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SNK’s oddball bullet hell shmup, KOF Sky Stage , has finally been dated for Xbox Live Arcade — in Japan, at least. Masochists can check it out on September 15 for 800 MS Points ($10).

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KOF Sky Stage shoots up Japanese XBLA on September 15

Our friends at Engadget en Español have turned us on to some pico projecters that recently popped up on Philips’ Flickr account.

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Philips unveils new PicoPix pico projectors

Lording over your Keflings in A Kingdom for Keflings was easily one its most amusing aspects.

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World of Keflings trailer debuts tiny man cannons

The bump in cost for a Gold membership on Xbox Live is just the tip of the iceberg, according to game industry seer Michael Pachter . Predicting a $100 plan as the next evolutionary step in subscription options soon to be available to Xbox Live consumers, he told IndustryGamers reports that while the initial extra $10 “translates to around $100 to 150 million per year in additional revenue for Microsoft,” the company will “reinvest at least this much in developing other new applications, and will roll out a premium service with $100 to 200 million worth of enhancements.

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Pachter predicts $100 ‘Platinum’ Xbox Live membership

At last year’s TGS, Capcom producer Keiji Inafune had some pretty grim things to say about the Japanese game industry. “I said that comment hoping that the Japanese creators were going to wake up,” Inafune told Videogamer in a new interview. “However, there has been no change whatsoever to the situation since last year, so I’m still very pessimistic.” Inafune said that some Japanese developers are “still living the glory of the ’80s and ’90s,” when the NES, Super NES and Genesis delivered a steady stream of hit games from Japan to the world

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Inafune: Japanese devs have to ‘get humble’

Poor ol’ Hideo Kojima has apparently been on the receiving end of a plethora of demands from his rabid fanbase, all crying out for the integration of some of the PS3’s patched-in features into Metal Gear Solid 4 . The idiosyncratic developer took time out of his busy schedule of eating bizarre-looking foodstuffs to respond by saying , “I wanted to make a ‘Complete Version’ with trophy support and 3D, but if I did that I wouldn’t be able to work on a new game

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Kojima wants a ‘Complete’ edition of MGS4, if someone else makes it

Oh boy — yes, this certainly seems like an announcement for an announcement, and you know how much we love those (not at all). But 2K Games’ blog has posted that “something big is going to happen at the 2K Games booth” this weekend for PAX 2010 , and it’s got everyone riled up.

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2K Games to stream ’something big’ from PAX tomorrow morning

Nintendo announced the Japanese release date for Kirby’s Epic Yarn — October 14 — and released a new trailer for the occasion. We’ve embedded it after the break, but we encourage you to go to Nintendo’s site anyway, for the most charming video controls you’ll ever, ever see. Continue reading Thank Japan for this new Kirby’s Epic Yarn trailer Thank Japan for this new Kirby’s Epic Yarn trailer originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:40:00 EST

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Thank Japan for this new Kirby’s Epic Yarn trailer

Infamous 2 is set to electrify (hopefully, not literally) the PAX crowd with seven demo kiosks on the show floor this weekend.

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Infamous 2 at PAX: playable, panel and cool shirt