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Sign Up Now For The New Xbox Live Preview Program
Microsoft is looking for a few thousand folks to test out its next big Xbox Live Update. Who wants an early look at the new Xbox Live dashboard? If you’re keen to get a peek at the new dashboard along with ESPN on Xbox Live, Netflix searching, Zune music, and other updates coming in the…
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This Guy Is Hosting The 2010 Golden Joystick Awards
The 2010 Golden Joystick Awards will take place on October 29 at a lavish ceremony held at the London’s Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel and hosted by the man who brought us sniglets. You don’t see comedian Rich Hall in the U.S. that often these days, but don’t worry about him. The co-writer of Not…
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The First Ten Pages Of Rift’s Telara Chronicles
Blond men do battle in the first issue of Wildstorm’s comic book tie-in for Trion’s Rift: Planes of Telara. It’s in comic book stores today, so check out the first 10 pages here to see if it’s worth the trip. It’s hard to tell if this is going to be a worthwhile four-issue series from…
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Netflix Launches Disc-Less On Canadian PS3
Canadians are getting a sneak preview today of the disc-less Netflix hitting North America next month as the streaming video service goes live up north. Our Canadian brothers and sisters have been without the comfort of streaming Netflix on their video game consoles until today. Not only does America’s Hat get their first taste of…
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Piracy Prevents Super Street Fighter IV PC
In an interview with Japanese website 4gamer, Street Fighter series producer Yoshinori Ono says that a strong potential for piracy is keeping PC gamers from getting their own version of Super Street Fighter IV. Street Fighter IV played much better on my computer than I expected, and I’m sure I’ve not been alone in hoping…
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Dismembering Your Friends In Dead Space 2
It’s time to take sides in Dead Space 2! Will you be a fully armored, armed to the teeth member of the Sprawl Security Team, or a creepy baby-headed monster that hungers for human flesh? Last week we talked about Dead Space 2’s humans versus Necromorphs online multiplayer. Now we’re getting our first look at…
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EVE Online Prepares For An Incursion
The deadly Sansha’s Nation aims to create its own utopia, taking down any pilots who get in its way in EVE Online: Incursion, the latest expansion for CCP’s outer space MMO, due out in November. Players will join public fleets in massive battles to fend off the Sansha incursion, giving those of us who dabble…
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Mobile Guild Chat Coming To World Of Warcraft
Oddly coinciding with ArenaNet’s article about allowing players to communicate with guild members using mobile devices, Blizzard reveals that offline mobile guild chat will be coming to World of Warcraft as well. Fancy that! Yes, soon you won’t have to be at your computer to bug the hell out of your World of Warcraft guildies,…
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Ten Minutes Of BioShock Infinite Gameplay
Previously shown only to press behind closed doors, 2K has let slip nearly ten minutes of mind-blowing, vertigo-inducing gameplay footage from BioShock Infinite. You might want to have an air sickness bag at the ready. This extended gameplay trailer is currently available on Xbox.com and through Xbox Live on your Xbox 360, but as reader…
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Imagining A Lego Mega Man
What do you get when you cross Mega Man with Lego? Graphic artist Raphael Phillips twists those two worlds together in his first Mega Man Lego collection over at The 8-bit Cubist The original Mega Man lends himself particularly well to the Lego treatment, consisting of not much more than blocks himself. The color swaps…
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Final Fantasy XIV Converts Your Cash To Crysta
With Final Fantasy XIV launching tonight for purchasers of the Collector’s Edition, Square Enix introduces Crysta, a new payment method for players of the company’s online titles. Sony Online Entertainment has Station Cash, Nexon has Nexon Cash, and now Square Enix has Crysta, a new payment system that sounds like a delicious, low-calorie beverage from…
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Square Enix Confirms Horrible Game Name For North America
After showing off the Lightning-infused new title at the Tokyo Game Show last week, Square Enix confirms a North American PSP release for Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy. And we thought 358/2 Days was bad. Coming to Japan and North America in 2011, Dissidia 2 continues the fight between Cosmos and Chaos that began in the…
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LittleBigPlanet 2 As Street Fighter, Zone Of The Enders, And A First-Person Shooter
Watch as players transform LittleBigPlanet into Guile’s Street Fighter 2 stage, a Zone of the Enders level, and a first-person shooter in these videos from the LittleBigPlanet 2 beta. The beta NDA has lifted, and YouTube is getting flooded with videos of the levels LittleBigPlanet 2 testers have created, and while we knew that Media…
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Don’t Be Sad, Here Are Some New BioShock Infinite Screens
Being the focus of a floating citywide conflict and getting constant high altitude nosebleeds is reason enough for Elizabeth here to be sad, but you shouldn’t be, because you’ve got five gorgeous new BioShock Infinite screens to look at. While I’m generally the last guy to harp on a virtual character’s looks, Elizabeth is definitely…
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The Full DJ Hero 2 Track List Is A Delightful Mess
You could spend your morning sorting through all of the twisted tracks coming on the DJ Hero 2 disc next month, or just accept that any game that mixes Naughty By Nature’s “O.P.P.” with the Jackson 5’s “ABC” automatically wins. There’s also a mash-up of “ABC” with Snow’s “Informer” as well, which is almost just…
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It’s The PlayStation 3’s Turn In The Amazon Gold Box
Heavy Rain and Madden NFL 11 lead the charge into a day filled with PlayStation 3 deals in Amazon’s shiny golden box of values. What’s up for grabs today? A day’s worth of PS3 deals on Amazon begins with Deal of the Day Heavy Rain, a game seeing increased interest lately due to the addition…
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Staying Connected To Guild Wars 2 On The Go
You can’t always be seated in front of your gaming rig playing Guild Wars 2, so ArenaNet has devised a way to keep players connected to the upcoming MMO via the iPhone, iPad, and Android phones. Anyone who has played a massively multiplayer online game seriously understands the constant craving to be connected. You put…
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See Bond Go Hand-To-Hand In Blood Stone
If you thought all developer Bizarre Creations can do is driving, wait until you see Daniel Craig driving his fists, knees, feet, and elbows into the easily broken bits of his enemies in Blood Stone 007. I’m quite impressed by how the combat system in Blood Stone has turned out. It has a very The…
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Guitar Hero Randomly Inserted Into Soundgarden Video
Soundgarden’s album Telephantasm will be inside the first million copies of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock on September 28, so someone felt obligated to include the game in this animated video for the previously unreleased song “Black Rain.” Guitar Hero’s inclusion in this video doesn’t really make any sense, but the same can be said…
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