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Darkstalkers delayed

A game that all good Sega Addicts should be excited about, Darkstalkers Resurrection, has been delayed. According to Capcom Japan, Street Fighter’s awesome cousin will not be hitting XBLA and PSN until March. There is some good news here, though. One of the reasons cited was quality control on the…

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Update for NiGHTS HD on PSN, XBLA

Even though I was perfectly fine with the controls for NiGHTS on the PS3, not everyone agreed with me. Some felt there was a “gap” in the analog movement that would sometimes make NiGHTS fall out of a paraloop or have trouble doing anything like a perfect circle. For XBLA…

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First 4 Figures teases Shadow statue

First 4 Figures, a company that has made a couple of fairly premium (read: Expensive) Sonic the Hedgehog related statues, is teasing Shadow the Hedgehog. I don’t know much about the art of spending hundreds of dollars on statues of characters from games that I have spent hundreds of dollars…

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Sonic flies again on Turkey Day

So back in 1993, Sonic was the first video game character to get a balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Take that, Mario. Unfortunately, Sonic proved a lot of the anti-video game folks of the day correct when he snagged a lamp post and crashed into a police officer…