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Battlefield Heroes Population Swells To 3 Million
Despite strong opposition to some of the more recent changes to the game, EA’s free-to-play online shooter Battlefield Heroes continues to draw new players in droves, with a new map released today to celebrate surpassing three million registered players. Battlefield Heroes passed the two million player mark in September, prompting EA to celebrate with the…
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Aion Speeds Things Up With Double XP Weekends
Tired of slow progression in NCsoft’s latest MMO, Aion? The developers feel your pain, and they plan to assuage it with regular double experience weekends, starting with the next three weekends in a row. Things got a little slow for me in Aion around level 18 or so, so I for one welcome the introduction…
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Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford Talks Borderlands And More In This Week’s Podcast
While our boss is away, Gearbox Software‘s boss plays, when the Borderlands developer’s head honcho Randy Pitchford takes Crecente’s place beside Totilo in this week’s installment of Kotaku’s call-in podcast. Mr. Pitchford will be on hand to discuss anything and everything Pitchford and Gearbox related, from Borderlands to Brothers in Arms; that one Half-Life game…
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Massive Free Realms Update Brings Tiny Dinosaurs
Sony Online Entertainment drops a massive end-of-the-year update on its free-to-play MMO Free Realms today, adding holiday Snow Days, fishing, player housing, and new pets, including dinosaurs, dragons, unicorns, and pegasi. I would have figured SOE would have gone from cats and dogs to something like hamsters or potbellied pigs, but instead they go and…
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Global Agenda Launches In February
Georgia-based Hi-Rez Studios is finally gearing up for the release of their futuristic team-based shooter, cementing a February 2010 release for Global Agenda, with preorder customers gaining guaranteed access to the beta test. Global Agenda is a combination of free and subscription-based team-based online shooter, but either way you’ve got to buy the game to…
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You Run A Big Game Publisher In 2010…What Will You Do?
Cast aside those ratty sneakers and step into the expensive, well-polished shoes of the CEO of a big-name video game publisher. What changes would you make to ensure the success of your business in 2010? Welcome to the first installment of “What Will You Do?”, where we have our readers tell us what they’d do…
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Dragon’s Lair Does DSiWare Next Week
Digital Leisure is bringing Dirk the Daring to the DSiWare service next week, with the DSi becoming the umpteenth platform to receive a port of Don Bluth’s classic laserdisc game Dragon’s Lair. t’s hard to say how many platforms exactly the game has been ported to already, with some computer platforms receiving multiple versions of…
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Have A Super Monkey Ball Christmas
Sega says Happy Holidays with a couple of holiday wallpapers and some new screens from the upcoming Wii Balance Board title Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll. As far as I am concerned, there is nothing near as festive as monkeys. There isn’t one holiday that couldn’t be enhanced by an injection of these lovable…
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EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
EverQuest players venture into the undiscovered underground of Norrath today with the launch of EverQuest Underfoot, the game’s 16th expansion, which adds new areas, master tradeskilling, and an achievement system to the 10-year-old MMO. EverQuest Underfoot, available today at EverQuest.com for $39.99, substantially adds to Norrathian real estate by going deeper underground than ever before.…
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Robotic Hamsters Get Real Activision Games
Activision takes on EA’s Littlest Pet Shop with games based on Zhu Zhu Pets, robotic hamster toys with a life of their own. How was I unaware of robotic hamster toys? Zhu Zhu Pets are, apparently, one of the hottest toys of the holiday season, and I should probably count myself fortunate that I was…
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EA No Longer A Focus For id’s Rage
EA’s involvement with id Software‘s combination first-person shooter/racer Rage has come to an end, with publishing duties acquired by id’s new parent company ZeniMax Media. EA and id first announced a publishing partnership for Rage during E3 2008, but much has changed since that event, including id being acquired by Bethesda Softworks parent company ZeniMax…
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Harlequin Presents: Hidden Object Of Desire
Her heart fluttered as the shirtless fireman’s strong hand closed over hers, his chest heaving against her while he guided her mouse pointer to Harlequin Presents: Hidden Object of Desire, the first game based on the popular romance novel series. Harlequin Enterprises, one of the world’s leading publishers of women’s fiction, and Big Fish Games…
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Reviews
Rock Band Wireless Wooden Fender Stratocaster Review: No Turning Back
Video game accessory Mad Catz teams up with guitar manufacturer Fender to create the Rock Band Wireless Wooden Fender Stratocaster, $300 worth of fake guitar that begs the question, “How serious are you about your music games?” The Wireless Wooden Fender Stratocaster is a full-sized replica of Fender’s famous guitar, with all of the necessary…
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The Sentinel: Mass Effect 2’s Swiss Army Class
Mass Effect 2’s lead combat designer Christina Norman gives us the skinny on the Sentinel, the character class that has it all. The Sentinel is essentially the Paladin of the Mass Effect universe, with a variety of offensive and defensive skills and the ability to use both tech and Biotics, making them the most versatile…
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Every New Final Fantasy XIII Screen Makes The Waiting Worse
We still have the better part of three months before Final Fantasy XIII hits the states, yet Square Enix continues to tease us. They’ve got a Facebook page and Twitter set up now? Great. How I long for the days when I could wander into a video game store and be surprised by the release…
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Mac Version Of Dragon Age Just A Week Away
BioWare and TransGaming have teamed up to deliver Mac gamers their very own version of Dragon Age: Origins, available for digital download next week in both Standard and Digital Deluxe versions. The Mac release of Dragon Age should be fairly identical to the PC release, thanks to TransGaming’s software portability technologies. Like the PC game,…
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Age Of Conan Slightly Free Until 2010
Download the Age of Conan free trial between now and January 1st and you can level characters up to 20 for free until the end of time – or at least the end of Age of Conan. Make the Isle of Tortage your bitch with Funcom’s new and improved free trial for Age of Conan.…
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Prince Of Persia: Forgotten Sands Is A Prequel And A Sequel
Ubisoft reveals new details about Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, a game set between The Sands of Time and Warrior Within, granting the Prince power over the forces of nature, which he will conveniently forget by the second game. The problem with interjecting a video game between two previously released titles is we can…
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The Nintendo Download: Blaster Master Meets Earthworm Jim
The Nintendo Download goes underground this week, dislodging sentient earthworms from the topsoil as it desperately searches for its mutated pet frog. Despite a strong showing across all three of Nintendo’s downloadable game services, the Virtual Console comes out on top this week, with one of the greatest action games for the Nintendo Entertainment System…
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Boys Can’t Play Majesco’s Dance Sensation!
Young girls can live out their dance fantasies in their living room with Majesco’s Dance Sensation! for the Nintendo Wii. Young boys will just have to keep hiding their passion for creative movement from a world that just wouldn’t understand. It’s just not fair. Girls get to play with adorable animals in the Littlest Pet…
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