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Famitsu has revealed two stages for the upcoming Sonic generations -- Chemical Plant and Stardust Speedway. A bunch of rather dirty scans have hit the 'net as well, so check those out for your first glimpse.

We are pleased to finally see action in Chemical Plant. Undoubtedly one of the best Sonic Levels always start with a brilliant soundtrack support, I'm crossing my fingers for an excellent HD presentation.

Double Dragon on my iPhone, but I wish the lights in stage 5 were slightly higher, and the hit-box on this whip a bit longer. "A beautiful dream, right? Wrong. A beautiful Reality .

Brizo Interactive has looked into the minds of the Dragons everywhere and an update for its remake of yesterday 's classic beat-em-up based on your needs and desires. In addition to moving the traffic light in Stage 5 "a little higher," Brizo has also added support for IOS versions older than 4.0 "adjusted CPU and memory consumption," and added a transparency option for the game ' s touch controls, adjustments, among others. Sometimes dreams really

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So far Death Miles Developer can affects Cave, Microsoft 's Windows Mobile 7 platform go to hell . Bullet-hell that is! Makoto Asada, director of the Cave 's Game Development Department, has announced on dev blog that the company is currently developing a shooter for Microsoft' s burgeoning smartphone OS.

Cave developing shooter for Windows Phone 7 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The front end of the game is fun, but the backend is deadly serious. The game, which is a nonprofit project as a collaboration between the science and technology innovation program at the Wilson Center, where I work, and Public Insight Network of American Public Media (APM) is developed based on the economic model and data from basis, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). It contains more than 100 policy options to combine the players to support programs that increase revenue or set limits on future spending. Players earn "badge" to their political priorities (eg to pursue energy independence, strengthen national security and increase economic competitiveness). For each policy, the game offers the advantages and disadvantages, and the sources of all supporting data and opinions.

The game turns, each player in a home gate. Players can wade through the budget with the air of a hammer-wielding leader, destroy everything that the government pork.

But the experiment goes beyond fun. People to actually learn new things, how the government spends money and the relationship between budget and policies. "The complexity of the problems was much more obvious," said a player from San Antonio, Texas. "I realized that the decision process much more extensive than in black and white values."

Players also get away from ideological posturing and self-interest in order to achieve a balanced budget. Liberals find themselves forgoing complete government-sponsored healthcare for more modest programmes. A defence contractor who played the game even said that "cutting the defence budget was the best decision I made." Americans realise the need for compromise much better than their political leaders, who are bent on reelection at all costs, especially as the presidential campaign intensifies.

Politics can learn from citizen-players (assuming they want to hear)? Although the game is not multiplayer, it contains a function that let players compare their results with other users on demographic variables such as age, education, gender, income and political party affiliation. These findings for policy-makers are free, sitting in a spreadsheet. Budget Hero turns the equation around completely. The cost for the game, how many software applications, front-end loaded, so the cost for people engaged in a steady decline.

With Budget Hero, the reality is turned on its head. While politicians in the federal budget, like a game that continue to treat any distance away from reality, by playing budget hero 2,0, are ordinary citizens have a budget of reality, what it is. The citizens have greater capacity to budgetary issues as their representatives in Congress often give them credit for understanding. If they the real numbers and information that they are willing to make compromises - even if they do contradict their own interests.

Andrew Wilson, director of development for EA Sports, spoke at the Develop 2011 conference on an unusual business plan of the company for future games is considering: "[Wilson] raises the issue of Amazon 's Whispersync feature that customers download allows a digital book at one price and then read on what format they pay like from PC to phone and Kindle, without again for each platform. He suggested that EA Sports can finally move on the same model with its own games, too Provision of all his titles, FIFA and Madden, Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf, connected to a fixed price on multiple platforms -. all of the same social gaming ecosystem \ "It's about handing over control to the player ' said he 'Ultimately, what we want to achieve this concept, where we said the barriers between the franchise John Riccitiello, our CEO, it seems like such a waste -.. We spend $ 20-40M making each of these games, but most players only ever play one, because the business model is an obstacle. So how about we presented a model where each player is all we do, without paying to go see that much more money. You 've got to realize that given the opportunity to play the consumer and they will bring their friends. '\'

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Hungry Chicks

Gamasutra takes a look at the state of the market for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7, marrying statistics with commentary from PopCap, Gameloft, and Glu to uncover the present and future of the markets for both phones and tablets.

• Disney's 'Lego Pirates of the Caribbean' drops two places to No.4 (-9%) and Rockstar/Take 2's 'L.A. Noire' drops two places to No.5 (-29%).

