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Phantasy Star fans take note: Sega has confirmed the newest game in the series, Phantasy Star Portable, will be released in North America at long last in March 2009. The game takes place after the disappointing Phantasy Star Universe, which I think most of us have agreed to pretend never existed.

While many are eagerly anticipating Fable 2's release next week, Peter Molyneux has already been hard at work on his next project. And despite this game still being shrouded in secrecy, it's not stopping the notoriously talkative designer from hyping it up already -- and using some tremendously grandiose language to do so.

Takara Tomy announced in this week's issue of Famitsu magazine that a new game bearing the Toshinden name is in the works. The title, still at an early stage of development, is coming to the Wii at an unspecified time.

BioShock for the PlayStation 3 is getting a patch to fix some graphics issues, according to a post on the 2K Forums. Following the release of the demo, there was concern among the community over some of the textures, particularly on the Big Daddies. Community manager Elizabeth has confirmed that the "Bouncer" and "Elite Bouncer" variants of Big Daddies will be patched to eliminate the large, blocky pixels that are visible. In addition, the white/discolored bars during the opening plane crash sequence will be fixed as well. The new screenshots (above) show off the fixed Daddies to put minds at ease.

It's been a historical week for Japanese game mag Famitsu, and not because it broke circulation records or had a hot exclusive on FFXIV or anything like such. No, it's because this week's issue has a game which ties the record for the worst review score ever given in the magazine's 22-year history. The lucky game, Namco Bandai's Pro Golfer Saru for the Wii, earned straight 3's for a total of 12 points out of 40, only the second 12-point review and the first one where no reviewer gave the thing more than three points. The game, a simple golf title based off a 1980s anime, is apparently so bereft of features that it resembles a bad NES-era licensed game more than anything -- as one reviewer tastefully put it, "it's a precious experience, in a way, to run into a game like this in this age."