Gadgets and Video Games

It’s not a good sign when Xbox know-it-all Major Nelson admits in his This Week on Arcade post that “information on the game is light, so here is what I was able to find.” However, we can’t blame him — we’d never heard of KrissX , this week’s new XBLA game, before today either. Apparently, the Blitz Games-developed , Konami-published puzzler tasks players with solving crosswords and unscrambling “over 3,500 jumbled words that will test your trivia knowledge and expand your own daily vocabulary.” We’re automatically apprehensive about games that try to sneak some education into our entertainment regimen — we’ll have to wait and see if KrissX is actually fun enough to deserve our 800 ($10). Sadly, we don’t think the game has anything in common with Kriss Kross’ other ludological outing . Someday, friends. Someday .

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This Wednesday: KrissX will make you jump, jump, solve puzzles

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Epic Games has opened a new subsidiary in Seoul, Korea, with plans to provide licensing services and support resources to development teams using its Unreal Engine. Epic Games Korea will be led by Ray Park, formerly the business and strategy development manager for Microsoft’s in-game advertising company, Massive, Inc . While Epic Games has provided its Unreal Engine to teams in the territory for over five years, Park states the opening of a Korean subsidiary signifies Epic’s “desire to collaborate more closely with the [local] game development community.” Jay Wilbur, Epic Games’ vice president of business development, noted Epic Games Korea would serve as “a hub for Unreal Engine access, knowledge and support in the Korean marketplace.” Rumors of developer Silicon Knights moving to Korea in search of the support it claims to have never received from Epic Games could not be confirmed … because we made it up for the sake of a bad joke. [Image Credit: Nanopaprika ] Epic Games Korea opens to work closely with local devs originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:30:00 EST.

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Epic Games Korea opens to work closely with local devs

Late last week, Konami registered the title Genso Suikoden with the United States Patent and Trademark office. While no further details are available, the filing may be one of many different possibilities: a new game in the series (known simply as Suikoden in North America), a remake of the original Suikoden or a US release of the poor-selling Japan-only PSP compilation, which included slightly enhanced versions of Suikoden I & II . The nearly 15 year old series has been getting quite a push from Konami in recent months.

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Konami registers ‘Genso Suikoden’ in US