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Why? Perhaps it was the army of spokesmodels who swarmed the keynote stage with working Nintendo 3DSs. Or perhaps it was the realization that, hey, this thing really works.One surprising hardware curiosity from 2010 was another new handheld game machine, Panasonic's Jungle. Pitched as a “new mobile device concept designed replica Rolex 116523-MDO Men's Watch specifically for online gamers,” the Jungle seems like a risky, surprising move from the electronics giant.Perhaps the biggest hardware “surprise” of 2010 happened on March 1, the day PlayStation 3s around the world simply stopped working. Twenty-four hours worth of PS3 downtime was blamed on a clock bug, which rendered some games unplayable.

The “8001050F error” was not the kind of surprise we were hoping for this year.And Now For The Bad NewsDeveloper Infinity Ward had only recently released one of the most successful video games of all time, Call of Duty: Modern Ware 2, when (surprise!) its parent company Activision fired the series' creators, a huge chunk of the development team jumped ship and everyone started suing the pants off each other. What replica Rolex 116528-WSO Men's Watch started off as a bizarre rumor eventually became into one of the industry's biggest debacles.Activision's rival Electronic Arts also had a few surprises for basketball video game fans. We're not talking about the decision to ditch the NBA Live name in favor of NBA Elite and overhauling the series, we're talking about the last minute delay of the basketball sim and its eventual and complete cancellation.

Yeah, it was a disaster alright. EA Sports' basketball game is now in the hands of the Madden team, hopefully surprise-free next year.A Few More Along The WayThey may be minor, but we didn't see the cast of characters killing zombies in Call of Duty: Black Ops coming and the ending of Red Dead Redemption featured a pleasantly unexpected twist. (That the zombie-infested Undead Nightmare expansion for that game was also so enjoyable replica Rolex 116518-MDL Men's Watch was similarly unexpected.) And this year's Spike VGAs had a happy surprise announcement or two, namely The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.From games to events to new announcements, what was surprising to you about 2010? Let us know in the comments.

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Kid Icarus Uprising, from the designer of Super Smash Bros., is expected to be one of the launch titles for Nintendo's next platform, the Nintendo 3DS.Never Thought We'd See The DayThe annual E3 expo is typically the place where bombshells are dropped (see: Kid Icarus Uprising), but one announcement managed to surprise us—developer Valve embracing the PlayStation 3 by announcing that next year's Portal 2 would replica Rolex 116523-WDO Men's Watch come to Sony's console. Why is that surprising? After numerous dismissals of the PS3 by founder Gabe Newell, the head of Valve took the stage during Sony's E3 keynote to deliver the good news himself.And call us pessimists if you want, but the release of Gran Turismo 5 for the PlayStation 3 actually happened.

After multiple delays, including one very close to the release of the driving game, GT5 managed to cross the finish line in 2010.Unexpected Crossovers, Unexpected HitsCapcom revealed two big cross-company crossovers in 2010, with legal adventure game Phoenix Wright planning to cross paths with Level 5's Professor Layton and replica Rolex 116528-WDO Men's Watch Street Fighter's world warriors duking it out with the cast of Tekken. While Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney for the Nintendo 3DS was unexpected, the 3D fighting game mash-up had another surprise: there are two of them.

Capcom and Namco revealed two titles at this year's Comic-Con, Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter, the latter of which we'll be waiting a long time for.While not a crossover, many of us were stunned by the success of the lo-fi world building game Minecraft, which has sold in excess of 900,000 copies according to its creator. Not bad for a game that only recently went into beta.Hardware Successes & FailuresWe'd heard rumblings about Nintendo's stereoscopic 3D handheld game machine for months. When replica Rolex 116523-WSO Men's Watch Nintendo finally announced it in a low-key fashion, we were more perplexed than surprised. And despite knowing details about the hardware before they were public, when Nintendo announced the 3DS at this year's E3, we were blown away.

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According to VG247's report, this is an early version of the PSP2's dev kit, which Sony may have abandoned in favor of a form factor that more closely matches the original, non-sliding PSP.As we've previously reported, Sony was looking at two different form factors for the PSP2, one modeled after the original PSP series, the other in the style of the PSPgo. The system's hardware specs are said to rival those of the Xbox replica Rolex 179179-CDP Ladie's watch, with the PSP2 sporting a larger, higher-definition screen than that of the original PSP. The PSP2 will drop UMD support in favor of using Memory Stick storage, according to those who have seen the device.A development source with knowledge of the device has confirmed to Kotaku that the leaked PSP2 dev kit shots are legitimate.

PSP2 dev kit snaps show twin sticks, trackpad [VG247]”Can we still be surprised by video games in an industry rife with rumors, leaks and publishers who prefer safe bets to bold risks? Looking back at the turn of events that was 2010, a year sometimes rocky, sometimes thrilling, it seems we can.We should have seen some of the biggest replica Rolex 179178-CDP Ladie's watch surprises of 2010 coming (and in some cases, we actually did), but the following news, games and industry shake-ups still managed to challenge our expectations, make us smile and hope that we never have to go through some of this in 2011.

Revivals & RebirthsWhen the venerable vaporware that was Duke Nukem Forever rose from its grave at PAX 2010, with new developer Gearbox Software at the helm and the promise of a 2011 release date, we were incredulous — despite that we'd heard Duke was returning in Gearbox's good hands a month earlier. Could this forever-in-the- shooter finally see the light of day? We'll rub our eyes in disbelief even when we hold a replica Rolex 116523-MAO Men's Watch copy of Duke Nukem Forever in our hands, but a publicly playable version of the game was still one of 2010's nicest surprises.In 2010, Nintendo also answered the prayers of long-suffering Kid Icarus fans, announcing a third game in the series after a two-decade break.

While we agree it's a touch absurd to be acknowledging these clips at the expense of the game's they're trying to sell

While we agree it's a touch absurd to be acknowledging these clips at the expense of the game's they're trying to sell, trailers - many of which end up as cinematic sequences in the game's they're promoting - not only play a big part in people's awareness of a title, but at their best are enjoyable in their own right.With that in mind, then, replica Rolex 179174-SDJ Ladie's watch here are our pick of the best video game trailers for 2010. Please note that we've selected these based on the quality and strength of the trailer itself, not the game these clips are representing. There's no overall winner, nor are they placed in any particular order. Just...enjoy as you find them!

They're mock-ups. But since they're mock-ups of an image that claims to be of a real PSP2, they're still worth looking at!These pics, commissioned by PSM3 and put together by this guy, formed part of a recent news article in the magazine, speculating on both the PSP2 and (still unofficial) PlayStation Phone.Taking the replica Rolex 179173-BKDO Ladie's watch blurry, x-rayified pics first published on VG247 as a foundation, they've whipped up a pair of images that show the rumoured handheld in all its rumoured glory.How close these shots come to the final product we won't know until we get our first official look at the PlayStation Portable's successor.

But until that time, it's nice looking at a PSP with two thumbsticks![PSM3, via Luxology, thanks Pointy!]”The oft-rumored PlayStation Portable 2 may have just been photographed in the wild—or at least an early version of the device's development kit has. Early spy shots of the PSP2 appear to confirm many of its new features. replica Rolex 179173CDDJ Ladie's watch has what it claims are pictures of the PSP2's dev kit, appropriately grainy shots that show off the previously reported touch pad positioned on the back of the device, its dual analog control sticks and front and back-facing cameras.

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