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Introducing Army Of Two: The 40th Day
Check out the explosive intro movie for EA’s Army of Two: The 40th Day, riffing on movies like Cloverfield with its first-person handicam style. While the video doesn’t quite make me want to play the sequel to Army of Two, it kind of makes me want to watch someone else playing. I doubt that’s the…
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Kurulin Fusion Or A Ham Sandwich?
MTO USA‘s PSP puzzler Kurulin Fusion combines “futuristic graphics” with a musical score directed by Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, and it’s available later today on the PlayStation Network. MTO USA’s marketing pitch? “Have fun. Don’t eat.” Being a big Nobuo Uematsu fan myself, MTO USA doesn’t really have to market a $4.99 downloadable PSP…
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Would You Play Video Games With President Obama?
If you could play a video game with any celebrity, who would it be? A recent survey conducted by Weekly Reader Research reveals that boys aged 8-17 want to get their game on with President Obama. Who did girls pick? President Barack Obama better start boning up on his Wii Bowling skills. The survey, commissioned…
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Mass Effect 2 Is Full Of Stars
BioWare has revealed the voice cast for Mass Effect 2, with a cast of new and returning voice actors that covers just about every corner of science fiction fandom. Of course the biggest addition to the Mass Effect 2, Martin Sheen as the Illusive Man, has already been outed, but he’s just the tip of…
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PS3 Scores Exclusive Dante’s Inferno Divine Edition
Early access to the demo was just the beginning, as Visceral Games announces the Dante’s Inferno Divine Edition, a PlayStation 3 exclusive version of the game packed with extra content at no additional cost. The Dante’s Inferno Divine Edition is the version all PlayStation 3 owners will be receiving once the game is released on…
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Mega Man 10 Revisits Retro, Or The Rise Of Sheep Man
The latest issue of Nintendo Power outs a second retro installment of Mega Man. Can Sheep Man pull the wool over the blue bomber’s eyes, or will he be thoroughly fleeced? More 8-bit Mega Man goodness? More hideously inappropriate artwork? Proto Man selectable from the get go? SHEEP MAN!? I’m sold, and I’ve only skimmed…
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Team Fortress 2: Friendship Ends In 1 Day
The blue Soldier and red Demoman are friends, and the administrator can’t have that. “Call Mr. Hale. Tell him we have some custom orders for him. Tell him money is no object.” Can Soldier and Demoman class updates be far behind? These events play out in a webcomic that’s popped up in a post on…
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Christmas Comes To PlayStation Home
The holidays hit PlayStation Home this week, bringing new content for MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, a Dead Space 2 costume, free copies of Diner Dash, and a mysterious Festive Tree in the Central Plaza. Yes, it’s not a Christmas tree. It’s a festive tree, because everyone has different festive celebrations at the end of the yeah,…
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Frankenreview: The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Are game critics sick and tired of these Zelda-loving Links on this Zelda-loving train? Find out, in our Frankenreview for The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Spirit Tracks takes place in the future of the Wind Waker timeline, utilizing the same sort of cel-shaded graphics that everyone complained about in the Gamecube title but have…
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Stargate Resistance Coming To PC In 2010
Stargate Worlds developer Cheyenne Mountain might have had trouble getting the MMO version of the popular sci-fi TV show developed, but the newly announced 3rd-person shooter, Stargate Resistance? No problem. With development of the Stargate Worlds MMO still ongoing, troubled developer Cheyenne Mountain apparently isn’t so troubled that they couldn’t prepare a completely new title…
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Reviews
Gyromancer Micro-Review: Twisting The Night Away
The roleplaying game experts at Square Enix and puzzle game kings at PopCap give the puzzle RPG genre a Bejeweled Twist with Gyromancer. Is it as addictive as it sounds? It sounds like a jewel-matching RPG made in heaven. Players taken on the role of Rivel, a summoner traveling through the Aldemona Wood who becomes…
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No Really, Revenge Of The Wounded Dragons Hits PSN This Week
After a brief delay following our last release announcement for Artificial Mind & Movement’s kung fu beat-em-up, Revenge of the Wounded Dragons is finally hitting the North American PlayStation Store this week, we hope. Originally scheduled for release on November 24th, the PlayStation Blog post we culled the information from on Revenge of the Wounded…
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A Glimpse Of Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce Console-Exclusive Content
Have you already played through Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce PSP and are wondering why to play it on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? If the online multiplayer isn’t enough, perhaps these screens of the console versions’ exclusive content will help. While I’m picking up the game this February for the online multiplayer, I’ve not played…
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Ubisoft Launching Their Own Wii Sports Racquet
Wii Sports Tennis taught publishers that Wii owners loved hitting things with imaginary racquets. Ubisoft takes this idea and runs with it with Racquet Sports, bundling tennis, ping pong, badminton, squash, and beach tennis in one hard-hitting package. Ubisoft takes hitting things while imagining you are holding a racquet to a whole new level with…
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Blizzard Authenticator Spawns Two-Headed Dog
World of Warcraft players who use Blizzard’s authenticator gadget to secure their accounts are being gifted with a two-headed fire dog so cute it almost makes up for all of those Molten Core raid deaths – almost. The Blizzard authenticator is a device that generates a one-time code that secures your Blizzard account from unauthorized…
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Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype’s Lovely Bullet Hell
SideQuest Studio’s sequel to PlayStation Network exclusive side-scrolling shooter Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer is just as free with the bullets as its predecessor was, as these new screens demonstrate. Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer was released around this time last year on the PlayStation Network, so its about time we got around to playing the follow-up. This time around the…
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Second Brutal Legend DLC Pack Comes With A Beard
Sure, the Hammer of Infinite Fate DLC coming to Brutal Legend next week adds new multiplayer maps, weapons upgrades, and achievements, but what really matters is the beard. Eddie Riggs gets three new outfits in the Hammer of Infinite Fate DLC – Black Metal, Zaulia, and Mountain Man – the latter of which sports what…
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Play Panama Over And Over With The Guitar Hero: Van Halen Demo
Xbox Live Gold subscribers can now download a demo for Guitar Hero: Van Halen featuring three four songs, one two of which are actually by Van Halen! I suppose Activision is trying to show the range of the Guitar Hero: Van Halen product to those of us who didn’t already get it for free via…
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Extended Spirit Tracks Commercial Has Twice As Much Hallucinating
The 60-second version of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks‘ television commercial displays in more vivid detail why you should probably put down the DS and sleep once in awhile. The 30-second version was nice, but I love the little details Nintendo threw in for the extended cut of the commercial. The passenger paying the…
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