Japan's video-game retailers are largely expecting F007 this year's holiday sales season to either be on par with previous years or slower, according to a survey conducted by Weekly Famitsu magazine. When asked about their expectations for the end-of-year shopping rush, 44% of retailers surveyed stated that they think this year's holiday season will be on the same level as previous ones, with nearly 39% thinking it'll be slower than before.

For most retailers, hopes are pinned squarely on Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, Capcom's newest PSP Monster Hunter game and the only new holiday title in Japan that's really got a chance at breaking a million copies over there this year. "MHP 3rd is definitely going to the big-name title of the holiday season," said Hisako W007 Akiya, head of Tokyo-based Games Ma-Ya. "We're at the point where we're going to sell out with pre-orders alone, and I'm starting to think that it'll eventually outclass the previous PSP game in sales."

Other retailers, including an anonymous one in Aichi prefecture, were guardedly optimistic for the holiday sales season. "I think Nintendo's lineup is a little weak, but MHP 3rd's presence alone will keep things busy," the retailer told Famitsu. "I don't really see much that'll sell a million, but there is a fair amount of titles that'll go between 100,000 and 300,000 copies, so I don't think i68  things will change much in the end."

Shinji Mikami, the man credited with creating Resident Evil and defining much of Capcom's game-dev style over the past two decades, doesn't see his upbringing as particularly different from what any Japanese child would've experienced in the 1970s. "I was a pretty normal kid," he told Famitsu magazine in an interview that wrapped up in this week's issue. "I'd play hide-and-seek or dodgeball with the other kids, and later on in my elementary-school years, we'd hold bike races that wound through the playground in the local park. Back in those days, kids had to be somewhat creative in coming up with games to play, because there wasn't that much else to occupy your free time -- that was something all kids did back at the time, so I wasn't anything special."

"If I was different in any way," he continued, "I suppose it'd be how scary my dad was. He would hit me pretty much daily. My dad had to take jobs starting in middle school and wound up dropping out of high school in order to support his family, so I have to respect him for going through that, but he was really just such a violent person. I remember one night when I went to bed without doing Buy android tablet my homework -- he kicked me out of bed in the middle of the night and told me to go outside. So I did, in my pajamas without any shoes on, and he told me to stand in front of the car. Then he started chasing me around in the car, and he wound up having me run about five or six kilometers, all the way to the seashore by our house. Once we hit the coast, he drove off without saying a word, so I had to walk home by myself in my pajamas. If you think about it, if the police had seen this barefoot boy in pajamas being chased by a guy in a car, they would've arrested him on the spot, wouldn't they?"

Despite not enjoying the warmest of family lives, Mikami persevered and eventually made it into Doshisha University in Kyoto after failing the college entrance exams two years straight. It was not long after his graduation when Mikami, an avid arcade gamer, discovered Capcom. "I had played Ghosts 'n Goblins and 1942 and all that, but I wasn't familiar with the Capcom name at the time," he recalled. "A friend of mine had found a flyer advertising some kind of job fair-slash-buffet party Capcom was holding at the Hilton and he gave it to me because he knew I liked games. I went mainly because I wanted to eat at the Hilton for free, but once I started talking to Capcom people, really getting in depth about the Fly-ying F007 work they do, I thought it sounded pretty neat. So I applied to both Capcom and Nintendo, and it turned out the second round of interviews for both companies were held on the same day, and I chose Capcom. It's likely for the better because I probably never had a chance with Nintendo -- it took a company like Capcom to pick me up."

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Move over, US Copyright Group—the Haipad M701 pornographers are going to show you how they do it (in several senses). Over the last two weeks, one lawyer with an AOL e-mail address, working out of a Martinsburg, West Virginia office, has managed to file more than 16,700 new lawsuits against file-swappers with a taste for Batman and booty. The cases follow the familiar pattern and wouldn't be notable except for the fact that they make lawyer Kenneth J. Ford the current copyright litigation champion of the entire US in 2010.

