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'Def Jam: Icon' (PS3) - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Sony Gamers' Day - Sony Gamers' Day 2006

EA Chicago is delivering star-stunning action and bone breaking beats as players live out the life of a hip hop mogul, going from rags to riches. Incorporating hip-hop culture into every aspect of the game, DEF JAM: ICON will deliver the intensity of a no-holds-barred street fight but with style and rhythm. Music will effect how players fight in each venue and environmental interactions and hazards will become a key strategy to staying alive.

EA Chicago’s unique fighting gameplay controls introduce a new way for gamers

'Talkman Lesson' [PSP] - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Tokyo Game Show - Tokyo Game Show 2006 Day 1

Listening, reading, and writing alone will not improve your English conversation skills.

The first-ever handheld English conversation learning software that provides you with virtual conversation settings. Enables you to improve not only your listening skills, but also your speaking skills using the microphone through back-and-forth conversation practice.

You don’t have to go to language schools or need an American friend to practice English conversation anymore. Max, we all know from Talkman, will be your conversation partner/teacher.

Whenever and wherever, practice your English conversation as much as you want without being humiliated in

'Crackdown' (X360) - 5 New Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Tokyo Game Show - Tokyo Game Show 2006 Day 1

“Crackdown” pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the first ever truly 3-D playground. Gamers will enforce justice by any means necessary in Pacific City, a crime-ridden urban center built to encourage the exploration of the full width, depth and height of the city. Coupled with highly innovative co-op gameplay — a genre first — and an interactive world where nearly anything can be used as a weapon, gamers will be able to create a volatile cocktail of judicial oppression as they clean up the streets.

“Crackdown” is developed by Scotland’s Real Time Worlds exclusively for

'Imagine Movie Star' (NDS) Announced - Facts & Features

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Leipzig Games Convention - Leipzig Games Convention 2008 - Day 1

Experience all the glamour and fun of being a celebrity! Attend fabulous parties and walk the red carpet in the hottest new fashions, but make sure to maintain your celeb status and smile for the paparazzi!

Key Features:

  • Custom design your avatar with your own style, then turn your fame into a successful brand with magazines, cosmetics, and clothing lines you create. See your designs featured in the most glamorous magazines.
  • Participate in hot photo shoots with other celebrities and pose for the paparazzi on the red carpet
  • Hang out with other celebrities, go to parties, nightclubs or even on dates
  • Hold on to the

'Ape Escape Racer' [PS3] - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Tokyo Game Show - Tokyo Game Show 2006 Day 1

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NDS Preview - 'Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin'

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under E3 - Post - E3 2006

Genre: Action
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Konami
Release Date: Fall 2006

The year is 1944. Thirty-three years ago, John Morris and Eric LeCarde defeated Dracula's niece, Elizabeth Bartley, and in so doing, saved the world. As usual.

Now, in the middle of World War II, another vampire has raised Dracula's castle. Two mysterious girls are using the chaos of the war as cover to raise Dracula yet again. John's son Jonathan – the current wielder of the Vampire Killer whip – and his childhood friend Charlotte Orlean are the only people who can prevent Dracula's newest resurrection.

If history is

'Imagine Wedding Designer' (NDS) Announced - Facts & Features

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Leipzig Games Convention - Leipzig Games Convention 2008 - Day 1

As a young wedding designer, create the perfect wedding that satisfies the bride's taste and meets her expectations.

Key Features:

  • Manage the weddings of six different brides, each with their own personality and specific tastes.
  • Design the wedding invitation, choose the dress, veil, bouquet and more! You can also choose the bride's hair and makeup, the location of the ceremony and the music!
  • Choose who will be in the ceremony and select the outfits that will please the bride.
  • Live the big day! Ensure everything goes smoothly and your bride is happy! If not, you may face some unexpected events during the ceremony!
  • Unlock

'Petz Rescue Endangered Paradise' (NDS) - 3 New Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Leipzig Games Convention - Leipzig Games Convention 2008 - Day 1

As a member of the Earth Rescue Team (ERT), your mission is to save the wildlife on a beautiful island that has been threatened by pollution.

Key Features:

  • Save a beautiful island:
    • Heal wild animals.
    • Clean wild areas of pollution and recycle the waste you find.
    • Prepare the environment and reintroduce vegetative plants for the animals to eat.
  • Protect and rescue 12 wild animals: The island is a natural haven with four different environments (forest, taiga, savanna, desert) from a cold forest with bears to a dry savannah with lions.
  • Help the local inhabitants develop a

NDS Preview - 'Cooking Mama'

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under E3 - Post - E3 2006

Genre: Puzzle
Publisher: Majesco
Developer: Taito
Release Date: Q4 2006

Cooking Mama is poised to take over the US in a whirlwind of Japanese-influenced culinary awesomeness. This title, a hit in Japan, is quite possibly the first in a new genre of cooking games, being followed up later this year, of course, by Devil May Cook and World of Foodcraft.

All kidding aside, Cooking Mama features over 76 real recipes for Japanese dishes such as yakitori (meat and veggie skewers) and okonomiyaki (a kind of Japanese pancake). The game is laid out as a series of mini-games which divide up

'Petz Rescue Ocean Patrol' (NDS) - 3 New Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under Leipzig Games Convention - Leipzig Games Convention 2008 - Day 1

Players take on the role of Greg or Mila, and help their uncle save endangered marine species.

Cruise around an undiscovered island and rescue hurt or sick sea animals. Explore the island to develop open space pools, while respecting the environment. With the help of specialists, take care of and heal the many different animals before releasing them into the ocean.

Save the endangered marine species and try to help the rarest of them all: the giant Blue Whale.

Key Features:

  • Interact with new animals and endangered marine species such as sea lions,