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Tips & Guides
Five Ways To Suck In The Halo Reach Beta
Who the hell shoots and tosses grenades at their own team? Someone who wants to fail in the Halo Reach beta, that’s who. Here’s a few handy tips for folks who really want to suck. What qualifies me to tell you how to suck at the Halo Reach beta? For starters, that’s me in the…
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The Force Unleashed II Dated Just In Time For Star Wars Day
May the Fourth be with you, and I couldn’t imagine a better time for LucasArts to nail down a late October release date for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. While I’m sure most of you would have preferred celebrating unofficial Star Wars Day by playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, at least now…
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Tron Goes 8-Bit Again
There’s old school Tron, Intellivision style, and then there’s 8-Bit Weapon’s Tron Tribute EP, featuring five chiptune mixes of Wendy Carlos’ iconic music from the first video game movie. With Tron Legacy, the sequel to Disney’s 1982 classic, heading our way this holiday season, excitement is building in fans of the original movie, resulting in…
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What Is Dragon Age: Origins Darkspawn Chronicles?
The latest edition of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Newsbeat newsletter lists a May 18 release date for the Dragon Age: Origins Darkspawn Chronicles downloadable content, which is interesting, as we’ve never heard of it. What is the Darkspawn Chronicles? Microsoft’s description of the downloadable content certainly doesn’t help with an explanation, simply stating that the 400…
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Sid Meier’s Pirates! Sets Sail For The Wii
Nintendo can’t seem to escape the reach of piracy, especially now that one of game industry legend and this week’s Kotaku Talk Radio guest Sid Meier’s most beloved games is making its way to the Wii this fall. Sid Meier’s Pirates! first hit the stormy seas of PC gaming back in 1987, when it won…
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Game Boy Used In High School Bomb Scare
A Nintendo Game Boy and a cell phone made up a bomb-like device that caused the evacuation of a Florida Panhandle high school yesterday. A concerned student discovered the device, reportedly consisting of the Game Boy, a mobile phone, and some protruding wires, taped to the underside of sink in a restroom at Pensacola High…
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This Could Be The Best Street Fighter Film Ever Created
Check out clips and stills from Street Fighter Legacy, an officially sanctioned Street Fighter short film featuring Hollywood talent that could be the most accurate screen adaptation of the World Warriors ever created. Street Fighter Legacy is the creation of actor, filmmaker, and action choreographer Joey Ansah, known for his role as Desh in The…
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StarCraft II Wings Its Way To Liberty This July
Blizzard isn’t in the habit of handing out game release dates until they’re good and ready, so when they say StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will be hitting store shelves worldwide in late July, they damn well mean it. StarCraft II is possibly the most eagerly anticipated real-time strategy game in the history of the…
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Strange Things Are Afoot At The Assassin’s Creed Facebook Page
Fans go nuts as Knights Templar member and Assassin’s Creed I and II villain Doctor Warren Vidic makes a his presence known at the game’s official Facebook page. Templar destiny is at hand! Ubisoft has proven itself more than willing to use social networking site Facebook as a marketing tool for its major releases, so…
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The Nintendo Download: Zombies In Wonderland
Not only does this week’s Nintendo Download feature adorable anime zombie combat, it’s also got 1970’s kung-fu movie-themed mini-games. This could be the most perfect Nintendo Download ever! I don’t know any more about Zombie Panic in Wonderland than most of you folks do, but I know I want it. I’m sure it involves zombies,…
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Getting Started With The Halo: Reach Beta
The Halo: Reach beta is finally live, and we’ve assembled some handy information to help you get started in what could be the biggest console game beta ever. Halo 3: ODST Owners can now enter the Halo: Reach beta, but there’s no reason to go in blind. While you’re waiting for the download to complete…
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Might Sony Suggest An Extended Service Plan For Your PlayStation 3?
Why succumb to the high-pressure retail pitch for an extended service plan, when you can extended the warranty on your PlayStation 3 or PSP directly through Sony with the PlayStation Protection Plan? Sony gives consumers a weapon against the pressure put on customers at retailers like Best Buy to purchase extended care contracts by offering…
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The Prince Of Persia’s Pretty New Elemental Powers
Ice Blast? Trail of Flame? This trailer for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands shows of the shiny new elemental powers the Prince will have at his disposal in his latest adventure. For me, Price of Persia has always been about the acrobatic puzzle-solving, so these new powers don’t do much for me. I guess…
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You Will Die, But You Might Also Win 10,000 Microsoft Points
In a game where the enemy grows more powerful with each level, you’re destined to die, but survive long enough in Dead Pixel Arcade’s Xbox Live Indie game You Will Die and you might posthumously score 10,000 Microsoft points. You Will Die is a twin stick shooter in which your enemies grow progressively stronger the…
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World Of Warcraft On The iPad? How Can This Be?
Shiny Entertainment founder David Perry shows off a picture of World of Warcraft running on an iPad, made possible by the streaming technology of his newer company, Gaikai. Gaikai’s technology is more than simply streaming video games over the internet. Gaikai aims to host entire retail copies of popular games like World of Warcraft, streaming…
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Reminder: Tomorrow Is Free Comic Book Day
The American comic book industry wants you to buy comics! Head to your local comic book store tomorrow to celebrate the ninth annual Free Comic Book Day, and pickup free comics featuring everyone from Sonic the Hedgehog to Iron Man. The second Iron Man movies hits theaters next week, making this Saturday for Free Comic…
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Reviews
Chaos Rings Review: Ring Around The iPhone
From the creators of Final Fantasy and Wild Arms comes Chaos Rings, a 3D iPhone role-playing game that can’t possibly live up to its pedigree, can it? With Wild Arms studio Media Vision handling development, art designs by Final Fantasy VII art director Yusuke Naora, music by anime and video game composer Noriyasu Agematsu, and…
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BlazBlue Gets Its Own Tournament Edition Joysticks
Mad Catz once again proves its mastery of slapping new graphics onto existing products with the Blazblue: Continuum Shift Tournament Edition joystick, sold exclusively through Aksys Games at $199.99 a pop. Right now I can get a Mad Catz Street Fighter IV Tournament Edition Fight Stick from GameStop for $149.99. This is essentially the same…
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RayStorm Reborn Next Week
Scrolling shooter fans have every reason to get fired up over Xbox Live Arcade next week, when Square Enix releases the remake of Taito classic shmup, RayStorm HD. RayStorm HD takes the lock-on shooting action of Taito’s 1996 arcade game, slaps on a fresh coat of HD graphics, widens the playing field, and tosses in…
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Warpath And Barricade Join The War For Cybertron
Activision continues to relentlessly tease Transformers fans with new character reveals for June’s War for Cybertron, with fan-favorite Warpath and obscure Decepticon race track patrol team member Barricade join the fight. Oh I know there’ve been other versions of Barricade since the first generation of Transformers. He was leader of the Bruticus Maximus team in…
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