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The Horror
Dead Rising Wii Costumes Are 50% nothankyou.jpg
Dead Rising Wii has more costumes. But what kind of costumes? The latest issue of Famitsu has pictures revealing two of them, one familiar, one...unwanted. More »
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Comment by SymbolicMeaning: ok that is actually hilarious ... i think more like 100 percent nothankyou.jpg 1 Responses | Other threads
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Impressions
Three Things I Liked About X-Blades
The last game in the world I expected to like anything about is X-Blades – it’s a blatantly sexist, shallow anime rip-off with a paper-thin plot. More » -
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Microsoft Dates PlayStation 3 Price Drop For Springtime
The PlayStation 3 will get a price drop in 2009. It just has to if Sony wants the console to keep up, install base-wise. Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg agrees and expects a cheaper PS3 within months. More »
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Comment by crabperson: Wow, the competitors are telling us when another console's price will drop? Has it really come to this?... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Clips
Rickrolling Finally Comes To LittleBigPlanet
Clearly, this was just a matter of time. But for someone to record an attempted shot-by-shot remake of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" in Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet makes it worth the time. More »
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By Michael McWhertor
Comment by PedroTsuba: NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP!... 10 Responses | Other threads
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Spore
First Spore Expansion, "Galactic Adventures" Due In Spring
Super sim Spore will get its first expansion pack in the form of Galactic Adventures this Spring, according to an invite from Electronic Arts. And, no, the Spore Creepy and Cute Parts Pack doesn't count! More » -
Harmonix
CES 09: Don't Count On Rock Band 3 This Year, Expect Beatles Game Instead
Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos says that Rock Band may be taking the year off in 2009, with the developer focusing its efforts on the Beatles game it announced in October. Instead, expect more music.
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By Michael McWhertor
Comment by Silveth: I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus's garden.... with this game.... 23 Responses | Other threads
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Xbox Live Arcade
CES 09: XBLA Doritos Game Downloaded Almost 1 Millon Times
Advergaming is huge. At least that's the takeaway from Microsoft's John Kroese, who revealed that the Mike Borland and Ninja Bee developed Doritos' Dash of Destruction racked up almost a million downloads in December. More »
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Comment by Ryan Saotome: Easiest 200 points ever 9 Responses | Other threads
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Home
Red Bull Coming to Home This Week
Red Bull island, complete with Red Bull air racing, is coming to Home this week, hopefully free of the lines that have made bowling feel so restrictive in the virtual Playstation 3 world. More » -
Nintendo
Reggie: Nintendo Listens To Its Fans, Honest
If you're feeling a bit neglected by the folks at Nintendo of America, now that it's at the top of the console market heap, President Reggie Fils-Aime wants you to know that they're listening. More »
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Comment by Dragon164z: Listening is only part of the equation, Reg. 15 Responses | Other threads
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Games And Health
Tetris Spells Trauma Relief
Researches at the Oxford University in England have discovered that the effects of traumatic stress can be dampened by something as simple as playing a bit of Tetris. More » -
Pinball
The Kinetics of Pinball
The man behind such pinball greats as Fun House, the Addams Family and The Twilight Zone, Pat Lawlor, recently sat down with Gamasutra to discuss the history and design of pinball games. More »
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By Brian Crecente
Comment by Vitalz: Who the hell still plays pinball these days? Wasn't that shit big back in the 80s? 6 Responses | Other threads
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Electronics
CES 09: Audiovox Puts PlayStation 2s In Your Car, Dawg
Yo, dawg, Audiovox heard you like the PlayStation 2 and car ownership. So it co-branded with Sony on a PlayStation 2 for your car so you can play games while you drive. More »
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By Michael McWhertor
Comment by dae_giovanni: Is that 'Yo, Dawg' business a callback to Pimp My Ride? Or a thinly-veiled expresion of your belief that black people... 25 Responses | Other threads
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The Boll Cut
Uwe Boll Receives Four Razzie Nominations
The Golden Raspberry Awards are the anti-Oscars, celebrating the worst that film has to offer, so it comes as no surprise that our favorite video game movie director Uwe Boll be nominated for four. More »
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By Mike Fahey
Comment by Dryden: In other news, M. Night Shyamalan's next horror film is reportedly centered around an everyman-aspiring writer/director/producer that dumb lucks his 17 Responses | Other threads
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Left 4 Dead
Major Left 4 Dead Update Coming Very Soon to PC, Console
Valve will be announcing a major update to the software development kit for PC users and downloadable content details for the Xbox 360 "very soon", a company spokesman told Kotaku today.
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Simple 2000: The Japanese Hardware Chart
Wii, PS3 See Hardware Sales Gains In Japan
The holidays were very good to Nintendo in Japan, with hardware sales big enough to translate to a second bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas Eve. We're talking 380,000 game machines moved in a week.
