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For Reward Zone Members (membership is free and you can sign up on the website), Best Buy is offering $5 to $20 printable coupons on select video games for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii. Games include NERF-N-Strike with EliteSwitch Shot EX-3 Blaster for Wii, Infamous, White Knight Chronicles Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and several others.
"For a limited time, you'll get three Xbox 360 Platinum Hits for the price of two. Offer valid February 7, 2010 through February 13, 2010, or while supplies last, when shipped and sold by Amazon.com. Limit one free Platinum Hit per household. To qualify, check out with three of the Xbox 360 Platinum Hits listed below in your cart. The price of the third qualifying Platinum Hit of equal or lesser value will be discounted during check out."
"This morning, it appears that Microsoft have launched a minor, and rather bizarre, marketing campaign. Directly highlighting the rivalry for those in-the-know and referring to an Xbox 360 release that’s now regularly available at a discounted price, it appears Microsoft still have faith in the original release of Ninja Gaiden II."
Ninja Gaiden 2 up until recently was exclusive to the 360, a contract between Tecmo and Microsoft cementing this. So how exactly did the game still end up heading towards the PS3? According to Gamer.Blorge the game isn't technically the same game, but rather reworked to the Sigma engine, technically classifying it as a remake, rather than just a port. ISWYDT
"Its Tuesday, 30th December 2008 the sixth day of Christmas. And that, of course, means its time for the sixth instalment in The Twelve Games of Christmas. A feature series running on each of the twelve days of Christmas here at Electronic Theatre, The Twelve Games of Christmas aims to highlight some of the industrys top achievers of 2008, running through one months worth of disc-based releases everyday. Today, we look at June 2008, and give you the top-picks for those January sale barga..."
Tecmo held a press conference in Tokyo yesterday that detailed some of the upcoming titles for the publisher. Some of these titles will also be shown at the Tokyo Game Show.
New Tecmo president Yasuharu Kakihara begun the conference by announcing that the Itagaki-less Team Ninja, now headed by Jin Hasegawa, is currently working on three new "worldwide market" action titles that will be unveiled at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show.
At the press conference they also showcased three titles: W...
After the mission mode DLC for Ninja Gaiden II went up, Microsoft had to take it down because there were tons of bugs with it, some of which included problems with the achievements and freezing issues. Microsoft have claimed that they have fixed this problem, but they said they will keep testing the content over the weekend and are expected to place the content back on Monday. The DLC costs 800 Microsoft Points, which is $10.
Ninja Gaiden fans naturally fell into a pit of despair on hearing the news of creator Itagaki-san's falling out with parent company Tecmo, but it ain't over til it's over (one would think): a ton of DLC is up for grabs now in the Marketplace for Ninja Gaiden II. For 800 points you get 25 new missions, Karma Attack missions, Survival missions, and 30 secret-revealing videos.
Each week GV brings you the lowdown of what's going down in 360 town, pointing you in the direction of the best demos, new games, and XBLA games. Drop in to find out what's hot and what's not!
This week we've got empire building, gore splashing, bus lifting, unwanted frogs, strogg-bashing, and more...
Tecmo sent Wired.com a email saying that Team Ninja is intact after Itagaki's departure and already have several new projects going on. But it looks like Itagaki leaving is already hurting Tecmo. It'll be interesting to see what Tecmo does in the future.
Tecmo has responoded to Itagaki, who quit Tecmo yesterday because of unpaid bonuses. Tecmo denies not paying Itagaki's bonuses. Tecmo says they have a bonus system in place and that they have paid Itagaki's bonuses every year. Tecmo claims the bonus that Itagaki is referring to is something from a past management. They have also accused Itagaki of distortions because of the damage that was sought out against CEO Yoshimi Yasuda.
If you haven't heard, Tomonobu Itagaki quit Tecmo last night because they were not paying him his bonuses. Microsoft has now responded to the whole situation: "Tomonobu Itagaki has decided to leave TECMO and Team NINJA to pursue other opportunities. We thank Tomonobu Itagaki for the many years he has supported Xbox as he has contributed immensely to the success of the videogame industry as a whole."
Controversial Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki will soon be leaving Tecmo and suing them for 148 million yen (approx $1.4 million) worth of unpaid bonuses.
After president Yoshimi Yasuda told Itagaki that: if he was unsatisfied with the unpaid bonuses he should either leave or sue the company, Itagaki took him up on both offers.
Itagaki was greatly apologetic towards his fans, and disappointed that he wouldn't be able to take charge of Dead or Alive 5.
