Thanks to Starman for the idea and Kotaku for the image.

A resounding “Bang” detonated across the scene followed by the words “Head Shot!” - shortly there after a small chime rings signaling achievement/trophy/medal unlocked. These  aforementioned achievements cloud our vision and poison the enjoyment and purity of the games themselves.

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Noteworthy Releases:

PS3:

-Demon’s Souls; Release Date: 10/06/09 (Scoring roughly 90 on metacritic a PS3 exclusive in the action RPG genre) - Preview Post: http://www.megatonik.com/2009/08/under-marketed-end-of-the-year-video-game-gem/

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“Here we are again with another cash cow being brought out to graze.   Is it a bad thing?”

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Holding on to my own copy of Katamari Forever as of two days ago, I was quite astonished to have it what seems to be ‘early’.

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I’m excited for this announcement as I am a fan of anything that originally had a price hurdle that becomes free, and rather like the idea that I can play as much as I want of DDO.   In this case the company is going the route of micro-transactions to profit.   In order to experience some dungeons/classes or to boost a character a small fee may be paid (Reminds me of the Gunbound system).   Oddly enough I rather support this idea, not only can I play until I run into blocked content (I know there is a class and some other content blocked off, I am under the impression you can reach max level and play a large amount of the game) - plus I can pick and choose to my hearts’ content. If nothing else, I’m certainly not going to argue with free.   An instanced based dungeon crawler I can get all my buddies to play since it’s free?   Count me in.

Hit the jump for images of the quick sign-up and download process at www.ddo.com.

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Make a piece of Japanese/Muramasa inspired Fan Art, and upload it to the Official Muramasa site for a shot at 1,000 bucks any time before September 28th.

For a direct quote about the contest hit the jump…

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As I have been following this title for awhile it was somewhat confusing to me to see that Gamestop is now shipping this title (http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=73359) where as many others including IGN and Amazon denote the release date as the 8th. I have acquired myself a copy from Gamestop as of today and can attest to its’ availability at my locale.

Gamestop slip up?   Shipped early/some sort of deal Gamestop made without my knowledge?    I’m just happy to say that if you head to Gamestop you should be able to purchase Muramasa today.

In celebration of the year anniversary, there is a Castle Crashers Give-away!

A few in fact!   Follow this link for more information: http://devblog.thebehemoth.com/?p=1696

The first of these give-aways is nothing less than the game itself!  Simply for posting in a thread on The Behemoth forums!

“Welcome to the party! Here is some cake. It is not a lie. Want to join in the fun? Don’t have Castle Crashers? Have a friend you’d love to attack things with? Ask and you shall receive! Post in this thread why you would like this gift. OR about who you would like to make a present of the game to. First 100 reasonable requests will get a full Castle Crashers game code for XBLA.

kelly

PS. If I can, I’ll send out the codes tonight. If not, it make be a week or so, please be patient! :) ”

Follow the link to the post, act quick.

http://forums.thebehemoth.com/viewtopic.php?t=7800

Confirmed in the official forums here http://forums.thebehemoth.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7670&start=0 .

This is an update on a previous post talking about the content http://www.megatonik.com/2009/08/castle-crashers-dlc-pack-2-confirmed/ .