Highlights this week include Onimusha Essentials (the first three main games in the series), Guilty Gear 2, Line Rider 2, Bleach: Dark Souls, The Legend of Kage 2 (the only sequel I know of released 20 years after its predecessor), Prey the Stars, and Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals. Also, cake and basketball!

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Here are review scores for a load of recent Nintendo DS and Wii games.

Naruto has made a slip, only achieving a 6.5.

Samba De Amigo (Wii) and Kirby Super Star Ultra (DS) held the spotlight by achieving a 9 each respectively.

The lowest score was for NBA Live 09 All-Play (Wii) with the poor achievement of 4.

The average for the game was around 7-8.

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Courtesy of blog Wii @ Everyday comes the scans from the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu for this week, with new game announcements and more images of those known upcoming games.

Games featured:

• [WII] Monster Hunter 3
  • Underwater hunting
  • Playable at Tokyo Game Show 2008
• [WII] Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes
  • 12/11 Release
  • New character: Genie from Hakushon Daimaoh (Tatsunoko)
  • Will have more characters than Arcade version
  • Will include minigames
• [NDS] Gyakuten Kenji
  • 2009 Rele...

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The third party market in the games industry is a tumultuous one, especially in Japan. Koei in particular, who has begun merger talks with fellow game publisher Tecmo. Speaking to Gamasutra's Brandon Sheffield and Leigh Alexander separate from the recent news, Koei President Kenji Matsubara talks about the issues third parties in Japan currently face in a changing video games market.

Matsubara talks about Japan being in a "transition situation", with the previous dominance of the PlayStat...

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