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The PSP Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghosts In November
After performing admirably on just about every system imaginable, Atari is finally ready to bring Ghostbusters: The Video Game to the PlayStation Portable and PSPgo next month. The PSP finally gets its turn at busting ghosts five months after the game was released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PS2, PC, Nintendo Wii, and DS.…
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The Siege of Mirkwood Begins In December
Turbine has announced the December release date for the next Lord of the Rings Online expansion, The Siege of Mirkwood, with an adventurer’s pack also available to help jumpstart the journey beyond Moria. Turbine takes players from the Mines of Moria to the Siege of Mirkwood on December 1st, when the digital expansion pack goes…
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Namco Bandai Wants You Enslaved
Take a trip through post-apocalyptic America with Monkey and Trip in Enslaved, a new action-adventure game coming in 2010 from Namco Bandai and developer Ninja Theory. Enslaved takes place more than 150 years in the future, where the world has been transformed into a wasteland populated by the remnants of humanity and robots from wars…
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Ray Park Talks King Of Fighters Movie
Martial artist turned actor Ray Park talks about his role as Rugal in the upcoming King of Fighters movie, with a sneak peak at the quality dialogue we can expect from the film. Ray discusses stunt work, his faithfulness to the character, and some of the other roles he’s taken on in the past in…
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Frankenreview: Gran Turismo PSP
Polyphony Digital puts the power of one of the most acclaimed racing franchises of all time in the palm of your hand with Gran Turismo PSP. Since the very first Gran Turismo title, Sony’s racing series has been lauded for three things: realism, graphics, and its massive stable of drivable vehicles. Now the game finally…
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Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Demo For Everyone
PlayStation 3 owners who have yet to experience the thrills of the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves multiplayer demo will get their chance today, as Naughty Dog sets it loose on the PlayStation Network. The Uncharted 2 multiplayer demo goes live today at 11AM Pacific, with just under 1.3GB of multiplayer goodness for all PS3 owners…
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WAR Comes To The Mac This Month
Mythic entertainment opens the world of Warhammer Online to a whole new group of players later this month, when the MAC version of the MMO goes live. October 28th is when the floodgates open and a slow trickle of the Mac users who haven’t already been playing Warhammer Online using emulation are unleashed upon the…
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Sign Up For The Old Republic Beta
Star Wars: The Old Republic, most eagerly anticipated Star Wars MMO since the last one, is now gearing up for closed beta testing, and the time to sign up is now. Signing up for the Star Wars: The Old Republic community is your first step towards become a closed beta tester for the next big…
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Ratchet & Clank: How To Spot A Super Villain
This video for Ratchet & clank dealing with how to identify a super villain has everyone at Kotaku tower eyeing Crecente suspiciously. I am not saying that he is Count Nefarious. I’m just saying that if they met at a party they’d have a great deal in common. Put a bird shirt on the evil…
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DC Universe Online Gets A Shot Of Green Arrow
The DC Universe’s other Green superhero makes his debut in DC Universe Online, with a series of screenshots and concept art fir for a Queen. Oliver “Ollie” Queen, that is, known as much for his ad choice of kid sidekicks as he is for his signature weapons. His first kid sidekick, Speedy, once became a…
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A Little Bit Of Fable II For Free
Fable II finally gets a demo of sorts with the debut of Fable II: Game Episodes, the epic adventure split up into five bite-sized chunks, and the first one is free! Fable II: Game Episodes is the full version of Fable II split up into five easy pieces, with all of the achievements, co-operative gameplay,…
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Star Trek Online Hides Clothes In Star Trek Blu-ray
Star Trek fans who buy the Blu-ray version of The Original Series’ third season will find themselves in the Admiralty when Star Trek Online launches next year. The Blu-ray releases of the original Star Trek come packed with extras, as well they should, because when you make something very old very clear it generally makes…
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Guitar Hero’s October Set List
Activision has laid out an October filled with filled with rock – a Rocktober, if you will – with tracks coming to Guitar Hero from Queens of the Stone Age, Wolfmother, Billy Squier, and more. Guitar Hero gets three new tracks every Thursday in October, kicking things off on the 5th with the Queens of…
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Llamasoft Lets Gridrunner Revolution Fly
Jeff Minter unleashes another psychedelic shooting experience upon the unsuspecting PC gaming public with the release of Gridrunner Revolutions, with the original 1982 Commodore games available as unlockable extras. Gridrunner Revolutions is exactly what you’d expect from Jeff Minter. There are swirling colors, things to shoot at, and sheep that you must collect to advance.…
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PixelJunk Monsters Storm The PSP This Week
This Thursday sees the release of PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe for the PSP, a faithful port of the PSN original with a new island, new enemies, and the ability to be a PixelJunk voyeur. Q-Games makes the pixels a little smaller on Thursday with the release of PixelJunk Monsters for the PSP and PSPgo. A slightly…
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The Changing Face Of Games Journalism
In this final season two episode of Players Only with Scott Steinberg, Crecente and Totilo join Oddworld’s Lorne Lanning, Cliff Bleszinski, and many more as they discuss the evolution of games journalism. It seems that the vast majority of the industry professionals in the video agree. Games journalism has definitely changed drastically over the past…
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4Kids Grabs Mini Ninjas
It looks like we’ll be seeing a lot more of Eidos’ Mini Ninjas in the future, as film and television production company 4Kids Entertainment becomes the property’s global licensing agent. The company that owns the North American licenses for both Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh now has a lot more adorable video game characters up its sleeve.…
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The Nintendo Download: Altered Arkanoid Dragon Quest Wars
Between Altered Beast, Arkanoid Plus!, and Dragon Quest Wars, all three Nintendo download outlets are getting games that might be worth checking out this week. Yes, it’s a fine week across the board downloadable titles. Even DSiWare is getting an interesting game that doesn’t have the words Art Style in the title. That game is…
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The Epic Final Fantasy XIII TGS Trailer
Thrilling combat, transforming hot rods, and enough drama to fill your average American high school, all in this Tokyo Game Show trailer for Final Fantasy XIII. After the unwelcome real-time turn that Final Fantasy XII took and the fact that Final Fantasy XI completely doesn’t count, I am more than ready for a return to…
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Are These Super Street Fighter IV Screens?
A French gaming website claims to have the first screenshots of Super Street Fighter IV, the update to the latest game in Capcom’s fighting franchise. Is this our first glimpse of T. Hawk and Juri? Capcom has hinted at news regarding an update to Street Fighter IV sometime this week, with a Japanese teaser suggesting…
By Mike Fahey