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Head cheap-ass at Cheap Ass Gamer and my breakfast friend CheapyD shelled out to appear in Saints Row 3. It wasn't just because Cheapy loves Saints Row (he does), it was also for a good cause. More »
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Kanye West's "Power" plays a central, recurring role in Volition's new open-world crime game Saints Row: The Third. The tune has been featured in the game's exhaustive promotional materials, plays regularly on its in-game radio stations, and makes bookending appearances in the single-player campaign. Considering the song's lyrics and the man who wrote them, Volition couldn't have chosen a more appropriate theme song. More »
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Director Guillermo del Toro vows that production on his video game trilogy inSane continues apace even with the attention required for Pacific Rim, his next big cinematic effort. More »
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This week, I've been sharing some videos of Volition's new (tremendously fun) open-world crime game Saints Row: The Third. On Monday, we saw how I start each day in Steelport, and yesterday I showed a cool refinement of its custom radio stations. More »
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Yesterday, I showed you a video of how I begin my day in Saints Row: The Third. I said it was emblematic of the game—one sequence that sums up the total experience. Saints Row: The Third is full of such moments. Many of them involve skydiving, or tigers. More »
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Aah, morning. Such a lovely time of day, when the world feels new and possibilities are endless. I usually start the day by having some coffee and reading the news. That's how I start my day in real life, anyway. In Saints Row: The Third, I tend to start things with a little bit more… immediacy. More »
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At some point in Saints Row The Third the player's character tunes into "Mix 107.77" and Sublime's "What I Got" comes on. And then they sing along, male or female, in all eight of the voices you can give your character. More »
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Next week, Volition will release the third game in the Saints Row series, appropriately titled Saints Row: The Third. What started as a Grand Theft Auto knockoff that merely tided players over while they awaited a true HD GTA morphed into something entirely different: the psychotic, chaos-addicted Mr. Hyde to GTA's increasingly grounded Dr. Jeckyll. More »
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At some point, describing a new trailer for Saints Row the Third is just going to devolve into a list of the various ridiculous things that it shows. Hmm, actually, I actually believe that point in time is upon us. In this trailer we have: More »
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I'm hard-pressed to think of a game that has a more ridiculous character-creation setup than Volition's upcoming Saints Row: The Third. From street thugs to superheroes, it's possible to create just about anything. For those who can't wait for the game's release in a couple weeks, players with an access code can access the character creator early and upload them to the game's website to share with others. More »
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McWhertor told me the other day that when it comes in, I'll be in charge of the review for Saints Row: The Third. Mkay. I suppose I should familiarize myself with this game by watching this trailer. Let's see, we've got gangs, driving sequences, gunplay, cyber-demons with giant swords and Tank Pong from Combat. Nice of Mike to give me the straightforward assignments. More »
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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Hellboy) isn't making just one video game, but three. That's right, a trilogy (uh-oh!). But making video games takes time. More »
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Despite the guilty pleasures of Red Faction: Guerilla, all it took was one sub-par game in the series (Red Faction: Armageddon) for publisher THQ to, at least temporarily, pull the plug on the series. Which is a damn shame. More »
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Poor sales of Red Faction: Armageddon this year means the end of the franchise, publisher THQ said in a conference call today. More »
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This new trailer for Saints Row The Third is equal parts stupid and ridiculous. But then, this is Saints Row we're talking About. It wouldn't want it any other way. More »
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Stop me if you've heard this one before, but the next Saints Row video game will tap the oral talents of one well-known porn star, one better-known professional wrestler and one Daniel Dae Kim. More »
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Saints Row: The Third lead writer Steve Jaros walks us through some of the finer points of the game's "Power" CGI trailer in this new video. More »
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If Grand Theft Auto is a caricature of modern crime and society, Saints Row The Third is...something else. More »
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You want crazed murder and hilarious mayhem in your Saints Row? Developer Volition is going to give it to you, right out of the box, in Saints Row: The Third. More »
