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Blood Bowl Goes Legendary With Twelve New Teams
In case your favorite fantasy football team didn’t make it into the initial PC release of Cyanide Studio’s adaptation of the Games Workshop board game, chances are they’ll be showing up in Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition later this year. For better or worse, Blood Bowl is a faithful recreation of Games Workshops’ classic football strategy…
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Modern Warfare Stimulus Pack Price Offset By Free Avatar Goggles
So you’re upset that you have to pay $15 for five maps, two of which are old, and that the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package launched broken. You know what’d cheer you up? Free night vision goggles for your avatar! What? Does this not appease you? Perhaps you didn’t understand what I was trying to…
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Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Prince Is Not My Prince
Here’s the official trailer for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, which is a lot like the developer diary released early last month, only without developers inconsiderately talking over it so we can get to know this new/old Prince. I’m wondering how the unrelated Disney film will color fan’s perception of this game. After all,…
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The New Lost Planet 2 Multiplayer Demo Is A Charitable Endeavor
With Lost Planet 2 coming out next month, Capcom is in a giving mood, prepared to donate up to $25,000 to Music for Relief if PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners download the new Lost Planet 2 demo. Music for Relief is a charity set up by the band Linkin Park (them again?) to help…
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The Xbox Live Arcade Inventory Blowout Sale
The warehouses holding all of those Xbox Live Arcade titles are bursting at the seams, and MIcrosoft is making room, so they’re discounting South Park, Rocket Riot, Schizoid, and many more as part of the first ever Inventory Blowout Sale. I know the games don’t take up any real physical space, but Microsoft likes to…
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Deathsmiles Limited Edition Is So Very Pretty
As if Xbox 360 gothic-lolita shmup Deathsmiles could get any more attractive, publisher Aksys reveals the Deathsmiles Limited Edition, packed in a super-sized box with a Xbox 360 and a soundtrack album. Now how much would you pay? Here I am, pleased as punch that Deathsmiles is getting a North American release at all, and…
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Ten New Titles Join PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits Library
Confirming last night’s Walmart ad, Sony has announced ten new titles joining the PlayStation 3’s budget-priced Greatest Hits line, with inFAMOUS, God of War Collection, Killzone 2 and Resident Evil 5 and more now available for $29.99. While the Walmart ad we linked to last night contained several new Greatest Hits entries, including Resistance 2,…
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Xbox Action RPG Enclave Reborn On The Wii
TopWare Interactive snagged the IP and trademark rights to 2003 PC and Xbox action RPG Enclave, with plans to revitalize the series, starting with a remake of the original game for the Nintendo Wii. Enclave was an ambitious action RPG developed by Starbreeze Studios, the team behind The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.…
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Savage Take On Defense Of The Ancients Enters Open Beta
Savage developer S2 Games is ready to bring its take on the Defense of the Ancients Warcraft III scenario to the masses, with the launch of the Heroes of Newerth open beta. The Warcraft II Defense of the Ancients scenario is getting a lot of play lately. A hero-centric take on real-time strategy that focuses…
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It’s Blizzard Deal Day On Amazon
So what if Blizzard only has three or four current games – that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be excited by a Blizzard-themed Amazon.com Gold Box day, right? Man, no wonder Kotick fired me. Amazon’s video game Gold Box deal days generally focus around a certain theme or platform, but today’s deals are all Blizzard. Well,…
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City Of Heroes Isn’t Fooling Around With Demon Summoning
IF you thought the dual pistols power for City of Heroes Going Rogue expansion was cool, wait until you see the damage you can do with giant horned demons and a Hellfire Whip. Demon Summoning is the second of two powers City of Heroes players will gain access to by pre-purchasing the upcoming Going Rogue…
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Moral Kombat Available Everywhere You Watch Movies
There’ll be no excuse left for not seeing Spencer Halpin’s documentary exploration of video game violence, Moral Kombat, as the film will soon be available on every web-enabled device imaginable. Moral Kombat is a compelling documentary that explores video game violence from both sides of the argument, created in 2007 by Spencer Halpin, the brother…
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Abandon All Hope, There Are No Plans For Geometry Wars 3
“Right now we don’t have any plans for Geometry Wars 3 or anything,” said Bizarre Creations’ Gareth Wilson during the Kotaku Talk Radio podcast, and all that could be heard afterwards were the relentless sobs of millions of disappointed fans. Gareth took delivering the news in stride, but fans who played the original Geometry Wars…
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Amazon Doubling Your BioShock Pleasure
Are you a BioShock newbie who doesn’t want to play through the second game without experiencing the first? Well then Amazon.com has the deal for you. Several readers have tipped us off to a deal going on now over at Amazon.com. For a limited time, purchasing BioShock 2 for the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360…
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Dante’s Inferno’s Trials Of St. Lucia Gives You Wings
Dante’s guardian angel and Christian martyr St. Lucia gets her game on in these screens from the upcoming Trails of St. Lucia downloadable content for Dante’s Inferno. I’m looking forward to the addition of co-op multiplayer in Dante’s Inferno, if only because I was slightly embarrassed having someone else sitting there watching me as I…
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The Power Behind Project Natal: PrimeSense
You’ve heard all about Project Natal, but Microsoft’s 3D motion controller solution would have fallen completely flat if not for PrimeSense’s 3D sensing technology. What is PrimeSense? PrimeSense is a company that creates technology that allows computers and, in this case, the Xbox 360, perceive the world in three dimensions. The PrimeSensor bathes the area…
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Three Minutes Of Final Fantasy XIV Footage And Japanese Voices
Square Enix Japan is creating a series of video blogs called Life in Eorzea, with the first one featuring plenty of Chocobos, tiny little guys dancing, and plenty of Japanese people talking. The nice folks at FFXIVCore have translated some of the chatter going on behind the Final Fantasy XIV gameplay footage, and it doesn’t…
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Bringing FarmVille To Your Browser Bar
From the FarmVille toolbar to a virtual pet that runs on your browser bar, Conduit’s Ltd. is helping gamers connect with games without having to change their web page. You might have never heard about Conduit Ltd., but odds are you’ve seen some of its technology. Conduit created a technology that allows publishers an easy…
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Let’s Abolish Schools And Teach Children With Video Games
For thousands of years, societies taught and trained their children through immersive gameplay and storytelling. Prospect Magazine’s Julian Gough wonders why we ever stopped, and ponders a fantasy world where the games of today form the children of tomorrow. “How would I cut public spending by £100bn? Abolish schools-and have children learn through playing videogames…
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Are These Leaked Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Videos?
Several readers pointed us towards a series of YouTube videos that seem to feature Sonic the Hedgehog 4’s Splash Hill and Lost Labyrinth Zones. Are they legit? The videos depict Sonic 4’s Splash Hill zone, which we’ve seen bits and pieces of before, as well as a Lost Labyrinth level, which we’ve not seen before.…
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