Go to sou...
Love him or hate him, Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki is a man who will always speak his mind.
Today he talked about what it was like working with Microsoft and the XBox 360, and why he thinks the console isn't doing too well in Japan.
It's no contest to figure out what the major release this week is: Team Ninja's Ninja Gaiden II for the Xbox 360. Say what you will about the love-him-or-hate-him about the studio head Tomobobu Itagaki, there are many out there waiting for this game.
However, that doesn't mean that there aren't any other good or notable games available; for DS owners, the Atlus USA-published Summon Night: Twin Age makes its way to US shores. Those looking for a racer can check out the Codemasters develop...
"It seem 1120 for horizontal but need confirmation, there are not good screenshot for horizontal check. for vertical 585 it's relatively sure and reliable
1120x585 would be another type of anamorphic resolution, opposed to the other classic anamorphic 1024x600 use in some X360 (COD4, PGR3, Oblivion, TR...)
but there are little more pixel in 1120x585 than in 1024x600 and 1120x585 is the better use of the EDRAM space that i have seen. it's 9.998MiB, just a 2KiB residue unused. maybe it explain..."
"You may have noticed we have not yet posted our review of Team Ninja's Ninja Gaiden 2. We just wanted to fill you in on why. There were a couple of issues with the review build discs, specifically with the load times and the framerate. We have been told that these issues have been resolved in the retail version of the game. Therefore, we have decided to hold off on posting our review article and score until we are able to get our hands on a retail build of Ninja Gaiden 2 in order to verify this."
Matt Peckham writes that the new game Ninja Gaiden II has some camera troubles. He wishes that the game would stick the camera high up with a wide camera lens. He also says that a freeform camera works well, but it runs into other problems, such as directorial responsibility. On the positive side, he mentions that the camera angles are better here than in the original Xbox game. Go to the source to read more.
For all you people who are unfamiliar with Tomonobu Itagaki, he's the guy in charge of the Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden series. He is also a man well known for his big ego and blunt, to-the-point (and sometimes controversial) attitude regarding 'rival' games and their companies.
At a recent press event, Itagaki talked about his newest game Ninja Gaiden II ... and how he thinks it compares to Devil May Cry 4.
(go to source for full interview)
Other Itagaki rants include: Calling Hea...
Head designer over at Team Ninja Tomonobu Itagaki said in a CVG interview, when speaking about the Ninja Gaiden titles, the 'violence issue' with video games is really not what some make it out to be:
"I believe we're following morality as well in only showing violence between combatants. I think the 'violence issue' is something that is within each individual who plays the game."
Itagaki also praised Grand Theft Auto IV.
In what is surely a crushing blow to fans the creator of the Ninja Gaiden franchise Tomonobu Itagaki has just stated in a interview with gaming website Kotaku that he has no plans of creating any more Ninja Gaiden games and that "I hope fans treat this as a swan song for the franchise." So enjoy Ninja Gaiden 2, because it looks like after this that Ryu is hanging up his katana for good.
A few new details about Ninja Gaiden II have been released.
As was previously reported, Ninja Gaiden II is set for release in North America on June 3rd, 2008. But what about our loyal European fans? All they knew is that it would come out "sometime in June" for them, which could be June 30th, 2008. However, the release date for Europe has finally been announced, and the game is set for launch in Europe on June 6th, 2008. So, if you're in Europe and you wanted to preorder it but didn't because of an unknown release date, now's your chance to go out and...
The official website of Ninja Gaiden II has been updated with the confirmed release date of the game. Currently it will be released on the 3rd June 2008. This release date is only for America and European release date is yet to be confirmed.
Ninja Gaiden II is a game developed exclusively for the Xbox 360 by Team Ninja. Guide Ryu Hayabusa is on a mission of vengeance for the killing of his clan and to disallow destruction to the human race.
"Ninja Gaiden II is coming out June 3rd! It was officially announced moments ago during Microsofts Keynote at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Even cooler, you can save films of your gameplay and upload them to Xbox Live. Good to see this lovely feature from Halo 3 gaining popularity!"
Will Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden II for the Xbox 360 be hit hard with an Adults Only rating? Maybe not, but at the moment, it looks like it very well could. So why does it have to be so violent and go as far as having Hero Ryu Hayabusa, the main character in the game, repeatedly cut enemies in half and watch blood spew out? Well, Yoshifuru Okamoto, an assistant producer at Tecmo's Team Ninja says that entertainment requires two things. Sexual elements and violence.
No, they don't want to influence...
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