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   Sega is currently having a rather busy week, and just today they have bombarded our inbox with a salvo of mails announcing the release of four new tiles: Armored Core 4, Full Auto 2: Battlelines, Shining Force EXA and After Burner: Black Falcon - some of which we weren't even expecting until next month. No complaints here, though! And with the European release of the PlayStation 3 just around the corner as well, fans of the Armored Core series in particular can look forward to a great weekend.

   Armored Core 4 will be in stores this Friday (March 23) for the PS3 and also for the Xbox 360, promising to deliver super-charged warfare, destructible environments and online battles for up to eight players. Some of the game's features include over 35 action-packed futuristic missions, new Boost powers, a new "Primal Armor", and, as usual, the ability to customize your Mech with an arsenal of parts.

   Full Auto 2: Battlelines was previously released on the PlayStation 3 (in non-PAL territories), and this week it also became available for the PSP. The portable version offers both arena-combat and racing-combat, promising to be the most destructive combat-racing title. Well, that may be, but the first Full Auto 2 PSP review on GameSpy only gave it 3/5 stars (60%). So it's no FlatOut, that's for sure.

   Moving on to Shining Force EXA, the PS2 role-playing sequel doesn't seem to be much of a hit either, with early reviews only averaging at around 66%, and one author suggesting that "it's probably more appropriate to think of it as an "expansion pack" than anything else", since it uses "the same exact engine, combat system, enemies, environments, and amateur-hour voice acting as 2005's Shining Force Neo". Ouch.

   Well, finally we have After Burner: Black Falcon, a seemingly good PSP game that invites players to "experience the ultimate adrenaline rush as you engage in explosive arcade flight-combat using fully licensed jet fighters exclusively on the PSP system". Licensed jet fighters, huh? What's next, licensed atomic bombs?