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By Michael McWhertor
Comment by Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN: Nothing to see here people...move along... Is anyone really surprised by these numbers? Really?... 14 Responses | Other threads
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They So Crazy
GameCrazy Offers Street Fighter Coinage For SFIV Pre-Orders
Take a gander at this special, limited edition commemorative Street Fighter IV coin, available exclusively to folks who pre-order Capcom's next big fighting game from retailer GameCrazy. More »
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By Mike Fahey
Comment by ...: damnit! do i want the coin or the headband. somebody help me decide :(... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Gotygoty
The 2008 GOTY GOTYs: The Best of the Best
Last year Multiplayer came up with a great idea: sorting through all of the Game of the Year Awards to pick one conclusive winner. This year, I'm stealing that idea, and not making it better.
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By Brian Crecente
Comment by Wubby: Only game that doesnt belong is saints row 2... 26 Responses | Other threads
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Feature
An American (McGee) In Shanghai
Like most stories, this starts with a girl. Rather, this starts with a boy chasing a girl — to Hong Kong. The boy wasn't a boy, but developer American McGee. And the girl?
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digital download
Saint's Row 2 Hits Steam
The nice folks at Valve have just informed us that THQ's open-world gangbanger simulation Saint's Row II is now available to download and play on your PC via Steam. More » -
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Ubisoft Makes Grey's Anatomy Game Official
Though most likely perturbed by having their fun ruined by the ESRB last month, Ubisoft has gone ahead and made Grey's Anatomy for the Nintendo Wii, DS, and PC official. More » -
PSN Exclusive
Creat And Tikgames Bring Cuboid To PSN
Creat and Tikgames are combining gamers' craving for puzzles with their deep-seated love of geometric shapes, resulting in Cuboid, a new puzzler coming soon to the PlayStation Network. More » -
Video
iPhone, DS, Touch and Kaossilator Make Beautiful Music Together
In this video you see jetdaisuke jamming with an iPhone, two DS, iPod Touch and Kaossilator. More »
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Get Down, Get Down
50 Cent Takes Cover In New Blood On The Sand Clip
Isn't he supposed to be Bulletproof? A fresh new video and screens from THQ's 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand show off the game's cover system, which involves Fiddy shouting expletives between firing weapons.
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By Mike Fahey
Comment by Soldier_CLE proclaims Steve Wiebe The REAL King of Kong!!!.: Just an honest question... "Am I the only person on this planet that is less than enthused about this game?"... 34 Responses | Other threads
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The Saga Continues
Bioshock Could See Upwards Of Five Sequels, Story Willing
While wary of "cashing in" on the franchise, Global President of 2K Christoph Hartmann suggests that Bioshock could follow the Star Wars saga, generating sequels as long as the story holds out. More »
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Comment by Yadah: At some point it will start to loose its charm...... 13 Responses | Other threads
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Ces09
Mad Catz' Hits CES With Street Fighter, HAWX Controllers
Mad Catz is unveiling their new controllers for Street Fighter IV, a HAWX compatible flight stick and their latest PC flight stick at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. More »
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Comment by Christoph: Am I the only one who thinks that this kind of controller would only make it harder to play? 12 Responses | Other threads
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pew pew pew
Champions Online Cares Where Your Force Beams Come From
In the latest edition of their Champions Online Q&A feature, developer Cryptic details how powers in their upcoming superhero MMORPG can be tweaked by players for a more customized hero. More »
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Comment by Trygle12 is waiting on Disgaea 2 Portable: Crotch beam is a go. DestroyMan would be proud.... 19 Responses | Other threads
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dood
Square Brings Disgaea 3 To Europe In February
For the Disgaea fans to cheap to import or too unversed on the English language to read this article, Square Enix is delivering Disgaea 3 to European PlayStation 3 owners next month. More »
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Comment by PaxtonAstypalaea: It will probably be fixed/pointed out over nine thousand times by the time the Internet blocker is down and I 3 Responses | Other threads
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Ces09
Rock Band Branded Memory Cards Come to the Wii
SanDisk today unveiled a Rock Band branded 2GB memory card for the Wii. More »
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Comment by ncsbert: 50 megs for one song? That seems a little steep. They should sell these with some bonus tracks pre-loaded.... 15 Responses | Other threads
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Game Announce
MySims Line Expands With Inevitable Kart Racing And Party Games
EA begins to slowly work the MySims brand into the ground with the addition of two all-new and completely predictable games for the Wii and DS - MySims Party and MySims Racing. More »
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Comment by NiGHTSSTUDiO: Well I can only count a handfull of current kart games: 1. Maro Kart 2. Diddy Kong Racing 3. Crash Nitro 4. Lego Racers So,... 2 Responses | Other threads
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