One with real sand - the Dutch East Indies at Mono Banda create a true digital sandbox in the truest sense of the word possible. With handmade, shape, and you create an augmented reality environment that is affected by, and projected on a box of sand.

Up to four players can simultaneously created the world \ to "control a ball, roll the can around, jump and slide through the Mimicry world. Tiny virtual characters roll around in the sandbox. You can build obstacles for them or create a racetrack."

It looks like

UK charts: LA Noire is the number one in the first week, is the fastest selling new IP in UK gaming.

6. Crysis 2 (Electronic Arts)

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 's Soundtrack is pretty good, timeless. There are a lot of covers based on the soundtrack, but it 's not often that you hear a selection of songs on an ocarina always covered ... time.

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According to a report from Gene Munster, analyst at investment bank and institutional securities firm Piper Jaffray, the amount of apps downloaded by the average Apple iOS device user in 2011 has seen a 61 per cent increase year-on-year (rising from 51 apps in 2010 to 83).

This increase comes despite increased app ASP (average selling price), which has risen 14 percent year on year in 2011, by $ 1.44, recovering from a 18 percent decline in 2010.

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Game Boy puzzle game introduces a half-dozen new hand-held range than just jam music game is his only new WiiWare version of the week.

July is an exceptionally mild for the months retail 3DS, with Pac-Man and Galaga dimensions (July 26) offers a single boxed game to start for the system. It 's been much busier on the download front, as Nintendo' s first weekly update for its digital display window contains two new Game Boy Virtual Console games and four other eShop / DSiWare originals for the handheld.

The Virtual Console debut in 1990 Qix Game Boy puzzle leads the way with a $ 3 price range. The game puts players in control of a small line drawing sparks on an empty field and requires them to pass from Box 75 percent of the screen at any level. The seemingly simple task is a series of dangerous sparks that cruise around the board outline, threatening to destroy boxes in-progress difficult. Qix also a multiplayer mode.

The 3DS gets a second retro release this week in the form of Jaleco 'S 1991 action game, Fortified Zone. The shooter can switch the player between two characters, since they have a four-level fort, the secret weapon to destroy the enemy force storm. Fortified Zone is now available for $ 4.

As playable for the quartet of new releases on either the DSi or the 3DS, they are headlined by the cascading gem puzzle game Jewel Keepers: Easter Island and Agetec 's graffiti-themed side-scrolling platform-Roller Angels, the one Trio looks heroines again a world of color weakened by alien invaders. Rounding out the selection of new releases will be makeup and style, the players may apply with the pen on cosmetics, 3D models, and Alawar Entertainment 's arcade-style sim game Farm Frenzy. To sell all four DSiWare / eShop title for $ 5 or 500 DSi points.

The last new game in Nintendo 's Weekly Roundup is simply jam, a new music game on WiiWare. Billed as a tool for creating, Just Jam lets players the Wii remote to cue up guitars, drum beats, sound effects and singing in 16 different tracks. Jam is only for 800 Wii points ($ 8).

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Games giant Sega sends e-mail to users by e-mail addresses, birth dates and passwords to say have been accessed

Sega has the latest computer games to fall victim to hackers giant after warning users of its Sega pass system that some of their personal data stolen.

The company sent an e-mail to say on Friday that e-mail addresses, birth dates, and encrypted passwords were accessed by hackers, but no financial information was in danger.

The Sega-pass system was taken offline on Thursday, and all users 'passwords have been reset. Customers were advised to beware of suspicious e-mails asking for more personal information.

The hacker group Lulz security seemed to refuse participation, even though leading a wave of recent cyber-attacks as they appear on Sony. Said a tweet with the account LulzSec @ "@ Sega - please contact us, we want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you .."

"We have identified that a subset of Sega Pass members emails addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords were obtained. To stress, none of the passwords obtained were stored in plain text.

click to celebrate dead Limbo 's first birthday by giving us all a gift - a PSN release date for the gruesome yet beautiful indie favorite.

Limbo are creepy-crawl on PSN 19th July in the United States, 20 July in Europe and a date to be announced in Japan. The soundtrack, which would be great for overnight, solo camping trips in the middle of Dead Man's Woods, will be released Monday, July 11, due to popular demand. Playdead's Dino Patti finished his announcement on the PlayStation Blog with the promise (or threat) of a "little extra secret we have in store for you..."

Limbo surfacing on PSN July 19, Steam August 2 [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.