411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Cursed Mountain, and Harvest Moon: Magical Melody.
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Weekly Game Releases - 16th – 22nd August for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP and DS.
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411mania gives a rundown on this week's game releases. Highlights include Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?, Street Fighter IV, DoDonPachi Daioujou Black Label Extra, Shooting Love, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, Metroid Prime Wii.

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? (PSP)
Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? is one of the best platformers I've played in years thanks to it's tight controls and above average presentation. However, this game is definitely not for everyone. In fact, I'm pretty sure that only hardcore platformer junkies and people with infinite amounts of patience will get past the first three or four stages without developing a desire to throw their PSPs at a wall in rage. But if you can hang on, getting through the game can be quite satisfying and is an achievement that is worth bragging about.

Street Fighter IV (PS3, 360)
It isn't necessary for me to go in-depth since every other site is already doing it. I will, however, bring to your attention one of the coolest features SFIV has - the Arcade Request system. Basically, instead of watching a static screen while waiting for someone to challenge you online, this system allows you to play against the computer and seamlessly accept a challenge when one comes your way. It's like going to an arcade and playing against the CPU until someone gets the nerve to plunk down fifty cents to take you on. If you set it to accept only Player Matches (unranked) you can keep things going by rematching or, if you don't want to play the person again, you can quickly and easily go back to arcade mode after your match and continue on with the CPU until you get another challenge. It's hard to believe that it's taken Capcom this long to implement such a system. I can only hope that SNK does the same thing in its home version of KOF XII.

DoDonPachi Daioujou Black Label Extra (360 Import)
Every shooter needs its own hook to stand out. While Trigger Heart has its grapple syst...
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Metroid Prime: Hunters is a first-person shooter and adventure game created exclusively for the Nintendo DS, developed by NST (Nintendo Software Technology), a first-party developer for Nintendo, based in Redmond in North America, and released in 2006. Like its predecessor Metroid Prime, Nintendo has dubbed it a first-person adventure rather than a first-person shooter due to the large amount of exploration elements in the game, classic to any Nintendo title.
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Speed Gamers reports:

"The 72 Hour Metroid Marathon starts on Augusts 15th @6pm cst. We will be raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The marathon will be streamed live via webcam on our website. The webcam feed will give you both a view of the games we will be playing and also a view of the action going on in the room. We will give out prizes following each game to viewers regardless of where they live.

The Game list is : (In the order we will be playing them in, not in chronological order)
Metroid, Metroid Zero mission, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Metroid Prime1, Metroid Prime 2, Metroid Prime Hunters, Metroid Prime 3, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion
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Retro Studios has recently given their blessing and will be generously donating our grand prize, a copy of Metroid Prime 3 (Wii) signed by the development team. We are very excited to have their help and will hopefully do justice to the series they helped build"
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Recently we all saw Retro studios redesign their website with a new look, only weeks before E3.

Now this week we saw...
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Jenni Källberg in an amazing series of photos depicting her as Metriod Prime's Samus Aran.
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Oct 23, 2007 The Metroid series has always been a victim of bad timing. It's one of the most critically acclaimed franchises in gaming. But thanks to dodgy release dates, internal politics and Nintendo's own disbelief in the franchise that's never quite rivalled the mighty Mario and Zelda series. Wrong place, wrong time? 1986; Atari was old news and the NES had successfully prevented the industry from spiralling into an imploding crash. 33-year-old Shigeru Miyamoto's hot-selling Super Mario ... » Read More

This is hardcore. Or so everyone says. But what is "hardcore?" To us gamers, it means the kind of game that serious gamers devote their time to. You know, hundreds of hours of time. The kind of game that kept Granny away from gaming until Wii came along. It's about depth - of learning and understanding a game before truly mastering it. Hardcore games present the greatest (and often longest) challenges, yet also the biggest payoffs, assuming you understand how they work. Of course, ... » Read More

What began as a bizarre shot in the dark has fast become one of the biggest success stories in video games. Even though its first six months were rough and questionable, the DS currently owns the handheld market, and with good reason. There's literally something for everyone on the dual-screened portable, and its beautiful cosmetic makeover (known as the DS Lite) made the device all the more palatable to hardcore and casual gamers alike. With its mixture of brain teasing puzzle games, ... » Read More

In-game voice chat, downloadable goals, sk8 crews, and others will be included.

According to a recent email sent to Sk8land community members, the incoming Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam DS will feature a couple online features new to the Nintendo DS. One of the most impressive is the in-game voice chat, by which Vicarious Visions means you can talk to your friends during gameplay and not only in the pre-game lobby like Metroid Prime: Hunters. Read on for more!
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God Save the Wii Our friends on the other side of the pond got their Wii news today, but it was a bit of good and bad. While Sony will make Brit gamers wait until 2007 for their PS3s, the Wii will hit UK shores on December 8 for £180. That's still more than the US price if you work out the exchange rate and it's just £20 less than an Xbox 360 Core pack. Even the UK Virtual Console games will be the equivalent of a few bucks more expensive than in the US and Japan. And while the ... » Read More

Nintendo has released a bundle of Metroid Prime: Hunters shots as the DS action game's release looms closer. Helmeted heroine Samus Aran's latest adventure has her attempting to unravel the mystery behind messages transmitted by the Alimbics, an ancient intergalactic race that was thought ... » Read More

Just as we were recovering from Ninty president Satoru Iwata's announcement about 'game sharing' (more on this below), we were buried under another avalanche of DS screenshots. Yesterday we posted a featuring the likes of Mario Kart and Super Mario 64 and today we find similar quality in Metroid Prime: Hunters and we even have two superb movies of AAA titles in action.Supporting the main act of Hunters, this batch of pics include such delights as Yoshi's Touch and Go, Pokemon Dash, Wario Ware, ... » Read More

We have the first images of Metroid Prime: Hunters, Samus's DS outing. As you can see, Nintendo's new two-screen handheld appears to be ideal, and we confidently expect this to be the best of the first generation of DS titles.Hunters does an impressive job of aping its Gamecube predecessor's visuals and the controls use the stylus to choose weapons, morph or, with a quick poke of the screen, fire, while the pad or stick are used for movement and shoulder buttons lock-on.The version of Metroid ... » Read More