What do Metal Slug 7, King of Fighters ’98 Ultimate Match, Space Invaders Extreme and Arkanoid Live all have in common? They are all coming to Xbox Live with additional content added to them. During today’s Microsoft TGS press conference, Microsoft announced that these titles will be coming to Xbox Live some time next year.

-Chris Weng

Source: Major Nelson

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Microsoft also announced today during there TGS 2008 press conference that another former Playstation exclusive is now coming to the 360. Tekken 6 will be released for the Xbox360 along with the PS3 version in Fall 2009. Another slap to the face goes to Sony again, who will not hold a press conference during TGS 2008.

-Chris Weng

Source: Joystiq.com

During Microsoft’s TGS 2008 press conference, Star Ocean: The Last Hope was announced to be released on February 19th in Japan and March 3rd in North America to the Xbox 360. No word from the Sony or Square Enix on whether this is a timed exclusive or not, however, there has been no word about console exclusivity from Microsoft either. Keep those fingers crossed, Sony fanboys!

-Chris Weng

Source: Joystiq.com

PS3 owners are going to need to wait a little while longer for their next Tekken title. Namco Bandai announced yesterday that the regular Tekken 6 that was available for in arcades 2007 will not come to consoles, but the special extended edition Tekken 6 Bloodline Rebellion will be coming to the PS3 with more added content than the arcade version of the game. No release date has been announced for the game, but with TGS 2008 just around the corner, you can expect more news to come around about this title.

-Chris Weng

Source: SDTekken.com, IGN.com

I love the Need for Speed series. Well, except for Pro Street. The police chases in Most Wanted were fantastic, and it looks like Need for Speed developers Black Box loves them too, so much that they made a whole multiplayer mode based on car chases. The mode is called “Cops and Robbers,” and its basically capture the flag except with cars. 2 teams of 4 cars have a “package” that must be picked up by your team and dropped off at a “safehouse” while the other team tries to stop you in anyway possible. Sounds fun Black Box! Now bring back Underground car customization.

-Chris Weng

Source: Kotaku.com

On October 21, around 2 PM Pacific Time, Bioware and Lucasarts will announce a new game. The screen above shows the invitation to an unveiling of the game. Rampant speculation about what the actual game will be include a new MMORPG based on the Knights of the Old Republic series that was on Xbox, a sequel to Knights of the Old Republic, or a totally new IP based on the New Republic Star Wars universe. Either way, Bioware’s history of games have been pretty much solid gold (Sonic was actually pretty good!) and Lucasarts knows how to use the Star Wars franchise to their advantage (ie. The Force Unleashed), so I’m really looking forward to this announcement. Then again, so is everyone else still drooling over Leia’s slave bikini outfit.

-Chris Weng

Source: Joystiq.com, Massively

Many of you readers out there are probably aware of a game called DOTA that is available as a downloadable map for Warcraft III and its expansion, The Frozen Throne. Heck, a song was even written about it. I myself have had many a great nights LANing it up with friends for hours. Well, there’s good news for all you fans of the RTS RPG genre.

Riot Games, led by the developers who first created the DOTA mod, are creating their own standalone game called League of Legends (LOL – pun intended!), which will have many of the same elements found in DOTA, with a few changes of course. Instead of individual units to control, you get a Summoner avatar that controls troops that fight for you. The Summoner gains levels and items during a game and loses them after the game ends; however, the Summoner is carried on to the next game.

I’m pretty excited for this game, if only because I love DOTA, but it just goes to show that you don’t need a $100 million dollar budget to make a good game. I’m looking at you Halo.

-Chris Weng

Sources: Kotaku.com

During today’s Nintendo Live Conference 2008, Iwata announced that a new Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles that is being developed by Square Enix will be available for both the Wii and the DS(i). They will be able to link with each other, however, details have been scarce about the full capabilities of the link between the Wii version of the game and the DS version of the game.

The full name of the game is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time. No release date or price has been announced for the game as of yet.

-Chris Weng

Source: Destructoid.com

Note: Camera DS Not Picture Above

Rumors have been flying around all week about a new DS that has been in development by Nintendo. Well, it appears that those rumors might actually have some merit, and anyone who decided to shell out money for the new Metallic Silver DS might find their money wasted on old tech.

MCV, a British video game publication, believes that the new MP3 compatible DS with built in camera will be announced at 12:00 AM EST tonight during Nintendo’s press event in Japan today. MCV claims that their source is “impeccable,” though the source remains annonymous. As with all rumors, you might want to take this news with a grain of salt, but I’m interested to see how Nintendo and other software developers utilize the new camera on the DS.

-Chris Weng

Source: Joystiq.com

9 unannounced titles exclusive to the PS3 have been announced to be revealed at TGS in less then two weeks. One of these titles, Demon’s Souls, developed by From Software (developers of the Armored Core series), was announced today in the latest issue of Famitsu.

Demon’s Souls is described as an action-RPG game and from the looks of the screenshot from the magazine, it looks like it may have some pretty epic boss battles. It will be a playable title at TGS, so we will find out just how it plays there.

-Chris Weng

Source: Joystiq.com