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• Steve Harris Dishes New Details on EGM Re-Launch

  Late last May, the surprising news was announced that Steve Harris, the original founder of Electronic Gaming Monthly back in 1988, had reacquired the rights to the shuttered magazine with the intention of re-launching it later this year. Now in an interview with Publishing Executive (via Bitmob), Harris has divulged a few surprising new details of what the new EGM will look like -- and while just the fact that EGM is re-launching is newsworthy enough, this is particularly interesting in that Harris evidently plans to invent video paper. In the interview, Harris explains how the new EGM will be more than just the revival of a traditional magazine: First and foremost, we're planning to incorporate digital content within the magazine. This includes professionally-produced video, audio and other types of content. We're also going to make this content fully transportable. ... There's now a heightened consumer interest in the transportability of information and using applications to do things like read content on an iPhone. We benefit not only from the technology but from the consumer's willingness to use it. The new Electronic Gaming Monthly will let you take your magazine and its content from print to computer to wireless devices -- even to your television -- as well as enable subscribers and single-copy purchasers to enhance that experience every step of the way. We are embracing that reality [and] will enable it and encourage it. - 21 hours ago

• Capcom Classics Coming to PSN Throughout Summer

  Capcom seems to be jumping aboard Sony's digital distribution wagon with a flurry of downloadable retro games on the PlayStation Network this summer, according to the PlayStation.Blog. First up is the Capcom Classics Collection: Remixed coming later today, which includes titles like Strider and Bionic Commando. You can check the full line-up of games in the Remix at the Capcom blog. Capcom has noted that it's only playable on the PlayStation Portable, since it's a port of the UMD version of the game. Various other Capcom games are being brought to the PSN throughout the summer as well. UMD ports include Mega Man Powered Up, Power Stone Collection, Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X, Darkstalkers, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max, and Capcom Classics Collection: Reloaded. Capcom is also planning PS1 ports of Dino Crisis, Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. - 4 days ago

• Sony Always Planned for UMD-less PSP

  Sony had plans to make a PSP without the UMD drive from the beginning of the system's life, according to a new interview with GameBusiness.jp (via Develop). "We'd planned to release a PSP model without a UMD drive since the very beginning," said Naoya Matsui, Sony's head of product planning. "But if we'd simply released the hardware, there wouldn't have been much for everyone to enjoy. We needed to prepare the right environment for it first... We wanted to release it when the delivery of digital content was on par with the delivery of physical media. That's what we've been working on these past two years." It certainly makes sense for Sony to plan ahead so far in advance, since most hardware manufacturers do. It does shake up some assumptions about the UMD format, though. The focus on digital delivery seemed to be consciously shifting away from the proprietary format, which has had a rocky history. Instead, it seems to have been a bridge to where Sony ultimately wanted to go with the product all along. - 4 days ago

• Chunsoft Announces Two Adventure Games

  In the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu magazine, Chunsoft announced their next few releases, both of them in the sound-novel adventure genre that they're best known for in the country. First up, the veteran developer is producing PSP and PlayStation 3 ports of 428: In the Blocked City Shibuya, a Wii title that caused a stir when Famitsu awarded it a perfect review score out of nowhere last year. The original Wii game was published by Sega, but these new ports will be released in Japan by Chunsoft's new publishing partner Spike, as both companies are now part of Japanese umbrella joint venture Games Arena. Expect to see the ports in Japanese stores by this September. After 428 comes out this fall, a brand new Chunsoft adventure will hit the Nintendo DS, also courtesy of Spike. Called 9 Hours, 9 People, 9 Doors, the game has quite a staff behind it -- character designs are being handled by Kinu Nishimura, who's done tons of work on the Street Fighter series, and Kotaro Uchikoshi (writer of Ever17: The Out of Infinity) is handling director and screenplay duties. - 5 days ago

• Hot Shots Golf Dudes Produce Minigame Collection

  Red-hot bookshelf organizing getting you excited? That's only one of the 12 minigames set to be included in Minna no Sukkiri -- a new PSP title from Clap Hanz, developers of the Hot Shots Golf and Hot Shots Tennis series. Produced by the team of Masashi Muramori and Daisaku Ikejiri (the guys behind all of Clap Hanz's other games), Sukkiri's games run the gamut: karate, home run derby, boxing, pie throwing, and even an RTS-like wargame. Ad-hoc multiplayer is in the works as well. The game's due out this fall in Japan, with a demo slated to go up on Japan's PlayStation Network this Friday. - 5 days ago

• Japan's Game Creators Spout Their Takes on E3

  Are these two guys, pretending to be an elephant for the sake of their Project Natal overlord, the future of home video games? At least three people think so -- Grasshopper Manufacture head Goichi Suda, Level-5 boss Akihiro Hino, and Q Entertainment's Tetsuya Mizuguchi. All three creators weighed in on last month's blockbuster E3 conference in this week's issue of Famitsu magazine, and everyone agreed that this show was all about the big ideas of the future -- chief among them, motion control. "Hardware-wise, it was all about Project Natal," Suda said. "It's hard to really understand it unless you use it, and it remains to be seen what you can do with it, but I think it'll be a huge device. We developed No More Heroes with the Wii remote in mind, but now I want to think about games with Natal in mind. I have to ask myself, as a game designer, what new games can be done with this, what can be an interesting experience and challenge, and I'm looking forward to that." Mizuguchi, a designer whose games have a noticeably "futuristic" aspect to them, enthusiastically agreed. "With new technology announcements like Natal and the [PS3] Motion Controller, it's like I have a feel for the new generation, or that the door to the future has been opened," he said. "It's a wholly different impression of the future than we had before. It's not a shift from 2D to 3D or in the number of polygons, but it's games trying to open up an entirely new door. I thought it would take longer, but it's happening faster than I expected." - 5 days ago