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Street Fighter High School: The Musical
Dan Hibiki applies chapstick as “Goodbye Horses” begins to play, asking the camera, “Would you fight me? I’d fight me.” That’s really all you need to know about this trailer for the fan-made musical follow-up to Street Fighter High. The Street Fighter High short film that came out in April was rather entertaining for a…
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The Expendables Gets The 8-Bit Contra Clone It So Richly Deserves
Step into the boots of action stars Jet Li, Sylvester Stallone, and Jason Statham, in an 8-bit Facebook action game based off of their upcoming movie, Contra The Expendables. You have to like a movie that brings together some of the greatest action heroes of all time into one testosterone-coma-inducing parade of shooting, punching, and…
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Crysis 2 Nano Edition Briefly Appears, Is Nowhere Near Nano-Sized
Swedish online store Webhallen.com briefly carried a listing for the Crysis 2 Nano Edition priced at the equivalent of nearly $200. What Crysis 2 swag could be worth that much? German website PlayFront.De managed to snag a few pictures of the ultra-expensive edition before Webhallen took it down, and I have to say, that’s one…
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution Curls Up With A Good Book
Fans looking to delve deeper into the cyberpunk dystopia of the Deus Ex series need look no further than Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect, a novel coming next year from Del Rey and tie-in author supreme James Swallow. Secret agent Anna Kelso and special-ops soldier Ben Saxon live in a world of great and powerful…
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Fifteen Potential Names For The Batman: Arkham Asylum Sequel
It’s no secret Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is working on a follow-up to the smash hit Batman: Arkham Asylum, but what will it be called? Perhaps one of fifteen newly-registered Arkham-themed website domains contains a clue? Supper Annuation has dug up fifteen separate Arkham-flavored domain records, each created on July 7, each pointing to Warner…
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Google Invests $100+ Million In FarmVille Company, Prepares Google Games
Tech Crunch sources report that not only has Google quietly invested somewhere between $100 and $200 million dollars in FarmVille and Mafia Wars creator Zynga, the developer’s games will form the base for Google Games, launching later this year. The creators of FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and other social games, are no strangers to companies throwing…
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Ubisoft Is Waiting For The Price Of 3D To Drop
With only two games in their current line-up slated to support 3D, Ubisoft is waiting on widespread 3D support for the same reason consumers are slow to adapt 3D television technology – the high cost. If you are an Ubisoft fan that’s already picked up an expensive 3D-ready television, you can still look forward to…
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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
You’re a college student who finds himself trapped on a sinking ferry with eight other passengers, forced to play a twisted game where losing means a watery grave. This is Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors for the Nintendo DS. Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is an adventure game for the Nintendo DS, though…
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The Nintendo Download: Are You A Lover Or A Fighter?
Will you use the customizable fighting moves of Toribash to become the ultimate fighter on your Wii, or will you use 4 Travellers – Play French to become the ultimate lover with your DSi? It’s all about passion. This week’s Nintendo Download is heavy on the puzzles and popping, with Balloon Pop Festival for WiiWare…
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Even Psychopathic Killers Need To Observe Workplace Safety
Here we are, trying to have a nice new bunch of action-packed screens for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, and Lynch goes and slips in a puddle of blood, causing a potential worker’s comp lawsuit. Good going guys. On the job safety is no laughing matter, no matter what The Onion might say. Just…
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GameStop’s One-Hour Red Dead Redemption Sale Falls Flat
Who wants Red Dead Redemption for $23.99? Enough people to crash GameStop’s web page, foiling the company’s attempt to feature the game as this week’s Power Hour deal. GameStop’s weekly Power Hour deals are generally the source of some pretty good video game bargains. Previously featured deals include Halo 3: ODST and God of War…
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Time Travel Is Easy Once You Get Around Relativity
Going back in time may seem like an impossibility, but so did air travel at one point. According to Mark Thompson, the astronomy guy from BBC’s The One Show, it’s all a matter of side-stepping Einstein’s theory of relativity. As Thompson explains in a special guest article written for Discovery, time travel is already possible.…
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Civilization V Develops Snazzy $100 Edition
PC strategy fans love them some Civilization, but do they love it enough to spend double retail price for the game plus collector swag? For $49.99 come September, you’ll be able to get your hands on the normal retail version of Sid Meier’s Civilization V. What do you get for $99.99? Why, a plethora of…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Testing Begins
If you’ve not signed up for a chance to beta test BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic, now would be a good time, as the process of putting the eagerly anticipated MMO through its paces gets underway. The news comes by way of an email and a post on the Star Wars: The Old Republic…
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Blizzard Scraps Plans To Display Real Names In Forums
Following an overwhelmingly negative response from fans, Blizzard has decided not to implement the planned forum changes that would require players to post using their real names. In a post by Blizzard staffer Nethaera on behalf of Blizzard CEO and president Mike Morhaime, the controversial changes have been reversed. I’d like to take some time…
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Enslaved Stares Down An October Release Date
Namco Bandai unleashes a slew of gorgeous new screenshots for Ninja Theory’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West to celebrate the game’s shiny new October release date. I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t been paying as close attention to Enslaved as I should, so these new screens really caught me off guard. These are some really…
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Prepare To Be Soaked In Deep Black
505 Games is bringing Russian developer Biart Studio’s underwater third-person shooter to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and while the concept is intriguing, the name could probably use a little work. Unless of course I’m the only person who immediately thought of pornography. The game isn’t about porn, however. It’s a game of action-packed…
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Anyone Can Get Married In Runes Of Magic
As U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro battles the Defense of Marriage Act in Boston, he can rest assured that gay and lesbian marriage is alive and well in free-to-play MMO Runes of Magic, or will be once update 3.0.3 hits. Massively-multiplayer online role-playing games, especially those developed outside of the U.S., have long supported the…
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