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It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s Pizza Delivery Boy
When a string of successful pizza restaurants starts to go under, only on boy can step in and save the day – Pizza Delivery Boy. Guess which platform Majesco’s latest is an exclusive on? If you guessed the Nintendo Wii, we aren’t even going to give you credit, because it’s pretty much a no brainer.…
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Darkstalkers Return…To Comics
UDON Entertainment can take a hint. After the tremendous response to the recently release Darkstalkers Tribute art book, the publisher is bringing Capcom’s monster fighters back to comic book stands this January. At least one company realizes how much fans of the Darkstalkers series are aching for more. A new Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors three-issue…
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Mega Man And Mega Bear Hit The Bricks
Medicom combines their Kubrick and Bearbrick lines into one adorable set of Mega Man figures, coming in January 2010 to a dusty shelf near you. The Kubrick/Bearbrick Mega Man set is actually a Rockman set, but I figured our North American readers might know him better by his bastardized name. Rockman looks vaguely pissed to…
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ESA Founder Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award
Today the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences announced that Entertainment Software Association founder Doug Lowenstein will be the third recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. What makes old Doug worthy of standing alongside Sony’s Ken Kutaragi and Nintendo of America founders Howard Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa? Lowenstein founded the ESA, the industry’s most important…
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Frankenreview: Modern Warfare 2
A game so wildly popular and well-known that we don’t even have to explain what it is in the opening line for the Modern Warfare 2 Frankenreview. so here we are. It’s the next installment of Infinity Ward’s s***. We could drone on and on about Modern Warfare 2’s controversial terrorist level, or the fact…
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Ignition Has A Deadly Premonition For 360 Owners
Ignition Entertainment brings more survival horror to the Xbox 360 next year with Deadly Premonition, a creepy tale of mystery and terror set in a remote rural town. Access Games’ Deadly Premonition not only sounds a lot like Silent Hill, it also looks like it as well, with a bit of Fatal Frame thrown in…
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What’s Inside The European Bayonetta Special Edition?
What do folks in the UK, France, Spain, and Australia have to look forward to should they spend a little bit more on Bayonetta this January? It’s more than just an art book! But not much more, really. Sega Europe has announced the Special Edition of Bayonetta for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and…
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New Saboteur Screens – Oh The Humanity!
Is it too soon for referential Hindenburg humor? I can never tell. It’s another batch of screenshots for Pandemic’s The Saboteur, featuring protagonist Sean Devlin doing things other than wading through the seedy underbelly of World War II’s burlesque scene. Marvel as he blows up a blimp! See him climbing a thing! Behold – he’s…
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Vagrant Story Coming To PAL PSN
Released on the Japanese PlayStation Network in August, Square Enix is bringing classic PlayStation RPG Vagrant Story to the PAL PlayStation Network. Can a North American release be far behind? How good is Vagrant Story? At a time when Square was releasing Final Fantasy VII through Final Fantasy IX, Vagrant Story was the only original…
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Bring Home Aion Purchase Bonuses For The Holidays
NCsoft is celebrating the success of Aion by offering the Aion Holiday Ascension Pack, a special bundle of retailer-specific in-game items for those who purchase the game during the holiday season. It’s not a preorder bonus, as the game is already out, so should we simply call it an order bonus? Either way, folks who…
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Terrifying Clown Army Invades New York Best Buy
If you thought the line for Modern Warfare 2 was scary, check out the crowd waiting outside of a New York City Best Buy for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus game. Kotakuite Charles stopped by a New York City Best Buy location this morning to pick up Modern Warfare 2, only to…
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Journey To The Gates Of Hell With The Dante’s Inferno Demo
Visceral Games takes you to the gates of hell next month, when the entire first level of Dante’s Inferno is release in demo form for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Dante has nine circles of hell to travel through in his quest to save his lost love, but first he has to get there.…
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The Onion Reveals Modern Warfare 3
Modern Warfare 2 is nice and all, but The Onion has the scoop on Modern Warfare 3 – the most realistic military experience ever created. Cleaning humvees and complaining about cell phone coverage? Count me in! The only thing missing in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a feature where once you get killed…
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Magic Planeswalkers Duels Spill Over To PC, PS3
Wizards of the Coast are bringing Xbox Live card-battler Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers to the PlayStation Network and PC, with two new Xbox 360 expansions in the works. Possibly the purest Magic: The Gathering experience ever to grace a game console, Wizards of the Coast is keen to bring Duels of…
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EA Cuts Loose Bottom Third Of Its Game Lineup
During a conference call regarding the company’s 2nd quarter financial results, EA’s John Schappert revealed that more than a dozen unannounced EA titles had been cut from production as part of its cost reduction plan. Schappert called the move a “targeted cost reduction which will allow a greater investment in our hit titles and digital…
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EA Cutting 1500 Jobs To Reduce Costs
Lending credence to the rumors of massive layoffs, EA details a “cost reduction plan” in its 2nd quarter financial results press release that will result in the termination of 1,500 employees. The “Cost Reduction Plan” detailed in the EA release involves the closure of several facilities and a huge reduction in workforce in order to…
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Surrender To Army Of Two: The 40th Day’s Co-Op Tactics
Mock surrender is just one of Army of Two: the 40th Day‘s list of cooperative multiplayer moves. We were going to show you a video filled with them, but we gave up. See what I did there? I learned a lesson from watching this video, and you could too. And a little something about friendship…
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NBA Unrivaled Dunks On XBLA This Week
Looks like we spoke too soon. Right after we posted this week’s Xbox Live Arcade offering, Tecmo slips out a press release announcing a Wednesday release for arcade baller NBA Unrivaled. Announced back in June of this year, NBA Unrivaled is Tecmo’s entry into the basketball video game market since 1992’s Tecmo NBA Basketball, the…
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This Week In XBLA: O-D Beat Drop
Puzzle and rhythm collide in O-D Beat Drop, the puzzle game that lets you use the beat of your own music to set the pace of the game. Developed by Cyclone Zero and published by Arc System Works, O-D Beat Drop is your standard block-dropping puzzle game with a rhythmic twist. Players drop their pieces…
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Star Trek Online Sets Phasers On February Release
February is a month for love, and there is no greater love than a fan’s love of Star Trek, so it’s appropriate that Atari and Cryptic announce a February release date for Star Trek Online. Star Trek Online is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game based in the near future, or at least the near…
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