Ford's law practice has done well since he went into the porn protection biz earlier this year, setting up shop under the iPhone 4 Accessories name Adult Copyright Company. He filed several lawsuits during the summer for films like Juicy White Anal Booty 4, but it's only this autumn that his business has really come into its own. The last thing the world needs is another spinoff browser with niche features, right? That's exactly what I thought when I learned about RockMelt, a new Chromium-based browser for the social networking crowd. RockMelt takes the average browsing experience and adds a number of social sharing layers on top of it so that you're always connected—digitally and mentally—to your Facebook and Twitter buddies no matter what you're doing on the Web.

That's not a joke: they're all right there in your right and left iPhone 4 Replacement Parts columns, just waiting to share stuff with you while you share stuff with them. Sound cluttery and claustrophobic? It is—until it's not. And as much as I wanted to dislike RockMelt when I went into the limited beta Monday morning, I ended up, well, sort of liking it.

The whole goal of RockMelt is to integrate Facebook into the browser, with some Twitter on the side and a basic RSS reader if you really want. If you're not really a Facebook person, then this is definitely not the browser for you and you should go back to your regular browser. However, if you find yourself constantly logging into iPhone 4 Screen Protector Facebook or Twitter to post updates, see what links your friends are sharing, and share links of your own, then it could prove quite useful. It all depends on your own usage patterns. Once a year, the US government engages in an odd exercise: calling out the world's "notorious markets" for copyright infringement and counterfeiting, often without any evidence that the markets in question are breaking either local or US law. Instead, the list is compiled from rightsholder complaints, and the US government then puts its imprimatur on them. And this year, the "notorious markets" list will be more prominent than ever.

The US Trade Representative has published such a list for years as part of its abominably named "Special 301" process, in which intellectual property rightsholders complain to the government about how other countries have terrible IP laws. This year, the notorious markets list will become a separate report and will focus not on laws but on private iPhone Speaker Dock companies, and peer-to-peer file-sharing hubs now top the list.

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Adobe has introduced two new services that it hopes will get the masses using its products again: one that converts and processes PDFs Haipad M701     on the Web, and another that allows users to easily send large files to one another. The company announced the two services Friday as part of its push into the cloud, admitting that neither solution was a particularly new concept.

The file sharing service is called Adobe SendNow, which Adobe describes as a "one-stop destination for sending and receiving large files among colleagues and coworkers." Like Dropbox or Google Docs, SendNow allows you to send a file to one or multiple recipients from Adobe's website and keep track of the files you've sent or received. Unlike Dropbox, however, SendNow places a limit on how long files are available to download (the default is seven days), though you can extend that if you'd like. If you want to upgrade your account iPhone 4 Accessories (yes, that means money is involved), you can also get delivery receipts and require your friends or colleagues to sign in if you're sending a particularly sensitive document.

In recent months, Microsoft has made a couple of moves to make its Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus software more widely used. First, the company relaxed licensing restrictions, making it permissible to use MSE in businesses with ten or fewer PCs; prior to this change, the software was only licensed for home users. Now, the company has started to distribute the software through its Microsoft Update distribution system.

Last month Ars iPhone 4 Replacement Parts asked antivirus vendors their thoughts about the expansion of MSE into small businesses. Their responses could best be summed up as "it's good that Microsoft is raising awareness of computer security, but our software is still much better."

The broader distribution of MSE to consumers might not be as welcome. When Ed Bott at ZDNet asked Symantec and McAfee their thoughts, their stance was much the same as it is was before: "Microsoft's software offers only basic protection; ours is so much better, people really should use it." Infoworld is reporting that Trend Micro might not be so conciliatory.

Speaking to Infoworld, Carol Carpenter, the general manager iPhone 4 Screen Protector of the consumer and small business group at Trend Micro said, "Commercializing Windows Update to distribute other software applications raises significant questions about unfair competition." She continued, "Windows Update is a de facto extension of Windows, so to begin delivering software tied to updates has us concerned. Windows Update is not a choice for users, and we believe it should not be used this way."

Trend Micro's response shows a poor understanding of the action Microsoft has taken. MSE is being offered not through Windows Update, but through the related Microsoft Update service. Microsoft Update, which updates a broad range of Microsoft products and occasionally offers new ones, requires a deliberate opt-in: it isn't enabled by default. Moreover, MSE will only be offered to customers who do not have an existing antivirus product installed—and in any case is offered as an optional download.

