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Worldwide PS3 releases for the week of December 21st

PS3Fanboy writes:
Merry Christmas, Japan! While the Western world grows fat on its own laziness (not to mention a massive amount of Christmas food) Japanese game stores remain open to sell five new great PS3 games. What's that strange smell, you ask? That's our pure, unadulterated jealousy. We really want to play White Knight Chronicles. Here's the release list:

US Games
No new releases

EU Games
No new releases

Asian Games
* Alone In The Dark
* Bioshock
* Far Cry 2
* Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
* White Knight Chronicles

In case you're wondering, your PS3 is region free. So, yes, you can import White Knight Chronicles if you so wish. We're not sure if it's the sort of game that will get downloadable content, but if it does you'll have to get it from the Japanese PSN Store. Tempting though, isn't it?

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ThatCanadianGuy5624d ago

I hope Level-5 gets to work on the localization process A.S.A.P
I want to play WKC NOW!! i don't want to wait months :(

TheHater5624d ago

same here man.
There is something special about this game. I can feel it.

Gue15624d ago (Edited 5624d ago )

I feel it too. =)

hay5624d ago

The trailers had the "kick" in them. Can't wait for first scores.

IzKyD13315624d ago

Should be in the US by March or April (it usually only takes a few months)

hay5624d ago

3-6 it all depends. Hey, if it'll launch in march, yeah, birthday gift.

RPG Guy5623d ago (Edited 5623d ago )

Rogue Galaxy took a year.

Dec 05 for Japan
Jan 07 for America

Yeah, I'm sure Level 5 is hard at work on that localization...especially with online to translate too. I think DQVIII was just as long...hurray!

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George Sears5624d ago

Already ordered my copy of White Knight. Can't wait.

hay5624d ago

Lucky bastard.

Hey, aren't you dead?

George Sears5624d ago

As long as I am remembered, I will never die Jack.

hay5624d ago

Yeah, maybe you're right...

Shane Kim5624d ago

I wish I could understand Japanese.

(Yes I know the irony, Shane Kim can't Japanese)

UltimateIdiot9115624d ago

Am I missing the joke but isn't he Korean?

perseus5624d ago

Yeah. Shane Kim is at least of Korean descent, whether he was born there or not.

@person pretending to be Shane Kim

Don't confuse Japanese with Koreans. You'll make Koreans very angry, you'll make Japanese confused, and they will all think you are stupid.

infamous_275624d ago

i hope white knights chronicle doesnt flop...

TOO PAWNED5624d ago

don't worry it wont. It is one of most preordered games in Japan, so it will do fine. Don't expect FF numbers or DQ numbers, but it will have solid first month and it will most definitelly move some consoles in Japan.

memots5624d ago

Whats in it for you?
Why would you care if it "flopped" anyway?

If you mean if you said "i hope its good" then yeah i can understand your hope. But hoping it won't flop that again is caring about the wrong thing like attach rate and market data and really you should not care about that.

If you have any interest in the game then you go and buy it, Don't wait for a reviewer to tell you what you should buy.

People here considered Lair a flop somehow .. Well that is their lost, whoever didn't play this game because of review X or what crap they read on the internet, shouldn't call themselve gamers ... this is a great game, i mastered the control and loved every minutes of that game.

On subject .. WKC looks like it will be the first Rpg i bough since Oblivion. And i also hope it will great. Fanboy please stop hyping this game, I have good expectation but the way people are hyping it around here it is again the second coming.

Awookie5623d ago

Maybe he hopes it doesn't flop because it will give the opportunity for level five to make a sequel or more rpgs for ps3. Like lair it flopped and now they are out of business

Vagrant_15624d ago

I dont care what kind of scores it receives it's a definite buy for me

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7 Deserving Games That Never Got Backward Compatibility

Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.

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20 Best Survival Games of All Time

From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.

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Vader823d ago

No 7 days to die is criminal

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel6d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow5d ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo1824d ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie4d ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere3d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin4d ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere3d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

ApocalypseShadow3d ago

Lying to yourself is unbecoming.

Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.

Hereandthere3d ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

ApocalypseShadow3d ago

At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.

Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.

OtterX4d ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

Cockney3d ago

They chose well, Sony gave them the backing to pursue their dreams with no restrictions even tho their games especially dreams have very niche appeal. Media molecule and Sony deserve respect for this in an age of risk averse publishing.

RNTody4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno4d ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno4d ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii4d ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno4d ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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