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Ask any person about in-game advertising, and chances are you’ll get a variety of responses. Certain people like Jon Epstein of Double Fusion are understandably supportive of it, while others, like Nolan Bushnell, don’t think it’ll work.

According to Bushnell, it’s the nature of the in-game ads that works against them:

In-game advertising is much, much more [in your face] advertising and is more like a billboard. I don t believe those kinds of ads are very effective. In a game, if you re not riveted on the objectives, you re going to lose.

Nevertheless, Bushnell has admitted that there s opportunity in the casual games business. In fact, he currently serves as an advisor to NeoEdge, a Silicon Valley company that focuses on incorporating ads in casual games.

The difference is that NeoEdge’s ads may come before, during or after a gaming session - much like TV ads. The ads are reportedly not hidden in the environment, unlike most cases today.

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We’re picking up word that THQ has recently laid off a number of its employees at two of its subsidiary studios: Sandblast Games, and Rainbow Studios.

With regard to the latter, THQ had reportedly laid off a total of 30 employees last April from one of the Rainbow’s games under development.

The project itself will still be moving along, albeit with a smaller staff. The readers may recall Rainbow Studios for its previous works on titles like the MX vs. ATV series, Cars (PSP, Xbox 360, Wii). We previously reported that Brad Ruminer, Dennis Booth, and Glenn O’Bannon had broken away from Rainbow Studios to found TimeFly Studios, though this news may not be related.

THQ has also reportedly laid off several members of its Washington-based Sandblast Games studio. No details were announced regarding how many employees were axed. Work on the studio’s current project, Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) is expected to continue.

We remind the readers that THQ hasn’t confirmed this news yet, so we’ll be sticking it on the back-burner until more substantial information is found. Visit us again in case we run into any related updates.

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It’s an entirely new week’s worth of gaming goodness as Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) introduces its line up of downloadable content for the week of May 1.

PlayStation 3 owners who still haven’t gotten their hands on Gran Turismo 5 Prologue but are hunkering for some hardcore racing action can settle for several downloadable packs from Need for Speed: ProStreet. For the non-racing fans, they can always enjoy the new eye candy from the Iron Man movie, as well as several new themes and wallpapers from some of the hottest titles on the platform.

On the PC Store side of things, PlayStation Portable owners can also enjoy some old-school RPG goodness in Ape Quest. If you’re unsure whether the game is worth the download, you can always try out the starter pack and decide for yourself.

In any case, here’s the complete list of downloadable goodies available on the PlayStation Store:

PlayStation Store

• Add-on content

• Need for Speed Pro-Street “Bugatti Veyron” pack ( 1.99/ 2.99)
• Need for Speed Pro-Street “Mclaren F1″ pack ( 1.99/ 2.99)
• Need for Speed Pro-Street Premium Car pack 1 ( 3.49/ 4.99)
• Need for Speed Pro-Street Premium Car pack 2 ( 3.49/ 4.99)
• Snakeball “Team Mode” expansion ( 1.99/ 2.99)
• Kane & Lynch Fragile Alliance map pack (free)

• Trailers

• Iron Man movie trailer (free)

• Themes and wallpapers

• Rainbow Six Vegas 2 theme (free)
• Dark Sector theme (free)
• Haze theme (free)
• Haze wallpaper (free)

PC Store

• Playable content

• Ape Quest starter pack (free)
• Ape Quest full game ( 6.99/ 9.99)

• Trailers

• Go!Explore trailer (free)

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Not much has changed since last week in terms of video game software sales in Japan. This week’s list from Media Create once again has Nintendo’s Mario Kart Wii ahead of all the other titles with 152,000 copies sold.

Capcom’s Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G also retained its runner up slot with 93,000 units sold on its fifth week on the charts. This week also saw up to 13 new titles entering the list with Sega’s new strategy RPG Valkyria Chronicles inserted as the top three game of the week.

Other notable titles include the new Taiko Drum Master game for the DS with 56,000 copies sold. Even the Xbox 360 got a little loving this week as Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 was included on the list.

