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Prepare For A Left 4 Dead 2 Advertising Onslaught
Valve is expecting Left 4 Dead 2 to be its fastest-selling in the company’s history, launching a $25 million advertising campaign to make sure that happens. The original Left 4 Dead sold like gangbusters, thanks largely to word-of-mouth, positive reviews, and the $10 million that valve sunk into making sure everybody knew what the game…
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Yahtzee’s GameDamage Evolves And Improves
Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw of Zero Punctuation fame and pals Yug and Matt polish off their GameDamage television show, removing a bit of the awkward in favor of more funny. When Crecente wrote about the original GameDamage pilot in December of last year, he suggested the dynamic trio keep at it and polish up the writing…
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Tripwire Brings Zeno Clash To Retail
ACE Team‘s first-person melee combat game Zeno Clash is getting the retail box treatment courtesy of Tripwire Interactive, a publisher that truly understands the plight of the independent developer. Tripwire Interactive started off as a modding team, taking its win in the Make Something Unreal contest for Red Orchestra and transforming themselves into a full-fledged…
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Rockstar Challenges MySpace Music Artists To A Beaterator-Off
Rockstar wants to see what MySpace Music artists can do with Beaterator, and they’re providing the PSPs, the games, and a $5,000 prize for the best track. Hopeful MySpace Music artists who want to take a stab at making music with Beaterator can visit http://beaterator.ign.com/ to apply for a chance at being one of up…
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Dragon Age And Army Of Two Launch EA Comics Imprint
EA teams with IDW to release Army of Two and Dragon Age comic books under the EA Games imprint, with talent like Peter Milligan, Humberto Ramos, and Orson Scott Card already signed on. This isn’t your average video game comic book deal. The agreement between EA and publisher IDW actually creates a separate imprint, EA…
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More Prince Of Persia Now Costs Less
Xbox Live gold subscribers looking to for bit more enjoyment from Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia can do so a little cheaper, as the Prince of Persia: Epilogue becomes the Xbox Live Deal of the Week. The ending to the most recent Prince of Persia left a bad taste in the mouth of many a player,…
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It’s Goal Time In Free Realms
Those soccer fields sprinkled about Sony Online Entertainment‘s Free Realms now has a purpose, 3-on-3 footy matches and 20 levels worth of Soccer Stardom now available. Soccer comes to Free Realms in a big way with today’s Goal Time update, which unlocks the various playing fields scattered across the land, allowing players to begin progressing…
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Lego David Bowie Sways Under The Serious Moonlight
Number two on our list of musical artists least likely to become Lego figures becomes a Lego figure, as David Bowie joins Iggy Pop as a playable rocker in Lego Rock Band. This is not the David Bowie Lego minifigure I would have preferred, but seeing as he’ll be performing “Let’s Dance” with a Lego…
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The Nintendo Download: The First Of The Final Fantasies
The Final Fantasy that started it all makes its way to the Virtual Console this morning, and you all know the drill by now. First one to rescue the princess gets a bridge! I hope I didn’t just spoil a major plot point of Final Fantasy for you guys, but after playing it on the…
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Now This Is A Super Street Fighter IV Announcement Trailer
Forget that other trailer – the one with only Ken and Ryu? The official announcement trailer for Capcom’s Super Street Fighter IV has all the Dee Jay, T. Hawk, and Juri you could ever want. Actually it might have too much Juri in. Dee Jay and T. Hawk are impressive, if you like that sort…
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The Next Modern Warfare Trailer Will Be Televised
Activision is kicking off a multi-million dollar advertising campaign for Modern Warfare 2 with a new trailer, airing during this week’s installment of NBC’s Sunday Night Football. Interrupting a football game between the San Diego Chargers and Pittsburgh Steelers is enough reason to cause some sports fans to want to shoot someone, so slipping the…
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Rock Band’s Queen 10-Pack In All Its Glory
It’s hard not to randomly choose 10 Queen songs and not come up with an amazing set, but the October 20th Queen track pack for Rock Band manages to collect 10 of the very best. We knew back in August that a 10-pack of Queen was on its way to Rock Band, but the only…
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Left 4 Dead 2 Preorder Lurches To Life
Valve cracks open the door to its zombie-proof fortress and tosses out preorder details for Left 4 Dead 2, with a 10% discount, early demo access, and an in-game bonus awaiting those who put their money down. Answering one of the questions Luke raised when the Left 4 Dead 2 demo was first announced, customers…
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This Is What Beaver Defense Looks Like
Vogster is bringing Robocalypse – Beaver Defense to Nintendo’s WiiWare platform this fall, and here are some screens to give you an idea of what exactly that looks like. It’s not exactly what I expected, though my expectations might have been a bit off to begin with. Vogster was quite clear that this would be…
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Trine Hits U.S. PlayStation Store This Month
Released two weeks ago on the European PlayStation Store, developer Frozenbyte and publisher Nobilis are nearly ready to release the award-winning physics platformer Trine in the states. Trine has been available on the PC for quite some time, but on the PlayStation 3 it’s been only our friends over in Europe who’ve gotten to purchase…
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Rock Band Next Week: I Can Write This Post With No Handlebars
Just when I had gotten The Flobots’ “Handlebars” out of my head, next week’s Rock Band Music Store update crams it back in, along with tunes from Electric Six, The Raconteurs, and a little Alanis. Setting The Flobots aside for a moment, both The Raconteurs and Electric Six make their Rock Band debut next week,…
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Assassin’s Creed II Gets More Kristen Bell
Once again actress Kristen Bell answers the call of Ubisoft, reprising her role as adorable blonde woman in Assassin’s Creed II. The adorable blonde woman in question is Lucy Stillman, the Abstergo employee with a dark secret of secretive darkness. Lucy plays an even bigger role in Assassin’s Creed II, and the former Heroes and…
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EVE TV Is Just Like Being In Reykjavik
Bummed that you couldn’t make it to Reykjavik Iceland for this year’s EVE Fanfest? EVE TV has you covered, broadcasting tournaments and keynotes from the yearly celebration of all things EVE Online related. Why have an amazing time in a foreign land when you can sit at your computer desk, staring at a screen for…
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Episodes From Liberty City: Meet Armando, Enrique, And Brian
Rockstar’s latest clip for GTA: Episodes from Liberty City acquaints us with The Ballad of Gay Tony‘s dynamic duo, Armando and Henrique, with a shot of The Lost and Damned‘s Brian on the side. While Armando and Henrique seem like a couple of nice guys, they aren’t the type of folks I’d run into in…
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How To Rock In Brutal Legend Multiplayer
We’ve seen so much about Brutal Legend’s single player mode, but what about the multiplayer? This Xbox 360 tutorial walks you through the basics of rock combat. Honestly I’ve been so excited about getting my hands on the single-player game in Brutal Legend that I’ve not given multiplayer more than a passing though. Luckily for…
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