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Dragon Age II Preorders Score A Free Signature Edition Upgrade
BioWare is upgrading copies of Dragon Age II preordered before January 11 to the Signature Edition, packed with $20 worth of downloadable content, a soundtrack, and an in-game armory. It’s like a preorder bonus, only…okay, it’s a preorder bonus. BioWare is calling it a free upgrade to a collector’s edition, but let’s call a spade…
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One Of These Splatterhouse Screens Is Actually Quite Pleasant
Splatterhouse protagonist Rick doesn’t spend all his time tearing terrible monstrosities limb-from-limb, bathing in their blood as horrific gaping wounds appear on his body. Just most of the time. I’m incredibly fond of the first screenshot in this gallery. Every time new Splatterhouse assets drop, I prepare myself for the inevitable gore fest Namco Bandai…
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Not Even Gaming Mice Can Escape World Of Warcraft’s Cataclysm
The Cataclysm set to change the face of Azeroth this December is also changing the SteelSeries World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse, and the differences go way beyond the cosmetic. In 2008 SteelSeries introduced the original World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse, and it was an excellent piece of technology, if a bit uncomfortable and…
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SEGA Channels Conduit 2 Into February
High Voltage Software and Sega jumped Wii first-person shooter Conduit 2 out of the way of GoldenEye: 007 last month. Now the game has landed firmly in February of 2011. Will the new trailer entice players to pick it up? Getting out of the way of GoldenEye: 007 was a wise move on Sega’s part,…
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At Least The Sims 3 Vampires Don’t Sparkle
The Vampires introduced in The Sims 3: Late Night don’t want to fall in love with one-dimensional teenage girls. They just want to suck their blood. Whatever you do, ignore the vampire transformation screen shot. That one has sparkles in it, and therefore doesn’t count. Instead, focus on the one with the three snarling monsters…
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Tripping The Fallout: New Vegas Strip
“Walking around in drunken stupors, puking on the sidewalks, dancing naked in fountains, that sort of thing.” Fallout: New Vegas area designer Eric Fenstermaker sums up the Las Vegas strip in one sentence in the latest developer diary. My experience with the Las Vegas strip comes mainly from television shows and movies, so I only…
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Video Game Tech Solves The Mystery Of The Sunken Chest
Pectus excavatum, better known as sunken chest, was once believed to a purely cosmetic abnormality. Why would patients suffering from a cosmetic problem complain of shortness of breath? A little applied video game technology solves the mystery. Sunken chest is the most common congenital deformity. occurring in one out of every 1,000 children. It is…
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Rock Band 3 DLC Opens With The Doors
Rock Band 3 launches October 26, bringing with it three free and nine paid tracks from classic rock band The Doors and a confusing new way to classify downloadable music. Three of The Doors biggest hits will be available the week of Rock Band 3’s launch: “Light my Fire,” “Riders on the Storm,” and “Touch…
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Rob Corddry Teaches Us To Respect Our Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Enemies
Actor and comedian Rob Corddry teaches us how to rebuild our brotherhood on a new viral website for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood that aims to take the hurt out of murdering your friends. “It’s not me crouching up and down over your face after I kill you; it’s my character crouching up and down over your…
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The First Round Of Crysis 2 Multiplayer Testing Is Xbox Only
The first round of invitations to the Crysis 2 closed multiplayer beta test are going out, indicating that this first session is a strictly Xbox 360 affair. Back in June EA told customers the first round of multiplayer beta tokens would be offered to folks who signed up at the game’s community site. Now those…
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The Full Dance Central Track List Will Move You
What will you be dancing to when MTV Games and Harmonix releases Dance Central for Microsoft’s Kinect? Check out the entire toe-tapping track list right here. I don’t dance, as far as any of you know, but if I were to try and hook up a Kinect to my Xbox 360 and try out Dance…
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Amazon Lets Slip The Dead Space 2 Collector’s Edition
A swag-laden collector’s edition for EA’s Dead Space 2 briefly appeared on Amazon.com yesterday before being taken down, but not before this attractive image found its way onto the internet proper. Is that a replica Plasma Cutter I see? Along with a large and lovely box, the Dead Space 2 Collector’s Edition that briefly appeared…
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New Red Dead Redemption Trailer Swarming With Flesh-Eatin’ Crazies
You’ll see husbands eating wives, mothers eating children, and one very pissed-off John Marston in the official trailer for Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare. Click to view Now that’s good eating! Take a moment to soak up the sheer horror of the undead invasion of Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption. Then come back tomorrow, when we’ll…
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Why So Blue, Tron: Evolution?
Everything’s blue in this world, except for the orange stuff. Propaganda Games shows off what it can do with a limited color palette in this latest batch of screens from Tron: Evolution. I like the color blue. It can be light and airy, cold and detached, or deep and commanding, depending on the shade. Despite…
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Amazon Answers The Call Of Duty With Savings
War never changes, but the price of war does. Amazon.com is lowering the prices on war games all day long, with a strong focus on Call of Duty. So strong a focus that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 is the Deal of the Day, dropped to…
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PlayStation Store Update: In Dead Space, No One Can Hear Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 and Dead Space Ignition both hit the North American PlayStation Store this week. You’d think they’d spread such similar games out a little. Sonic is reborn and Dead Space is re-dead this week in the PlayStation Store update, but my eye is on the PS One Classics release of Alundra and…
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Browse The Entire Rock Band Music Library In This Post
In honor of the release of Rock Band’s 2,000th song, Harmonix has released a handy widget that lets you browse the entire Rock Band library from inside a blog post. For instance, this one. Jimi Hendrix’s “Are you Experienced?” is the 2,000th song to hit Rock Band in the past several years. That’s a lot…
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Looks Like All Steam Borderlands Owners Get Duke Nukem Forever Access
Looks like you don’t have to purchase the Borderlands Game of the Year Edition to join the Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club if you’ve already purchased the original Borderlands on Steam. Readers Jon and Steve sent in images showing off the Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club codes that have shown up in their…
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Guitar Hero Scores A Sweet Transvestite
A trio of Rocky Horror Picture Show tracks are coming to Guitar Hero later this month, giving us an excellent opportunity to post a picture of Tim Curry in lingerie. Not that we need an excuse to post a picture of Tim Curry. Three songs from the cult-classic film will be making their Guitar Hero…
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