Kojima is too busy

The creator of Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima, has written on the PlayStation blog does not have enough time to work on the sequel to Snatcher, but would be happy to leave it in the hands of another developer. The original adventure game released on the NEC PC-8801 and MSX 2 in 1988, before being converted for Mega-CD, Sega Saturn and PSone in the 90s.

In the short term, however, fans can console themselves with Sdatcher Snatcher, a radio drama brought on by Suda51.

• KONAMI Announces Fan Events at Comic-Con 2011 (17/07/2011)
• Kojima Claims He's Too Busy For Snatcher Sequel (16/07/2011)
• Kojima on Snatcher: 'If anyone else would like to develop it, I would love it.' (16/07/2011)
• Kojima Doesn't Have Time for a New Snatcher, But Would Love if Someone Else Made it (15/07/2011)
• Troppo helps raise over $30,000 for Africa! (29/06/2011)

Child of Eden has a date on PS3

Child of Eden, the last effort of genius game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi, is for now the most acclaimed by critics and public. We'll see if the trend will change with the arrival of the game also on PlayStation 3. Ubisoft has announced the release date of Sony's version, which will be available from September 23.

The French publisher has also made other notes given out: the PC version of Call of Juarez: The Cartel will be released September 16, 2011 World Rally Championship on October 7, while the party game exclusively for Kinect Rabbids: Alive & Kicking, will Xbox 360 in November. Brothers Far Cry and third in Arms: Furious 4 have both been included in "calendar 2012".

• Neither Child of Eden Nor Shadows of the Damned Had a Big June (15/07/2011)
• Child of Eden (Review) (18/07/2011)
• Child of Eden, other Ubi Kinect games for $30 at GameStop (14/07/2011)
• Weekly Deals: Child of Eden, R.U.S.E., and Freedom Force (16/07/2011)
• Shadows of the Damned and Child of Eden flop in US (and you wonder why we can't have nice things) (Shadows of the Damned) (15/07/2011)

Child of Eden (homepage)  Child of Eden (wikipedia)  

The gameplay of Final Fantasy Type-0 in four videos

The new action RPG weblog Square Enix Final Fantasy promises quality and thickness of Type-0 shows its four gameplay videos, related to the Japanese version of the game. With fourteen playable characters and a structure capable of delivering up to one hundred hours of gameplay, the new episode of the series, developed exclusively for the PSP, will embody the ideal of "swan song" for the Sony handheld console.

New study team of DJ Hero

Several members of the study Freestyle Games, formerly responsible for the series on behalf of DJ Hero, Activision, have founded a new study. According to The Guardian, the new realities of the sector is called Music in Colour, and is led by Chris Lee, former boss of Freestyle Games. The study will focus on music games for mobile platforms and the first work, called Say What?, IOS will be released by July 20.

• Former DJ Hero developers set sights on mobile with 8linQ (13/07/2011)
• DJ Hero: Me Versus JAY-Z Versus Eminem [Clips] (16/03/2010)
• The Geekiest Tunes on Spotify (14/07/2011)
• Wu-Tang's RZA Working On Game With Activision [Music] (26/04/2010)
• La prima immagine di Hugo, il nuovo film di Martin Scorsese (12/07/2011)

DJ Hero (wikipedia)  

Shadows of the Damned: flop in the U.S.

Shadows of the Damned, "imperfect pearl" born from the collaboration Suda51/Mikami, has plunged into the hell of the failure of the U.S. market. According to many sources revealed, the game EA-Grasshopper has sold only 24,000 copies in its first month. Just for comparison, LA Noire has sold 419,000 in the second.

Another recent game has unfortunately experienced the bitter taste of defeat in the U.S., Child of Eden, which debuted at number 83 in the charts selling only 34,000 copies. This figure does not including the PlayStation 3 version as the game is still out on Sony's console.

• Shadows of the Damned and Child of Eden flop in US (and you wonder why we can't have nice things) (Shadows of the Damned) (15/07/2011)
• Does This Make Up for the Delay, Japan? [Shadows Of The Damned] (14/07/2011)
• Shadows of the Damned promoted internationally with 'Playbox' magazine, Trivium album (14/07/2011)
• Spoiler Alert: Let's Talk About the Ending of Shadows of the Damned [Game Club] (14/07/2011)
• GR's weekend giveaway: Shadows of the Damned (Shadows of the Damned) (09/07/2011)

Shadows of the Damned (wikipedia)  United States (geolocation)  United States (wikipedia)  

The mystery game from Namco Bandai Digimon will be a new PSP?

The assumptions are moltipicando Remember the countdown site opened a few days ago by Namco Bandai? There we spoke then in a news article (link). Well, of course, the hypotheses have proliferated and even now there are those who bet on the game which will be revealed. The first voices took it for certain that it was Bravo Company Nintendo 3DS and IOS systems, rumors denied by the almost simultaneous opening of a game's official website.

Collector's Edition for Arkham City

Directly from Best Buy and GameStop come the details of the Collector's Edition Batman: Arkham City. According to reports in the two dealers, the deluxe edition of the new adventure of the Dark Knight will be released October 18th and will retail for $ 99.99. The Collector's Edition package will contain a statue designed by Kotobukiya, an artbook and the usual early access to some DLC (including Robin, as abundantly reported in recent days).

• Supertrailer - Extra Booty Edition (Batman: Arkham City) (15/07/2011)
• Narcissistic Game Previews - The Arkham City: Riddler Trailer is Narrated by Villain Edward Nigma (TrendHunter.com) (17/07/2011)
• First Look at the Penguin in BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY (26/05/2011)
• Batman: Arkham City The Riddler teaser (11/07/2011)
• Riddler Trailer for BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY (11/07/2011)