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Battery maker Energizer wants to be more than just your battery maker of choice. It wants a slice of that sweet video game accessories revenue, announcing four controller charging stations in advance of CES ‘09.

Why simply buy rechargeable AAs when you can enjoy the luxury of dedicated charging stations? Plugging your mini-USB cable into the top of your DualShock 3 is so late 2006! Energizer implores you to buy one of its “Power & Play” charging systems, for your Wii Remote, Xbox 360 controller and PlayStation 3 controller recharging needs.

It even touts a dedicated Wii Fit charging station, but doesn’t provide photos. Perhaps the company just wants to get the keywords “Wii Fit” into its press release. Regardless, we’ll be hunting down Energizer public relations reps while in Las Vegas to find out just why one would need such a thing.

Naughty pics of controllers being recharged after this.

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I had the great good fortune to check out X-Blades for the PS3 today and have fresh screenshots to share with all of you.

Hit the jump and ogle away.

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X-Blades is scheduled for a Feb. 10 release on PS3.

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Sega’s NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams for the Wii was once planned for release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but shifted platforms against the wishes of Sonic Team producer Takashi Iizuka.

Sonic the Hedgehog-centric site TSSZ News cites a now-deleted personal blog “Boss Rush” written by former Sega Europe employee Ben Andac as its source for the revelation. Andac, posting under the more anonymous title “jpeg,” wrote of then in-development games like Sonic Unleashed and the then still to be announced NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams.

On the blog, he lamented the fate of Sonic Team, venting that the internal Sega development studio had “lost their quality touch” calling them “bored, weary, closed-minded and out of touch with any sense of what makes games good anymore; not to mention what consumers want (and in the long-term what the company itself so desperately needs).”

The change in platforms from the high-definition PS3 and Xbox 360 wouldn’t be that out of the ordinary, nor notable, if the game weren’t so highly anticipated by fans of the original NiGHTS for the Sega Saturn.

Andac’s version of the Wii game’s development history purports that Sega brass switched platforms at a late point in the game’s production. He writes that, due to the change, Sonic Team had little more than a year of actual development time to finish the title.

What ultimately resulted was a Wii title that was coolly received by fans and critics. Whether Andac’s assessment of the situation at Sega is accurate is unconfirmed, but his post, archived here, is fascinating to read.

The Blog Sega Doesn’t Want You to Read [TSSZ News]

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SCEA’s announced its latest PS3 Movie Store additions, which this week includes the Monty Python Collection - there are 4 features, 7 specials and 3 TV seasons.
Other than that, there’s Babylon AD, Bangkok Dangerous, Disaster Movie, Pineapple Express, The Wackness and Episode 22 of Xam’d: Lost Memories.
Read all about in on the PSBlog.
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In an interview with Edge, Naughty Dog co-president Christophe Balestra said that this time round, the Uncharted: Among Thieves team has something prove in the environment department.
“We wanted a wide range of environments this time,” explains Balestra. “We wanted to show this wasn’t just a jungle game.”
According to the article, Among Thieves looked anything but:
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Talking with Edge, Xbox 360 product manager Aaron Greenberg said he expects Sony to drop the price of PlayStation3 sooner rather than later.
“We absolutely expect the PS3 price drop to happen in the next couple of months,” he said. “We’re frankly surprised it’s taken this long. … I would expect they’d have to move on […]

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Japanese consumers will be treated to a rather shiny white, dragon-embossed PS3 when Yakuza 3 goes on sale on February 26.
Included in the ¥45980 (some random € number) bundle is a white 80GB machine with are a single DualShock controller a copy of the game.
More pics at Kotaku.
By Mike Bowden

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Japanese consumers will be treated to a rather shiny white, dragon-embossed PS3 when Yakuza 3 goes on sale on February 26.
Included in the ¥45980 (some random € number) bundle is a white 80GB machine with a single DualShock controller a copy of the game.
More pics at Kotaku.
By Mike Bowden

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An insider source has revealed to videogaming247.com that it is unlikely the UK will be treated to a similar pre-order-the-game-get-the-demo-early deal as our American cousins.
As far as the rest of Europe is concerned, the decision will be down to individual territories if they want to sanction such an incentive, our source claimed today.
Killzone 2 is […]

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An insider source has revealed to videogaming247.com that it is unlikely the UK will be treated to a similar pre-order-the-game-get-the-demo-early deal as our American cousins.
As far as the rest of Europe is concerned, the decision will be down to individual territories if they want to sanction such an incentive, our source claimed today.
Killzone 2 is […]

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