Clive Thompson of Wired was playing Ninja Gaiden II when he realized that after a period of time, the dead bodies didn't disappear. In all Ninja Gaiden games, the bodies disappear into the thin after you have dealt with them. Why? Well, if you kill all those people, you'll obviously be wading in dead bodies. A thought occurred to Thompson. What happens to all those people you've killed? Gaming heaven perhaps?

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Well, this was originally the week Super Smash Bros. Brawl was supposed to drop, at least until the delay happened. However, what that means is that the games released this week aren't sent to die, and that's a good thing, right?

The two games I'm looking most forward to this week are the two in the title: Lost Odyssey (360) and Professor Layton and the Curious Village (NDS). Lost Odyssey is another RPG designed by Mistwalker, headed by the man who created Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguc...

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"1. He's always going to be wearing a jacket that's cooler than yours.
2. He's going to hit on your mom.

3. While there have been a few misses (Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 says "Hi."), Itagaki-san has a pretty solid track record, and his games are generally of high quality.
4. He's going to brag about it. A lot.

So no one is surprised when, in a recent interview, he says something like this to Game Informer:

I’d like to show everybody some of the new stuff that we’ve been working on in..."

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