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Score Free Games With Your Darksiders Digital Download
Fans willing to give digital download a try when THQ’s Darksiders releases on the PC this week will get a free game for their trouble, scoring Titan Quest, Red Faction: Guerrilla, or Company of Heroes depending on where you buy. It’s the end of the world as we know it, but you’ll feel fine with…
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ReviewsDragon Age: Origins Witch Hunt Review: An Unsatisfying Epilogue
“Never follow me,” said the dark witch Morrigan as she disappeared towards the end of Dragon Age: Origins. Adventurers never were very good at listening. In the final downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins, players are tasked with tracking down the abrasive sorceress and learning her true motivation for siding with the Grey Wardens. It’s…
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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, One Watch
Now you can pretend you’re about to die a horrible death by drowning upon a sinking ship with the Gamestop exclusive preorder watch for Aksys Games’ DS thriller Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. It can be hard to sell a game like Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, or 999 as Aksys likes to…
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Global Agenda Woos Distraught APB Players
Taking advantage of the closure of Realtime Worlds’ All-Points Bulletin, Hi-Rez Studios is giving APB refugees 30 percent off the purchase of its massively multiplayer online shooter Global Agenda. In case you missed the news last week, APB is dead. Some other company might snatch it up and give it a go, but as far…
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Lionhead Goes To War…Cake War
When two tribes go to war, delicious cake is all you can score. With Fable III due out next month, the developers at Lionhead Studios turn their attentions from making kings to baking things in an all-out Cake War. From Xbox 360 controller button cupcakes to a partial Companion Cube, the fine folks at Lionhead…
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Doctor Who: The Adventure Games Scores A Second Season
With the first three episodes downloaded more than 1.6 million times and a fourth episode on the way, the BBC reveals plans to continue the groundbreaking Doctor Who: The Adventure Games with a second season in 2011. Doctor Who: The Adventure Games has been a tremendous success for the BBC and developer Sumo Digital, not…
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Just Thinking About Violent Video Games Stimulates Aggression
A new study by researchers from Ohio State and Central Michigan Universities finds that simply thinking about playing violent video games can stimulate violent behavior long after your game console has gone cold, unless you’re a girl. Anyone who has ever played a multiplayer shooter on Xbox Live can attest to the fact that participating…
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The Nintendo Download: Countdown To Excitement
If you had the Nintendo Countdown Calendar app for the DSi last week, you would have been acutely aware of the Nintendo Countdown Calendar’s release this week, along with Aero the Acrobat 2 and one very hungry caterpillar. Of course then we’d be delving into the realm of temporal paradox, and I believe Nintendo has…
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A 3D Twist On 2D Street Fighters
Armed with screenshots of Street Fighter 3 and Alpha, an iPad, and a copy of his HoloToy app, Kode80 created something wonderful. While I own a copy of Kode80’s HoloToy app for the iPad, I’ve never been quite sure what to do with it. Leave it to the creator of the application to show us…
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Capcom Brings Marvel VS. Capcom 3 And Special Swag To Chicago Next Week
Capcom is rolling into Chicago on September 22 to let fans play the Tokyo Game Show build of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and potentially score “something very special.” Want to know where it’s at? Capcom dropped us a line today to reveal the location of next week’s Fight Club, going on from 8PM to 11PM…
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Tokyo Game Show Screens Shed Light On Lord Of Shadows
To go along with the seven and a half minute long trailer, Konami also sends us ten new screens for Castlevania: Lord of Shadows, the most un-Castlevania Castlevania we’ve ever seen. Not looking like Castlevania is probably a good thing. Attempts made to capture the look of the classic 2D series in three dimensions have…
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Zombie Cow Won’t Gets Its Privates On Xbox Live
The final verdict is in, and Xbox Live has said no to Zombie Cow Studios’ Privates, the “educational” shooter set partly inside a woman’s vagina. No hard feelings. Featuring miniature marines with condoms on their heads destroying sexually transmitted diseases in gigantic reproductions of human reproductive organs, the chances of Zombie Cow’s shooter making it…
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Colorado Board Of Education Supports The California Game Law
As the entertainment industry rallies against the controversial California video game law, the Colorado State Board of Education issues a call for the state to support the law, calling violent video games a potentially harmful activity like gambling. A document submitted by the Colorado State Board of Education urges the state of Colorado to lend…
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Disgaea 4 Lights Nippon Ichi’s Darkest Hour
After a seriously disastrous year, Nippon Ichi Software falls back on a proven breadwinner to help heal its wounds, readying Disgaea 4 for release on the Japanese PlayStation 3 in February. You can expect more pointy-haired protagonists with dubious grasps on the concepts of good and evil when Disgaea 4 hits Japan on February 24…
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A Peek Inside The DJ Max Portable 3 Special Bundle Edition
About 1,000 of the 6,000 physical copies of DJ Max Portable 3 for the PSP hitting North America will be the Special Bundle Edition, and this is what it looks like. Available exclusively at Bemanistyle.com for $110, PM Studios is now getting every copy signed by the development team, while assuring fans that the prize…
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Who Wants Some Phantasy Star Online 2?
After a decade of Phantasy Star Online Sega finally gets around to making a sequel, with Phantasy Star Online 2 ushering in the second decade of PSO next year. So far all we have is the logo from the end of this trailer, a release year of 2011, and the fact that it’ll be a…
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The Entertainment Industry Rises Against California Game Law
Booksellers, publishers, and authors along with the recording, advertising, arcade, and comic book industries rally against the California violent video game law in the name of all media. Today is the last day to file friend of the court briefs in the Supreme Court case reviewing California’s video game law, set to begin hearing arguments…
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Story Time With Fallout: New Vegas
See the Obsidian team talk about the story of Fallout: New Vegas, which starts off with you being shot in the head and dumped in a shallow grave. Then things get nasty. As Obsidian’s president and CEO Feargus Urguhart puts it, “What is more iconic when you think of crazy things that you could do…
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