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GTA, but OTT - The Saints Row games are wonderful in how little they take themselves seriously, with Saints Row 2 acting as a wonderfully goofy antithesis to the sometimes irritatingly moody GTA IV. Saints Row: The Third has been slowly releasing new trailers and info (an announcement of a crotch kick attack is a personal favourite), and now we have an actual release date. Expect your opportunity to cause ludicrous urban havoc on November 15th, on the PS3, 360, and PC.
Capcom learn a little about DRM - Street Fighter 4's most recent revision, Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition is coming to PC along with 360 and PS3, but the PC version was initially going to be crippled by its own DRM. Using Games For Windows Live for the online functions, the system was initially set up so players had to always be online and logged in to use all of the game's functions. Booting the game without a 'Net connection would limit the game to only 15 characters of the full roster of 39. Naturally, fans of the series balked at such a poor decision, pointing out that such heavy-handed restrictions would only encourage piracy, as opposed to preventing it. Fortunately the pleas reached Capcom's ears, and the system is to be revised - as long as the game connects to Games for Windows once, all the content will be available, online and off. It's great that Capcom is listening to its userbase, a lesson that other publishing companies could do with learning.
PSN Fully Operational, but Sony Still Hacked - This week has marked the finalisation of Sony's plans to get the PSN back online, with its "Welcome Back" package of five games, detailed here a couple of weeks ago, finally coming online and working, at least in theory. There have been several problems, however, as the larger number of users clamouring for their titles has strained the service and lead to random outages. In related news, hacker group Lulz Security claim to have hacked into the website for Sony Pictures, stealing several hundred thousand usernames and passwords, and rather showing up the company which recently pledged to take seriously user data security. Despite this, the company is adamant that the PSN will remain online, at least for the foreseeable future. Indeed, an outage during next week's E3 would potentially be seen as even more disastrous for the corporation.
3DS e-store to Launch Next Week - Nintendo's 3DS has been rather lacking in decent titles of late, with many perceiving it to have launched "too early", without sufficient title support, or even basic accepted features within the console, many menu items simply returning the message that "This feature will be made available through a future update". Hopefully this will change on Tuesday, as both the 3DS Browser, as well as the e-shop, will be made available during Nintendo's E3 conference. This will include the ability to transfer games purchased on DSi to the 3DS itself, though transfer in reverse, from 3DS to DSi, will not work. Included as a freebie will be a 3D version of the Pokédex, featuring the "new" Pokémon from Black and White. Initially the 'dex will contain three of the creatures, but this will be expandable through the console's StreetPass feature, in which users can network with other 3DS users nearby, even when the console is in sleep mode.
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