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PM Studios Brings Gunbird 2 To The PSP
The wacky side-scrolling shooter action of Psikyo’s Japanese arcade and Dreamcast hit Gunbird 2 goes portable, as PM Studios announces Gunbird 2 Remix for the PSP, coming this February to the PlayStation Network. Gunbird 2 Remix is a remake of the original arcade shooter with all new 2D/3D hybrid graphics. All of the outrageous humor…
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Get Your Ass Back To Mars For Quintuple Red Faction XP
Volition has noticed that not many of you are playing Red Faction: Guerrilla online at the moment, and have just launched five days of quintuple experience points in order to lure you back to Mars for the holidays. It’s hammer time! Every game has triple and double XP weekends these days. Volition wanted to take…
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New Heavy Rain Screens Depict Sadness, Facial Hair
Quantic Dream manages to evoke true human emotion in these screenshots from heavy rain, but how can someone be sad with such realistic facial hair? I’m beginning to piece together some of the story from Heavy Rain for myself between all of the screenshots and Totilo’s recent preview, and I’m feeling a bit sad even…
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Army Of Two: The 40th Day PSP Channels Contra
The PSP version of Army of Two: The 40th Day looks to have much more in common with old-school arcade shooters like Contra and Commando than it does with its console big brother. Maybe it’s just me hankering for simpler times, but this game looks like much more fun than the Xbox 360 and PlayStation…
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You’re A Game Developer in 2010…What Will You Do?
You can’t believe you got a job doing this. Your mom said you would never get anywhere with these games. Now you’re a big game developer. What will you do to ensure 2010 is a better year that 2009? It’s not all about tightening up the graphics. Game developers create the games we play, sure,…
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Hasbro Sues Atari Over D&D License, Atari Responds
Hasbro has filed a complaint in the District Court of Rhode Island, seeking to terminate their licensing agreement with Dungeons and Dragons Online publisher Atari due to alleged fraud and five separate breaches of the licensing agreement for Dungeons & Dragons. Hasbro, the owners of Dungeons & Dragons through wholly-owned subsidiary Wizards of the Coast,…
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Put Mytheon’s Servers To The Test, Score A Beta Spot
True Games and Petroglyph are testing out the servers for their stone-based online strategy game Mytheon this Monday, with participants earning forum avatars, in-game items, and priority access to the upcoming closed beta test. Mytheon is an online strategy game in which players collect and trade power stones containing troops and spells to use in…
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Josh And Jill Will Flee Tricell In RE5’s Desperate Escape
Capcom has revealed new details on the second downloadable Resident Evil 5 episode, Desperate Escape, featuring Jill Valentine and BSAA Agent Josh Stone in a daring nighttime escape from the Tricell facility. Desperate Escape, due out on March 3rd for the Xbox 360 and March 4th for the PlayStation 3, sees Jill Valentine, recently recovered…
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Reach Out And Touch Someone Dead
New screens from Hudson’s Wii horror game Calling show us what happens when AT&T launches the inevitable Dead Friends and Family plan. It’s easy to make light of a horror game when you’ve only got screenshots and the odd video to go by. AJ testified that Calling has some genuinely scary moments during her preview…
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RE5’s Chris Is Heavy Metal, But Sheva Is All Business
Chris Redfield continues to channel Mad Max, while Sheva prepares to use a machete to cut through red tape in this pair of new costume reveal vids for the Resident Evil 5 Alternative Edition DLC. These two new costumes are a bit more reserved than the little red riding hood and warrior costumes Capcom previously…
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Konami Gives Fans A Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Demo For Christmas
Though the PSP game isn’t due out in North America until May, Konami delivers an early taste of the 1970’s Naked Snake action with a demo of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, available later today on the PlayStation Network. It’s an early Christmas present for MGS fans from Konami! Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker: Demo-Ops…
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Reviews
PixelJunk Shooter Micro-Review: Just Add Water… Or Lava
Q-Games continues its series of deceptively simple PlayStation Network games with PixelJunk Shooter, where danger runs hot and salvation is just a glass of water away. Okay, maybe not a glass. PixelJunk Shooter is a game about saving miners and scientists trapped beneath the surface of a strange planet, but it’s also a game about…
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Word Of Mouth Sells The Most Video Games
Video game publishers might rethink their marketing budgets when they see the results of the latest study from Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, which indicate that friends are three times as likely to influence a game purchase than traditional advertising. “Have you played (insert game here)?” It’s a question most of us have asked when considering a…
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Silly Game Show Gets Silly iPhone Game From Capcom
The only thing more ridiculous than a television quiz show set inside a taxi cab is an iPhone game simulating a television quiz show set inside a taxi cab. Yes, Capcom Mobile and Discovery Communications have teamed up to bring Cash Cab to the iPhone. Players take a simulated taxi ride, answering increasingly difficult questions…
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You’re A Video Game Retailer In 2010…What Will You Do?
Whether you’re a hard-working entrepreneur running your own store or a corporate executive overseeing a worldwide chain, what will you do as a video game retailer to make 2010 a better year for the game industry than 2009? We’ve already explored the world of game publishing in 2010 from our reader’s point of view, and…
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Patrice Explains The Assassin’s Creed II DLC
Our favorite member of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed II team, creative director Patrice Desilets with his wondrous beard, explains what exactly is going on in the Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities DLC. We already technically know what’s coming in the double dose of DLC slated to arrive over the next two months, but…
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Play Drums With Animal On Your iPhone
There is now an iPhone game that allows you to play drums against Animal from The Muppet Show. Truly we live in an age of wonders. Walt Disney has released The Muppets Animal Drummer on the iTunes App Store, allowing players to rock out with the world’s greatest practitioner of the drumming art. You can…
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Assassin’s Creed II’s Gap-Filling DLC Priced And Detailed
Ubisoft has delivered details and pricing info for January and February’s Assassin’s Creed II downloadable content, which fill the gaps in Ezio’s DNA sequence. How much will it cost to complete the game? Yes, as Totilo theorized, the Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities DLC, dropping in January and February respectively, comprise the…
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Why Andy Richter Didn’t Win A VGA Award
On last night’s episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, sidekick Andy Richter expresses disappointment that he didn’t win a Spike VGA award for his work as the voice of Ezio in Assassin’s Creed II. The only reason I can imagine for such a grievous oversight is the fact that he didn’t actually voice Ezio…
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The PSP Comic Store Opens Today
What better day than a Wednesday to launch Sony’s new digital comic book service on the PSP? I’m not sure how it works in other countries, but here in the U.S., comic book fans have received Pavlovian conditioning that starts them drooling once the clock rolls over from Tuesday to Wednesday. Wednesday is when the…
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