Daily Gaming News – 04/07/13

July 4, 2013

  • NEWS: Something Tales commeth. Hideo Baba, producer of the Tales series, has posted on twitter that “surprising information” is coming for Europe and the United States on the 4th and 6th of this month. Given the dates, we won’t have to wait long to find out.
  • NEWS: Pokemon! At PAX! For all the Poke-fans out there, Nintendo Australia is hosting a very fancy Pokemon Video Game World Championship at PAX Melbourne in a couple of weeks, tasking contestants across three age brackets with battling their Pokemon Black & White 2 monsters against one another. Details of the events can be found on Nintendo Australia’s official page. Winners, those being the top two contestants in each age bracket, score themselves a paid flight and accommodation to the 2013 Pokemon Video Game World Championships in Vancouver, Canada, where they’ll invited to try their hand at the world title too!
  • VIDEO: Speaking of Pokemon, Nintendo has thrown together a new Pokemon X & Y for your viewing pleasure.

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  • NEWS: The PlayStation 3 and Vita have lost a title. Reported by IGN, the game known as both Ruin and Warrior’s Lair has had its head put to the chopping block, squishing all possibilities of seeing a release.
  • NEWS: If you didn’t know, Telltale’s Season 1/Season 2 intermission episode of The Walking Dead, titled 400 Days, is available for purchase on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. As the episode functions as DLC, and not a stand alone title, you will need your original copy of Season 1 on hand. We’ll have a review up for it soon!
  • VIDEO: If you’ve got an iOS or Android device, and like Prince of Persia, you might be interested in Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame, a new mobile specific title from Ubisoft. Check it out in action below.

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  • VIDEO: We’re not celebrating Independence Day. But Saint’s Row IV is. Censorship debacle aside, the latest trailer includes plenty of satire, cheese, and swearing to satisfying the most insane of gamers.

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