Yoshinori Kitase, producer of Parasite Eve’s upcoming 3rd installment The 3rd Birthday, mentioned that the Japanese version of the long awaited sequel to the game will be coming out this winter in Japan. He also commented on the international version saying that ” … we’ve already started localising the game for overseas versions. So we’re hoping to release it sometime rather soon after the Japanese release, but we can’t specify an exact time.”

Other websites report that an international release will probably be released in 2011. Does this mean that the PSOne classics versions of Parasite Eve 1 and 2 will be coming to the PSN soon? Let’s hope we’ll see them so we can prepare ourselves by reliving the parasitic infections again before The 3rd Birthday arrives.

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If you would like to have your name on Gran Turimo’s 5 end credits, feel free to head over to Gran Turismo 5‘s E3 trailer competition where you get to choose the English name of the song playing in the trailer. If you title gets picked, your name will be mentioned in the “Special Thanks” section of the end credits in GT5. Then you’ll get to brag about it to your friends and the world – provided you live long enough through the endless delays. You can check out the rules over at the website.

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Via 1up: The first dedicated Michael Jackson game in more than twenty years now has a name, which was revealed along with some new details.

Titled Michael Jackson: The Experience, the new game is being developed for the Nintendo DS, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3. And as previously reported, it will be making use of the Wii MotionPlus, Kinect and Move.

According to Eurogamer, Wii version will be much like Ubisoft’s Just Dance, while the DS and PSP games will be tap-on rhythm games similar to Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents.

The Kinect version, meanwhile, will project a 3D image of the player on the screen. The built-in microphone will make singing and dancing hands-free.

Not a lot of details on the PS3 version thus far, save that it will be possible to use a microphone for a separate singing mode.

Michael Jackson: The Experience will be out this November.

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Via Kotaku: The programming schedule for San Diego Comic Con reveals a “a brand new, Sci-Fi Action-RPG based on the DNA of Spore.” Rumors and images floating around the Spore forums say the game will be called Darkspore.

“Maxis Studio (The Sims and Spore video games) has just announced their next project, a brand new, Sci-Fi Action-RPG based on the DNA of Spore,” says an event listing for SDCC. “Join key leads from the dev team, Thomas Vu, Paul Sottosanti and Lauren McHugh, for the first game reveal to the public!”

Forum rumors have it that the game will have players confronting the Darkspore, an evil alien race that wants to take over the galaxy. CinemaBlend notes that Darkspore.com currently redirects to Spore.com. The URL is owned by Electronic Arts.

Back in May, EA said it would publish a Spore title for PC in the first quarter of 2011.

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Via Joystiq: Namco Bandai clarified the “October” release date for Enslaved: Odyssey to the West in a press release today. Trip and Monkey’s technologically tethered pilgrimage will begin October 5 in North America. In the interim, you’ll have to settle for looking at these new screenshots.

That’s not a partcularly bad bargain, though — how often do you get to see a picture of a futuristic monkey-man based on Chinese myth, surfing through a ruined cityscape? Like two-three times a week, max?

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Via Joystiq: On the eve of E3, Patrice Désilets, creative director of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, unexpectedly left his position, just as Ubisoft prepared to woo the media with the first in-depth look at this November’sBrotherhood sequel. Looking to quickly bury the distraction, Ubisoft called Désilets’ departure a “creative break” and said that his work on Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood was “essentially done.”

While we still have yet to hear from Désilets himself, his close colleague, associate producer Jean-Francois Boivin, was not surprised by the creative director’s leave. “I totally got where he was coming from because he’s been talking about taking a break for a long time,” Boivin told UK-based GamerZines.

“In regards to Brotherhood, he did everything that he needed to do,” Boivin assured, echoing Ubisoft’s initial statement. “Patrice is a very public figure for the franchise, and he’s very much the visionary for theAssassin’s Creed license, but he’s not the only visionary. It wasn’t Patrice who did game design necessarily, and we have over two hundred very talented and creative people that work on the license.”

“We know what we’re doing,” Boivin insisted, addressing concerns that the series would be lost without Désilets, who had shepherded it for six years. “I’m not at all afraid of the future quality of Assassin’s Creed games.” Earlier this week, the producer was also not afraid to admit that the franchise could use a break after Brotherhood’s release this fall.

As for Désilets plans? “Right now he’s watching the World Cup,” Boivin said. (The World Cup ends following Sunday’s final.) “Who knows what the future will hold for him.”

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