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Folks, some more depressing news from the unfurling fiscal nightmare: Despite Circuit City’s announcement that they’re going straight to heck, Circuit City and Target, two of its major big-box competitors have announced planned layoffs for hundreds of more employees.

Best Buy offered voluntary severance packages to employees just last December, and although as many as people as 500 took the bait, Best Buy still wants to get rid of more employees fromo their Minneapolis home base. Target plans to close a distribution center, letting go of up to 500 workers, and they’ll be cutting back about 600 jobs at their corporate HQ.

It’s unlikely that either store will go completely under as Circuit City just did, but times are definitely scary, even for these major players. If these two buy the farm too, where are we gonna get all of our awesome PSP games and accessories? Are we going to have to begin manufacturing them ourselves in our own basements? I guess someone’s going to have come up with a PlayStation that’s built entirely from balsa wood, bubble gum, and penny nails.

A new study involving a survey of ten year old children suggests that games such as Brain Training and Brain Academy don’t actually improve your intelligence. Alan Lieury, a professor at the University of Rennes in France, said that: “The Nintendo DS is a technological jewel. As a game it’s fine, but it is charlatanism to claim that it is a scientific test.” Charlatanism, folks.

During the experiment, the kids were asked to perform a few cognitive functions like completing logic tests and memorizing lists of words. The researchers compared the results of children who practiced using games on the Nintendo DS versus those are practiced with standard pencil and paper exercises. In the memory exercise, the kids using the Nintendo DS were as high as 17 percent more effective overall after utilizing the DS applications.

As to why the experiments elected to use kids instead of adults, professor Lieury states that “that’s the age where you have the best chance of improvement. If it doesn’t work on children, it won’t work on adults.”

We’re not convinced. Everyone knows that playing video games turns your brain into an enormous, throbbing vessel of infinite knowledge.

Just a little thing from the global wire to keep y’all giggling: Apparently, some nutty dudes in Russia decided to steal a four-foot PSP displayed in a street-stand advertisement. A pretty fancy shenanigan, if you ask us. What’s even more awesome is that they got it on video. Could be a marketing stunt or something, but whatever it is, it works for us. You’ll want to observe the footage for yourself in order to render your own judgment. Is it a set-up? Is it an international conspiracy?

Now, this isn’t the biggest PSP prop ever made. There’s one in NYC that’s tons bigger. Maybe someone could try to jack that one instead. Don’t go and get yourselves shot or anything. Actually, better just leave that big one right where it is. Leave it alone. Seriously, just go home and play with your regulation-sized, actually-working PSP. And watch this video here.

Fans of the Harvest Moon series, be delighted: Here’s a few new videos from the forthcoming Harvest Moon: Sugar Village And Everyone’s Wish. Its developer, Marvelous Entertainment, released these so that you can have something to digest while they go about making last-minute tinkers. There’s an official trailer here, and a TV commercial, too.

The game, which is slated for a March 19th release in Japan, is originally titled Mokujou Monogatari: Sugar Mura to Minna no Negai. Tons of fun. If you didn’t know, the game’s basically about farming. If you’re into agrarian science, you’ll definitely want to read more about this title. Like, crops and stuff. Fields. More news here as it drops.

Class Of Heroes, a new commercially released game for the PSP from developer Atlus, is slated to hit stores on April 7th. This is a nifty, feature-rich RPG that offers a possible 500 character combinations. You’ll choose from 10 races, 15 majors, and 3 alignments to give your character some serious customization. The developer promises a minimum 80 hours of gameplay, involving exploring dungeons, finding 1,300 item types, and marching around the vast universe comprising 75 maps. Monsters, puzzles, weapons, traps: All of the classic RPG stuff will be in here.

Class Of Heroes will cost $39.99, so put a few bills aside and stay all righteously pumped up for its release. You’ll want to really give your swordsmanship a once-over to make sure you can handle the roleplaying badness. Class Of Heroes promises to be a portable dream-come-true for the discerning geek. In the meantime, check out this debut trailer which recently dropped to get a taste of some of what the game will offer.