Though an antirust suit over an optional download that is only offered after enabling an optional feature seems unlikely, that competitors would even raise such concerns shows Microsoft's uniquely peculiar position in the industry. The third-party software vendors are more than happy to insist that Windows needs antivirus software and that using a Windows machine without such software is dangerous—but if Microsoft agrees with their assessment and tries to improve the situation itself, they threaten to cry foul e7001.

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One time, I was pushing a TV around so I could watch He-Man while I ate my DS Card Cap'n Crunch in the dining room. I was four years old. I accidentally pushed the TV over, bringing it smashing down on my finger. I had to get eight stitches and I eventually lost the fingernail.

I mention this only so you can fully appreciate the gravity of me saying that the half-hour I spent with Fighters Uncaged was the very worst TV-related thing that has ever happened to me. It's ugly, the fighting moves only work half of the time (except for ones like the straight right leg kick, which work none of the time). The training goes on forever before you get to the first round of actual fighting, which is against ... your trainer. It's terrible. I would erase Kinect from the fabric of time iphone 4 case if it meant Fighters Uncaged would similarly be lost to the ether.

I'm not giving it a score because I think scoring a game after a half hour sets a bad precedent, and I'd rather eat a rain-soaked box of poison buttholes than ever play Fighters Uncaged again.

James Bond desperately needs an intervention, and I'm not just talking about his predilection for dry martinis, fast cars, and even faster women. Sure, those old habits all make a return in James Bond 007: Blood Stone, but the British super-spy's most troubling addictioniPad Case in this third-person shooter is his cellphone.

Though Bond's oh-so-trendy smartphone fills a number of roles in the game (including that of an actual phone!), the device mainly serves to facilitate developer Bizarre Creations' take on the "detective vision" from Batman: Arkham Asylum. Much like the Dark Knight's x-ray specs, 007's phone inexplicably allows you to spot objectives and enemies through walls, as well as listing the current alertness level and equipped weapons of any nearby goons. Digital Daniel Craig looks extra preposterous staring at his not-a-Blackberry as bullets whiz overhead, but because the benefits of the enhanced iPad Screen Protector vision mode tend to outnumber the drawbacks, it becomes the sort of tool you begrudgingly abuse throughout the entire game.

As per Frank’s recommendation, I’ve installed the excellent YouTube5 Safari extension by Connor McKay. With this extension installed, embedded YouTube videos are modified to use the HTML5 video tag rather than Flash Player for playback. This is possible because behind the scenes, all YouTube videos are encoded using H.264.

For the vast majority of my surfing, this new setup works great. I prefer it over my previous setup using the ClickToFlash plugin because Flash Player is never left running in the background because of a background Safari web page on which I clicked to load Flash content hours (or even days) ago. It also means that the Flash plugin never gets loaded into other non-browser apps that happen to use WebKit — eliminating the number one source of Changjiang W007 crashes for many of these apps.

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With 240 million iPhone Speaker copies sold, Windows 7 has certainly been hugely successful. Windows XP, however, remains the most common version of Windows, and corporate customers are a big part of Windows XP's continued ubiquity. Earlier this week, Ars talked to Gavriella Schuster, general manager of Windows Product Management, about this corporate roll-out.

The first P2P case to come to trial in the US has lasted five years and now has three verdicts, this one coming after just two hours of deliberation. Jammie Thomas-Rasset must pay $62,500 for each of the 24 songs at issue in the case, for total of $1.5 million.

"We are again thankful to the jury for its service in this matter and that they recognized the severity of the defendant's misconduct," said the RIAA after the iPad replacement parts case wrapped up. "Now with three jury decisions behind us along with a clear affirmation of Ms. Thomas-Rasset’s willful liability, it is our hope that she finally accepts responsibility for her actions."

Testimony in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset file-sharing re-retrial concluded today as Thomas-Rasset took the stand and told the jury that she considers herself a big supporter of the music industry (read our coverage of day one). "I was buying my music," she said. "I wasn't getting it for free off KaZaA."

But the jury in this case was tasked apad with deciding damages, not liability, which has already been assumed from her previous trial. Could Thomas-Rasset convince them this time around to hand out a lower damage award than the last $1.92 million decision? Or would the RIAA win out with its argument that distributing music freely through the KaZaA peer-to-peer network causes more harm than charging for it?

