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4-Player Co-Op Onslaught Coming To Bad Company 2
Coming soon to Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Onslaught mode brings Battlefield co-op game play to the console for the first time, allowing teams of up to four players to brush up on their teamwork without other players shooting at them. Onslaught mode takes four of Bad Company 2’s multiplayer maps – Valparaiso, Atacama Desert, Isla…
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I Guess This Goes With The Whole “Old-School” Theme
The fifth and final vignette for 3D Dot Game Heroes is even more embarrassing when you realize this is what we accepted as advertising in the late 80’s. Today’s marketing and advertising teams have their fingers on the pulse of today’s youth. Yesterday’s marketing and advertising teams thought they did, but they were actually strangling…
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The Mushroom Kingdom: Our Closest Relatives, Our Deadliest Enemies
Scientists researching ways to combat serious fungal infections in human beings have found that humans have much more in common with members of the Mushroom Kingdom than you might think. We might as well already be living in the Mushroom Kingdom. There are roughly 1.5 million species of fungi on the planet Earth, from bread…
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Will You Survive The MMO Apocalypse?
SMBC Theater presents us with a chilling look at what happens when one video game becomes so addictive the entire world can’t stop playing it. This is a cautionary tale, both to video game players and the developers of MMOs. To the players, the message here is to not get too wrapped up in pointless…
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Explore The Hall Of 3D Dot Game Heroes
One of the coolest features of Atlus’ 3D Dot Game Heroes is the ability to create your own animated protagonist using the game’s built-in character editor. Now there’s a place where players can share their creations with the world. 3D Dot Game Heroes is now available for the PlayStation 3, and while players can experience…
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First Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Details Slip From The Shadows
With a 15 hour long single player adventure, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is far more than a multiplayer side story in the Assassin’s Creed universe. It’s time to join the Brotherhood, as Ubisoft details Ezio’s continuing adventures. So far the buzz about Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood has been all about the multiplayer, and the game does indeed…
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Age Of Conan’s Godslayer Has Risen
Funcom’s Age of Conan triumphantly returns to store shelves two years after its debut, as the Rise of the Godslayer expansion pack goes live. Rise of the Godslayer, the first full expansion pack for Age of Conan since the game’s May 2008 release, introduces a new playable race and the new Oriental-themed lands of new…
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GameStop Employee Loses His Job Over Rape Game? [Update]
A GameStop employee interviewed for a piece on Japanese rape simulator RapeLay suddenly finds himself without a job. Was he fired for his comments on the controversial game? We’ve got the employee’s and GameStop’s sides of the story. RapeLay is a Japanese point-and-click game that follows the story of a spoiled rich kid who takes…
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Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition Cashes In Its Chips
Bethesda gambles on an extravagant Collector’s Edition for Obsidian’s Fallout: New Vegas, packed with poker chips, playing cards, and other exciting accouterments from the post-apocalyptic Sin City. It’s no lunch box and bubblehead, but it’ll do in a pinch. The Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition comes packed with Vegas-themed goodies, from a set of “Lucky…
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Which Multiplayer Transformer Type Are You?
High Moon Studios breaks down multiplayer characters in Transformers: War for Cybertron into four distinct classes represented by four different vehicle types. Are you a car, truck, tank, or plane? This is certainly an interesting solution to allowing players to create their own custom Autobots and Decepticons without having to build a ridiculously deep character…
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Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Teaser Site Bears Its Claws, Fans, Syringes
Join Ubisoft as they give rise to a new era, with a countdown website showing off fans, claws, and other implements of destruction that will likely appear in Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, masquerading as a website for Templar front Abstergo Enterprises. A Ubisoft Twitter heralding the rise of a new era lead us to the Abstergo…
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A Heartwarming Look At Arc Rise Fantasia
Imageepoch’s Arc Rise Fantasia is coming to the Wii in June courtesy of Ignition Entertainment, who’s passed along this exclusive look at the characters and environments of the turn-based role-playing game. The Meridian Empire is beset by flocks of Containment Dragons, strange creature filled with poison that can contaminate entire regions should they explode. L’Arc…
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Indian Holy Man May Hold Solution To Game-Interrupting Bathroom Breaks
Prahlad Jani claims he has lived without food or drink for the past 70 years, yet I can’t spend two hours playing World of Warcraft without having to pee. What could I possibly learn from this Indian holy man? Jani recently spent a period of two weeks being observed by a team of military doctors…
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The Nintendo Download: Earthworm Jim, Phoenix Wright, And Photo Dojo
When you’ve got Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations for WiiWare, Earthworm Jim for DSiWare, and a fighting game where you’re the combatant, who cares if the only Nintendo Download games are chess and a children’s book? DSi storybook Flips: The Enchanted Wood and Chess Challenge! for both WiiWare and DSiWare should be honored…
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Too Much Creative Freedom Coming To The Sims 3
The Sims 3 is scoring a free pattern tool this summer that will allow players to take a perfectly lovely Sim house and plaster the walls with the vilest images their twisted hearts’ desire. Yes, this summer the player marketplace becomes a minefield as EA gives players the power to create and edit their own…
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Young Nier Appears In The World Of Recycled Vessel
The younger model of Nier that appeared in Japan’s PlayStation 3 exclusive Nier Replicant makes a special Western appearance in The World of Recycled Vessel, downloadable content for Square Enix’s action-RPG which explores the past of the grizzled protagonist. In Japan, Nier came in two flavors: Nier Gestalt, the game I recently played and loved,…
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Reviews
Iron Man 2 Review: A Rusted Development
Sega’s movie tie-in for Iron Man 2 can’t possibly be worse than its movie tie-in for the first Iron Man film, can it? After the Iron Man video game that accompanied the first entry in Marvel’s film franchise failed to impress, Sega went back to the drawing board. Bringing in award-winning Marvel scribe Matt Fraction…
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Isn’t It A Little Early For A Star Trek Online Winback Weekend?
Atari and Cryptic Studios have mounted a huge push for players in Star Trek Online, featuring a referral program, veteran rewards, a free demo, and an invitation to lapsed players of the three-month-old MMO to try it again for free. Has Star Trek Online really lost so many of its launch players in the past…
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