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Nintendo began streaming a trailer for the upcoming Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates of Infinity 3DS game. Pokemon is like the old standard and might be one to consider picking up for your gaming collection. It will be available in the North American market on March 24.
The PlayStation Japan YouTube channel has begun streaming the trailer for the PlayStation Vita game, Soul Sacrifice. This might be one that you want to consider for your video gaming collections. It will be available in Japan March 7, North America April 30, and Europe May 1.
Namco Bandai Games has released the trailer for Summon Knight 5. This title will be available for PSP, spring 2013. Thanks to AnimeNews Network and YouTube for the following trailer:
The first round for pictures from the “Videotopia” exhibit at Exploration Place in Wichita, Kansas. Be sure to stop by and play a round of games.
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Librarians will want to let their trading card gamers (especially W0W gamers) know about the upcoming World of Warcraft promo card. Cryptozoic will be releasing the promo card “The Well of Eternity”, at participating retailers, on October 2. This promotion is to support the upcoming Timewalkers: War of the Ancients launch. Let your TCG gamers know so they can contact their retailers to see if the can pick up this card.
Shadows Over Camelot: The Card Game, by Days of Wonder, is one that libraries that have a strong gaming community might want to consider picking up. The game can be played by 1 up to 7 players and is a stand alone game that lasts about 20 minutes. So this would be great for a gaming day in the library. It is scheduled for an October release date and has a suggested retail price of $25.00. For more information follow the link below:
CAPCOM released a trailer for Resident Evil 6. The trailer shows what looks like cut scenes (story mode scenes) from the game, which will be available to purchase this coming October 2. If you library has a video game collection this will probably be one you will want to add to your collection. Thanks to AnimeNews Network and YouTube for the trailer:
Today is the day that Mass Effect 3 hits store shelves. So if you haven’t picked up your copy yet, hopefully there will still be some copies left at the store. Thanks to ICv2 and YouTuber “biowaremasseffect” for the following trailer.
Namco Bandai Games Europe came up with a cool way to advertise for Soul Calibur V. They hired two graffiti artists to do a mural on the Great Eastern Street Wall in London’s East End. The information on YouTube on gives the name of one artist that painted the advertisement and that is Jim Rockwell. The below video shows a time-lapse of the painting and a scan of the whole painting when it is completed, which took three days. The very end of the video is a trailer for Soul Calibur V. Thanks to AnimeNews Network and YouTube Channel “NamcoBandaiGamesEU” for the news and video.
Japan just likes to have fun with their popular culture. It has been announced that the convenience store chain FamilyMart will be offering new pork buns. The pork buns will be Slime Nikuman, inspired by the role-playing game DragonQuest.