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Volition's sometimes beautiful, but thoroughly twisted purple fantasy Saints Row: The Third is coming to the PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360 later this year. We'll have gameplay impressions soon. But for now, all we have is a trailer. More »
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I finished Red Faction Armageddon on Monday. I finished it in a better mood than I was in when I started it a few days earlier. This is a game that gets much better as it goes along. More »
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When the ancient alien plagued colonized of the planet Mars meet a popular Norwegian New Wave band, there can be only one outcome: Pipe wrench fight! More »
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THQ doesn't want players spending too much time creating their custom sleazeball character when Saints Row: The Third hits the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC this holiday season, so they're releasing a standalone character creator before the game ships. More »
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THQ may no longer be making a 3DS version of their Grand-Theft-Auto-like Saints Row for Nintendo's 3DS. More »
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Remember when we told you that Mr. Toots, a wee unicorn with a powerful, rainbow-spraying ass, would come to Red Faction: Armageddon? Well, here's your official confirmation from THQ who also reveals how we'll get our hands on Mr. Toots incredibly destructive rectum. More »
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THQ and SyFy have teamed up to produce Red Faction: Origins, a made for television movie that spans the time period between 2009's Red Faction: Guerrilla and 2011's Red Faction: Armageddon. More »
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Ten years ago the original Red Faction gave PlayStation 2, PC, and Mac gamers their first taste of the future of humanity on Mars. Developer Volition explains how the three games before led up to next month's Red Faction: Armageddon. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5797766&view=rss&microfeed=true Get your ass to a limited portion of Mars with the Red Faction Armageddon demo, currently slated to come to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on May 3. Sorry, PC gamers, but there won't be a demo for you. [RedFaction.com] More »
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YouTube video sensation Freddie Wong and friends introduce us to Mr. Toots, a candy-colored unicorn with a magical gift: the ability to emit a high-powered rainbow beam from its anus, capable of destroying anything in its path. But what does this have to do with video games? More »
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Maybe you've seen these screen shots from the next Saints Row. Maybe you've seen the high-res concept art. After all, most of this stuff is almost a month old. But maybe you haven't seen what Saints Row: The Third will look like. If so, this lengthy gallery is for you. More »
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Life is hard in the underground Martian colonies of Red Faction: Armageddon, especially when you're a former Marauder turned smuggler with a heart of gold and the need to flaunt your cleavage amidst a cast of fully-covered men. More »
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Game Informer has posted the debut trailer for THQ and Volition's Saints Row: The Third, consisting of some music, a few splash screens, and one second of actual gameplay footage. See for yourself. More »
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The third Saints Row video game clearly won't take itself too seriously, judging by newly released media from Saints Row: The Third. The evidence? Screen shots featuring streetwalkers in bikinis fleeing from exploding cop cars and luchadore mask-wearing thugs on the business end of a huge purple phallus. More »
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Volition, the team behind upcoming THQ games Saints Row: The Third and Red Faction: Armageddon, is still in the business of making their games for the PC, without worrying about the platform's rampant piracy problems. "I don't think [piracy] is something at the forefront for us," Volition studio manager Eric Barker tells Eurogamer. "First and foremost, we want to make sure we're making a game people would want to pirate." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5783190&view=rss&microfeed=true Upcoming crime saga Saints Row 3 gets promotional art. This is it, apparently. More »
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I was a huge fan of Red Faction: Guerrilla and the freedom of destruction it delivered gamers at the blunt end of a hammer. But Red Faction Armageddon sounds like it's made reversing chaos just as much fun. More »
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It is often more fun to destroy than it is to create. Many of us realized this when we were young, when we played with Lego sets or made sandcastles. Scores of video games endorse this philosophy. More »
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Saints Row is the video game series many of us think of, with good reason, as the premiere Grand Theft Auto imitator. In theory, we won't think of the next Saints Row that way. More »
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Failing to learn one of the very important lessons of video game hype, Guillermo Del Toro and his pals at THQ revealed today that their collaboration will be for not one game but a trilogy. Don't they know their history? More »
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