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Sex(uality) In Games: The Juvenile/Mature Divide

This week's Aberrant Gamer is an interesting look at sex/sexuality in games, from ICO to Mass Effect: Leigh Alexander has previously defended the busty and scantily—clad video game girl, but this time takes a different look at the subject. The mature vs. juvenile divide seems to be especially prominent in games, where it can seem like it's either improbably perky cleavage stuffed into space age materials or sweetly innocent hand holding with little in between: More »

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Asian Hellgate: London Servers To Get Wiped

The already rocky launch of Hellgate: London in Asia has gotten even rockier. After several weeks of server crashing issues, a patch known as Patch0 was created to help solve the problem. After numerous attempts to apply the patch to the servers it was discovered that the only way to make it work would be to perform a complete character wipe. Needless to say, Asian players of the game who have spent hours leveling up their characters are furious and in an attempt to appease them, IAH Games is offering players a months worth of free play time. Now at least they won't have to pay for all the time they will have to spend grinding back up to where they were before the wipe if they choose to continue playing.

You can read IAH Game's notice about the wipe after the jump

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Mass Effect Character Spotlight Pt. 2

With BioShock and Halo 3 behind us, the next big epic game (not to be confused with Epic Games) is Mass Effect, set to hit shelves on Nov. 20, just in time for Thanksgiving holidayers to have something to play whilst trapped at various relatives homes. (Don't forget to bring your 360) More »

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Classy Gods & Heroes Vids

One thing that's been missing for me from what I've seen of Perpetual's Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising is a sense of flavor. You know how you can have two different games portraying the same scenarios and feel wholly different due to the handling of the subject matter? That's flavor. Answering the call for a little flavor for G&H is design director Stieg Hedlund, who narrates a series of class profiles for three of the game's startinng classes: the gladiator (above), the soldier, and the scout. Hedlund provides insight into what makes each class tick, their roles in an adventuring party, and even what gods they can worship. The videos certainly have a flavor to them, helping clarify the picture of the game I have in my head. Still not too impressed with the graphics, but graphics aren't everything. Hit the jump for the scout and soldier videos! More »

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Large Nintendo Papercraft Site

Did everyone have fun making their Toro papercraft the other day? Well, get your scissors and your glue sticks ready because one mondo-big site full of Nintendo paperdolls is coming your way. There are 21 characters in total ranging from Pikmin to Pikachus, sprinkled with a couple of Mario friend favorites like Bowser and Toadstool. If you can't choose which one to make first, you can also download them all in one convenient package and go nuts this weekend. More fun than most things you can do with paper and it's free. Let's get printing! More »

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Gallery: Bioshock Character Artwork


Bioshock is heading our way fast, and 2K has been dishing out as many booty-ful pieces of eye candy to munch on while we wait. These mutants are creations of Robb Waters, who designed this concept art for 2K. More »

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Japan's Most Popular Xbox 360 Female Characters

Japanese website Game*Spark has posted the result of a poll in which gamers voted for which Xbox 360 female heroine they liked best. During the course of two weeks, 1,500 Japanese gamers replied. (Insert joke here) The results, however, are interesting — In a vague, abstract way. Here are the top ten favs, along with number of votes they received: More »

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Where In My Pants Is Carmen Sandiego?

Via our sometimes nemesis, sometimes semi-clad sweetheart Faith Naked, we spotted this post over on Destructoid: "I Want To Have Sex With Carmen Sandiego." More »

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What the Hell IS Rule of Rose, Anyway?

One thing I haven't really been clear on is what Rule of Rose is actually about. The plot synopses I've seen are all vague and full of innuendo. More »

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Mortal Kombat Armageddon Character Selection Screen

Feast your eyes and nuts on this glistening new character selection screen from Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. According to hot tipper David, it just got dropped onto the Midway forums by one of the mods. More »

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New Smash Brawl Screenshots

The official Super Smash Bros. Brawl site has updated with some new screenshots. Hop on over to the site and click through the characters to check out the new images. More »