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OGPlanet.com is going to be fashionably late with it’s free-to-play MMO’s Olympic celebrations. Rather than running its games’ Olympic events at the same time as the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, it is going to be holding events in Albatross18, Cabal Online and Rumble Fighter from September 4 to 14, 2008. Registration for the Olympic events opened August 19, 2008.

If you want to compete, you’ll have to sign up in the OGPlanet forums. You must join teams with players from the three MMOs to enter. Only 48 teams will be able to compete. The winners will receive prizes (like in-game currency and an item for La Tale) and honor. 

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If you’re a Joss Whedon fan who still hasn’t purchased Firefly, and you happen to own a PS3, you may want to wait until November 11, 2008. The full Firefly series (only 14 episodes), is going to be released on Blu-Ray for $89.98. The Blu-Ray release will include additional episode commentary by Whedon and some of the cast and will also include a Firefly Reunion discussion.

The Blu-Ray Firefly set will also come with some extra features that will entertain fans. There will be two extra Whedon snippets, where Whedon tours the show’s set and where he sings the Firefly theme. There will also be a special piece called “Serenity: The 10th Character”, deleted scenes from episodes, outtakes and Alan Tudyk’s audition.

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Import games are a bit of a delicacy for gamers. They’re almost like a hidden treasure, something you might normally have the opportunity to play. So many people will take the plunge and purchase a game, even if they don’t have the language skills necessary to play it.

This is when the Action Replay DS (AR DS) can be useful. It certainly can come in handy when you need to purchase potions or weapons in an RPG or make decisions to unlock CG scenes in a game, but can’t tell what the items are. Adding a cheat code to unlock all the CG images, or provide infinite money or perhaps give infinite recovery items. Suddenly, the game became a bit more bearable.

So in Important Importables today, we’re going to see just how easy it is to find AR codes for your recent import DS purchase.

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One of the most heavily imported PSP series, DJ Max Portable is going to be released in the US. That’s right, on November 11, 2008, DJ Max Fever is going to be released by PM Studios. It isn’t a direct translated port of DJ Max Portable or DJ Max Portable 2, but rather a kind of fusion of the two games.

DJ Max Fever is a bit like DDR or Beatmania. There’s music in the background, and you have to push PSP buttons in time with said music. The original games had 4, 5, 6 and 8-button control schemes, so DJ Max Fever will most likely also have those options. A tracklist hasn’t been announced, but it has been confirmed that the game will have over 100 songs, multiplayer, wallpapers, music videos and a jukebox mode.

Click through to watch a trailer from IGN…

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Koei has just released a free PC demo of Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI (RTKXI). The full game comes out September 9, 2008, and will only be available through direct download. Originally, RTKXI was scheduled to be released July 29, 2008, but I guess things changed.

Stopping by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI site will allow you access to a game trailer, screen shots and the demo. Well, FilePlanet is actually hosting the 280.4MB demo, so the site will direct you there. You have to have a Windows XP or higher PC with DirectX 9.0c…

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A new game patch has been released for Paradox Interactive’s PC strategic simulation, Europa Universalis: Rome. If you own the game, it is incredibly easy to procure and apply the patch. Just connect to the internet, load up the title, select the “Check for Updates” option on the menu and download patch v1.3.

The EU: Rome patch isn’t just designed to fix bugs. This patch actually adds new gameplay functions and will make the game more challenging. I wish Sims 2 game patches did that. Some of the patch v1.3 updates, taken directly from the EU: Rome patch press release, are as follows…

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The PSP drought may be coming to an end, as Stormregion is developing Mytran Wars, a new PSP exclusive title that will be released by Deep Silver. The only thing is, a release date hasn’t been announced. That’s okay. Just knowing a new strategic game is in development is enough to warm PSP owner’s hearts.

Mytran Wars involves players stepping in on the human side of a war between Earthlings and aliens. People have used up all of the natural resources on Earth in the 23rd Century, and have been using space travel to search for a new source. They find a perfect planet, but the alien inhabitants already living there aren’t too happy about humans coming to harvest. Big surprise…

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Jube808, a Pspzproject member, has created a PSP modification that is a step closer to some sort of strange DS-PSP hybrid. The user created a touchscreen PSP. Jube808, an electronic engineer by trade, has decided that his PSP was nice, but could be nicer. So he has set out to make it into the gaming device he knows it can be.

Jube808 has uploaded videos to YouTube to show the touchscreen PSP’s concept keyboard in action. He also hopes to see homebrew PSP games that make use of the touchscreen feature. Click through to watch Jube808’s development and a concept keyboard videos…

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I personally find great joy in browser-based games, because my internet connection is too slow to download anything. So I’m always pleased when I hear about a new title. Game Dozer has announced that it has just started the open beta for Discarded, a free-to-play, browser-based massive multiplayer online game (MMO) that has fighting, rpg and card collecting/using elements to it, yet is also child friendly.

The premise sounds interesting - in Discarded you can constantly customize your character. You can shift around your credits, which help determine your statistics. See, athletic, science and mischief statistics allow you to equip cards which determine your strengths and abilities. If you decide you don’t like what you can do at the moment, you just unequip your cards, shift your credits into new catagories and re-equip. Clothing has no stats, and is just there for customization purposes…

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This weekend (August 15 - 18, 2008), Disney is going to have a Free Preview Weekend event running in its Pirates of the Caribbean Online massive multiplayer online rpg (MMORPG) to lure new users into the game. If you’ve ever been intrigued by the tv commercials, now may be your chance to give it a try.

Pirates of the Caribbean Online has two versions, Basic Access is always free, but Unlimited Access costs a $9.95 monthly fee. During this promotion, all Basic accounts will temporarily become Unlimited accounts. People who are already Unlimited users will still want to log in this weekend though, as all shops in the game will have a 50% discount on items to customize characters…

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