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Muchables from BANDAI/NAMCO is good for you. It’s a game that lives up to its awesome premise!

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Let me lay out the scheme for you. You go to a retailer, purchase a game, then return the game without the actual DVD. Of course, you take that DVD and sell it online for some sweet cash. The perfect crime, right? Not really…and it’s extra bad if you happen to be a cop.

Officer Ryan Sayler now has 14 counts of the crime above held against him. Making things even stranger, this officer was awarded a medal for saving people from a burning building. One day he saves lives, the next he’s screwing people over.

It’s unclear whether or not Mr. Sayler is an officer right now. At least one article points to him being relieved of his duties as of last December. That termination would have nothing to do with the crimes mentioned above.

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“There is a difference between a game and solitaire. A game really requires two people and most of the experiences, like the original Mario, those are obstacle courses. It’s not really a game. It’s only a game if two of you are doing the same thing and you’re competing to get across the obstacle course. Tetris easily crossed that bridge from being a single player to being a multiplayer game.” – Henk Rogers, licensee

Is it just me, or does that explanation get a little confusing in the middle? Truth be told, I’m not sure how Mr. Rogers wants us to take that statement!

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We have no way of knowing what HAL Laboratory is up to. All we can do is look at their website and virtually thumb through what they’ve posted. That’s exactly what reader Shiine did, and he found some interesting stuff.

If you visit their official Japanese site and click on the ‘idea cube’, you are presented with a bunch of art that looks like it’s related to Canvas Curse. The thing is, a lot of the stuff we see was never used in the game. Were these ideas that had to be yanked from the original, or a collection of works that may appear in a sequel?

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This is the EA title that we are yet to see any real footage of. EA is playing this one close to their chest. Sure looks like they’re trying to make a hit out of it in Japan.

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Go ahead, listen to the first one and try not to get goosebumps. If you played Professor Layton, this music should really resonate with you. Dear lord, I hope somehow this movie makes it to the states.

Huge thanks to FORALEC for the heads up!