Anyway, here are the top list of games in Japan for the week of April 21 to April 27:

1. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) - 152,000 / 947,000
2. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) - 93,000 / 1,807,000
3. [PS3] Valkyria Chronicles (Sega) - 77,000 / NEW
4. [NDS] Taiko Drum Master DS: Seven Island Adventure (Bandai-Namco) - 56,000 / NEW
5. [NDS] Summon Night (Banpresto) - 38,000 / NEW
6. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 37,000 / 1,934,000
7. [NDS] We’re Fossil Diggers (Nintendo) - 22,000 / 58,000
8. [NDS] Pok mon Ranger: Batonnage (Pok mon) - 20,000 / 477,000
9. [NDS] DS Beautiful Letter Training (Nintendo) - 18,000 / 167,000
10. [PS2] Musou Orochi: The Evil King Returns (Koei) - 15,000 / 322,000
11. [360] Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Ubi Soft)
12. [NDS] Naruto: Shippuuden Shinobi Retsuden II (Takara-Tomy)
13. [WII] Deca Sporta (Hudson)
14. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo)
15. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
16. [PSP] Vantage Master Portable (Falcom)
17. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
18. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
19. [NDS] Detective Saburou Jinguuji DS: Inextinguishable Heart (ArcSystemWorks)
20. [NDS] Yatterman DS: Surprising, Startling Battle (Takara-Tomy)
21. [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 5 (Konami)
22. [NDS] SimCity DS 2: From the Past to the Future (EA)
23. [PS2] H2O Plus (Kadokawa Shoten)
24. [PS2] Prism Ark: Awake (Kaga Create)
25. [PSP] Star Ocean 2: Second Evolution (Square-Enix)
26. [360] Frontlines: Fuel of War (THQ)
27. [NDS] Phoenix Wright 4 (Capcom)
28. [NDS] Tottado! Yowiko’s Deserted Island Life (Bandai-Namco)
29. [PS2] Edel Blume (Idea Factory)
30. [NDS] Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Cinema Land (Banpresto)

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D3Publisher of America, the same guys who brought us Ben 10: Protector of Earth (Wii, PSP, NDS), has announced that Ben 10: Alien Force for the Nintendo Wii, DS, Sony PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 2 will be arriving in North America by Fall this year.

Based on the animated show released on the Cartoon Network, this side-scrolling, 3D action adventure game puts players in the shoes of Ben as he searches for his Grandfather Max and tries to stop a new Highbreed Alien plot.

The game is said to offer more than 20 types of enemies, eight playable characters and an unlimited combo system. Those who pick up the Nintendo DS version will also get alternate playable forms including Goop and Echo Echo.

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Time to turn your Sony PlayStation Portable into a map - that’s the goal of coder Royale with the homebrew application PSP-Maps, a reader which retrieves location charts from Google Maps.

Previous builds have already incorporated support for the Danzeff Keyboard and Google Moon, Mars, and Sky. Today brings us to version 1.1 where coder Royale adds two more changes.

Check it straight from Royale’s log:

version 1.1    (2008-05-01)

• added experimental and basic KML files support
• removed the buggy Google Moon visible view

KML is short for Keyhole Markup Language which allows you to express geographic annotation and visualization on 2D or 3D Earth browsers such as Google Maps. Actually, KML was developed for Google Earth. Think of KML as a bookmark for a certain position in a map.

Unlike Google Earth though were all surfaces are covered, Google Moon can only show you the landing points of all the Apollo spacecrafts. All the same, with coder Royale’s bug fix, you can kiss those viewing problems away.

For the complete instructions on how to install PSP-Maps version 1.1, please refer to the readme attached to the file. Remember, safety first! Also, you can check dev Royale’s site over at the via link. The source code, a wishlist of future features and a tutorial can be found there.

Download: PSP-Maps v1.1

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For those of us who want just a bit more security for our Sony PlayStation Portables, there’s no better application to have than homebrew developer maxthebest’s Protect-Me, now in its final revision version. Let’s see what’s changed from this homebrew app that gives your Sony PlayStation Portable that added layer of protection that should prove invaluable during times of crisis.

So, what’s new with this version? Here’s the changelog:

• Recoded a good part of the code which was messy and had useless parts.
• Added numbers to the [characters] you can input through the keyboard
• Changed the keyboard, now selected letter is not the capital letter, but the blue letter
• Now you can’t see your password while writing it, but only the letter selected
• Corrected few bugs and mistakes.

Well, that’s certainly good - a general tightening-up of the code, a covert way of displaying your password, and some bug and mistake elimination. Definitely a very welcome release from maxthebest. Updates as we get them, and make sure to read the readme file first before doing anything with this homebrew.

Download: Protect-Me V.Final revision 0.9f
Visit: QJ.NET’s PSP Development Forums

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It was a great game on the PSP back in early 2007, but a year later, a port has appeared on the PS2. …trust us, even if you’re a very big R&C fan, this is one port that didn’t need to happen.

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