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Naruto Powerful Shippuden Coming To 3DS

Leading video game publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today announced that NARUTO Powerful Shippuden for Nintendo 3DS will be coming to North American retailers in March 2013. NARUTO Powerful Shippuden was developed by Inti Creates with production support from CyberConnect2 Co., Ltd. and brings to the table a side-scrolling action fighting game with an anime twist. The game is based off of the popular anime series NARUTO SPIN-OFF: ROCK LEE & HIS NINJA PALS, the latest series in the hit NARUTO and NARUTO SHIPPUDEN anime franchise (all available from VIZ Media), allowing players to take the role … Continue reading Naruto Powerful Shippuden Coming To 3DS

Play iPhone Game To Automatically Help Sandy Victims

This year, a game is all you have to do to give a gift to people who suffered from the Sandy Storm. Yushino, an iphone game best described as the Words With Friends of Numbers, donates $1 for every new player to All Hands Volunteers, an organization offering on-hands help to suffering communities. All Hands Volunteers, www.hands.org, is a charity dedicated to help disaster victims. Their current program is helping Sandy storm victims in Long Island, NY. Yushino invites us to play a game with our friends until 12/31 and help reach the $10,000 donation goal to All Hands Volunteers, … Continue reading Play iPhone Game To Automatically Help Sandy Victims

Free Heroes Of The Realm Game Launches Christmas Eve

The new card-based strategy/simulation game, Heroes of the Realm, will launch in North America on December 24, as announced today by OGPlanet, a leading publisher of Free-to-Play, multiplayer online games, in partnership with Bluceansoft Corp. With its unique kingdom-building and role-playing elements, Heroes of the Realm offers strategy fans a wide variety of challenges and deep gameplay with the convenience of a browser-based format. Heroes of the Realm blends key elements of the simulation, card battle/collection, and strategy/RPG genres into an addictive hybrid of a game unlike any other. Players build kingdoms and amass an army of Heroes as they … Continue reading Free Heroes Of The Realm Game Launches Christmas Eve

NeoGeo X Gold Lands In Europe

FUNSTOCK (in partnership with BLAZE) today announced the NEOGEO X GOLD Limited Edition entertainment system for the European, Australian, Russia, Africa and Middle Eastern Territories is ready to ship over the Christmas period. The NEOGEO X GOLD Limited Edition will include a limited edition game card to accompany the 20 classic NEOGEO AES games already pre-loaded on the NEOGEO X Handheld, at no additional cost. Visit the site at: http://www.funstock.co.uk/ FunStock also confirm they will stay open over the Christmas period (including Christmas Day) to ensure that any pre orders and new orders are shipped as quickly as possible over … Continue reading NeoGeo X Gold Lands In Europe

Patterns Goes On Direct Sale

Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life, Creatorverse and other shared creative spaces, today announced that the Patterns genesis release (version 0.01F) is now available for purchase and download directly from BuildPatterns.com. Previously, the Patterns genesis release required users to have or create a Steam account to download the game. Patterns is a 3D digital universe to explore and shape with your creativity. Beginning on an archipelago floating in space, you explore and discover the shapes and patterns that form this world. As you collect materials of varying strength and durability, you can use them to build anything from large-scale … Continue reading Patterns Goes On Direct Sale

Carrier Command Gaea Mission Sailing To Live

Rising Star Games today announced that its strategy-based game Carrier Command: Gaea Mission will be available via Games on Demand on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft on December 28, 2012. Bringing a modern update to the classic 1980’s version of the franchise, Carrier Command: Gaea Mission blends first- and third-person vehicular combat with tactical and strategic elements. Set in a massive game environment — consisting of 33 unique islands hosting six distinct climatic zones — Carrier Command: Gaea Mission puts players in command of a futuristic military carrier holding a multitude of remotely controllable and … Continue reading Carrier Command Gaea Mission Sailing To Live

Guilty Gear XX Accent Hits PSN

The latest installment in the world-renowned 2D fighting game franchise, ‘Guilty Gear’ hit the PlayStationNetwork in North America. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus brings to the table one of the fans’ most sought-after features: online versus play via PSN, along with a slew of new features. (The XboxLIVE version has already gone on sale in North America). The complete cast including Kliff and Justice from the PlayStation 2 version of Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus (released in 2008) returns to the roster with fully-voiced scenarios.Furthermore, an update to the title is already in the works, that will bring … Continue reading Guilty Gear XX Accent Hits PSN

NASA Releases Free Space Food Book For Holidays

America’s space program has come a long way from the early days when astronauts ate food packed in toothpaste tubes. Today, nutrition is known to be a key ingredient in astronaut health in space, just as it is for humans on Earth. NASA scientists and educators have teamed up to publish a book, aimed at intermediate school students, that explains the role of nutrition in the space program. The free e-book describes how space nutrition research is conducted and highlights this important avenue of ongoing research at NASA. Educator Guides that suggest ways to incorporate the material into the classroom, … Continue reading NASA Releases Free Space Food Book For Holidays