Back in 2008, we covered what looked to be an interesting development: a rewritable holographic display with a reasonable refresh rate and decent durability. Well, the people behind that work are back, and they've clearly been pushing their technology closer to commercial applications. This time around, they've built a display that can accept input that's streamed R4i SDHC over an ethernet connection and reassembled into a hologram in near real time. The refresh rate is pretty slow, but it's a significant step forward from the static images they were displaying the last time around.

The paper itself reads (at least in part), like it was written with Ars readers in mind; the second sentence notes, "The concept of 3D telepresence, a real-time dynamic hologram depicting a scene occurring in a different location, has attracted considerable public interest since it was depicted in the original Star Wars film in 1977." In the intervening time, there have been a few stabs at what the authors call "holographic cinema," but these are just like regular films, in that they require heavy processing and can't be used to display R4i Red live images.

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Rolling out mobile phone infrastructure is expensive, difficult and often meets public resistance, but it’s an essential step for increasing Haipad M701 coverage. So researchers are looking at alternatives, including one proposal that could see members of the public carrying portable nodes in the network.

The study, which is being conducted at Queen’s University in Belfast, would involve wearable sensors carried by members of the public. These would interact to transmit data between each other, allowing for far lower power requirements than a traditional antenna, greater coverage, and the capability to adapt to demand.

The way it works is simple. Instead of hundreds or thousands of separate connections between different devices and a single phone mast, each participant in the network would iPhone 4 Accessories send signal to someone nearby, who would send it to the next person, and then to the next person, and so on until it reaches its destination.

These body-to-body networks, or BBNs, could be embedded within existing devices like your phone, so you wouldn’t need to carry extra equipment. One of the significant benefits offered by such a system would be the way that large crowds would actually increase the coverage in an area, rather than making it more difficult to place a call.

“If the idea takes off, BBNs could also lead to a reduction in the number of base stations needed to service mobile phone users, particularly in areas of high iPhone 4 Replacement Parts population density,” said Simon Cotton, from Queen’s University’s Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology. “This could help to alleviate public perceptions of adverse health associated with current networks and be more environmentally friendly due to the much lower power levels required for operation.”

While such networks are still in their infancy today, Cotton reckons that they could reach more than 400 million devices across the world by 2014.

Online Pugsleys everywhere be forewarned: a major government program designed to help schools upgrade iPhone 4 Screen Protector their Internet connectivity will soon require them to teach kids how to stop "cyberbullying" and "act responsibly on social networking sites like Facebook."

The Federal Communications Commission plans to circulate rules by the end of this year that will tell schools that get federal cash for computer and networking gear to comply with various child-protection measures included in the Broadband Data Improvement Act. The law orders these schools to "educate minors about appropriate online behavior, including online interaction with other individuals in social networking websites and in chat rooms and cyberbullying awareness and response Wireless IP Camera."

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Eduardo Gallego, the trainer to the IP Camera Complubot robotics team from Spain is going to make an online lecture about the way he uses Arduino techology to teach kids about building robots. He announced it on this forum post. If you are good in Spanish, hook up with the video stream live tonight! Very interesting bottom-up product (but it’s not really a product, it’s more of an experience of nature-lovers and DIYers) do look after your garden:

    GardenBot is a garden monitoring system. This means that you put sensors in your garden, and GardenBot will show you charts of the conditions in your garden — so you can see the world the way your plants see it. I did… er, I mean hi. My name is Andrew Frueh. Me and my wife, Melissa, like to garden a lot. We’re always experimenting with different methods in our garden and compost. We already were using a soaker hose for our garden. Last year, we used one of those mechanical timers to turn the soaker on for a pre-determined amount of time. But then…

    I discovered Arduino, and immediately became engrossed. Arduino is a little computer (called a microcontroller) about the size of a i9 4G business card. It has a bunch of analog and digital inputs/outputs so you can hook up various sensors, buttons, switches, audio/video devices — it’s pretty friggin’ cool. See the parts page for more information.

    Anyway, considering my interests, I thought “gee, it sure would be neat to use the Arduino board to control the watering in the garden”. But then one thing led to another… and now we get to the (somewhat complete) GardenBot system that you have before you.

