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Watch out, hot shot! In a bid to please seemingly no one, Sony has announced thatHot Shots Tenniswill be heading to the PS4 this week.Tenniswas a spin-off of theHot Shots Golfseries, and it didn’treview wellback on its original release in 2007. Along with being playable on newer hardware, this release will come with all of the PS4 upgrades that gamers expect; Trophy support, 1080p resolution, remote play, and share play. If you’re so inclined to buy the game, it will be available for $14....

YES! Today at D23 Expo in Japan, Square Enix announced thatKingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIXhas started development. We’ll see it here in North America some time in 2014. This follow up to the recently released.Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMix, this collection will contain freshly remastered versions ofKingdom Hearts II Final Mixand PSP titleKingdom Herats Birth by Sleep Final Mixas well as the cutscenes from DS titleKingdom Hearts Re:coded.All of this will be content never released before in America....

Dino Patti, boss ofLimbostudio PlayDead, has criticized the videogames retail business. Calling it broken, Patti has questioned the need for physical products that require installing, and believes the entire system has been inefficient since day one. “The retail model has always been and still is broken, from a developer’s point of view,” he said. “Driving discs in a big van all over the world is really inefficient. I don’t understand how anyone can make money out of this....

WhileKonami’s press conference at E3has almost nothing to do withLost in Shadowsthe game was presented there and I’ll take any excuse to bring up the genius that was that press event. The excuse to bring upLost in Shadows(which in turn is the excuse to bring up the Konami press conference) this time is six new screens for one of the most interesting looking games coming out this year.Lost in Shadowswas definitely one of the few games at the press event that actually made me pay attention to something other than the ridiculous presenters....

New Zealand has become the latest country to feature angry backlash over Medal of Honor as the grimly predictable carnival of kneejerk punditry continues. New Zealand’s Minister of Research, Science and Technology has attacked the game for undermining his country’s values. Yes …Medal of Honoris now anti-New Zealand! “Terrorist acts have caused the deaths of several New Zealanders,” he claims. “This game undermines the values of our nation, and the dedicated service of our men and women in uniform....

Miitomo launches in Japan on March 17 Miitomois coming to Japan next Thursday, March 17, Nintendo announced today. TheTomodachi Life-esque social networking game will be the first of five mobile applications Nintendo releases over the course of the next year as part of its partnership with social gaming giant DeNA. Along with Japan, the iOS and Android app is expected to arrive by month’s end in15 other major markets, including the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Russia....

No more legal documents, please oh god Ace Attorney 6: Spirit of Justiceis out andappears to hold the same high-qualitythe series has always had. I am a little behind, yet to playApollo Justice, Dual Destinies,Dai Gyakuten Saiban,Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright,and now this one. What I have played so far I have loved and has quickly become one of my favorite franchises. I was convinced to play within minutes of seeing footage of the first game for the first time....

“All I ever did in life was sit in my room, alone, downing entire bottles of liquor on my own, for no other reason than because I didn’t want to deal with my life.” [In what may be the most personal c-blog I’ve ever read, vApathyv talks about how playingMax Payne 3helped him realize he had a problem with alcohol abuse. Want to get featured on the front page?Get writing.-Spencer Hayes....

So good Have you playedRayman Jungle Run? This game is gorgeous and nearly impossible to put down. It would be in my top 3 list of games I’d take back in time to shove in the faces of gamers that said mobile gaming would never amount to anything. The App Store’s Best of 2012 list is up, andRayman Jungle Runhas been chosen as their Game of the Year for USA, Japan, UK, Australia, and several European countries....

Instead of staggering release dates for PlayStation 3 games in Europe, it appears as if Sony is just gonna go ahead and explode onto the region with one massive launch — to make up for the delay? As a potential olive branch, the company is launching on March 23 in Europe with 30 games available to gamers there. FromEurogamer: The launch line-up is vast and features big titles like Oblivion, Virtua Tennis 3 and MotorStorm....

Twisted Metalis suffering a few localization problems, resulting in the car-on-car violence being delayed in Europe. The game is now due out in March for PAL gamers, although a solid release date is yet to be confirmed. In North America, the game is still slated for February 14 and there shouldn’t be any problems making the date. As well as the delay, the European version ofTwisted Metalhas been slightly censored by SCEE....

Needs more green Artwork for the trademarked but not-officially-announcedAlien: Isolationhas been discovered byNeoGAF. In addition to the image above, there’s what looks to be the game’s box art, viewable below. It’s a miniscule picture, but I like the look of it — not that cover art has any bearing whatsoever on the quality of the software it’s attempting to sell us on. Isolationisthought to bedeveloped byTotal Warstudio Creative Assembly and reportedly stars the daughter of franchise icon Ellen Ripley....

Xenomorphs and Predators can get along after all! Okay, soAliensfans were let down this weekby a certain game, but interactive Xenomorph entertainment is always on the horizon, and iOS users haveAvP: Evolutionto look forward to. The only way is up from here! But we’ve got Valentine’s Day to get through first, and that means disturbing imagery of Preds and Xenos getting all sexy together. To that end, Evolution’s developers have brought us these saucy wallpapers for your sensual enjoyment....