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In a letter recently distributed (.pdf link) to the company’s investors, Nippon Ichi president Tomohiro Sato announced that he would be stepping down from his managerial post on March 31. Sato cites “personal reasons” as the force leading him to resign, though this news comes only two weeks on the heels of Nippon Ichi’s announcement of its 98 percent year-over-year revenue decline, and resulting JASDAQ freefall. Though we may not undoubtedly know what led to Sato’s departure, we’re really hoping this is just part of Nippon Ichi’s restructuring process, and that we’re one step closer to getting our hands on Absolute Hero Modding Project . Ever the pragmatists, we are. Nippon Ichi president resigning at the end of March originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:30:00 EST

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Nippon Ichi president resigning at the end of March

[ Prinny Blog ] Disgaea developer and publisher Nippon Ichi didn’t have the best 2009, dood. Last week, the company announced its earnings for the first nine months of its fiscal year (ending December 31, 2009), recording operating profits 97.5% lower than those of 2008.

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Nippon Ichi earnings plummet in 2009

Speaking to Gamereactor , Lionhead maestro Peter Molyneux revealed that there will be some big Fable 3 news at the X10 event this week. “There’s some very, very big things happening in Fable ,” said Molyneux, “Bigger than you think, and it’s going to really upset people.” Molyneux added that he is “really scared” about telling people the news, saying, “They’re going to get super pissed off, they really are.” Still, he concluded that it’s “the right thing to do,” and confirmed that he will be demonstrating the mystery announcement at X10 in San Francisco. Joystiq’s theory: The entire story of Fable 2 was a dream sequence. Whatever it is, we’ll be delivering the news directly from X10, so Joystiq’s staff and readers can all get pissed off together.

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Molyneux: Fable 3 news at X10 will make you ’super pissed off’

We were hoping to recreate our Super Bowl-themed post from last year , in which the winner of the Big Game was predicted by placing a very literal representative of each team’s moniker in a ring, and forcing them to duke it out . Sadly, we’re finding this year’s match-up a bit harder to emulate. We’re not sure whether any Saints are actually living among us — even if they were, we doubt they’d agree to participate in such a needless display of pugilism. Worse still, what would they fight

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Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 25 – Jan. 31: Super Prediction XLIV edition

Konami announced yesterday that Upper Deck had been forced to settle with the company after allegedly printing hundreds of thousands of faked Yu-Gi-Oh! cards in China and bringing them stateside. On any other day, this news would just be kind of funny, but it’s elevated by attorney for Upper Deck Richard Howell who said “At this point, Upper Deck doesn’t have a lot of Life Points. We’re talking about behavior that, from a defense attorney’s standpoint, I can’t defend and I am not going to defend. I’m here defending a counterfeiter.

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Like a mean cousin, Upper Deck steals Konami’s Yu-Gi-Oh! cards

Apart from some fine print, the headline pretty much says it all. Attendees at this year’s Game Developers Conference are eligible to receive a free Android phone . And not just any Android phone either. No, attendees will be able to choose between a super trendy Droid or an even trendier Nexus One

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Attend GDC, get a free Android phone; attend as press, get bent

It looks like we’ll get to see the next Tony Hawk joint soon enough. The skateboarding legend recently tweeted that he just concluded a meeting with developer Robomodo . Tony Hawk said the project is already ” much better than I expected,” though we think he may be a bit biased on the matter

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Tony Hawk: details on next Robomodo project coming soon

For years we’ve waited for the news, patiently biding our time, but we need wait no longer. Somewhere in Hertfordshire, UK, 21-year-old Lisa Courtney …

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British girl has record-breaking Pokemon collection

Filed under: Mac , PC , Meta (about Joystiq) In case you hadn’t noticed, CES 2010 dominated the news this week. Heck, there were even a few interesting PC game items to report from the show — a rarity in recent years! Let’s look back at the highlights of the past seven days: Exclusive Features 10 Games We Wish Were Coming in 2010 : There are some upcoming games that have already been announced that won’t be out this year. We pick 10 that we wish would arrive just a bit earlier. Pretty please? Black Ops PC Games For 2010 : There are plenty of games that are still being developed under a cloak of darkness/shroud of mystery/hood of deception

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The Best of Big Download: January 4-10

With the news that Project Natal would offload the image processing to the Xbox console – as opposed to handling those duties in hardware on the device itself – and consume as much as 1 0 to 15 percent of the console’s overall “computing resources,” we became concerned that the potential for “supplemental” input in core games would be blunted. When asked what percentage of the Project Natal-enabled games in development would be Natal-exclusive as opposed to Natal-enhanced titles, Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg told Joystiq, “Our focus is on most if not all them will fall into that category of completely unique, brand-new experiences for Natal.” “We’re going to manage the portfolio very carefully and our focus is going to be on bringing completely brand new original experiences to the market when we launch Natal,” Greenberg said. “We’re not looking at just adding little Natal components to games, we’re looking at how do we actually bring an entirely new category of controller-free games and entertainment to the market so I think that’s where we will continue to focus.” But that doesn’t mean that other developers aren’t able to supplement their game’s input with Natal controls. After the release this holiday, “developers will have that out there at their fingertips if they want to enable those features,” Greenberg told us. “But I can’t speak to what that means from a game development standpoint.

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Project Natal focus on ‘brand-new experiences’ not ‘little Natal components’