New ‘Halo Wars’ Box Art, Same Nebulous Date

Halo fans may not be getting any new details on when the strategy-flavored Halo Wars will be hitting console-side outside of “early 2009,” but you can enjoy some new box art in the meantime.

There sure are a lot of people backing up the three Spartan characters present. Looks good enough to grab the attention of the casual gaming crowd, at least.

“What?! I can play with three Master Chiefs?”

There goes a few million copies sold right there. Does the box art sell it for you?

GTA IV Coming to Japan in October

It looks like Japan will FINALLY get their release date for Grand Theft Auto 4.  On October 30, expect to pick up your very own copy of GTA IV for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation3.  I’m sure there will be another “burst” in sales for the game of course and consoles.  GTA IV IS a console seller!

Via PressRelease

それは日本のように最終的に得るグランドセフトオート4.のための発行日を見える。 10月30日に、Xbox 360およびPlayStation3のためのGTA IVのあなたの自身のコピーを取ると期待しなさい。 私はゲーム当然およびコンソールのための販売にもう一つの「破烈」があることをことを確かめる。 GTA IVはコンソール販売人である!

‘Too Human’ Insane Combos (Video)

A new video from ‘Too Human’ has surfaced showing off some seriously insane combos.  The first part of the third-person action adventure game trilogy looks sweet so far.  ’Too Human’ is produced by Canadian developer Silicon Knights for the Xbox 360. Its current release date is set for August 19, 2008.  Who said nothing cool comes out of Canada?

Final Fantasy XIII Out By the End of 2009 in North America?

There’s been some rumor-mongering on the interwebs (when isn’t there?) about the possible release date for Final Fantasy XIII. The article, which has since been pulled, pointed to the now non-PS3 exclusive releasing in Japan next summer and making it out to North American by the end of the year.

It seems likely that that’s the time table for the game as Square Enix recently announced that they’re packing in a demo of the game in the upcoming Bluray Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete next year. So…they have been working on something, it just takes time, patient gamers, it takes time.

Final Fantasy VII PS3-bound on August 16?

A picture taken by the attentive GameTrailers poster, irchief’s Avatar, at Best Buy points to the possibility of some type of release for Final Fantasy VII on “8/16.”

Square Enix just held a conference this weekend and announced little else but Final Fantasy: Advent Children Complete which was given a release date for next year.

Might this be a goof up on Best Buy’s part or is it possible that we will be getting a remake of the original? A port to PSN? Strike this up as strictly rumor and we’ll see what happens when the date nears.

In the meantime, what do you guys think?

[Thanks, LittleGweeto for sending this in.]

Via GameTrailers Forums

‘Chrono Trigger’ Headed To Nintendo DS

One of the greatest RPGs of all-time is finally headed to the Nintendo DS.  ’Chrono Trigger’ which is considered by many to be one of the best SNES titles is finally getting a remake.  We don’t know much yet, but we do know they are creating a new dungeon for it, cleaning up the graphics, adding a wireless play mode and the obvious dual-screen presentation.  I haven’t been truly excited about a DS game in a long time until now.  No official release date has been mentioned yet.  We’re hoping it’s later this year…

Via G4

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Look Cool on Kezins.com

Hello Folks, it’s your favorite editor here to say… damn I forgot.  But while I’m writing, I figured let me keep our readers up to date with COOL avatars news.  What’s an avatar you ask?  Ok, if you’ve commented on our site you’ve probably have noticed the picture that shows up next to your name.  That’s an avatar.  If you hate your ‘triangle head, square head or circle head’ avatar, and would like to choose your own, go to gravatar.com

What is a gravatar?

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?

Kezins.com encourage all our readers to express your image with as much personality as possible.  We would love not like to see racy pics in your gravatar’s so, I guess keep em clean!

We’ll be searching for the coolest gravatar and anything with Star Wars, Punky Brewster or Braveheart win my vote!

Playstation 3 Firmware 2.40 available July 2nd

The much anticipated release of the coolest firmware to date will be released on Wednesday July 2nd.  To go along with the in-game XMB will also be PS3’s Trophy System.  Here’s what we can expect and what game we can expect to see the Trophy system in use:

Super Stardust HD, a PLAYSTATION Network-exclusive released in June 2007, will be the first game to leverage Trophies and will offer a variety of trophies. Trophy support in Super Stardust HD will be available for first-time users who purchase the game soon after firmware v2.40 is released, while those who previously purchased and downloaded the title will be prompted to install a free patch.

PS3 users can expect to see additional games bringing Trophies support to their feature sets through 2008 and beyond, providing even greater opportunity to showcase their accomplishments and compete with friends. The following first-party games are also slated to offer Trophy support:

• BUZZ! Quiz TV
• LittleBigPlanet
• MotorStorm Pacific Rift
• NBA 09 - PS3
• PAIN
• PixelJunk Eden
• Resistance 2
• SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation
• Warhawk

To further emphasize the community aspects of this system software update, the amount of people you can add to your PSN friends list has been doubled, to 100.

I will be really impressed if Sony goes back to previous first-party games.  Resistance would be a great reason to blow the dust off the cover and slide that bad boy in!  Anyone interested in Pixel Junk Monsters Trophies?

Image Via Kotaku

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