    Like a lot of DIY-ers, I am entirely self-trained. So, there are a lot of holes in my knowledge. As I hunted around for information on the web, I found that too often the information in various tutorials was written by someone who failed to remember that lay-people (incidentally the target audience for any tutorial) don’t know the jargon, and therefor can have great difficulty in decoding the information. One of my goals with this project, is to have all the pieces laid out in plain language — step by step — to walk you through the whole process. Hopefully I pull that off.

amazing story.

As I read in the Forum, the latest NootropicDesign Product has bees released:

    Hackvision is a simple, retro gaming platform based on C5000 Arduino technology that you can assemble and connect to your TV. You can write you own games and make your own controllers! The price goes from $37.95 (kit) to $47.95 (assembled).

Features

    * NO Arduino is required. Based on Arduino technology so you can write your own games and upload them using the Arduino IDE. All you need is a USB to TTL serial cable or adapter.

    * Connects directly to your TV with standard RCA connections. One for audio, one for video. Works with NTSC or PAL (Europe, Africa, Asia, South America) TVs.

    * Integrated button controller right on the F035 PCB.

    * Preloaded with awesome Space Invaders and Pong games. More games coming. You can write them, too!

    * Other controllers supported: Wii nunchuk, SuperNES, or paddle controllers you can make from a potentiometer and button. Or invent your own.

    * Software libraries for game development and controller support.

    * High score files stored in EEPROM so they are retained even with power off.

    * All unused pins broken out to pads for your hacking pleasure.

    * Non-conductive adhesive foam pad protects the bottom of the board from your fingers.

    * All through-hole components. Kit can be assembled in 30-45 min. Fully assembled and tested units will also be available.

    * Additional accessories available in the nootropic design store including 9V adapters, RCA cables, Wii nunchuk breakout boards, paddle controller kits, USB-serial adapters, etc.

    * Makes a great gift!

Technical Specs

    * ATmega328 microcontroller with Arduino bootloader

    * Monochrome video

    * Resolution is 136×96 pixels (You can control this in your own games)

* Requires 9V power supply with DS Flash Card center-positive 2.1mm barrel plug.

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Start an “emergency call” to a bogus number like “Eken M001”, then quickly hit the lock button atop the iPhone — boom, you’ve got full access to the Phone app, including call history and voicemail.

Oddly, or at least coincidentally, it seems to be fixed in iOS 4.2 beta 3 — I can’t reproduce this on my iPhone with 4.2b3 installed, but can on another iPhone with 4.1. Also odd is how similar the exploit is to this one from two years ago — which was also discovered by a MacRumors forum poster. You’d think Apple would have given iOS’s Moonse E7001 emergency-call-while-locked code a more thorough audit — the thing only has two non-volume hardware buttons, and both of them have now been found to allow the lock screen to be bypassed.

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s outgoing Chief Software Architect, has posted a lengthy (3,500-ish-word) memo on the state of the company and industry. I found it nearly impenetrable — as though it’s written in a language I don’t speak. For example, I think this is how he admits that Apple and Google have kicked Microsoft’s ass in mobile:

    Certain of our competitors’ Zenithink ZT180 products and their rapid advancement and refinement of new usage scenarios have been quite noteworthy.  Our early and clear vision notwithstanding, their execution has surpassed our own in mobile experiences, in the seamless fusion of hardware and software and services, and in social networking and myriad new forms of internet-centric social interaction.

This sort of opaque communication is at the heart of what’s wrong with Microsoft.    This extension removes the need to use flash on YouTube by converting all videos to their HTML5 video tag equivalents. It also has the added benefits of decreased CPU usage compared to Flash, and the DSTT removal of in-video ads.

I’ve followed Steven Frank’s lead, and completely disabled Flash Player on my computer. I don’t miss it at all — largely thanks to YouTube5. She’s OK, because she had a full backup and was able to revert to iPhoto 09.

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    Some excited rooters at the XDA Dev Forum tried to root the G2 — namely to unlock the software so they can add their own Eken M002 programs and control the OS — only to find that there is a built-in lock in the G2 hardware that returns the handset to the stock state upon rooting.

“Openness” jokes aside, there’s an argument to be made that this is a security feature.

