As if Amateur Surgeon: Christmas Edition was not comical enough to make your belly shake like a bowl full of jelly, Adult Swim has another free and subversive flash game available for your gaming pleasure.

Dungeons & Dungeons (no dice required) is a fun little flash game where you guide kinky couple Sadie & Max through six levels, armed with your whip and a handful of “toys” which you can use to dispatch foes. You’ll face inflatable dolls, crabs, the dungeons’ other patrons and various pleasure-bots. It’s got a very retro graphics style to it and the gameplay is a hybrid between Castlevania and Mario, with tons of little secret areas and character with ball gags in their mouths.

I suggest that those of you with a sense of humor who do not get offended easily by the thought of playing a character dressed as a dominatrix, give it a try. After all, it’s free!

With Castlevania Judgment in stores across North America and on the horizon in Japan and Europe. Konami is offering fans a widget for their websites to spread the word. The widget features screenshots, videos, downloads and comics for Castlevania Judgment for the Wii. You can also find out more about Castlevania Order of Ecclesia for the DS. Thankfully it also comes with a button in the upper right to turn of the music.

The widget includes the embed codes for most of the standard social networks; Facebook, MySpace and Livejournal. Grab it on the Castlevania Judgment website.

Castlevania Judgement has a new launch trailer to get gamers excited about the series’ first game for the Wii. This action fighting title features all the most memorable characters from 22 years of Castlevania games. You can download the Castlevania Judgment Launch Trailer.

Castlevania Judgement is out in North America and will hit Japan January 15, 2009. There’s no solid release date for Europe, but you can expect to see it in early 2009.

If you own a PlayStation 3, there’s a good chance you were ready to buy Little Big Planet this Tuesday. But after the unfortunate delay we learned of earlier today, come next week, you’ll be walking home from the videogame retailer of your choice with one less game than you were planning.

Had the game come out this Tuesday as expected, it would’ve faced some stiff competition — although it seems unlikely that the inevitably huge sales of LBP would have taken much of a hit (and, if anything, these other games should be sighing with relief). With that in mind, here’s what big releases remain for you to come home with next week:

• Far Cry 2 (PC, 360, PS3)
• Fable 2 (360)
• Rock Band 2 (PS3)
• Wii Music (Wii)
• BioShock (PS3)
• Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)
• Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (PC, 360, PS3, PSP, DS, Wii, PS2)
• Eternal Sonata (PS3)
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles (360, PS3)

If you also happened to come home with a copy of Petz Rescue: Wildlife Vet for Wii, I wouldn’t have judged you. That might not be entirely true, but what is true is that, with Little Big Planet now scheduled for release on October 27 (although with stingy retailers, that likely means Tuesday, October 28), gamers with multiple consoles are looking at another hard week on the wallet. Here’s what you might be picking up along with your copy of LBP:

• Fallout 3 (PC, 360, PS3)
• Guitar Hero World Tour (PC, 360, PS3, Wii, PS2)
• MotorStorm Pacific Rift (PS3)
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (PC)
• SingStar: Vol. 2 (PS3)
• MotoGP 08 (PC, 360, PS3, PSP, Wii, PS2)
• Scene It Box Office Smash (360)

It’s truly going to be one of the most wallet-busting stretches in gaming history over the course of the next several weeks. We should probably be thankful there aren’t any new consoles releasing — unless you plan on picking up the new PSP 3000s or importing a DSi next month.And — tempted as you might be — selling an arm on the black market isn’t as great an idea as it might seem. If nothing else, it’ll make playing that shiny new game of yours much more difficult.

Castlevania Judgement is a fighting game for the Wii that’s set in the Castlevania world…and that should be enough to give anyone pause. The game unfortunately falls into that annoying category of titles on the E3 showcase floor that I picked up out of curiosity, realized I didn’t like, and ended up feigning interest for several minutes while the presenter tried to tell me more about it. Then I usually scurried off the instant their attention went elsewhere. In this case though, even the presenter didn’t seem to care too much. It’s really too bad though, since the concept of the game and a few of the ideas presented in it are a little different and interesting, but the whole package is just terribly executed.

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Konami Digital Entertainment has released a second trailer for Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. The trailer contains game footage from the upcoming action platformer for the DS. it introduces the characters and showcases the classic gameplay style of Ecclesia.

I saw Order of Ecclesia at Konami’s press conference at E3. It was everything I expected and more. You can find additional information and screenshots for Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia on FileFront.

