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Square Enix's DKS3713 Private Party is only in its first day, but already there's tons of news! The three most exciting Final Fantasy announcements (at least for me) are the following: 1) Final Fantasy XIII CONFIRMED for 2009 2) Final Fantasy Agito XIII has been announced for the PSP 3) Final Fantasy Dissidia will include Kefka Why is Hamasaki Ayumi in Final Fantasy XIII? Is she a FF summon? All signs point to "probably." In addition to all of this, a playable demo of FF XIII will be available with the Japanese release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children on Blu-Ray next March. Sweet! And although they did show a new trailer for Versus, it doesn't seem to reveal a whole lot more information. But Final Fantasy games aren't the only ones I'm looking forward to. Sigma Harmonics looks interesting, with its blend of RPG, card-battle and puzzle. I'm digging the new direction S/E is going with their DS games. I love the mix of youthful gameplay with more adu...

July 8, 2008 - Portugal's leading video games investor and developer, GameInvest, is bringing hospital drama to multiple platforms this summer with Sarah's Emergency Room. Currently in development for Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and PC platforms, Sarah's Emergency Room is a time management and hospital simulation game where players take on the role of a young nurse, caring for patients in fast-paced hospital environments. GameInvest is currently looking for qualified distribution and publishing partners for Sarah's Emergency Room on the various platforms. "Sarah's Emergency Room revives the time management genre with fun, challenging levels and a frenetic pace with simulation management skills," said GameInvest founder and CEO Paulo Gomes. "Our commitment to quality and accessibility shines with beautiful graphics and a pick-up-and-play interface." Sarah's Emergency Room casts players as Sarah, a young nurse who ha...

July 8, 2008 - Midway just announced that it would be publishing Mechanic Master, a game designed by Most Wanted Entertainment that went by "Contraptions" before it was picked up by the publisher. Perusing the developer's website, we found that the company is working on another Nintendo DS title: "The Expendables." Here's the breakdown of this work-in-progress game, right from the developer's site: They are deadly, they are confident, they are dumb... and they finally got an assignment. The fate of the world's lamest international private army is in your hands. Can you help them to overcome their weaknesses and accomplish various missions in different parts of the world or their very first job will be the last one, too...? 'The Expendables' is a humorous, squad-based shooter with cartoonish graphics in which the player assumes control over a small private army whose "soldiers" were hired from all over the world. While the game'...

July 8, 2008 - Ever since the Nintendo DS hit the scene, many gamers have been begging for a rendition of that classic PC title The Incredible Machine. While Sierra rests on its laurels, Midway's ready to pounce with its own take on the game design: the company has announced it will be publishing the Most Wanted Entertainment-develeoped Mechanic Master for the portable system, due out this October. Mechanic Master – once known as Contraption – is a puzzle game where players solve more than a hundred physics-based puzzles by utilizing simple and complex machines. Use gravity to make a ball roll down a plank to activate a motor that'll spin gears and raise platforms to keep the mechanism going. The game will be entirely touch-screen driven, so dragging and dropping as well as drawing solutions will be a snap using the stylus. On top of the 100 different in-cartridge levels, there will also be the ability to customize and create puzzles, and send them to other DS owners to try o...

May 28, 2008 - In less than a month, Activision will release Guitar Hero: On Tour , a Nintendo DS-exclusive spin-off of the Red Octane rhythm franchise. For more than a year, development studio Vicarious Visions has been on the task of bringing the series to the dual-screen handheld, a tricky project considering Guitar Hero has always been about wailing on a full-size guitar to the tune of guitar-heavy rock tunes. Activision let us get a deep hands-on with the near final project, and I have to say, for a version of the game that doesn't have an actual guitar to play, the Nintendo DS version nails the gameplay. Guitar Hero: On Tour isn't some quick-hacked, "tap the screen to the beat" touch-screen port. No, it's as true a Guitar Hero game as you're going to get on the handheld, complete with its own peripheral attachment. Each copy of Guitar Hero: On Tour comes packaged with a Guitar Grip. This attachment plugs into the Game Boy Advance cartridge port of the N...

UK, May 30, 2008 - In return for letting us play Metal Gear Solid 4 before its release, Konami issued us with a list of things that we're not allowed to discuss. This list of prohibited topics is pretty long, and even extends as far as several facts that the company itself has already made public. Regardless of Konami's list of prohibited topics though, this review was always going to be a spoiler-free zone, because part of the pleasure of playing Guns of the Patriots lies in discovering everything it has to offer. MGS 4 is simply a game that you have to experience for yourself. Because the one thing that can certainly be said, prohibited topics or not, is that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is, without question, the ultimate Metal Gear game. It represents the pinnacle of Hideo Kojima's achievement, and it's undoubtedly one of the games of the year. Metal Gear... It can't be. Surprisingly, it gets off to a pretty slow start. Oh sure, there is something ...

April 28, 2008 - Never double-cross Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. This is the lesson the criminal underworld is set to learn in 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand . A sequel to 2005's Bulletproof, Blood on the Sand puts 50 in a very different hood. Mr. Cent and his G-Unit crew have traveled to an unnamed "war-torn" desert country to put on a show. Fitty is paid with a high-priced jewel, but that gem is stolen by some thugs. Bad move. Described as a cross between Three Kings and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Blood on the Sand is a tongue-in-cheek fast-paced shooter. Though 50 Cent is always on the scene with gun cocked, he is joined by one member of G-Unit controlled either by a friend online or by the AI. Before the start of each mission, you choose your sidekick to be Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks or DJ Whoo Kid. Each has his own bag of quips and a unique weapon. The action is fairly constant as players shoot their way through more than 20 missions. You can play a straigh...