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Watch Capcom’s New York Fight Club From A Safe Distance
Now’s your chance to join more than 160 people watching a currently empty room that will soon play host to today’s Capcom Fight Club in New York. Soon that empty space will be filled with people playing Tatsunoko VS. Capcom, Marvel VS. Capcom 2, and Super Street Fighter IV, and while you won’t be able…
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League Of Legends Beta Cracks Wide Open
The evolution of Defense of the Ancients is now freely available, as Riot Games opens up the beta for League of Legends in advance of its October 27th “pre-season” launch. Why “pre-season” you ask? The competitive online strategy game uses a seasons model in order to keep gameplay fresh for everyone involved. October 27th sees…
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Metro 2033 Trailer Paints A Bleak Picture
The announcement trailer for THQ and 4A Games’ post-apocalyptic shooter Metro 2033 sets the stage for what could very well be mankind’s last stand. THQ announced the 2010 game this morning, posting this trailer on the game’s official site to introduce prospective players to the setting. The game is based on Dmitry Glukhovsky’s popular Eastern…
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Ignition Brings Arc Rise Fantasia Westward
Ignition Entertainment and Marvelous Entertainment have announced that the former will be responsible for publishing Imageepoch’s turn-based Wii RPG Arc Rise Fantasia in Summer 2010. Arc Rise Fantasia is a rather lovely little Japanese RPG which tells the story of L’Arc, a mercenary setting out to save the Meridian Empire from monster invasion. The characters…
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The Dragon Age Journeys Begin Today
EA 2D sets the stage for Dragon Age: Origins today, with the launch of the first chapter of Dragon Age Journeys, the 2-dimensional browser-based tie-in to BioWare’s blockbuster RPG. At least the press release says the first of three Dragon Age Journeys chapters launches today. As of this writing the website is still only hosting…
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This Is Why DiRT 2 PC Was Delayed
Codemasters trotted out the PC version of Colin McRae: DiRT 2 today at the Windows 7 launch in New York, showing off the snazzy DirectX 11 features the game was delayed for. The DirectX 11 effects actually look rather impressive, though I’m not sure they amount to anything that really warranted the game being delayed…
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Take Dragon Ball: Raging Blast For A Spin
Beat the living hell out of Goku, Raditz, and Piccolo in the Xbox 360 demo for Dragon Ball: Raging Blast, now available on Xbox Live. The Dragon Ball: Raging Blast demo gives you a tiny taste of the “most explosive fighting action ever seen for this franchise” today, delivering 261MB of hot Piccolo on Raditz…
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Sid Meier Bringing Civilization To Facebook
Sid Meier is taking two of the most addictive games ever created – Civilization and Facebook – and melding them into one. Today he announced Civilization Network, coming to Facebook in 2010. Civilization Network will allow you and your friends to band together to create the most powerful, wealthy, or most intelligent civilization. Think Mafia…
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101 Wii Mini-Games, All At Once, All For You
Atlus and developer Nordcurrent take the 101-in-1 Megamix concept from the DS to the Wii, with 101 mini-games that should completely satisfy your need to play mini-games for the rest of your life. Seriously, this should do you until the end of time. 101-in-1 Party Megamix for the Wii features a metric ass-ton of games…
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Atari Randomly Makes A Facebook Photo App
Atari jumps on the Facebook bandwagon, carrying a knapsack full of kitschy stickers so you can personalize your photos with Atari Photo Sauce. Photo Sauce, developed by the Atari London Studio, is a free Facebook app that allows users to plaster retro stickers, stamps, and speech bubbles all over their photos, creating images and comic…
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PC Arkham Asylum Players Play Dress-Up
Console Batman: Arkham Asylum players may have gotten the game first, but they’ll never be able to dress Batman up like Captain America. One of the joys of PC gaming is the ability to screw with stuff, like Batman’s costume skin in Arkham Asylum. Over at the official game forums they’ve got a fan-made skin…
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Frankenreview: Borderlands
It’s a first-person shooter! It’s an RPG! What the hell is it!? It’s Borderlands. So how is it? A ragtag quartet of adventurers wander across the surface of the planet Pandora, searching for the Vault of legend. Along the way they shoot things, gain levels, and gather enough weapons to choke something large that eats…
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Perfect Dark XBLA: Re-Skinned Elvis Has Entered The Building
Three new screenshots for the Xbox Live Arcade remake of Rare’s Perfect Dark have surfaced on the developer’s website, showing off some re-skinned weapons and a new look for Joanna Dark’s Maian pal, Elvis. 4J Studios seems to be doing a fine job of updating the original Perfect Dark to HD for its Xbox Live…
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Australia Rates Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Predator
We’ve been patiently waiting for more on Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon 4 since June. Now a listing appears on the Australian ratings board website for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Predator. Coincidence? Ubisoft announced Ghost Recon 4 way back in April, and since then we’ve not heard a peep. No screenshots; no concept art; and no actual…
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Uncharted 2, Street Fighter IV, And Tekken 6 Come Home Tomorrow
As promised, Uncharted 2 gets it’s very own game-riddled PlayStation Home space this week, with Tekken 6 and Street Fighter IV coming along for the ride. The Uncharted 2 home space, which we’ve discussed previously, is set inside a Nepalese village, where players can hunt for an ancient Ganesh mask, participate in a torch race,…
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The Saboteur: Just Getting Started
There’s a lot more to Pandemic’s The Saboteur than sneaking in and out of brothels. Check out the latest trailer for a taste of some of the other distractions of occupied France. Totilo declared the art style of The Saboteur a winner in his recent preview of the game, and I’m inclined to agree. He…
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100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
15 years, 15 games, and now more than a 100 million units sold. EA celebrates the Need for Speed franchise surpassing 100 million units sold with a shiny graphic and some fun facts. 100 million is a large number. According to EA, it represents nearly every household in America, and is three times the population…
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Scenes From A Prison Break
We know what the television show Prison Break looks like, but what about the video game adaptation of said show? Take a look-see. If you look closely at this set of screenshots for Deep Silver and Koch Media‘s Prison Break game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, you will indeed see a prison.…
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I Kept Playing – Reader Response
Yesterday I posted an article titled I Kept Playing – The Costs Of My Gaming Addiction.” The response from our readers has been so overwhelming that I felt I should take the time to address it. First of all, thank you all for the kind words and well-wishes directed towards Emily and I. As I…
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A Boy And His Blob Review: The Zero Nostalgia Version
WayForward Technologies and Majesco bring us A Boy and His Blob for the Nintendo Wii, a re-creation of the beloved 1989 NES title, which I incidentally have never played. I think it bears noting that I never played the original A Boy and His Blob for two reasons. First, the reader understands why I don’t…
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