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Mid-afternoon snacks to go with your cuppa.

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Coro Coro Comics seems to have leaked the Gundam project which Namco Bandai was teasing earlier this week.

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Loads of tiny bits to drive you into a frenzy of anticipation. Pictures of press badges! Photos of closed doors! Rumours of typically awful Nintendo presentations! It’s all here.

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Given the choice between an 18-meter-tall, solid steel, mist-emitting statue carved in your image and a PS3 game, which would you rather receive as an anniversary gift? Well, if you’re the Gundam franchise, you’re getting both, which is really the only correct answer when faced with such a question.

Kotaku reports that the PS3 game in question will be titled Mobile Suit Gundam: Battlefield Record U.C.0081, and that it’ll allow up to eight players to both rock and sock each other with cold, metallic fists via PSN – but probably only after 25 minutes or so of expository dialogue.

The game currently has no release date, but is apparently 60 percent complete. We’re conservatively estimating that it’ll sell roughly a bajillion copies during its first week in Japan.

Namco Bandai slipped out its financial results while the Acti Blizz Q4 call was in full swing last night, revealing Soul Calibur IV as its best seller in its fourth quarter.

The company closed out Q4 with a net income of ¥9,019,000,000 ($100 million), with global sales figures for the following games being posted:

• Soul Calibur IV – 2.26 million copies
• Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit – 730,000
• WE SKI – 590,000
• Gundam Musou 2 – 590,000
• Active Life Outdoor Challenge – 550,000
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 – 530,000
• Super Robot Wars Z – 510,000
• Taiko Drum Master for DS 2 – 500,000
• Mobile Suit Gundam Gundam VS. Gundam – 440,000
• Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 – 420,000

Maybe now Soul Calibur IV fans will get some good DLC. Looks as though Namco can afford it.

Thanks, Kotaku.