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Brutal Legend and Forza Demos Hit Xbox Live
Two highly anticipated demos make their way onto Xbox Live today, with Brutal Legend escaping from preorder exclusive hell and Forza 3 edging closer to the finish line. Free up some hard disk space as two of the most eagerly awaited games get their demo on. The heavy metal action of the Brutal Legend demo…
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Exploring The Shard Of Love In EQ2
The Shards of Destiny, The latest content update for EverQuest 2, is now live, opening up Erollisi Marr’s Shard of Love to players and adding achievements to the game. The goddess Erollisi Marr has gone missing, and only your stalwart band of adventurers can infiltrate her home shard of Love and get as much loot…
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Guild Wars 2 Art Book Now On Sale
You know that splendid and poignant Guild Wars 2 art book NCsoft was handing out at PAX? Now it can be yours for a price! It’s just like getting it for free, only with money! We’ve learned how big a focus ArenaNet was putting on the art for Guild Wars 2 during our annual pilgrimage…
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Scene It? Brings Twilight’s Sparkle Pony Vampires To The Wii
Konami takes the Scene It? franchise in a decidedly darkly romantic direction with Scene It? Twilight for the Nintendo Wii, based on the ridiculously popular “vampire” movie. There’s just no escaping Twilight. It’s in the supermarkets, video stores, and books stores. It’s in the food we eat, and the women we date. To survive as…
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EA Stock Soars On Microsoft Buyout Rumors
Rumors can be powerful forces in the economy, as evidenced by an 8.1 percent rise in Electronic Arts stock today following unsubstantiated rumors that Microsoft was interested in buying the publisher out. What analysts and strategists are calling “unsubstantiated chatter” had a profound effect on EA stock today, rising 8.1 percent to $20.01 during Nasdaq…
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Sony Confirms Wii Price Drop?
Nintendo hasn’t confirmed a Wii $199.99 price drop yet, but seems like Sony has, as an anonymous tipster sends us an alleged price comparison chart from a Best Buy event going on in Missouri. Kansas City, Missouri, to be exact, where a Sony representative was instructing store representatives on the relative values of the three…
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The God Of War Collection Collects GoW III Demo
As if re-mastered versions of God of War I & II on a Blu-ray disc for the PlayStation 3 weren’t enough, Sony sweetens the God of War Collection with a God of War III demo. At this point you’ve read about everyone and their brother getting some hands-on time with the E3 2009, Comic-Con, and…
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A Sneak Peak At The TGS Yakuza 4 Trailer
The cast of Sega’s Yakuza 4 is revealed in this screen-to-cam trailer shot by an early visitor to the Tokyo Game Show floor. Where is Ashcraft when you need him? He’s been following the casting for Sega’s new Ryu Ga Gotoku title for the PlayStation 3, from the initial cattle call to the porn star…
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Your Life-Sized Gears Of War Lancer Replica Is Almost Ready
TriForce Sales has finalized work on its painstakingly-detailed replica of the Lancer from Gears of War, and it can be yours come February for the low, low price of $1000. Okay, $949.99, but I very much doubt that $50 under is going to sway anyone to the dark side of video game collectibles. TriForce’s Lancer…
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Alienware’s TGS Lineup Is So Very Pretty
Gaming computer experts Alienware took the occasion of the Tokyo Game Show to unveil four new desktops and one new laptop for those of us who could never afford one to drool over. Sure, I could build a comparable PC for less money on my own, but it wouldn’t be nearly as pretty, and it…
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Hope On The Horizon For Aion’s Server Woes
Players are none too pleased with the massive, multi-hour queues affecting most of the newly-launched MMO Aion’s servers every evening. We spoke with NCsoft about plans to sooth the teeming masses. Forcing customers to wait upwards of several hours during peak game-playing time is not the sort of first impression you want to give the…
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Scratch: The Ultimate DJ Track List Grows By Eight
We’re happy for you DJ Hero and we’re gonna let you finish, but Scratch: The Ultimate DJ features some of the greatest newly announced musical tracks of all time, featuring Kanye. Yes, I realized I used that reference already in today’s Talk Amongst Yourselves, but this story actually has Kanye in it, or at least…
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Get Your Free Halo 3: O.D.S.T. Premium Theme
Your Xbox 360 looks fine while playing Halo 3: O.D.S.T., but what about when you stop playing and return to the dashboard? Microsoft has you covered with a mostly free premium theme. It’s a new Halo game, and to celebrate, there’s a new Halo theme, featuring the sights of O.D.S.T.’s New Mombasa. It’s yours free…
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It’s A Beaterator Musical Artist Montage
Sure, 12-year-olds can use it, but what about recording artist turned Law and Order actior Ice-T? See T and other members of the musical community get their Beaterator on. Is it possible to over-stress the importance of Rockstar’s upcoming music creator for the PSP? I think this video proves that yes, it definitely is. It’s…
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Assassin’s Creed 2 – There’s An App For That
It may not be the iPhone game, but iPhone users can definitely get something of an AC2 fix with the Assassin’s Creed 2 Experience iPhone app. The Assassin’s Creed 2 Experience is a completely free iPhone App released by Ubisoft that keeps fans up to date on the latest news, screenshots, and trailers on their…
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Need For Speed Twitter Missions Could Score You A BMW
Complete Need for Speed missions on Twitter and you could win a shiny new BMW M3 courtesy of Electronic Arts. Five days, five missions. EA is posting special tasks for fans of Need for Speed: Shift (or fans of BMWs I suppose) over at the Need for Speed Twitter. Completing the missions enters players into…
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Onyxia Is Back And Badder Than Ever
World of Warcraft patch 3.2.2 hit the servers this morning with a resounding roar, as the dragon Onyxia is reborn, ready to take level 80 players down several painful pegs. The latest patch brings the terror back to Azeroth, returning the mighty dragon to her former glory. What was until recently possible for 2-3 people…
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The Earth Has Officially Fallen
Fallen Earth‘s self-title post-apocalyptic MMO goes live today, with a retail version hitting store shelves by the end of the month for folks averse to downloading large amounts of data. The beta testing is over, the Earth has been destroyed, and the monkeys are a great deal more intelligent now in Fallen Earth, the post-apocalyptic…
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