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It’s not so common to hear about a series of video game-related crimes that are executed in a short period of time. The Sacramento County area has been hit with five robberies at video game stores in ten days. Four of the five accounts have occurred at GameStop retailers.

Detectives have been piecing together the cases and believe the robberies may be related. At least two men have entered during the robberies and one man has been spotted with a shotgun. The robbers have been reported to be after money from both the store and customers.

You might think that – since the men have been robbing video game stores – the robbers might be interested in a few video game products as well. Oddly enough though, there have been no reports of actual video game merchandise being taken.

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“We signed a brand new game in the middle of December…the 15th of December we signed the contract…Greg and I signed a contract and Fed Ex’d it back to the publisher and boom. We’re hitting the ground running now. We’re actually going to do kind of a diary of the development of that but I probably won’t release that until once the game’s been announced…I’m really really excited about it. It might be the game I’m the most excited about ever in my career…Hopefully I can tell you all about it soon. It’s going to be awhile probably…It’s not related to the other game with the Dracula character we released before.” – Jools Watsham, Renegade Kid developer

If previous work done by Reneage Kid is any indication, this new title could turn out to be a great experience. Moon and The Dementium have pushed the limits of the DS, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the new game falls in line with that as well.

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“Swimming will be a part of it, but it won’t be set in an Olympic pool going back and forth. This is a pure action game. We will spend a very pretty penny in marketing this project because it’s important to us. We believe it’s the next Tiger Woods project…It could be here for the next 10 years.” – 505 Games president Adam Kline

As much as 505 Games is hyping up the project, I can’t help but continue to remain skeptical. I’ve become a bit of a Phelps fan after watching him in the Olympics, though this kind of game seems rather risky.

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“If it sells well enough, sure. Of course, you can’t really say how well it’ll sell at this point, but if it does great — if we can get a lot of people to play it and enjoy it — I’d love to make another one.” – Yuji Naka

Sadly, I don’t think we’ll see any more Let’s types of titles considering the sales in Japan thus far. Let’s Tap only sold about 5,000 units in its first week. That’s pretty disappointing since the game is very original.

Naka also discussed another game in production from Prope. He said, “We’re actually planning on making a game like Sonic right now. We want to keep trying to make various kinds of games.” Hopefully the game won’t be based on some of Sonic’s more recent outings!

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“I’m sorry to hear that you’ve experienced difficulties with using Club Nintendo. As with any large online undertaking, we’re facing some growing pains, but I want to assure you that we have a team dedicated to improving the service and making it work for all users. We are currently doing maintenance on the Club Nintendo site which should resolve any problems you’ve experienced. As we don’t yet have an estimated time when the Club Nintendo site will be back up, we ask that you please keep checking back. Thank you for your patience!” – Nintendo representative

Club Nintendo has really been a mess since it launched, so it’s to be expected that it is undergoing maintenance. I’ve heard of all types of issues popping up including games missing from survey lists, games not showing up at all, and the lack of downloaded Wii content not appearing for everyone. Nintendo most likely wanted to make sure they kept their promise and launch Club Nintendo by year’s end, but it hasn’t been very cooperative since it went live.

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Gamers who are avid followers of Hideo Kojima’s work have received an early Christmas present – the knowledge that the man is directing two new titles at the same time. The first title that will be revealed is more comparable to Kojima’s previous work, while the second title is being produced by Kojima Productions. Furthermore, Kojima Productions seems to be making the second title with the overseas market in mind. Sadly, no other details were divulged. No mention of a specific platforms for the games or specific gameplay details. Like was the case with Kojima’s most recent secret, I’m going to guess that these two titles will not end up on a Nintendo system. Then again, who knows!

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When titles in the Mario and Zelda series are being developed, one can bet that Shigeru Miyamoto oversees a great deal of the production process each day. However, that can’t be said about every Nintendo title. Miyamoto has stated that sometime he might only check in on a product “once a week or even once a month.”

“Our department has so many people working on different projects. Some titles I’m deeply involved in and others I’m not so deeply involved in. Sometimes there is software I check on just once a week or even once a month. But I’m always getting reports on how games are going, then I make comments or decide to change aspects of the game. When games are nearing completion I usually get more deeply involved.”

You might also be interested to know that Miyamoto regularly eats lunch with Satoru Iwata, swims at least once a week, and believe it or not, Miyamoto is often late to work.