The company that brought stateside games like Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Arc Rise Fantasia, Ignition Entertainment, has announced that they will be going under a bit of rebranding. Now going under the name UTV Ignition Entertainment, the company will shift its attention to “direct-to-user” platforms like Xbox Live, PSN, Steam, Facebook, Google Games and even Apple devices.

While this may affect UTV Ignition’s decision to localize certain games, it will not have any influence on the original games they are currently working on: El Shaddai, Reich and War Devil.

We have yet to see how this will play out for gamers who have been protesting the company’s arguably lackadaisical localization jobs, but if UTV Ignition wishes to shift its efforts to the digital realm, it may allow companies like XSEED and Atlus to nab up future translation jobs. No doubt a best case scenario for those gamers.

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A picture I happened to stumble upon on while cruising through reddit.

If you’re liking the design, it’s available in shirt form on threadless.com. So now you, too, can proclaim to the world just how dorky you really are!

I actually feel kind of bad for the Goomba. Look at the expression on his face! He escapes being stomped on by a remorseless plumber only to hacked apart into four-block chunks. The only thing that would make it worse is if he only made square blocks.

The latest numbers from the NPD Group for June have come in, and Super Mario Galaxy 2 was the second best selling game for the month with a total of 548,000 copies sold.

The over-half million copies, combined with the sales since the game’s launch in May, brings the total U.S. sales of Mario Galaxy 2 to a cool 1.1 million units. Not bad for a little over a month on the shelves.

But let’s be honest here. It’s not like anyone didn’t see this coming. The bigger news would be if the game didn’t break the million mark.

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