snow in the first one… who would’ve thought that under all that snow we’d actually find something that cool?  Well back to the point, this game has been long in the making and a couple demos have come to surface themselves from the ashes of the Capcom’s anticipated sequel to their hit multiplayer game from 2006, but the question still lingers… was the wait even worth all the hot anticipation?

Everything has had some sort of change in the past few years for the sequel. A lot is sort of an understatement since I last checked… and it really boils down to how you see everything. Some of the changes were for better, some were just downright periling and it kind of makes you want to scream in pain. I walked into the game with an open mind and wasn’t expecting too much as the first one for me was really a screwball hint of illustrious joy. I enjoyed multiplayer and was up in the air with singleplayer when I got my hands in on the first one, but I couldn’t help but be disappointed with a few elements with the first game, and they didn’t really fix it in the sequel (kind of breaks off that sequel monotony, instead of fixing problems, they just exacerbate them!).

David Jaffe Not Working On Twisted Metal

David Jaffe is the guy who has brought us some very brutal games in the past, which include him working on the Twisted Metal Series, the most popular being Twisted Metal Black.  As well as the first God of War, which was a wild success and brought us a series that everyone is sure to remember. But what is he working on now?  There has been some talk about him working on the new Twisted Metal game that many people have been looking forward to for a long time.

Halo: Reach Release Date

For anyone that has played the Halo: Reach beta you’ll be interested to know that 2.7 million people took part in the beta, which made it the largest video game beta ever.  You will also be even more interested to know that a date has finally been given for Reach, September 14.  It will ship with three different copies; the standard, limited, and legendary version (legendary being $150).  For all you Halo fanatics out there you better make sure you pre-order your legendary copy now, since it will come with a ten-inch-tall, hand-painted Noble Team statue as well as many more extras.

Alan Wake’s Second DLC called “The Writer”?

With Alan Wake’s first piece of DLC, “The Signal”, arriving on July 27, it seems Remedy have jumped the gun with the second episode.

A quick peek into the game’s special features reveals a listing for “The Signal” as well as a second episode called “The Writer”. The description reveals Wake is “in strange circumstances; now fully aware of the thing that opposes him, he must survive one increasingly nightmarish situation after another.”

No More Heroes 2 Lingerie & European Launch

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle launches in Europe and Australia May 28^th. That is this Friday!

Desperate Struggle’s UK Publisher Rising Star Games has teamed up with Bedtime Flirt to release some No More Heroes themed lingerie based off the characters Naomi, Sylvia and Shinobu. The lingerie is already on sale to coincide with No More Heroes 2’s launch.

The outfits look vaguely faithful to the characters, so unless you look a great deal like one of the characters or have the accessories to match it, then this will look like any other piece of lingerie on you. It may provide for a quick and easy solution for cosplayers. However, with some time and effort it is not had to imagine someone managing to put together better recreations of these characters.

Xbox Deals of the Week- 5/24-5/30

With a new week comes a new Deal of the Week on Xbox Live. This week, it’s more of a “Deal’s of the Week” thing, as not one, not two, but three games have had their prices slashed (for one week only of course). That is it! I am considering picking up Lazy Raiders as I’ve heard some nice things about it but for the rest of them, I have no advice. Madballs sounds terrible from just the name and Band of Bugs doesn’t look horrible. If that Avatar Wave Snowball Fight thing is similar to the free snowball game that was released on Xbox Live for a limited time a while ago, it’s not even worth navigating through the clunky Indie game menu to find.

Also, there are some avatar props (Props for your avatar… Not props from the game/movie Avatar) that have received price slashes but why would you want them?

Nintendo Employee Attacks Man in Kyoto

Police in Kyoto, Japan have arrested Nintendo employee Jin Nakanose for assaulting a man in a shopping center. The assault took place May 23^rd, 2010 at Loc Town in Kumiyama Town, Kyoto.

When asked why the incident took place, Nakanose responded that he was patiently waiting to enter the shopping center parking lot when the victim cut him off. This enraged Nakanose causing him to pull the victim from his vehicle and repeatedly punching him in the face and body. The victim is alive and is estimated to need two weeks to recover from the injuries received from the attack.