There’s a bunch of new visuals available from the forthcoming release of Dynasty: Strikeforce. Koei, the game’s developer, has ensured that the adoring public has enough eye candy to keep themselves sweaty for the release date.

The screenshots here include gameplay views, renders of characters, and stills from the game’s cutscenes.

Word on the grapevine is that a special edition Strikeforce-customized PSP-3000 bundle will arrive in Japan around the same time as the game’s planned release date. This rumor is not in any way confirmed, but would be a really fun, nerdy, theme drop from the big boys upstairs.

Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce from Koei is slated to release in Japan on February 26th. North America will receive the game on March 24th.

Mana Khemia: Student Alliance, a game forthcoming for the PSP, will definitely miss its January 2009 release date. NIS America, the game’s developer, issued a press release which affirms the delay and pushes back the release date to an unspecified time sometime this Spring. Rumors had circulated about a week regarding this delay.

NIS America claims that they game needs a few improvements in order to make sure that it’s in the best shape possible prior to release. Work will continue on the project until at least February. As we draw closer to Spring, we’ll have more information about this game right here.

For now, stay hopeful, have a snack, call your mother, and get between eight and ten hours of sleep each night.

In case you guys are really die-hard fans, which you definitely are, here’s a blip from the Tales Of The World: Radiant Mythology 2 fan culture. It’s the latest Japanese TV spot for the game. It’s super-short, a real subconscious assault, but you’ll enjoy it anyway. You can check out a little in-game footage from the ad, and there’s some cut-scenes in there to tickle your attention spans.

Tales Of The World: Radiant Mythology 2 is scheduled to arrive at stores in Japan on January 29th. Its developers, Namco Bandai, haven’t confirmed whether a version of the game is going to head to the other global turfs, and fans stateside can only hope it’ll arrive on American soil. In the meantime, peep the ad, keep studying your Japanese, and, if worse comes to worse, you can just fly over there and play their version.

Maybe you can even grab a cool little studio apartment in Tokyo, too. Build a life for yourself. Cross-cultural immersion is the thing, fellas. It’ll not only enrich your quality of life, but you’ll also get to a play a ton of titles you’d otherwise end up missing.

Stay tuned for more news about Tales Of The World: Radiant Mythology 2 as it drops.

The NPD Group has published some much-anticipated sales figures from the US game industry. The list includes numbers for both hardware and software sales. Nintendo stays on top of hardware sales with strong showings from both the Wii and the DS. Here’s the full list for your math-addled brains to digest:

US Hardware in December 2008 (Expected sales in parentheses)

• Nintendo DS: 3,040,000 (2,670,000)
• Wii: 2,150,000 (3,030,000)
• Xbox 360: 1,440,000 (1,420,000)
• PSP: 1,020,000 (935,000)
• PS3: 726,000 (757,000)

Nintendo titles win out in software sales, too, owning five of the ten spots overall:

US Software in December 2008 (Expected sales in parentheses)

Wii Play: 1,460,000 (1,350,000)

Call of Duty: World at War (Xbox 360): 1,330,000 (799,000)

1. Wii Fit: 999,000
2. Mario Kart (Wii): 979,900
3. Guitar Hero World Tour (Wii): 850,000
4. Gears of War 2: 745,000 (799,000)
5. Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360): 629,000
6. Mario Kart DS: 540,000
7. Call of Duty World at War (PlayStation 3): 533,000
8. Animal Crossing: City Folk: 497,000

We’ll stay plugged in to the statistics sources in order to report more clutch industry numbers as they drop.

Word has spread quickly about the Infected mode that’s available in the Resistance: Retribution demo. We’ve got our hands on a video that shows a comparison between the Infected Mode and the Standard Mode via gameplay on the demo. Get a taste of the differences here, in fantastic, Internet-quality by watching this mind-boggling “motion picture” demonstration.

Again, the Resistance: Retribution demo is available for download upon pre-order of the full game. Check our earlier post on the topic to access two different pre-order links and start rocking out to the demo. We’re eagerly awaiting the full release that’s coming in mere weeks. So are you. In the meantime, you’ll still have to do boring things like finish homework, go to jobs, write novels, and all that other stuff that you crazy people do when you’re not playing the mostly hotly anticipated title of the quarter.