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More ‘sluggish’ sales plague Capcom financials

Capcom experienced another “sluggish” performance in its latest financial quarter — the first of Fiscal 2010, from April 1 to June 30 — and consequently blamed slow growth of Lost Planet 2 sales, among other things. Net sales for the quarter were down 2.4 percent year-over-year at 19 million yen ($219 million) and net income dropped a dramatic 90 percent from last year to the tune of 213 million yen ($2.5 million)

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Sega confirms Thor game for 2011

Sega today reaffirmed its ongoing commitment to creating game tie-ins to Marvel’s (will-be) Avengers flicks. Following its recent pair of Iron Man games and The Incredible Hulk , Sega will launch Thor: The Video Game across major platforms next year — and almost certainly around the release of the Thor film, due out May 6, 2011

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2010 halftime report on bestselling US console games

NPD has revealed the bestselling games for consoles from January through June of 2010.

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Rock Band Weekly: The Stooges, Bad Religion

The only problem with The Stooges being added to Rock Band’s DLC offerings next week is that it’s going to make a real mess of our living room. We like to get into character, after all, and what good is an authentic Iggy Pop impersonation if you don’t spit on everything and smear food all over your body

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Warren Spector: ‘The 3DS changed my life’

We’ve read (and written!) some positive write-ups on Nintendo’s recently revealed, extra-dimensional handheld , but nothing quite so glowing as the latest blog post from developer extraordinaire Warren Spector. “The 3DS changed my life,” Spector explained on his personal blog .

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