Ladbrokes has released a betting list offering odds on this Christmas' gaming number one, with the high street bookmaker predicting that movie tie-ins will be the hot sellers over the festive season. The Traveller's Tales-developed Chronicles of Narnia game is favourite at 3/1, while EA's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Ubisoft's adaptation of Peter Jackson's King Kong are both hotly tipped at 6/1. Beyond the Hollywood spin-offs, Prince of Persia 3, Call of Duty 2 and Need for Speed ...
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Disney Interactive has confirmed that The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will be released for (deep breath) PS2, PSP, Xbox, Gamecube, GBA, DS and PC this Christmas. The action-adventure title is based on the new movie - which is itself based on the classic CS Lewis book - that's out in December. Traveller's Tales (of Lego Star Wars and Crash Twinsanity fame) is currently working on the console and PSP titles, while Griptonite Games (the company that's ...
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Square Enix has announced Love SQ, a soundtrack composed by a variety of Japanese artists featuring music from the Final Fantasy series, Chrono Trigger and other Square(soft) Enix classic titles.
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Kennosuke Suemura of Namco Bandai recently "borrowed" the melodies from "Battle with Magus" from Chrono Trigger and "The One Who Will Save The Earth" from Lufia II for his recent Super Robot Taisen K soundtrack. Worse, this isn't the first time this has happened. The same composer was supposedly involved in a similar incident involving music from Warcraft II when working on a previous title in the series. Namco Bandai has since released a formal apology and paid a settlement to resolve the issue. OSV has located a video showing the plagiarism in action.
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The Bad Dudes are putting out an album of arranged music from Chrono Trigger. For those who are unfamiliar with the Bad Dudes, they're a group of top remixers in the VG remixing community who often band together to put together arrangement albums, and this time it's Chrono Trigger that's on the receiving end. The album is out later this month.
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NE: "Artist Stephanie Laberis had been teasing a Chrono Trigger announcement of sorts for August 11th, though she was able to reveal the mystery a few weeks early."
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Russ writes "At least the first deal will: Target is offering a 'buy 1 360 game, get another 360 game 50% off.' Mondays also tend to be the days Target puts new stuff on clearance or lowers the prices on clearance items. Sunday is a big day for spending, so there might be few titles left. Most Target stores get daily trucks with shipment in them so check back during the week if a title is missing."
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Square Enix Senior Vice President Shinji Hashimoto revealed that the company wasn't very impressed by the sales of cult RPG classic Chrono Trigger on Nintendo DS during an E3 interview regarding Front Mission Evolved, a reinvention of the Front Mission franchise.
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Rember PSN user DimmuJed, who proposed to his girlfriend in LittleBig Planet? Of course you don't. DimmuJed is not going to official wed his fiance inside of LittleBigPlanet, and is inviting people to join as "witnesses".

This is a really cool idea, and it also reminds me of someone who previously proposed using a videogame. TheRealPfhreak hacked an area of Chrono Trigger, and filled it with characters and dialogue that related to him and his girlfriend. It's actually a pretty long level, and the entire execution was very well thought out on his part. He even noted that his girlfriend was losing interest in the game, so he rushed to make it so she wouldn't be suspicious when he forced her to play it!
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Times Online reviews for: Street Fighter IV, Halo Wars, Killzone 2
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