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5th Cell’s Jeremiah Slaczka Draws Your Questions During This Week’s Podcast
The very creative creative director behind Scribblenauts and the Drawn to Life is hanging with our own Stephen Totilo this week, taking your calls and answering your queries with a vocabulary of more than 22,800 individual words. Mr. Slaczka will help us ring in the holidays with discussion on 5th Cell‘s line of creative and…
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Create Your Army Of Two: The 40th Day Mask Online Right Now
Why wait until the 12th to design your mask and armor for Army of Two: The 40th Day, when you can create them right now via EA’s online Army of Two mask and armor creator? Salem and Rios don’t go anywhere without their masks, so they need top-quality designs in order to make sure the…
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GOG.com Puts Good Old Games On Sale For The Holidays
DRM-free classic PC game store GOG.com is rolling out deals for the holiday season, with up to 40% off 171 titles, including Duke Nukem 3D, Freespace 2, Fallout, and Beyond Good & Evil, with free Tex Murphy for everyone. That’s right, the post-apocalyptic detective adventures of Access Games’ Tex Murphy 1 & 2 are free…
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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Overwatch DLC Deployed
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising gets its second helping of downloadable content today with the Overwatch pack, bringing two new multiplayer modes and two new fire team engagements to the battle for Skira. Xbox 360 players get first dibs on the new OP:DR DLC, dropping today on Xbox Live for 400 Microsoft points with PlayStation 3…
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Pretty Pictures From BioShock 2
Totilo’s shining BioShock 2 preview was big on words, but where were the images? Here are the images, and they are just as lovely and enthralling as the experience Mr. Totlio describes. I’m getting chills already, and these are merely still images from 2K’s upcoming sequel. I can only imagine what stumbling across these scenes…
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MAG Open Beta Is Just Around The Corner
Zipper Interactive has announced a massive multiplayer open beta for the PlayStation 3’s massive multiplayer shooter MAG. MAG has gone gold, and all is on course for its January 26th North American release. Now all Zipper Interactive and Sony have to do is make sure the game doesn’t explode on launch day, so they’re holding…
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iPhone Chart Toppers: N.O.V.A. Takes Down Waldo
Gameloft wins big in our weekly look at the top grossing games on iTunes for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Gameloft’s first-person shooter storms onto the charts, , with Battleship adding to the displacingment. Cartoon Wars-Gunner jumps into the fray as well, with last week’s new entry Dragon’s Lair nowhere to be seen. Which do…
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Giant Evil Robot Teddy Bear Attacks Champions Online
Champions Online‘s Millennium City has been invaded by the Black Harlequin and his giant, murderous mecha-teddy, Clarence for the holidays. We’re going to need bigger hugs. Cryptic rings in the holidays in Champions Online with the Attack of the Misfit Toys event. The Black Harlequin has made diabolical changes to the children’s Christmas toys, and…
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Ugly Movie Spawns Ugly Box Art
Put Johnny Depp in a silly hat, slather some makeup on him, add a couple of deformed tiny people, and you’ve got another one of my childhood memories ruined forever, and some hideous box art to boot. First Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, now this. I don’t know if Tim Burton needs to find some…
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The Nintendo Download: And The 500th Downloadable Wii Game Is…
What game could Nintendo have possibly chosen as the 500th downloadable title for the Wii? It would have to be something super, yet smashing at the same time. The mind boggles! Okay, I suck at giving subtle hints. The original Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64 is the 500th downloadable game for the Nintendo…
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Reviews
Saitek Aviator Flight Stick Review: Do A Barrel Roll!
Saitek’s PC flight stick heritage merges with Mad Catz‘s console peripheral expertise to create the Saitek Aviator Flight Stick, containing all the controls you need to get your arcade flight games off the ground in style. The Aviator combines two controllers into one, placing the throttle controls traditionally placed on a separate unit for flight…
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Fear Eddie Riggs’ Mighty Facial Hair
Here’s a look at what you’re missing if you’ve not yet picked up the Hammer of Infinite Fate DLC for Brutal Legend. As you can see, the Mountain Man skin for Eddie Riggs isn’t quite as impressive as one would have hoped, but it certainly does add a beard, wherteas the other two costumes mainly…
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GameStop Keen To Return Your Unused Reserve Credits
GameStop is calling all of their customers with unused reserved game credits, offering them a chance to redeem them for gift certificates towards fine GameStop merchandise. I first heard about the push to give customers back their unused $5 deposits a few weeks back, when a GameStop manager mentioned that calls would be going out…
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You’re A Gamer In 2010…What Will You Do?
You aren’t some kid holding controllers from different systems posing for stock photos. You’re a real gamer. You piss pixels and bleed polygons, and ultimately the fate of gaming in 2010 is up to you. What will you do? You’ve been a game publisher, retailer, and developer, but we’ve save the best (and perhaps the…
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Shiren The Wanderer: Don’t Call It A Roguelike
Atlus’ upcoming Wii RPG Shiren the Wanderer has all the trappings of a roguelike dungeon crawler, but Atlus notes key differences that set it apart from other roguelike games. For instance, it’s much easier. I participated in an online demo for Shiren the Wanderer yesterday, with Atlus playing through the game while the company’s PR…
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The Definitive Silver Star Harmony Package For Lunar Fans
XSEED Games know Lunar fans are used to getting more, and while the limited edition of Lunar: Silver Star Harmony doesn’t get close to the lavish releases Working Designs gave us in the 90’s, it’s nothing to sneeze at. Lunar: Silver Star Harmony is an enhanced remake of Lunar: The Silver Star, coming to the…
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Just Cause 2: An Island In Chaos
The chaos Rico Rodriguez causes on the fictional island of Panau is showcased in this trailer for Just Cause 2, with an ending that leaves me completely sold on the game. I only played the original Just Cause very briefly during a busier stint in my game playing schedule, Did I miss action like this,…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Just Got A Whole Lot Sandier
Tatooine. A harsh, desert planet, filled with hives of scum and villainy. A place where it is nearly impossible to find the droids you are looking for, and the latest planet to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic galaxy. It’s where both Luke and Anakin Skywalker got their starts, and where an unfortunate incident…
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Burnout Paradise On The Moon?
A post on Burnout developer Criterion Games‘ website reveals plans for downloadable content that never made it to fruition, including boats, helicopters, time travel, and yes – Burnout on the moon. Burnout Paradise was originally envisioned as a series of islands all connected to Paradise City through bridges (or potentially boats!), but something changed after…
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Survey: Sony Considering Premium PlayStation Network Subscriptions
A survey sent from IPSOS Online Research indicates that Sony is considering premium subscription plans for the PlayStation Network, detailing potential prices and premium services, including full hour game trials, free access to PSOne Classics, and cross-game voice chat. Reader Brenna sent us PDF files containing the Sony survey, which begins with the following bit…
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