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Why You Need To Follow Gears Of War’s Executive Producer On Twitter
Gears of War’s executive producer Rod Fergusson is exchanging Twitter followers for bonus experience points in Gears of War 2 over the San Diego Comic-Con weekend. He’s already in over his head. Let’s make him suffer! If you’re a Gears 2 player low on rank, then next weekend is your time to play. Baiting players…
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The Hulu Plus PlayStation Plus Preview Is Go
Starting today, select subscribers to Sony’s premium PlayStation Plus service will have an opportunity to pay to preview Hulu Plus on the “first and only” console to feature the service in 2010. A Sony press release continuously stresses one point: “PlayStation 3 will be the only console to offer Hulu Plus in 2010.” It’s true…
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Red Orchestra Developers Go Full Circle With The Ball
Tripwire Interactive, the studio formed by members of the team responsible for the award-winning Unreal Tournament 2004 mod Red Orchestra, has picked up Teotl Studios’ award-winning Unreal Tournament 3 mod The Ball and is running with it. Tripwire Interactive is a studio built from the winnings of the Intel-sponsored Make Something Unreal contest. Since the…
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The Ranger Brings Pets To Guild Wars 2
The latest class revealed for ArenaNet’s Guild Wars 2 is the Ranger, a bow-using, pet-charming, trap-setting class that might just out-hunt World of Warcraft’s Hunter class. The Ranger class answers a question many players have been bugging ArenaNet with since the first reveal of Guild Wars 2: Will the game feature pets? The answer is…
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Microsoft Brings Halo: Reach, Gears Of War 3, Fable III, And Kinect To Comic-Con
Microsoft brings out the big guns at the 40th annual Comic-Con International, with a line-up of panels and playables featuring Kinect, Gears of War 3, Fable III, Halo: Reach, and more! Microsoft has a powerful line-up of Xbox 360 games coming out in the latter half of this year, and the 40th annual Comic-Con International…
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The 108 Stars Of DJ Hero 2’s Destiny
What does DJ Hero 2 and RPG series Suikoden have in common? Both feature 108 stars, though while Suikoden’s stars represent demonic overlords from an ancient Chinese story, DJ Hero 2’s stars simply represent. Check out the full list below. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind a Suikoden game where instead of collecting…
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One Million PlayStation minis Sold
More than one million PlayStation minis have been downloaded worldwide since Sony launched the bite-sized game line for the PlayStation 3 and PSP nine months ago. Which minis have sold the most? More importantly, which have you purchased? Sony introduced the PlayStation minis program during GamesCom 2009. The smaller, easily downloadable titles were perfect for…
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Atari Revives The Original Survival Horror Game
In 1981 Atari 2600 gamers took their first steps into the haunted Graves Mansion in Haunted House, the original survival horror console game. Now, nearly 30 years later, Atari prepares to drag us back, kicking and screaming. The original Haunted House was a quick and dirty little horror game for the Atari 2600 that somehow…
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Are Your Online Gaming Friends Really Your Friends?
You spend your days playing with them. Maybe they’re your backup in a first-person shooter. Perhaps they heal your World of Warcraft guild raids. You count on them, and they count on you, but do you count them as friends? As I was wondering through the morning news, I stumbled over a Charm City Moms…
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Mars Looks Like A Great Place For Some Destructible Buildings
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to deliver an amazingly detailed view of Mars to Microsoft Research’s free Worldwide Telescope application, with images so detailed you can almost see the Google Maps camera cars roaming about the surface. The Worldwide Telescope is a nifty little Microsoft program, available for free download or as a Silverlight…
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American McGee’s Alice Vorpal Blade Goes Snicker-Snack For Real
In American McGee’s Alice, an older, abuse-ravaged, mentally unstable Alice cuts a bloody path through an equally twisted Wonderland using her trust Vorpal Sword. Now Epic Weapons brings the Vorpal Sword to life. Epic Weapons is creating the replica Vorpal Sword to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the release of American McGee’s Alice. When the…
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The Worlds Within Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
Take a trip through Disney Town, the Dwarf Woodlands, the Castle of Dreams, the Enchanted Dominion, and Deep Space, in this Worlds trailer for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for the PSP. As I was viewing this video for the first time, my nephew, busy playing my Xbox 360 in the other room, shouted out,…
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Medal Of Honor Limited Edition Won’t Cost You Extra
EA’s modern take on the Medal of Honor series is getting a special Limited Edition version that costs exactly the same as the regular version. Of course you get what you pay for. It’s hard to figure out what the angle here is. The Limited Edition version of Medal of Honor, now available for pre-order…
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Molyneux’s Milo Takes The Stage At TEDGlobal 2010
Peter Molyneux appeared on stage today at the TEDGlobal 2010 to show off Milo, the virtual boy for Microsoft’s Kinect that failed to make an appearance at E3 2010. How far has the character-driven game come since Project Natal’s debut? “This talk is going to be a little bit insane,” began Molyneux, showing off a…
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Why I Must Buy Sonic Colors
Preorder Sonic Colors for the Nintendo DS or Wii from GameStop, and you get this hat. I’m not sure I can live without this hat. I know it won’t come close to fitting my ridiculously over-sized head. It’s probably for the best. I’d just wear it all the time, everywhere I went. I might have…
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Kinect Makes Its Made-For-TV Movie Debut On Friday
While we won’t be seeing Microsoft’s Kinect until November, the family in science-fiction made-for-TV movie The Jensen Project already has it all set up, though they might want to do something about that errant Xbox 360 logo in the corner. The Jensen Project, airing this Friday at 8PM Eastern on NBC, is a made-for-TV movie…
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Walmart Readies Kinect Bundles
While we still await official word on the pricing on Microsoft’s Kinect, Walmart has started selling preorder bundles for the camera controller, packing in a game of your choice and a $30 gift card for $199. Microsoft hasn’t come right out and said it, but seeing as everyone, including Microsoft, is listing the price at…
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