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Preorder BioShock 2 PS3 From Amazon And You Get This
PlayStation 3 owners who put their money down on BioShock 2 at Amazon will find themselves the proud owner of this excellent Big Daddy outfit for PlayStation Home. The Big Daddy costume for PlayStation Home is the creation of Heavy Water game production, the company responsible for many of Home’s more creative personal spaces. Perhaps…
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And The Nominees For The 10th Annual GDC Awards Are…
The nominations are in for the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, with Uncharted 2, Flower, and Assassin’s Creed II dominating the nominating. Naughty Dog could win big at the 10th annual awards show, held every year during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has been nominated for no less…
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Catch Ho-Oh Or Lugia When You Preorder Pokémon
Nintendo gets your Pokémon collection started with these figures of Ho-Oh and Lugia, yours when you preorder Pokémon HeartGold or SoulSilver for the Nintendo DS. Starting February 1st, select retailers will be offering these two limited edition figures for customers who preorder these latest Pokémon remakes, with HeartGold customers scoring Ho-Oh and SoulSilver pre-purchasers walking…
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Visit Age Of Conan: Rise Of The Godslayer’s Lovely Chosain Province
New screens for Funcom’s Age of Conan show off the distinctive Asian flair of the Chosain Province, the new area being introduced in the Rise of the Godslayer expansion pack. Going by the screens, the Chosain Province looks to be a bit more vibrant than any of the locations I visited during my time with…
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Sherlock Holmes Tracks Jack The Ripper To U.S. Xbox 360
JoWooD Entertainment and Dreamcatcher pit the greatest fictional detective of all time against one of the most notorious real-life serial killers in Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper, coming in March to the North American Xbox 360. Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper is the fifth in a series of Holmes adventure titles developed by…
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Rest In Peace, Taco Bell Guy
After countless marathon gaming sessions interrupted only by alternating runs to “the border” for cheap Mexican food and the bathroom, I can’t let the passing of Taco Bell founder Glen W. Bell Jr. go unnoticed by our readers. Many gamers, myself included, consider tacos to be the ultimate food. Indeed, if it weren’t for the…
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Reviews
Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth Micro-Review: Something M2 Whipped Up
Konami goes back to Castlevania’s roots with Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth, as the series joins Gradius and Contra to get the Konami ReBirth treatment. Once again, developer M2 takes a long, hard look at a classic Konami franchise and produces a retro-styled rehash. This time around the game is Castlevania: The Adventure, the 1989 Game…
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Heavy Rain’s ESRB Rating Spoils Everything
The ESRB has given Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain an M for Mature rating, explaining the game’s drug use, violence, horror, and sexual situations in ridiculous detail. Needless to say, spoilers ahead. Here’s the obligatory paragraph I put in between the lead and the actual rating listing, in order to make sure no one accidentally reads…
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Aliens VS. Predator Kill Moves Are A Tad Bit Graphic
Actually they aren’t too bad, provided you turn the sound down a little and keep your hand away from the pause button. Pause is not your friend here. It’s hard to tell who at developer Rebellion is having more fun making this game – the animation guys, figuring out creative new ways to mangle 3D…
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DeathSmiles Smiles On North America
The top-selling shoot-em up of this console generation is coming to North America, as Aksys Games announces a U.S. release for Cave’s brilliant Xbox 360 gothic lolita shooter, DeathSmiles. DeathSmiles is a scrolling shooter, but instead of piloting spaceships through unknown galaxies, you fly young angels and their demonic familiars through the gothic world of…
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This Week In XBLA: Death By Cube And Vandal Hearts
Square Enix‘s blood-filled box shooter Death by Cube is joined by the prequel to Konami’s 1996 tactical role-playing game Vandal Hearts to form this week’s new additions to the Xbox Live Arcade. Robots shooting cubes filled with blood – this is the perfect way to describe Square Enix’s new twin-stick shooter, Death by Cube, which…
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Here’s What You Get For Preordering Skate 3
EA’s Skate 3 might not come with a high tech plastic skateboard controller like its chief “competition,” but putting money down on the sequel does earn you this nifty exclusive skate park. Now that I think about it, “Doesn’t come with a high tech plastic skateboard controller” could actually be a selling point. Easily as…
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Hellgate To Reopen In The West, For Real This Time
Just when you thought North America and Europe were safe from the invasion of hell spawn, Korean online gaming publisher HanbitSoft goes and acquires international publishing rights for Hellgate from Namco Bandai, and all hell breaks loose. Yes, this time they mean it. HanbitSoft first announced plans to reignite Hellgate: London in November of 2008,…
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The Nintendo Download: Everybody Let’s Muscle March
Men (and bears) in tight bikini briefs invade the Nintendo Download this week, bringing Dark Void Zero, Starship Defense, The Secret of Shinobi, and more along for the wild ride. Namco Bandai’s Muscle March (500 Wii points) is one of the oddest titles to hit the WiiWare service so far. Thieves have made off with…
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World Of Warcraft Armory Goes 3D
The Armory, World of Warcraft‘s number one stalking, tool is now even stalkier, as upgrades introduce 3D character models, character data feeds, and calendar feeds, allowing players to sync their WoW calendars to their Google calendars. I feel so naked, and that’s probably because the World of Warcraft Armory database now shows my mage, Rande,…
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The Cost Of Playing Star Trek Online
Cryptic and Atari have announced the subscription rates for Star Trek Online, finally giving players an idea of the cost of playing the Trek-themed MMO, aside from sleep deprivation and a gradual loss of skin pigment. Cryptic is going with the current paid MMO standard of $14.99 a month for Star Trek Online, but there…
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BlazBlue Portable Strikes Stateside In March
The PSP version of Arc System Works’ BlazBlue comes to North America in March, complete with a new game mode, a shop full of unlockable content, and Unlimited versions of all twelve characters. Check out the announcement trailer. The 2D fighting game that confused the hell out of button mashers everywhere on the PlayStation and…
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It’s Humans Versus Cats In RISK: Factions
EA reveals the first two factions for its upcoming Xbox Live Arcade title RISK: Factions, with the humans and feline horde bringing an element of wackiness to the game than fans have not been missing for years. Silly factions do battle on the classic RISK map. On one side we have the stodgy, militaristic humans;…
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Surprise! Sonic Is The Only Playable Character In Project Needlemouse
Sega’s Project Needlemouse character reveal trivia contest is over, with Sonic the Hedgehog the last man standing, making him the only playable character in the game. The only thing that could make this news better is robot crabs. Sega kicked off a trivia challenge on Monday, with correct answers causing the names of potential playable…
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Dylan Cuthbert: Game Funding Model Is “Fundamentally Broken”
In an interview with Develop, Q-Games president Dylan Cuthbert discusses the “fundamentally broken” games funding model, saying it is geared towards “making publishers stinking rich.” Primarily working on the downloadable PSN PixelJunk series, Dylan Cuthbert doesn’t have much occasion to deal with the problems associated with the traditional relationship between publisher and developer, but that…
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