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Square Enix’s Chaos Rings Omega Circles Familiar Territory
During my first ten minutes with Square Enix’s iPhone RPG prequel Chaos Rings Omega I had to stop and make sure I hadn’t accidentally downloaded the first game. Last year’s Chaos Rings told the story of five couples mysteriously transported to a place called the Arc Arena, where are forced to fight their way through…
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Atlus Travels Back in Time to Tease Persona 2: Innocent Sin
Atlus Faithful fan club members received a bizarre mailing today in the form of a newsletter dated June 23, 1999. What’s significant about that date? Why that’s when the only Persona game not to hit North America was released in Japan. How odd. For all intents and purposes it looks as if Atlus simply made…
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There Are Many Different Kinds of Mages in Rift
With eight different souls to choose from, a mage in Trion Worlds’ MMO Rift never turns out quite like a mage anywhere else. We’ve seen the different types of rogues you can create in Rift, and now we get to see what sort of magic-users you can make when you take three specialized souls and…
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The New Fullmetal Alchemist Game Won’t Cost You an Arm and a Leg
There’s good news and bad news, Fullmetal Alchemist fans. The good news? There’s a new game coming based on Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The bad news? It looks to be some sort of turn-based card battling game for iOS, Android, and Facebook. Developed by Good Game Productions, Fullmetal Battle allows fans of the anime and manga…
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Monster Hunter Dynamic Fighting Hits iPhones Everywhere Next Month
Yesterday we reported that the first iPhone installment of Monster Hunter was hitting in Japan in June. Today Capcom reveals that Monster Hunter Dynamic Fighting is releasing worldwide next month. Finger-swiping monster hunting for everybody!
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Look Out Naughty Bear, Here Comes Chucky
A2M’s Naughty Bear, a video game about a deranged child’s toy with murder in its heart, wasn’t the blockbuster success I hoped it would be. Perhaps the concept just needed to be powered by a familiar face. After that it’s all Child’s Play As far as children’s toys go, they don’t come much more frighteningly…
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Enlarge Your Johnson with Shadows of the Damned
In Grasshopper Manufacture’s Shadows of the Damned, hero Garcia Hotspur has a demonic pal named Johnson that can transform into various weapons, tools, and even vehicles. Why? So they could release an ‘Enlarge your Johnson’ video. Part of me wants to believe this entire game was developed and funded specifically to make this video. It…
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Stay In School, Buy a Windows PC, and Get a Free Xbox 360
Microsoft wants U.S. high school, college, and university students to be productive, but not too productive. That’s why they’re giving away a free 4GB Xbox 360 to students purchasing a Windows 7 PC priced at $699 or higher. Play is just as important as work when it comes to your education. Some might even say…
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The Hellgate Reopens over North America in June
Korean publisher HanbitSoft is finally ready to reopen Hellgate, Flagship Studios’ online multiplayer tale of demonic invasion, in North America. Closed beta for the free-to-play game launches in early June, with a full release coming later this year.
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A Plea For Scene Selection in Video Games
You can skip to your favorite scene in a movie, flip to an exciting chapter in a book you’ve read, but you can’t just drop into a video game you’ve finished at any given point. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Smorlock wonders why. So you’re sitting at home, and you’ve got maybe 20…
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Guns, Gadgets, and Gear Define Guild Wars 2‘s Engineer
In some fantasy role-playing games, engineering bombs, guns, and useful gadgets is nothing more than a novel crafting skill. In Guild Wars 2, it’s a way of life. Let’s meet the game’s newly-revealed Engineer. While other classes rely on their magic or physical prowess to survive the harsh environs of Tyria some 250 years after…
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engineer gallery
Engineer Skills in Action The Bomb Pack is a backpack filled with bombs. Yum. The Flame Pack gives the Engineer access to a flamethrower, which is all anyone really ever needs. The most elaborate Health Pack we’ve ever seen. A Health Turret, which kills you with health. Mine Pack is not Your Pack. A Rifle…
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MetalStorm Online Brings Exhilarating Two-Minute Bathroom Dogfights to Life
I’ve almost got target lock when the enemy banks sharply to the left. “Sonofabitch!” I shout, pouring on the speed and rolling my plane, leaning hard to the side, as if my body movements will make the craft more responsive. The toilet seat creaks in protest. Its protests go unheard. There’s 30 seconds left on…
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It Takes a Special Sort of Death to Become a Pac-Man Ghost
According to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy there are several different circles of hell, each reserved for a particular type of sinner. What do you have to do to wind up on the Pac-Man circle? Blinky reveals the truth. There are many different theories about how the ghosts in Namco’s classic arcade game found themselves in…
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Oh How Serious Sam‘s Headless Kamikaze Has Grown
Lacking any meat above the neckline and hands replaced with ticking time bombs, the headless kamikaze of Serious Sam fame has come a long way over the past decade. Developer Croteam took a break from developing the next game in the SS series, Serious Sam 3: BFE, to show off the new look for one…
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The PlayStation Network Inevitably Fails in PSN Protector
If Dutch game designer Kenney Vleugels’ Flash interpretation of the PlayStation Network security system were anywhere near accurate, PSN would have been down for the count years ago. PSN Protector is a tower defense variant based on Sony’s recent troubles keeping the PlayStation Network hacker-free. Hack attacks styled after the PlayStation controller buttons attack from…
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The Witcher 2 is Blurry in All the Right Places
Amidst all of the nudity and subtle gags lurking in CD Projekt Red’s latest PC role-playing adventure, the aspect of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings that has impressed me the most so far is how blurry it is. I’m not talking muddy graphics, but rather the purposeful motion blur effect seen when the camera…
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City of Heroes Dragged Kicking and Screaming Into the Steampunk Age
Steampunk: it’s everywhere you want to be, especially if the place you want to be is Paragon City circa June 1, 2011, when the City of Heroes Steampunk pack goes live. Are you sick of Steampunk yet? There’ll be nowhere in the City of Heroes or City of Villains to escape it come the first…
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Monster Hunter Stalks the Mighty iPhone
The race to bag the biggest game of all gets small in Japan this June, when Capcom launches Monster Hunter Dynamic Fighting, the furiously popular franchises first foray onto the iPhone. Taking a cue from Epic’s one-on-one fighter Infinity Blade, Monster Hunter Dynamic Fighting sees players facing off mano-e-monstoro against some of biggest, baddest monsters…
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