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You know, Mother always used to say that dating a Yakuza was a bad idea ... and a good way to get yourself killed. We wish Sega the best of luck then, as the company has done just that -- Yakuza 3 is set for a Japanese debut on February 26th, 2009. The Gangs of Tokyo epic (with Trophy support!) will also be included in a limited-run PlayStation 3 bundle sporting an 80GB, Ceramic White console and a ¥45,980 ($492) price tag.

And before you ask, Sega has yet to confirm a US release for Yakuza 3. We'll let you know when they do. (See? "When." We're optimistic over here.)

[Via PS3 Fanboy]

Yakuza 3 dated for Japan, bundled with Ceramic White PS3 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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p style="text-align: center;"img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/124709/echochrome.png?201625" title="Echochrome - Image 1" alt="Echochrome - Image 1" align=""br/pbrTime to squeeze every neuron in your brain again. With bundles of 20 new levels going available for a title="PS3 - Echochrome" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Echochrome/cid/4179"span style="font-style: italic;"echochrome/span/a every once in a while, you'd think some people have probably snapped under the pressure already. Nonetheless, that's not stopping a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/sony/880" id="tag" title="Father of PlayStation"Sony/a from releasing a Trophy patch for span style="font-style: italic;"echochrome/span.brbrThe list may run short, however, it's going to take a lifetime to go through all of those stages and echoes. Flex those brain muscles, here's the list: brulliHalf the journey (Bronze) - Complete all stages in A to D./liliTraversal (Silver) - Complete all stages in A to G./liliTotal traversal (Gold) - Complete courses A to G./liliRock bottom (Bronze) - Fall 100 times while playing stages./liliFlyin' high (Bronze) - Leap 100 times while playing stages./liliTake a hike (Bronze) - Take 10,000 steps while playing stages./liliShadow (Bronze) - Collect 500 echoes./liliechochrome (Bronze) - Complete 100 stages in any mode./liliGimme five (Bronze) - Upload five stages./liliechochrome master (Gold) - Collect all the trophies./li/ulSony hasn't announced a release date for the Trophy patch just yet, but sources indicate that it won't be far off. brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrulli style="font-style: italic;"a title="More Echochrome stages, new game bundle on PSN tomorrow" href="http://ps3.qj.net/More-Echochrome-stages-new-game-bundle-on-PSN-tomorrow/pg/49/aid/124709"More Echochrome stages, new game bundle on PSN tomorrow/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Mandatory PS3 Trophy implementation not absolute, patches not retroactive" href="http://www.qj.net/Mandatory-PS3-Trophy-implementation-not-absolute-patches-not-retroactive/pg/49/aid/126534"Mandatory PS3 Trophy implementation not absolute, patches not retroactive/abr/li/ulbrbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/4BMocnqLVgg" height="1" width="1"/

Quantic Dream's president and CEO, who is also the writer and director of Heavy Rain, was recently asked if we will see any online features in Heavy Rain. "Heavy Rain's an experience about interactive narrative and emotion, and we really wanted to focus on making these core elements right. The game will support the Trophy system and may offer some kind of extra content online, but Heavy Rain is a single-player experience." he replied.

It's a thorny dilemma, both legally and morally -- fittingly, the kind of story that, were it turned into a movie, might win a couple Oscars itself. The question is this: Does the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have the legal right to buy back an Oscar winner's statuette if he or she (or his or her heirs) decides to get rid of it? What if the Oscar winner wants to sell it at auction and donate the money to charity? Can the Academy in good conscience demand return of the statuette and deprive the charity of those funds? See? Thorny!

For Academy Award winners since 1950, the legalities are fairly uncomplicated. The minute you win the sucker, you have to sign a contract saying that if you or your heirs ever decide you don't want the trophy anymore, the Academy has the right to buy it back for $10. That's the Academy's way of preventing the devaluation of the statuette. If any old schmo with a few hundred thousand dollars could "win" an Oscar at Jack Nicholson's garage sale, the prize would lose all meaning. As it is, of course, winning an Oscar is the single greatest achievement that a human being can ever hope to accomplish -- and the Academy wants to keep it that way.

The issue that's about to go before a Los Angeles judge and jury is what should happen to the best actress Oscar that Mary Pickford won for 1929's Coquette. (That's Pickford and the troublesome trophy in the picture.) The Academy didn't have the first-dibs rule back then -- but when Pickford won an honorary Oscar in 1976, she signed the agreement, and the Academy says that contract was retroactive to include her earlier trophy, too.

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