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After staying with Tecmo Koei for close to two decades, Hisashi Koinuma has received a major promotion. Koinuma primarily handles the Samurai Warriors titles as series producer, but he’s now taking on the role of the company’s executive vice president.

Koinuma’s past work includes Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage, One Piece: Pirate Warriors, and Pokemon Conquest in addition to Samurai Warriors. There’s no sign that Koinuma will cease video game development, as he’s currently involved with Toukiden.

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In an announcement covering the digital release of Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny on the PlayStation Network last week, Natsume CEO and president Hiro Maekawa left an interesting tease. The company will be highlighting “more digital titles” at E3 2013 next month.

Maekawa said:

“We’re excited to show the media the fruit of the past year’s promise to provide more digital titles at next month’s E3 Expo.”

Natsume has been giving the Virtual Console quite a bit of love as of late. Maybe we’ll be hearing about more of these classic releases?

Source: Natsume PR

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A new Iwata Asks has gone live for your reading pleasure. The discussion is all about NERD – formerly of Mobiclip fame. Mobiclip underwent the name change after being fully acquired by Nintendo.

You can find the full Iwata Asks here. It’s filled with lots of juicy tidbits.

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The Batman: Arkham Origins Kevin Conroy situation just got a whole lot more interesting.

Conroy was originally rumored to be skipping Origins and wouldn’t be back to voice Batman. But yesterday, a video emerged from the Dallas Comic-Con in which he stated that he’s been working on the “next Arkham game” for the past “nine or ten months”. The logical assumption was that Conroy would be back in Origins to reprise his role as Batman, but we learned today that Roger Craig Smith will be voicing the dark knight instead.

So where does that leave Conroy? In a now-removed tweet, Conroy said that he is in a “new ARKHAM GAME coming soon” and now Origins as initially thought.

“Confusion in Dallas! I am in new ARKHAM GAME coming soon, NOT ARKHAM ORIGINS coming this fall.”

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Last year, Kotaku published an article that was filled to the brim with allegations about Silicon Knights and Denis Dyack. Through information provided by anonymous sources, the piece discussed the supposedly troubled development of X-Men: Destiny and how Eternal Darkness 2 was secret being made alongside the project.

Dyack is now with Precursor Games, but these allegations aren’t behind him. While Precursor has been focusing on its crowdfunding efforts for Shadow of the Eternals, Kotaku’s piece continues to be brought up on a regular basis.

And so Dyack has responded to the situation with a 30-minute response video. You can find it below:

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Konami’s E3 2013 pre-show will be about Metal Gear Solid V, Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2, and Pro Evolution Soccer. But that’s not all. The company is also teasing “key announcements” for the show.

In its announcement regarding the pre-E3 show, Konami states that the event “will also make a number of additional key announcements.” Further information was not provided.

You can watch Konami’s pre-E3 show on June 6 at 10 AM PT / 2 PM ET.

Source: Konami PR

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SEGA is working in partnership with Nintendo on three Sonic games: Sonic Lost World, Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, and an unannounced project. Could that last one be some kind of racer from Sumo Digital, the maker of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed?

Sumo executive producer Steve Lycett sent out a few very interesting tweets last month. Lycett’s messages allude to the fact that he’d like to follow-up Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed with a new game that “could finally settle some arguments” such as “Who’s really win a kart race”. When one user mentioned a Pac-Man World Rally crossover, Lycett said he “was thinking there are bigger rivals” – like Mario and Sonic, maybe?

I can imagine two possibilities: a completely brand new game involving Mario and Sonic, or some kind of appearance in Mario Kart’s new Wii U outing. On the other hand, it’s possible that this is nothing at all and we’re completely looking into things.

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures may not be the only new Pac-Man game in the works. Yesterday, Namco Bandai registered trademarks for “Pac-Man Dash!” and “Pac-Man Monsters”. What exactly these trademarks are related to are currently unclear, but I’m sure we’ll find out in due time.

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Disney has registered a whole slew of domain names that point to a new racer of some sort. These include DisneySpeedster.com, DisneySpeedsters.com DisneyKart.com, DisneyRacers.com, DisneyKartRacing.com, DisneyKarting.net, DisneyRacing.com.

Interestingly, there’s a Twitter account already registered for “Disney Speedsters”. It’s unclear if it’s official, but the account is following a trio of other Disney Twitter handles.

Hey, maybe Disney is cooking something up for E3. You never know!

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New Nintendo Direct also showcases range of Wii U games coming this spring and summer

17th May 2013 – The next game in SEGA’s Sonic the Hedgehog series will be exclusive to Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announcing details of a worldwide partnership with SEGA during a new Nintendo Direct video announcement today. Sonic Lost World is a new action-adventure platforming game, and more information about it will be announced before the E3 2013 video game trade show begins on 11th June.

The Nintendo Direct also announced a new addition to the Mario & Sonic series, the first appearance for the series on Wii U, as well as revealing launch dates for Pikmin 3, The Wonderful 101 and New Super Luigi U.

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