Heading to PSP, DS, and Cell Phones next year.

SquareEnix's biggest announcement at TGS so far is the further expansion of the Kingdom Hearts series in the form of three new portable titles: Birth By Sleep for PSP, 358/2 Days for DS, and Coded for mobile phones. 

Birth By Sleep seems to be the most straightforward of the three, playing much like it's PS2 predecessors, while telling a prequel story.

358/2 Days (is that supposed to be pronounced "179 Days"?) will apparently focus on 4 player simultaneous play involving members of Organization XIII and will be fully 3D, not sprite based like the GBA's Chain of Memories. Word is the title will make sense when you play the game. Hey, any title that doubles as a math problem has piqued my interest.

Coded is the obligatory cell phone game that, like Before Crisis, Parasite Eve 3, and FF Agito XIII, no one outside of Japan will ever get to play. Do you really need to know any more than that?

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Thus, adding more value to an already addictive game.

Wow! The first Bomberman Live expansion has barely had time to cool off and Hudson has already has another release in the wings. Only this time, they've got a special treat in store for diehard fans as well as Destuctoid.com's loyal readerbase.

For those not in the know, Destructroid.com is one of the top video game news sites on the Web. They've partnered with Hudson Entertainment to introduce the Destructoid mascot as a playable character. Now if you've read my review, then you'd know that this news would have be rather exciting for me to take time away from creating virutal havoc and broken egos.

As it turns out, Bomb-Up Pack 2 will come loaded with dozen of new additions including ten new characters, two new levels (sporting a racetrack and medieval theme, respectively), a new game mode called Bomb Shelters (players can hide out in fireproof buildings, haha) and two additional leaderboards. Hold up a sec… MORE characters? I hope they break out some more ethnic variations because my current character deserve a hairdo change every once in awhile.

The fact that Bomberman Live already has two expansion packs under its belt proves that this is one of the most successful games  on Xbox Live… well, aside from Geometry Wars. Nothing is ever going to come close to breaking those statistics in my opinion. It's especially cool that a highly respected site also had the chance to get some virtual pimpage of their star character… kinda makes me wish we had someone around here to represent our site, y'know?

Everyone can look forward to this release next week on Sept 26 for the awesome low price of 250 Microsoft Points. Man, first it was Streets of Rage 2, Sonic 2 and now the second Bomberman expansion pack. I should just open up some sort of longterm MS points account because I've been on a debit spree way too often. A small impressions of this new pack (including the first expansion pack release) might pop up here on GotSpace. Stay tuned… until then, I am going back to fragging. 

You can buy but you can't play.

Halo 3 has been sitting in the back room of many stores for a couple weeks now, but as next week's street date approaches, more and more copies are finding their way into the hands of impatient gamers, largely due to an error on the part of European retailer, Argos.

UK-based game site PRO-G, one of the lucky ones to get their dirty mitts on a copy of the game through Argos, spoke to a Microsoft rep who informed them that anyone playing the game early will find themselves banned from Live. Simply playing offline won't cut it either as the next time you connect to Live they can see that the game has been played and will issue a ban just the same.

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Yes, you read that right.

If you raised an eyebrow at the headline it's because you know that there never was an SNES version of Secret of Mana 2, and furthermore, that no such game by that name was ever released anywhere. Ever.

Tell that to ebay seller kurt.roussel, who decided that such minor philosophical issues as "existence" weren't about to stop him from auctioning one off. What is real anyway? Sure the game isn't "real" in the sense that it is about as unofficial as it gets, but what IS real is the desire to acquire that images of it instill in me. I'd love to have that on my shelf just to blow people's minds.

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Perverts, unite.

I know this one has already been, um, splattered all over the message boards, but I can't resist.

The well-informed folks at Kotaku have posted a very interesting report on a game called Love Death 2, complete with video footage.  Therein, the player shoots reproductive fluid at what appears to be a schoolgirl.  Yes, really.  And believe it or not, that's not even the most disturbing aspect of this mess.

Words fail me, so I'll let the summary on the Kotaku page speak for itself.  Go here to read it and view the very not-safe-for-work video.

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