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Aion’s Assault On Balaurea Bonus Pets Are Functional As Well As Ornamental
Picking up Aion’s free Assault On Balaurea expansion at retail has its benefits, including one of several retailer-exclusive pets, each with a special benefit for players possessing it. Dibs on the odd-looking squirrel thing! Assault On Balaurea, due out on September 7 in North America, adds pets to NCsoft’s MMO, but not the useless cosmetic…
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Israel’s Lottery Balls Are Raving, Rabid
Unless Ubisoft has been holding out Rayman’s Raving Israeli Lottery Balls on us, the company responsible for these Israeli lottery commercials has some explaining to do. Reader Ido sends us these two YouTube videos of commercials currently airing for the Israeli lottery, featuring an extremely familiar set of animated lottery balls. The spots depict people…
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New Uncharted 2 DLC Skins Drake’s Sidekicks
You say you want more sidekick characters in your Uncharted 2: Among Thieves online multiplayer? How about three Sullivans, two Chloes, and an Elena? The Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Sidekick Skins pack answers players desperate need for more sidekick action, with multiple skins for three of Drake’s best buddies, plus Dillon and Mac from the…
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Global Agenda Gets A Facelift
This dynamic new login screen will greet Global Agenda players this afternoon, heralding the completion of the Sandstorm update, bringing sweeping changes to the game’s Agency-Vs.-Agency PVP. Want to see the login screen that didn’t make the cut? Today developer Hi-Rez Studios finally completes the Sandstorm game update for Global Agenda that started rolling out…
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Disney’s World Of Cars Online Won’t Let Me Be Car 69
Yesterday Disney debuted its latest virtual world, Disney-Pixar World of Cars Online, with parental controls so strict I couldn’t number my car 69 for some odd reason. Create a car with eyeballs and drive yourself to distraction in the family-friendly browser-based online game based on Pixar’s award winning movie. Use the mouse to maneuver your…
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Call Of Duty’s RC-XD, Ready For Deployment
If you can have this much fun with Call of Duty: Black Ops’ remote-controlled vehicle in-game, imagine how much fun you’ll have with the real version included in the game’s newly-revealed Prestige Edition What young boy hasn’t imagined strapping explosives to a remote-controlled car to take out his imagined enemies? Of course now we’re much…
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Apple Patent Turns Your Games Into Comic Books
Imagine finishing a video game like Mass Effect and then having a personalized comic book generated featuring the decisions and tactics you used while playing. Apple has already imagined it, and they’ve got the patent application to prove it. Apple Insider directs us to U.S. Patent Application number 20100203970, titled “Automatically Generating a Book Describing…
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How To Find Wallace Wells’ Mystery Shop In Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
There are many shops in Ubisoft’s Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game, but only one is run by Scott’s gay roommate Wallace Wells, and only one carries Speedy the Porcupine. This is how you get there. Spending money on power-up items its one of the easier ways to overcome the challenge of Scott Pilgrim…
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Warriors Of Rock Adds Eleven New Artists To Guitar Hero
You might have seen them in other rhythm games, but Queensrÿche, Tesla, Neil Young, and eight other artists are making their Guitar Hero debut in Warriors of Rock this fall. Haven’t we run out of bands yet? I figure we had pretty much covered everything in Guitar Hero, and along comes Activision with a list…
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The Number 20 Is God’s Number
Why is the number 20 God’s Number? New research has proven that every possible position for the Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less. It’s been 30 years since the Rubik’s Cube first came to market. Created in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik, the colorful cube took…
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Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Dev Diary Slips From The Shadows
The Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood team are either immersing themselves in the game’s fiction or preparing to film a gothic metal video in the first installment of the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Diaries. I’m imagining another day at the office, ironing out bugs, making design decisions, tweaking settings and such – you know, same old, same old.…
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QuakeCon 2010 Will Be Televised
Bummed that you can’t make it to Dallas this weekend to hang with Kotaku at QuakeCon 2010? Quake Live TV will be bringing you live coverage of all the major tournaments, so all you’ll need is a cardboard Totilo cutout. From the Intel-sponsored Quake Live Masters Championship to the smallest bring your own computer (BYOC)…
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The PlayStation 3 Launches In Incredibly Expensive Brazil
Nine months after the official launch of the PlayStation 2 in Brazil, Sony brings the high-definition magic of the PlayStation 3 to the South American country, with a launch price of roughly $1130, $278 less than originally planned. Video games are expensive in Brazil. When the PlayStation 2 launched there last November, the asking price…
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A New Era Of Might And Magic Begins
Something is stirring in the world of Might and Magic, and all we have to work on is this teaser trailer, which appeared earlier today on the game’s Facebook page. What does it mean? Reader Tommy pointed us towards this clip, which showed up around an hour ago on the official Might and Magic Facebook…
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This Super Scribblenauts Preorder Bonus Is Soft, Fuzzy, And Acoustic
If you’re going to play like Maxwell, you might as well look like Maxwell, with a pair of attractive plush headphones available to GameStop customers that preorder the adjective-infused Super Scribblenauts. I have many pairs of headphones. I have headphones that are large and comfortable. I have ear-shaped headphones. I have tiny headphones that are…
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No Level Cap Increase In Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution
Borderlands players might be disappointed to learn that next month’s new downloadable content will not include a level cap increase. Perhaps two screens from Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution will help ease the pain? We noticed many of our readers pondering the possibilities of an increase to the current level 61 cap when we posted about…
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Five Minutes With Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game
Ubisoft’s game adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s six volume comic book series is now available on the PlayStation Network. We’ve played it for five minutes so the Xbox 360 owners can see what they’re waiting until August 25 for. So far, so good! Look for a full review of Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World: The…
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