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The latest E3 rumor circling the internet drain is that retailers have begun listing God of War 4 on their pre-order release lists, if true it would most assuredly mean an E3 appearance of some sort for the tired character. Can Sony fans endure another entry in this exploited, milked beyond dry series? Can they top the extreme gore of God of War 3 while still managing to have an incredibly dumb storyline, and keep the lead character emo enough to retain that appeal with the 14 year old boys that Sony relies on to keep it’s game division from being shut down completely?

Yes, I believe they can.

Rumor has quickly turned to evidence today that Game Republic is no more, amidst much speculation, and a warning that there would only be a limited number of days left before Game Republic’s digital download version of the PSP game Brave Story would be available on PSN, due to “expiring contracts”, more solid confirmations appeared on Kotaku that the head of Game Republic, in the face of mounting debts, had to flee the country or at the very least go into some form of hiding to avoid typical, as well as more nefarious, creditors. Today it seems that Game Republic’s phone line has literally been disconnected, and that they are no more.

For those not in the know Game Republic has created quite a few interesting niche, but lackluster selling games, such as Folklore for the PS3, and the recent multi-platform title Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom.

Game Republic was by no means a perfect developer, all of their most interesting titles were flawed in some way or another, but they were interesting titles, something this generation seems unwilling to support for the most part.

Bethesda has put out a new extended gameplay trailer for Rage, and it’s not looking any more impressive, it still looks like nothing more than an action version of Fallout 3, and while that may be more than enough for some people, others are quite tired of the robotic humans, and dank environments, there is more than one way to design a post-apocalyptic world.

It is nice of the mutant freaks to all do a cute little roll on the ground in front of you before they attack. Check out the trailer here.

Square put out a teaser trailer, presumably for a real trailer to come during E3 sometime. The game looks nice visually of course, and the areas seem at least a bit more open in this teaser than FFXIII.

Konami released the E3 trailer for their latest attempt to resurrect their beloved, but poor selling, horror franchise, and it looks pretty damn good. It looks much better than the last HD game, and while it might not be quite as experimental as the Wii Silent Hill it definitely isn’t coming off as another bland rehash so far.

Murder is a mortal sin you go to hell for murder:

Spike, always good for some shilling for the most mainstream, and biggest budget crap, was there for Naughty Dog when they needed someone to dump out some co-op footage for their interactive movie experience Uncharted 3 Drake’s Deception.

One of the few games to actually show anything from the actual game on the pre E3 GT.TV special, this Soul Calibur V gameplay footage looks quite a bit like Soul Calibur IV, just with less Star Wars characters.

Squeenix unloaded this new gameplay trailer for Deus Ex Human Revolution. It’s primarily to show off playing through the same area YOUR way, so it’s a bit repetitive. Honestly this game looks worse every time they show anything outside of a cutscene, all I see is Alpha Protocol with better combat and less dialog options.

The first DLC for Mortal Kombat is revealed in the latest issue of GameInformer, and it’s all characters. Kintaro, Kenshi, and an as yet unnamed Lady in red are all going to be up for purchase on top of the $60 price tag for the game itself. It’s a good thing Mortal Kombat hasn’t been relevant since the SNES days, or I might be upset about the many ways in which they plan to nickle & dime people on this game.

Duke Nukem Forever sees it’s most recent delay, pushing the game back to June 14th, and since this was a trivial promotional delay they made this nice little video. This will never live up to Duke Nukem 3D, it can’t.