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Dragon Age DLC Gets All Wrapped Up In The Ultimate Edition
BioWare makes fans feel funny about every dollar they spent on downloadable content with the Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition, which bundles everything Dragon Age together for one low price. How much have you spent on Dragon Age: Origins and its downloadable content? BioWare says the whole shebang, including Awakenings, is worth $114. Players who…
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Lex Luthor Is Definitely Compensating For Something
As a balding man, I object to the notion that a person with a hairless skull needs a giant suit of green and purple power armor to be a productive member of superhuman society in DC Universe Online. Lex has spent decades battling Superman to a standstill through sheer intelligence and cunning, but I guess…
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Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare Comes To Life
After teasing us for two days, Rockstar finally delivers the terrifying trailer for Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare downloadable content. It was well worth the wait. Click to view The end of the trailer tells us that the Undead Nightmare downloadable content is coming “very soon,” but that’s not soon enough. Multiplayer is entertaining and…
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F.E.A.R. The Almaverse
We saw brief, horrifying glimpses of the nightmarish landscape of Alma’s psyche in F.E.A.R. and F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. In F.E.A.R. 3 players will stare directly into its depths. The terror lurking inside Alma’s mind is normally her tool. She uses it to frighten her foes, allowing horrible things to pass into the real world…
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Does A Programmable Wireless Xbox 360 Controller Count As Cheating?
Datel’s completely unauthorized TurboFire2 wireless Xbox 360 controller not only directly connects to the Xbox 360 without a dongle, you can connect it to your PC to apply “custom controller enhancements.” Microsoft should sue! Oh wait Microsoft filed a lawsuit against British peripheral manufacturer Datel back in April of this year, claiming the company “illegally…
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Force Feedback Helps Doctors Poke Patients With Robots
A popular method of adding more immersion to video games could make a life or death difference to doctors using robotic proxies to perform delicate surgery. See that dangerous-looking machine in the picture up top? That’s Sofie the surgical robot, and one day her pointy bits might be fishing about your insides, trying to repair…
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Legless Marathon’s Underground Final Fantasy XIV Adventure
During the Final Fantasy XIV beta stress test, a tiny Lalafell named Legless Marathon fell through the world. It was the beginning of a grand adventure. Normally falling through the world would be a bad thing, but little Legless here has a grand old time. He does battle with vicious creatures that can’t technically touch…
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Scenes From An Undead Nightmare
At first I was scared that Rockstar adding zombies to Red Dead Redemption would come off as silly. After seeing the first four screens for the Undead Nightmare downloadable content, I’m just scared. It’s one thing to be surrounded by zombies in a modern setting, where weapons are readily available and even the most ordinary…
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Of Course There’s Going To Be A 3DS Super Monkey Ball
Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator and developer of the Super Monkey Ball franchise, started envisioning how his game would work on the Nintendo 3DS from the moment he saw the handheld’s features. Super Monkey Ball was there for the launch of the Wii. There was a version for the Wii balance board. It was there when the…
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Law And Order Handles Video Game Fueled Child Neglect Badly
In last week’s ripped from the headlines episode of Law and Order: SVU, a couple gets so wrapped up in a ridiculously fake video game that they forget who their daughter is. “This is the kingdom of Galagar!” Parents neglecting their children because of video games is a serious subject, but I can’t help but…
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A Volley Of Mario Sports Mix Screens
It might not be Xtreme, but Mario Sports Mix’s beach volleyball has basketball, ice hockey, field hockey, and dodge ball backing it up. Here are some colorful, candy-coated screens. More sports need to integrate banana peels and shells. We got a chance to play Mario Sports Mix at E3 earlier this year, but we never…
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Nintendogs And Cats, Living Together, Mass Hysteria
On top of urging real dogs to attack them, Nintendo’s Nintendogs + Nintencats for the 3DS will give children the false impression that cats give a damn about them. Check out some fresh screens from Nintendo’s fanciful pet simulator. Cats do not care about children, or anyone else for that matter. Cats are cute. The…
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Left 4 Dead Loves Dead Rising 2
Valve’s Left 4 Dead 2 team gives Capcom a little love today with this image, hidden inside a blog post on the release of part three of The Sacrifice digi-comic. Then Chuck Greene shows up. Valve has no qualms about broadcasting its love for other games, especially when it comes to the Dead Rising series.…
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Man Builds Computer Inside Computer Game
Minecraft is a game about building things that runs on your computer. One man is building a working computer inside the game that runs on his computer. At this point it’s okay if your head explodes. YouTube user TheInternetFTW is well on his way to creating a gigantic working 16-bit computer inside the confines of…
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Anyone In The Market For A Metroid Prime Gunship?
First 4 Figures follows-up its Metroid Prime 2: Echoes gunship with a gorgeous 12 inch replica of Samus’ gunship from the original Metroid Prime, and it can be yours for only $300. The Echoes gunship was nice, but I feel it lacked a certain something compared to the new Metroid Prime gunship. That something is…
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Nothing Says I Love You Like An Arrow In The Face
Meet Ivy. She’s my love interest in the Xbox 360 demo for Arcania: Gothic 4. I’m shooting her in the face with arrows, because I love her. We’re gonna get married! Keep in mind this is a work in progress demo. Hopefully in the full version the chickens will be impervious to arrows as well.
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WiiWare Gets Its Wipeout On With FAST
There can never be too much high-velocity antigrav racing, so we welcome the addition of FAST Racing League, coming to WiiWare courtesy of Shin’en Multimedia. What does it take to create a successful futurist antigrav racer? First comes style, which, judging from these initial screens, FAST has covered. We’re going to have to wait for…
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How Do You Say “Kill It With Fire” In German?
Sackboy and Buzz appear larger-than-life at this weekend’s Game City in Vienna, Austria. Check out more photos from the event at the German PlayStation Blog Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games. And Google translate says it’s “Kill sie mit dem Feuer.”
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Setting Up Kinect Is Like Preparing For A Date
Vacuum your floors. Reduce background noise. Make sure you have adequate lighting. Are we playing video games here or hoping to score? This Xbox Live video shows the steps needed to ensure a pleasurable Kinect Experience. Kinect will never work in my apartment. I do have six feet of room between my television and my…
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First Resistance 3 Screens Paint A Grim Picture
A collection of screenshots and concept art for Resistance 3 have surfaced, painting a wonderfully dark picture of the United States in the grip of the Chimeran forces. Can Joseph Capelli save the day? Kotakuite Darkos87 pointed us towards these fresh Resistance 3 screenshots and concept art pieces on Flickr, giving us our first look…
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