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Some Xbox 360s Won’t Do Halo: Reach Online Co-Op
While the $199 price tag on Microsoft’s 4GB Xbox 360 slim model might seem attractive, Halo: Reach owners eager for a little online co-operative multiplayer campaign play are finding out the hard way that you get what you pay for. Kotakuite Captain Fuzzy brought the issue to our attention yesterday. After picking up his copy…
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Clone Wars Adventures Welcomes Playful Jedi
While we’re all anxiously awaiting that other massively multiplayer online Star Wars game, Sony Online Entertainment officially launches the free-to-play Clone Wars Adventures, and you may never find a more fetching hive of fun and villainy. Following much the same formula that made it’s Free Realms so popular, Sony Online Entertainment’s Clone Wars Adventures in…
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Valve Wants To Hear Your Body Talk
Let’s get physical, or more specifically, let’s get biometrical, as Valve’s Gabe Newell, Erik Johnson and Doug Lombardi talk to PC Gamer about using players’ intrinsic physical reactions to playing video games. Valve doesn’t just want to hear how much you like its games. Valve wants to know how you really feel, and the company…
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Enslaved Is More Than One Giant Escort Quest
in the latest developer diary for Ninja Theory’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, the fine folks at Ninja Theory explain how Monkey and Trip work together, all while standing in an abandoned home stacking monitors. I quite like it when a developer tries to use compelling locations and nifty special effects to spice up their…
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Vanquish Gets Armored Up In The UK Special Edition
Sam Gideon comes alive in this exclusive special edition of Sega’s Vanquish featuring a lovely window box and one extremely sexy seven inch figure. It’s time to make some friends in the UK. Vanquish’s distinctive visual flair has been catch the eyes of gamers everywhere since Sega first drew back the curtain on the sci-fi…
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When Mega Man Meets Mortal Kombat
What do you get when you cross Capcom’s 8-bit hero Mega Man with the deadliest fighters this side of Outworld? You get the most adorable collection of cold-blooded killers ever. Flickr user ShampooTeacher teaches us a thing or two about combining two of gaming’s most beloved franchises with the help of a little fancy beadwork.…
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Storming The Stronghold In Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption’s Liars and Cheats DLC is due out next week, bringing with it the brand new Stronghold game type, and this is what it looks like. You can never have enough flags in online multiplayer games; that’s what I always say. Red Dead’s new Stronghold multiplayer mode increases the number of flags in…
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Blizzard Prepares To Ban StarCraft II Cheaters
StarCraft II players using unauthorized hacks and modifications to get a leg up on the competition might want to give fair play a try, as a Blizzard statement indicates the end of the line is in sight for cheaters. Blizzard is a company that takes cheating quite seriously. Regularly banning massive numbers of players for…
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The Colorful Cast Of The Tester’s Second Season
Meet Big Fazeek, Max1m, War Princess, Gaymer, Mo Chocolate, and the rest of the cast of season two of Sony’s PlayStation Network reality show The Tester, in which players compete for one of the worst jobs in the gaming industry. The first season of The Tester gave us an interesting look at the sort of…
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DC Universe Online Adds Talking Monkeys In Purple Undies
Batman’s archenemy is a homicidal lunatic, Superman has a megalomaniac hell-bent on world domination, and the Flash? The Flash has a hyper-intelligent gorilla. Check out Gorilla Grodd and the monkey fun bunch in these latest screens from DC Universe Online. I suppose the logical evil opposite to the Flash would be a guy who moved…
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PopCap Launching Casual Gaming “Disneyland” In Korea
PopCap Games, the company behind ridiculously addictive games like Bejeweled and Plants Vs. Zombies, has teamed up with MMO company NCsoft to create PopCap World, an online multiplayer social game service launching in Korea later this year. Korean gamers, known for latching on to online games and never letting go, are about to meet some…
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What Could A Credit Card-Sized Projector Mean For Gaming?
You’re looking at a micro-projector, a credit card-sized device with a projector head of 1 cm3, and it could change the way we play and share our portable games. Developed by Lemoptix, a spin-off of EPFL, working with the Maher Kayal Laboratory, this micro-projector isn’t simply a concept; it’s a real product, capable of projecting…
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The Relatively Greatest Halo: Reach Launch Event Story Ever Told
Witness the epic saga of one man’s journey to pick up a copy of Halo: Reach at a GameStop in Roswell, Georgia, complete with Katy Perry music, a Spartan 1 Project forum commander, and plenty of people standing in line. My regular Mansell Road GameStop recently had a shifting of managers, and while Louis will…
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Video Games Help Us Make Faster Decisions
Scientists from the University of Rochester have found that playing fast-paced action video games helps players make decisions 25 percent faster than normal, yet no less accurate. We’ve long known that playing video games helps sharpen reflexes and motor skills, but a new study proves that gaming also has a strong effect on our cognitive…
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Halo: Reach Launches Jet Packs In Trafalgar Square
Using jet packs as marketing tools has been done before, but in the case of the Halo: Reach launch event held in London’s historic Trafalgar Square this morning the spectacle was quite appropriate. What better way to introduce the people of London to a Halo game that introduces jet packs than a man wearing Spartan…
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Geek And Gamer Girls Will Likely Be Irritated By This Video
Break.com gathers Katee Sackhoff, Stan Lee, a rapping Seth Green, and several scantily clad models for this parody of Katy Perry’s “California Girls,” “Geek and Gamer Girls,” which are apparently attractive women who love posing naked with toys. Click to view The video scores points for namedropping the likes of Final Fantasy and Doctor Who,…
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Section 8 Returns With Prejudice
The solid game that hardly anyone played returns for round two next year in TimeGate Studios’ Section 8: Prejudice. How the hell did Section 8 get a sequel? The original Section 8 for the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3 received an average score of 70 or so on Metacritic, which isn’t really all that…
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Become A Necromorph In Dead Space 2 Multiplayer
Dead Space 2 is bringing four-on-four multiplayer to EA’s survival horror series, giving players a choice to play as the human members of the Sprawl Security Team or the evil Necromorph forces. What side are you on? In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Dead Space 2 producer Scott Probst details the game’s new mutiplayer…
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