Hey, remember Alpha Protocol? Sure you do. It’s an espionage action RPG from Obsidian Entertainment? Originally planned for release way back in February 2009 before it was delayed twice, with the last setting it for a vague spring 2010 release? Well speaking to MTV Multiplayer, Sega explained why Alpha Protocol has been pushed back so much…and evidently announced they pushed it once again to summer.

“We had a few reasons for [delaying] it. One: We wanted to position it better, give it a lot of time,” said Mathew Hickman, assistant producer at Sega. “The main reason: We really wanted to polish the game up, make it everything Obsidian planned it to be, and give the consumer a very polished game.”

Hickman also explained what’s been added during the extra development time: “We added a couple of other things. Tweaks in lighting here and there, added the inventory comparison screen so you can compare what you’re buying to what you have equipped. Just bringing the whole quality level up.”

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The ESRB has a lot of history leaking game announcements by giving a game a rating before it’s officially announced, but it looks like they’ve moved into the more specialized subject of leaking game content. In their expanded rating description of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, they let slip that the game evidently begins in World War II.

“In single-player mode, players conduct missions on an unnamed Japanese island during World War II and then move into the modern day through jungles, deserts, and snowy terrain,” the description explains (via Kotaku). That at least leaves us with the surprise of just how long the game stays set in World War II, doesn’t it? Hey, we’re glass-half-full types here.

Of course, the Battlefield series is no stranger to the most popular war in the first-person shooter genre — the original Battlefield 1942, as the name implies, was set during said global conflict before its sequels went on to Vietnam and modern times. And as for Electronic Arts, they can at least be satisfied the ESRB didn’t also call their game creepy and bizarre.

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Country fans have already gotten their share of the spotlight in the weekly Rock Band Music Store update, and now it’s the metalheads’ turn. Joining Megadeth’s 1986 album Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? this week is the

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Here’s some good news for all the Kingdom Hearts fans out there. Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura has heard your calls for Kingdom Hearts III.
 
Thanks to G. Finnsson for the tip!

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Sega and Rebellion Developments have assured PS3 gamers that matchmaking issues present in the Aliens vs. Predator multiplayer demo will be fixed soon.

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There’s still very little known about Metroid: Other M, the new installment in the Metroid franchise that’s being developed in collaboration between Nintendo and Tecmo’s Team Ninja. But in the pages of the latest Famitsu (via Andriasang), Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto explained a bit of what the game’s focus will be.

“[Different] from the rest of the series, this time we’re strongly depicting the human side of Samus through such things as movies,” Yakamoto said. “She’s a strong woman, but she also has a fragile side. We want to make a game whose charms can be felt from the story areas and these human touches as well. It’s an action game, but it’s capable of having a clear emotional side.”

No doubt the team-up with CG studio D-Rockets is where those movies come into the picture, and the announcement trailer at E3 last year (above) was already evidently filled with story-driven cut-scenes.

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It seems Namco Bandai didn’t check God Eater as thoroughly as they might have wanted. Immediately following the game’s release in Japan this week, players have already found a bug that nets them a whole lot of

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