Granted we were all a bit shock that Konami was turning one of the most famous game franchises into a roving fighting game, but if these screens for the game are any indication, Castlevania Judgment for the Wii looks promising.

The fighting game has been designed specifically for the Wii, and uses the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers to offer a level of control over the central heroes. Taking centre stage within a series of 3D locations inspired by previous Castlevania games, the controllers are used to slash, stab and employ a series of attacks against the assorted minions of Dracula.

Each of the stages are fully interactive, and as the player battles their way through, various elements can be picked up, thrown, or used against the forces of evil – players can even make use of monsters on the field, while traps can also be set by specific characters. The game will also make use of the Wii’s Wi-Fi capabilities, allowing players to fight with online friends in one-on-one settings, while the game also enjoys connectivity with the forthcoming Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia for the DS, which will allow users to unlock a very surprising bonus.

Castlevania Judgment will be released for Nintendo Wii sometime in September. More E3 screens are posted after the break.

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Man, I take one week off and everything the next is just one weird surprise after another. Like the fact that Castlevania Judgment, the rumored-and-now-confirmed Wii title, is actually a fighting game. So imagine my surprise when I received a batch of new screens showing Alucard and Dracula going toe-to-toe with life bars and a timer. At first I thought someone was playing an elaborate prank on me. But I guess it’s true, and the game actually looks kind of cool. The fighting controls have been specifically designed for the Wii-mote and Nunchuk, so you can stab and slash to your heart’s content. Plus the game will feature destructible environments and various undead creatures that you can use against your enemies.

You can check out the rest of the screens here.

Konami announced today that Castlevania Judgment, the first Castlevania title in the fighting game genre, is currently in development exclusively for the Wii.

Developed by Castlevania series producer Koji “Iga” Igarashi, Castlevania Judgment bridges the past with the present as it pits several generations of the Belmont clan against a host of characters that span the franchise’s 22-year history.

With 3D environments rendered on Wii, players can choose sides between good and evil using iconic Castlevania characters designed by manga artist Takeshi Obata. Using the motion-sensing controls of the Nunchuk and Wii Remote, players can slash, stab and whip their way across a variety of stages and environmental elements with various surrounding objects as weapons. Select characters can also set traps and make use of monsters on the field to achieve victory.

As an added bonus, players are also able to compete head-to-head using the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and connect with Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia on the Nintendo DS to unlock bonus gameplay content.

Castlevania Judgment will be released in North America sometime this Fall 2008. The press release did not contain any screens, and the only one I could find came from Kotaku and it is a bit blurry. Check back often because I am sure Konami will remedy the situation soon.

Via: Press Release

[image: Kotaku]

Looks like we will no longer be getting any spoiler leaks regarding upcoming titles from the ESRB website. You see, they are no longer going to be posting unannounced games that it has given a rating to on its website. Of course, it is not their fault really, its it because the publishers have gone crying to them about upcoming game titles being released early. Unbisoft or Konami anyone?

Because of the outcry, the ESRB is to include a new field in its submission form so that publishers can enter the date they want their listing to become public domain. But, according to the ESRB, they are only going to allow this if there is a specific concern regarding premature disclosure.

“Unless there are specific concerns regarding premature disclosure of a title, we expect this field to be left blank. While we recognize some publishers have concerns regarding earlier-than-desired ‘announcements’ of product[s] on our website, the ESRB system will not work for consumers if publishers arbitrarily select dates bearing no reasonable relationship to consumer interest in the product.”

Yeah! Take that you little tattletales.

Considering the fact that I am the type of person who tries her hardest to see both sides of every situation, I can completely understand why a publisher would not want their game information leaked before they were ready to “wow” the public with an official announcement. However, once a game has been given a rating, it goes without saying that the game is pretty much already completed sans a few tweaks and a final rating from the ESRB anyway, so really the only harm done is the title of the game being leaked.

The ESRB site does not contain any screenshots or trailers let alone any gameplay information other than what you would garner from the rating. Once in a while, a logo may be present within the listing such as when the new Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia was listed, but other than that, I personally think that publishers need to relax.

The most important aspect of a game is not in the title but in the contents of the package you are paying up to $60 for – the title is not really a spoiler. Now, if some screens were to be leaked, that is one thing – but that would not be because of the ESRB site. It would be because you have some hanky panky going on in your midst from someone who does not know what a non-disclosure agreement entails.

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