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Late last week, From Software shared a final Japanese release date for Ninja Blade, its highly anticipated Xbox 360-exclusive action title.

Over in Japan, 360 owners can look forward to the game on January 29. It will carry a price point of 7,140 yen, which while high by US standards is pretty reasonable for a high profile game in Japan.

Joining the game's release across the Pacific will be a soundtrack. Released through Gem Impact, with production by Norihiko Hibino, the soundtrack will arrive on February 4 at 3,045 yen. Fans will find a total of 27 tracks on 2 discs, along with bonuses like a color booklet and color picture labels for each disc.

As for a stateside release for the game, Microsoft has a tentative release planned for Q2 2009.


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pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=49356507796c7a9c00cae168maxX=406maxY=440" border="0" alt="McNameeFB.jpg" title="McNameeFB.jpg" width="406" height="440" /Elevation Partners spent $325 million on a 25% stake in Palm (PALM) in June 2007. Yesterday, a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/palm-fall-sales-sucked-slashing-costs-for-hail-mary"Palm pre-announced fiscal Q2 revenues 40% below Wall Street expectations./a/p pBut don't worry about Elevation Partners investor Roger McNamee. Roger's found a venue for taking out his frustrations: Trolling a a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=38156726114ref=nf"Verizon (VZ) Wireless Facebook page/a touting the a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/rim-blackberry-storm-review"new RIM (RIMM) BlackBerry Storm/a, telling visitors to check out emNew York Times/em columnist David Pogue's a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/seven-reasons-pogue-hates-the-blackberry-storm"nasty review/a./p pWe know Roger, who plays in a rock band with former SNL band leader G.E. Smith, is a fun guy. So this is probably just Roger being Roger. But let's hope that Palm's sharp cost cuts aren't affecting its emtrained/em P.R. team./p pstrongSee Also:/stronga href="../../2008/12/palm-fall-sales-sucked-slashing-costs-for-hail-mary"strongbr //strongPalm: Fall Sales Horrible, Slashing Costs (PALM)/a/p pspan/span/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/3Gkqm60lYXaNPanX2JzEIdEK2AQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/3Gkqm60lYXaNPanX2JzEIdEK2AQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ZB9Xq4lR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=ZB9Xq4lR" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=59bKsq7H"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=wBS45Kmo"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Qf55Yny6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=Qf55Yny6" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=GuZuw3IS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=m691Q8s8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=F3mYhVBz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=nXE3v3sA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/Xmh5_boyUNc" height="1" width="1"/

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pPalm has announced preliminary financial data for Q2 FY 2009, which ended on November 28. The company says that is has recorded record revenue in the range of $190 million to $195 million. Oddly Palm says record revenue and then says that the revenue decli.../pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?a=Spk9UQg4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?a=ApJRBQO7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?i=ApJRBQO7" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?a=ftIvl31q"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?i=ftIvl31q" border="0"/img/a /div

div align="center"a href="http://investor.palm.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=351422"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-2-08-palm-headquarters.jpg" //abr //div Remember when we used to write about Palm in order to talk about its a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/05/palm-treo-800w-spotted-in-new-pics/"devices/a and / or a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/14/first-palm-os-ii-devices-to-hit-early-2009-is-it-already-too-la/"operating system(s)/a? Man, those were a href="http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/14/the-engadget-guide-to-how-palm-became-palm-again/"the days/a. Now, it just seems like one sadness-filled report after another, and just days after hearing that it would be a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/11/21/palm-axes-an-undisclosed-amount-of-employees-sort-of-blames-its/"cutting/a an undisclosed amount of employees in order to trim operating expenses, in comes even more doom and gloom courtesy of its preliminary Q2 (fiscal year 2009) results. The company is expecting to record revenues ranging between $190 million to $195 million, far short of the $331 million Wall Street had been counting on. The shortfall was blamed on "a difficult economic environment [which had] greatly intensified the negative impact on product sales." Of course, the visionary Ed Colligan (CEO) still maintains that by reducing its a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/11/05/analyst-says-palm-burning-through-cash-like-its-going-out-of-st/"cost structure/a it can "launch next-generation products as planned," but seriously, why should we believe that line now? Time to a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/09/22/palm-quietly-slips-next-generation-smartphones-into-mid-2009/"put up/a or shut up, Palm.br /br /[Via a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10110622-94.html?part=rssamp;subj=newsamp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20"CNET/a, image courtesy of a href="http://www.palmfocus.com/images/palm/large/hpim0230.jpg"PalmFocus/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/palms-preliminary-quarter-end-results-show-drooping-revenues-b/"Palm's preliminary quarter-end results show drooping revenues, bleak outlook/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:54:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://investor.palm.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=351422Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/palms-preliminary-quarter-end-results-show-drooping-revenues-b/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1388061/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/palms-preliminary-quarter-end-results-show-drooping-revenues-b/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gOt27xr-BX_jjs6yRcPTQ5EtkBE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gOt27xr-BX_jjs6yRcPTQ5EtkBE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=dw2pu3CM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=dw2pu3CM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=5LVNSTf4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=5LVNSTf4" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/oMsqf98EOws" height="1" width="1"/

Remember when we used to write about Palm in order to talk about its devices and / or operating system(s)? Man, those were the days. Now, it just seems like one sadness-filled report after another, and just days after hearing that it would be cutting an undisclosed amount of employees in order to trim operating expenses, in comes even more doom and gloom courtesy of its preliminary Q2 (fiscal year 2009) results. The company is expecting to record revenues ranging between $190 million to $195 million, far short of the $331 million Wall Street had been counting on. The shortfall was blamed on "a difficult economic environment [which had] greatly intensified the negative impact on product sales." Of course, the visionary Ed Colligan (CEO) still maintains that by reducing its cost structure it can "launch next-generation products as planned," but seriously, why should we believe that line now? Time to put up or shut up, Palm.

[Via CNET, image courtesy of PalmFocus]

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