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Test Drive Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Xbox 360 owners can begin to explore the mystery behind the world’s fastest video game character’s need for a car today, as a demo and premium theme for Sonic & Sega All-Star Racing show up on Xbox Live. 1GB of free space and an Xbox Live Gold subscription are all you need to feel the…
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The Nintendo Download: Blaster Master, Fieldrunners, And A New Format
Blaster Master Overdrive, Fieldrunners DS, and Princess Tomato shine their love on The Nintendo Download this week, with a new format making it much easier to see what you might be spending your Nintendo points on. I’ve been doing The Nintendo Download since Nintendo started putting things up for download, and lately it’s gotten a…
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Free Realms Celebrates 8 Million Players
It’s been awhile since we checked in with the player population of the free-to-play, family-friendly MMO Free Realms, and Sony Online Entertainment snuck in more than five million additional users while we weren’t looking. When last we checked, way back in June of last year, Free Realms had just surpassed the three million player mark.…
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The Saga Continues With LEGO Clone Wars
LucasArts and TT Games continue to tear apart the Star Wars universe and rebuild it brick-by-brick with LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. I am continually amazed by the success of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a stylized cartoon version of the events that take place between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of…
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John Romero Bows Before Gaming’s Masters
Speaking last night at The Art History of Games symposium in Atlanta, Doom developer John Romero talked about the “masters” the game industry should look to for help creating games today. Which industry figures could make Romero their bitch? The first thing that Romero made clear during his talk, titled “Masters Among Us,” is that…
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Download The BioShock 2 Soundtrack On Tuesday
Fans not opting to purchase the Limited Edition of BioShock 2 can still get their hands on music from the game, when 2K Games releases soundtrack digitally, packed with the greatest hits from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Between BioShock and Fallout 3, I’ve grown quite fond of music from the 30’s through the 50’s…
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Get Acquainted With Dante’s Sins
The latest Dante’s Inferno trailer provides us with a quick recap of the sins of man – lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, treachery, and using leetspeak. I might have made up one of those. It’s a lovely trailer and all, but I can’t help but wonder what changes Dante Alighieri would have made…
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Panelfly Comic Reader Makes The iPad A Bit More Attractive
I thought Apple’s new iPad was a completely ridiculous waste of money, until I saw pictures of the iPad version of Panelfly’s comic book reader. Now it’s just slightly ridiculous. There was absolutely no way I was shelling out $500 plus for an iPad in March. There was no application Apple could show me, nor…
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Finding The Art In Video Games
Where is art found in video games? Ian Bogost and a panel of experts tackled this question and more yesterday at The Art History of Games symposium in Atlanta, Georgia. The Art History of Games isn’t simply another venue to show off particularly lovely screenshots or paintings inspired by gaming. The event seeks to answer…
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Yale-Developed Game Teaches Young Children To Avoid HIV
The National Institute of Health is granting Yale associate professor Dr. Lynn Fielin $3.9 million over five years to develop a game aimed at helping children aged 9 through 14 say no to sex, drugs, and other HIV-transmitting behaviors. In my day, topics like sex and drug abuse were generally relegated to high school health…
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Why There Are Two Sith Classes In The Old Republic
Not all Sith are created equally. In a post on the Star Wars: The Old Republic website, BioWare writer Rebecca Harwick discusses the reasons behind the creation of the Sith Inquisitor, the Emperor Palpatine to the Sith Warrior’s Darth Vader. As Rebecca points out, that comparison is apt, but it does sell the class short.…
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It Sucks To Be An Aliens Vs. Predator Marine
No amount of heavy techno music can make life better for the Colonial Marines in Aliens Vs. Predator. As an Alien player, I feel sorry for the Colonial Marines. After all, the game is called Aliens Vs. Predator, not Aliens Vs. Predator Vs. Colonial Marines. Aside from being far too long a title, they simply…
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ModNation Racers Goes Portable
Like LittleBigPlanet before it, ModNation Racers, the next game in Sony’s “Play Create Share” arsenal is headed to the PlayStation Portable, with the PSP version launching alongside its PlayStation 3 counterpart. With all of the same creative tools found in the PS3 version, the only thing scaled-down about ModNation PSP is the graphics. Players will…
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Australia’s Anti-R18+ Game Rating Attorney-General Sees Fake People
South Australia ‘s opposition calls for the firing of Attorney-General Michael Atkinson, the primary reason the country can’t give games a R18+ mature rating, after he suggested that a West Croydon citizen was an imaginary plant for the Liberal Party. In December, Luke Plunkett clarified the R18+ video game ratings mess in Australia for us,…
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Dark Void Survivor Missions Drop Next Week
Dive deeper into the Dark Void next week with the Survivor Missions downloadable content, which pits players against increasing waves of hostile enemy forces, because increasing waves of docile enemy forces aren’t that threatening. It’s like Horde Mode, only you are by yourself, working through 10 levels of enemies on the ground and in the…
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Play The Who’s Super Bowl Jam Right After They Do
Classic rockers The Who have put together a very special performance for the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIV, and Harmonix has put together a very special download of that performance, available for download as soon as the game ends. MTV Games and Harmonix have somehow convinced The Who (somehow likely equals money) to provide…
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Analyzing The Fallout: New Vegas Trailer
The Fallout: New Vegas trailer has gone live, a release date announced, and fans are excited about getting back into the post-apocalyptic world later this year. Does the trailer hold clues about what we can expect in the game? I’ve been over the trailer with a fine-toothed comb, picking out choice bits in the hope…
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Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Goes Another Round
CyberConnect2 is back with a follow-up to the gorgeous but shallow Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, slapping on the Shippuden label and letting Xbox 360 owners in on the fun. The PlayStation 3 exclusive Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm wowed players with its gorgeous, cartoon-quality cell-shaded graphics, but when compared to the PS2 Ultimate Ninja series, with…
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Must Resist Adorable Hamster Baby
Resisting a Nintendo DS game about cute little robot hamsters might be possible, but when Activision packs in a tiny stuffed hamster baby into the collector’s edition of Zhu Zhu Pets, even the strongest man’s resolve begins to falter. Zhu Zhu Pets, announced back in December, is a game based on the mechanical hamster toys…
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Rockstar Deems This An Epic ‘Stache
The results are in from Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption Movember contest, with Canadian Charles Leece growing the award-winning moustache, securing a cameo in the game. I can’t help but question their judgment. I mean, sure, this is a contest aimed at promoting the Movember movement, in which men grow facial hair during November to raise…
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