One of Charice’s songs in her Infinity album was chosen as the English theme song of the upcoming Japanese role-playing game, Final Fantasy XIII-2.
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Facebook currently tagged team with the Electronic Arts (EA) to supply the top website with different games coming from the said popular game-maker team.

Electronic Arts team is the creator of hit games like Sims, Rock Band, and Need for Speed. They just signed a five-year “strategic relationship” with Facebook.

Different from the usual games on FB, the EA is looking forward to bring in their house of games which are purchasable, meaning customers had to buy the products exclusively via the Facebook Credits, the social network’s virtual currency.

The game “Monopoly” is sure to come to Facebook while the “Pogo Games” is still on beta-testing for Facebook app. Pogo has a collection of addictive puzzle and board games that could prove quite popular on Facebook. Lastly, EA has successfully ported its Madden and FIFA franchises to Facebook with Madden NFL Superstars and FIFA Superstars.

A flash game of the 10-hour hostage taking incident at Quirino Grandstand in Manila was released by an unknown programmer.

The game was created by a certain author named “keybol” at the day of the hostage taking. It earned quick popularity among online gamers after it was published in Newgrounds.com as a flash game.

The game which features the same scenario as the Manila hostage drama is entitled “Bus Hostage Policeman”. The aim of the game is to shoot the rude policeman who hostage 25 Asian citizens in one-minute given time.

Moreover the tagline of the game says this: “”Seeking to arm-twist authorities into reinstating him back, a dismissed policeman has taken a bus with 25 passengers hostage here. Can you stop him and blow his brain?”

When the time runs out, regardless of how many times the policeman in the game is shot, a photo of dismissed PNP Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza is displayed along with the caption, “I want to be reinstated back to my job so I hostage these people.”

Below are the comments coming from the other users of the site:

“You totally didn’t just make a mockery of a tragic attack on innocent people,” sarcastically wrote user “chitoryu12″.

“do you even know what are the families of the hostages feeling? THINK FOR JESUS CHRIST!!!” added user “jmb13″

Perhaps, the game author believes that the game he created will easily gain popularity, which is true to reality.

One of the  flagship Video game product for  Sony’s PlayStation and Japanese gamemaker SquareEnix hit Japan’s Stores as fans of Final Fantasy  video game series  lined up just to get the new Final Fantasy XIII (13) unit.  The game can be played on Play Station 3 (PS3) with known for its quality images on Blu-ray discs.

The released of Final Fantasy XIII in Japan is expected to boost sales of PS3 as this console is struggling to compete with  Nintendo’s blockbuster Wii console and the MS Xbox 360.

Meanwhile Final Fantasy followers in North America and Europe would likely expect Final Fantasy XIII to be released on March 9 in  both for the PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 console.

Jackpot for the Super Lotto 6/49 online lottery game has again breached the P50-million mark for tonight’s draw. That was according to Mr. Conrado Zaballa, PCSO Assistant General Manager for online operations. Aside from the Super Lotto, the Power Lotto game drawn every Saturday is now P62 million pesos.This is the fourth time since January that the jackpot prize hit the P50-million mark. So what are you waiting for? place your bets for the winning combination of your choice. Who knows? tonight will be you lucky day.

Nintendo plans to launch a new version of its popular DS portable gaming device with a camera and music player function, according to a report in the Sunday edition of The Nikkei Business Daily. The new version will have better wireless capability for connecting to the Internet and will cost under ¥20,000 (US$189).

Microsoft Corp announced its plan to cut the price of entry level Xbox360, the version without a hard drive to only $199 from its original current price of $279. While the best selling Xbox360 version that comes with 60gig hard drive will reduce its price from $349 to $299. The new prices will go into effect by September 5. 

Mortal Kombat and DC universe followers will surely be surprised  of the news on the PS3 and XBOX 360 game scene lately. Midway Games Inc. will be releasing Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe game for PS3 and Xbox 360. Just imagine Batman against scorpion or superman vs subzero in a arena like Gotham City and Metropolis for the DC side and Hell and Graveyard for MOrtal Kombat side. Players can also expect all new fighting features like freefall kombat and Klose Kombat. Freefall Kombat allows players to battle in mid-air while falling from one arena to the next one. Klose Kombat gives the player a brutal up-close view of the fight. Of course specific finishing signature moves can still be experience on the game. Release date has not yet been mentioned.

Summer blockbuster movies no longer end with the closing credits with rising numbers of licensed video games being spun off from Hollywood adventures, putting the gamer in the starring role. John Taylor, video game analyst for Arcadia Research, said this summer features a dozen Hollywood-licensed games, up from nine last year. Disney/Pixar’s newest computer-generated blockbuster, “WALL-E,” has been developed into a game by Heavy Iron Studios and published by THQ with players able to control the robot stars, WALL-E and Eve, in adventures beyond the two-hour film. In addition to his new movie, “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” from Universal Pictures, del Toro collaborated with “Hellboy” comic creator Mike Mignola and Konami Digital Entertainment on the new “Hellboy: Science of Evil” game for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PSP.

In the US, seven of the top selling titles in May were for the Nintendo Wii console or its handheld DS game-playing gadget. Nintendo maintained its top spot as the most popular console and managed to sell 675,000 Wiis. By comparison Sony sold 209,000 PlayStation 3 machines and Microsoft 187,000 Xbox 360 consoles. Total spending on video games for May was $1.12bn. Total sales for the year so far are $6.6bn. The figures were boosted by continuing strong sales of Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) which was the best-selling title for a second month. The highly praised game kept the top spot despite competition from other new releases such as Mario Kart and Wii Fit for Nintendo’s popular console. Top-selling title GTA IV sold 1.31 million units in May taking its total since its launch in late April to 4.2 million units However, NPD said the strong sales of GTA IV was not boosting console sales. The figures mean that total US sales of the Nintendo Wii number 10.2 million – on a par with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 which has sold 10.27 million. NPD projects that game sales could reach $23bn for 2008 – far higher than the $18bn reached in 2007, which was a 43% jump over 2006.

If you’re a Guitar Hero fan, you are definitely meant for the upcoming Guitar Hero: On Tour package, which consists of a special-edition Guitar Hero Nintendo DS, the GH game, and the Guitar Grip. For those who have never heard of Guitar Hero: On Tour, Activision has created a portable version of game that’s compatible with the popular Nintendo DS. The Guitar Grip, which plugs into the DS’s Game Boy Advance slot, has color-coded fret buttons you push, and a pick stylus to strum the virtual guitar on the DS’s touch screen. The other screen of the DS will display moving notes for each song, just as in the real game that will make you feel you are really singing on a live performance.