Earlier today in the last leg of the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, Namco Bandai held a small keynote speech with regards to where future downloadable content will be making an appearance in their recent PlayStation 3 releases. Since the début of Star Wars characters in Soulcalibur IV, the company has gone “Lucas crazy”, in the words of Kyushiro Takagi, CEO.

Quite what he meant by “Lucas crazy” can be found out after the jump.

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The announcement that was pulled from E3 at the last minute (much to Bungie’s annoyance after having a count down on their website that ended with no announcement being made) but it seems that you can not contain the truth -it will come out if you like it or not. An expansion is coming to Halo 3.

It seems as though Microsoft were right to pull the announcement from E3 though, as Halo Fanboys have reacted badly to the early details.

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Intel recently revealed the final spec for USB 3.0 to the public and while the reception was relatively favorable. PC gamers, however, may want to make sure their home owner’s insurance premiums are paid up, there are some thing we didn’t know about USB 3.0 that are just now surfacing. According to our inside source, several members of the USB consortium are “put off” and “miffed” over their rather generic naming, having to compete against “cooler sounding” names such as i.Link and Firewire. USB 3.0 will be dubbed LaserWire and to live up to that name, they’ve made some questionable (but nonetheless impressive) changes to the original USB 3.0 spec draft. (more…)

The International Internet Authority have today announced plans to ban any linking in posts. This means that any piece of text on the Internet is not allowed to be linked to another site, article or webpage of any kind. This new policy has come from the Chairman of the IIA, Mr On Kiln who has been fighting against linking in posts for several years.

‘We do not see why any website would need to divert it’s users to another site. Each website is individual and should not be joined in any way’

This new policy has rendered Google useless as people cannot click a search result, Wikipedia is in ruins and the veritable flood of gaming blogs have been severely hit.

More on this story as it develops.

As listeners of Wednesday’s Humpday Update for the 13th of August will be aware, there’s a bit of tension brewing between Doc of the Red Show and Frawlz of the Blue Show. As far as Frawlz is concerned, Doc’s been rather unreasonable and has blocked him in Gmail’s chat facility in what the New Yorker is calling “Docblocked”. On Wednesday Doc insisted that a completely reasonable explanation will be given on Monday’s Red Show and everything will be settled.

Of course, sitting behind the scenes here at Sarcastic Gamer, I know what’s really going down on Monday, and now you do too. Hit the jump before they deny it all!

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Today Sarcastic Gamer have announced their own video game convention, the Sarcastic And Gamer Game Entertainment Expo, or SAGGEE for short. The expo will take place 4 times a year in the LA Convention Centre. Sarcastic Gamer founder Doc Adams gave this comment: “Since the creation of our weekly webcomic, the logical next phase was to create SAGGEE, or Saggy as it is affectionately known around here. Our decision to hold it 4 times a year will allow gamers to experience the latest titles in all the four seasons, or as we like to put it ‘whatever the weather.’”

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The U.S. economy is in pretty shabby condition. With food and fuel prices rising, many are finding it increasingly more difficult to make ends meet. Things don’t look to get any easier for the large number of individuals that recently found themselves on the wrong end of Activision Blizzard’s imposing unemployment ax. After thorough examination of upcoming releases, the company has decided to drop numerous IPs, which included “Ghostbusters: The Video Game,” “Brutal Legend,” “50 Cent: Blood on the Sand” and “The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.”

However, is Activision Blizzard really an evil, monolithic corporation? After all, the company is merely attempting to ensure that it is profitable for the foreseeable future. Activision CEO Bobby Kotick recently sat down with Sarcastic Gamer for an in-depth interview. What I found out was more terrifying than I could have ever imagined. (more…)

For those of you that don’t follow video game slap fights, which you really shouldn’t, let me catch you up on the sordid details. Earlier this week, the folks that head up the E for All Conference sent out a press release touting Pro Gamer Fatal1ty as the “face” of the show. Not to be outdone, Gabe from Penny Arcade released his own press release saying that not only will Fatal1ty not be the face at their show, but that he wasn’t even welcome at the show. While Gabe’s “too cool for school” remarks set off most people’s douche bag alarms, several other Conference and festival organizers have taken up Fatal1ty’s case and has made him an offer that he can’t refuse.

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In a recent tour of Capcom’s studios, I stumbled across something of epic proportion that nobody else in the gaming industry seems to care about. How this could be overlooked is amazing to me. The upcoming PS3/360 game Bionic Commando is founded on a very false assumption.

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Sarcastic Gamer’s resident ninja (who will remain anonymous for security purposes) has risked everything to deliver to us a brand new report on Nintendo’s up-and-coming Wii Music rhythm ‘game’, revealing that the game has had a bit of a makeover since its atrocious E3 showing.

The unique makeover and all of its original ideas follow after the jump.

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Though not widely publicized by the mainstream press, this year’s Olympic Games in Beijing mark the beginning of a new era.  It is the first year that a video game (Halo 3) has been included as an official medal event.  Teams from around the world are going for the gold in both deathmatch and capture the flag competitions that begin on Monday, at China’s Boika Stadium for Technological Events.

Among those competitors are a group of 6 athletes who, despite their demure behavior, carry the hopes and dreams of a nation on their shoulders.  They are the members of the Vatican City Olympic Halo 3 Team. (more…)

Quick as ever to cash in on the next big thing, Activision have announced that Treyarch will be developing a side-project at the same time as the upcoming Call of Duty: World of War. Reflecting on the current global obsession with social networking, Myspace: The Game will “test all witty, internet-savvy teenagers to the limit in a bid to discover who the true king or queen of shameless internet posing will be.”

Hit the jump for screenshots and the latest juicy info.

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After Ticket To Ride was released on XBLA a few weeks ago many were clamoring for a European version. Luckily the fine folks at Next Level Games were eager to please, with this new version of the game being released earlier this morning.

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