In this rural section of Tennessee, Gene Cranick’s home caught on fire. As the Cranicks fled their home, their neighbors alerted the county’s firefighters, who soon arrived at the scene. Yet when the firefighters arrived, they refused to put out the fire, saying that the family failed to pay the annual subscription fee to the fire Moonse E7001 department. Because the county’s fire services for rural residences is based on household subscription fees, the firefighters, fully equipped to help the Cranicks, stood by and watched as the home burned to the ground.

Google says Android doesn’t infringe any of Oracle’s patents, and even if it does, those patents are invalid and / or unenforceable for a variety of reasons anyway, so, you know, shove it. That’s basically all Google — or any patent defendant — needs to say in the answer, and if that was it, we’d just note it and move on with our lives. But we were struck by the factual background section, which reads to us like Google’s geared up for war: it basically accuses Sun and Oracle of not playing fair when it comes to Java’s open-source license situation and directly implies that parts of Android are based on code that might require a patent Zenithink ZT180 license.

Nielsen said among recent acquirers of smartphones in the last six months through August, Android was the top platform in the U.S. with 32 percent of new purchases, followed by the iPhone and Research In Motion’s Blackberry platform, tied at about 25 percent.

When looking at overall Eken M001 market share, RIM remains on top with 31 percent, trailed by the iPhone at 28 percent and Android at 19 percent. But the race continues to tighten with RIM maintaining a slide from 37 percent in February. The iPhone has remained largely stable during that period, while Android market share is up from 8 percent in February.

The federal jury in Tyler, Texas, awarded $208.5 million in damages for each of the patents infringed. The verdict form was unclear as to whether the amount applies to the three patents collectively or would be charged individually. Lawyers for closely held Mirror Worlds declined to discuss the verdict.

Mirror Worlds, a software business started by a Yale University computer-science professor David Gelernter, claimed Apple’s iPod music device, iPhone and Mac computers infringed its patents. Apple challenged the DSTT Card validity of the patents and whether they were infringed, according to court records.

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Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins was a fresh and reinvigorating reboot of the Batman movie franchise that both posed, and Moonse E7001 answered, the question: "what next?" Slight spoiler warning for those who didn't see this back in 2005, but BB ended with Batman hearing about a bank heist where the perpetrator leaves behind a Joker card. So of course, 2008's The Dark Knight logically followed with The Joker as one of the main antagonists. A similar sort of thing happens at the end of 2008's excellent Batman: Arkham Asylum: upon defeating the Joker, Batman then intercepts a police radio call about Two-Face robbing a bank. And so we have a big hint about what to expect for the upcoming Batman: Arkham City.

Though, publisher WB Games and developer Rocksteady have been relatively quiet about the game. Despite expectations for such, Arkham Eken M001 City made no appearance at any of the tradeshows (E3, Gamescom, or Tokyo Game Show) this year. Besides the teaser from the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards, the only other info has been given to print publications. Until we get to see Arkham City for ourselves, here's a quick breakdown of what we know so far, some of our guesses, and some things on our wish list:         

The NPD Group isn't publishing hardware sales figures anymore, but the numbers are leaking out just the same. Wedbush Zenithink ZT180 Morgan analyst Michael Pachter revealed today that the Wii sold just 254,000 units this month, which is a 45 percent drop from this time last year (via IndustryGamers).

Pachter blames the slower sales on "gamer fatigure and a lack of high-profile releases." The platform's biggest releases this fall are Kirby's Epic Yarn, Metroid Other M and Wii Party, the latter two being released this month.

The DS has also been impacted by the iPod Touch, which he says is "cannibalizing dedicated game handheld hardware sales." Pachter expects the weakness to continue into 2011.

SNK announced today that The King of Fighters 2002 Ultimate Match DSTT will be released on Xbox Live Arcade next month for 800 Microsoft points. Previously available on PlayStation 2 and in Japanese arcades, the game is a revision of The King of Fighters 2002 with an expanded roster and online play.

KOF 2002 was an in-between title in the long running series of 2D team-based fighting games, dropping the 4-on-4 matches of 2001 yet preceding the free-swapping battles of 2003. This Ultimate Match edition adds characters to the lineup from earlier King of Fighters games, including previously unplayable i68 4G bosses.

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