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Ryu And Chun-Li Versus Kazuya And Nina
You drooled over the news that Capcom and Namco Bandai had teamed up for Street Fighter X Tekken this weekend, now listen to the cheers of fans as they watch the game’s first battle unfold. It’s videos like this that make me wish I was with McWhertor at the San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, basking…
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New DMCA Rules Say Jailbreaking Your iPhone Is Okay
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today reveals new exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that address the legality of jailbreaking your Apple products, unlocking your cell phone, and bypassing computer game digital rights management systems. As part of his unending penance, every three years James H. Billington determines if there are any classes…
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The Nintendo Download: Who Wants Some Pie?
Who doesn’t love pie? Wholesome, delicious goodness, wrapped in a buttery, flaky crust. This week’s Nintendo Doesn’t contain pie, but if it did, it would taste like Aero the Acrobat and Hamsterz. Yum! I’m sorry about tempting you folks with pie. I had to do something to make this week a little more interesting, but…
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Massage Ladies With Your Wii In August
Come August 9, North American Wii owners can no longer complain that their console lacks a game that involves rubbing a topless woman’s back, when Microforum Ltd.’s Enjoy Your Massage finally hits WiiWare. We’ve written about the Enjoy Your Massage massage simulator before, but now we get a chance to see it in action. You…
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Space Combat Is Part Of Star Wars: The Old Republic
While running about doing quests and exploring planets makes up most of the Star Wars: The Old Republic experience, during a Comic-Con panel today, BioWare revealed that space combat will play a part in the massively multiplayer role-playing game. What good are free spaceships if you can’t use them? At today’s Star Wars; The Old…
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You Are Much Smaller Than This Pixel
And now for some much-needed perspective on our place in the universe, courtesy of science and Photoshop. In this image, we see our fiery life-giving orb the Sun, represented as a single pixel. And this is the more flattering picture. The sun, as the story goes, is a mass of incandescent gas; a gigantic nuclear…
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The Who, What, And How Of Battlestar Galactica Online
We’ve seen the game’s trailer, and now we have the first screens of Battlestar Galactica Online, along with a pretty good idea of who you’ll be fighting as, the ships you’ll be fighting in, and what you’ll be fighting for. The E3 trailer for Bigpoint’s Battlestar Galactica Online wasn’t too shabby, but then it wasn’t…
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He’s The Juggernaut, Spider-Man!
Activision has released a pair of new videos for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, showing off the unstoppable Juggernaut and the slightly more stoppable Scorpion 2099 in action. While it’s nice to see Juggernaut making an appearance in a Spider-Man video game, helping add a little more of that gameplay variety McWhertor liked so much from his…
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StarCraft II Did Not Cost $100 Million To Make
Last week we reported on a Wall Street Journal article that tagged the development cost of StarCraft II at more than $100 million. According to Blizzard, it was a case of right price, wrong game. How much did StarCraft cost to make? Blizzard hasn’t said, nor is it planning to any time soon. What Blizzard…
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Dead Space Fiction Expands With Aftermath And Salvage
As with Dead Space before it, Dead Space 2 is getting the transmedia treatment from EA, with a brand new animated feature and a graphic novel taking fans deeper into the dark universe this winter. Dead Space is definitely a multimedia franchise. EA kicked off the first game with an animated feature called Dead Space:…
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inFamous 2 Cut-Scenes Are Works Of Comic Book Art
Let’s get hyped up for inFamous 2, with a look at the gorgeous 2D comic book style cut-scenes that tell the story of Cole McGrath’s little trip to New Marais. The cut-scenes in inFamous 2 are the work of Sucker Punch’s crack art teams, led by senior artist Edward Pun, who says it’s all about…
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LittleBigPlanet 2 Takes November With Adorable Collectors Edition
You know what the original LittleBigPlanet was missing? A collector’s edition complete with downloadable costumes and a seven inch plush Sackboy. Sony corrects this oversight on November 16 with the LittleBigPlanet 2 Collector’s edition. There are several ways to purchase LittleBigPlanet 2 on November 16, the newly revealed release date for Media Molecule’s next LittleBigThing.…
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Green Lantern’s Light Shines In Rise Of The Manhunters
In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s video game tie-in to next year’s live-action Green Lantern movie. It took a major motion picture starring Ryan Reynolds in a silly costume for Green Lantern to finally get his own video game, and for…
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Summer Video Game Movie: T&C Surf Designs Wood & Water Rage
The summer of gaming continues, and we’re spending part of the week watching clips of the most summer-styled games. Today we’ve got surf and turf the hard way, courtesy of horrible NES class T&C Surf Designs Wood & Water Rage.
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First Reckoning Screens And Trailer Look Very Promising
The teaser trailer and first screenshots from 38 Studios’ newly-named Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning are here, and we definitely like what we’re seeing so far. This is what comes of collaboration between comic book artist Todd McFarlane, fantasy author R.A. Salvatore, and Ken Rolston, the lead designer for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. All we…
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First War For Cybertron DLC Dated, Priced, And Set To Music
Activision confirms the downloadable content details leaked earlier this month for Transformers: War for Cybertron, with five “new” characters and four new multiplayer maps coming in the first character and map pack, due out next week. I put the word new in quotes, because of the five “new” characters, three were retailer-exclusive preorder bonuses. Jazz,…
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Rock Band Learns Spanish With Juanes
Rock Band introduces the first Spanish-language tunes to its line-up next week, with six hits from Latin music superstar Juanes, with an additional track shipping on disc with Rock Band 3. With more than 12 million albums sold worldwide, a Grammy, and 17 Latin Grammy awards under his belt, you don’t have to understand Spanish…
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Halo: Reach Gets Its Own Xbox 360 Controller
A product listing briefly appearing on Xbox.com revealed a sleek and sexy silver Halo: Reach branded Xbox 360 controller, likely release in conjunction with Bungie’s Halo swan song this fall. The Xbox.com product listing for the Halo: Reach Xbox 360 controller came and went quickly, but not before the image of the shiny new controller…
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T-Shirt Teases Viewtiful Joe And Dormammu For Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
Jim Rugg, the man behind the comic book series Street Angel and the hilarious graphic novel Afrodisiac, created a special Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 t-shirt for Comic-Con that teases two familiar new fighters coming to Capcom’s cross-world brawler. After yesterday’s Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 trailer clearly showed his silhouette, the addition of Viewtiful Joe to…
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