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Brutal Legend: Forging The World
Enough with the goofy Jack Black-flavored promotional videos for Brutal Legend. Art director Lee Petty takes us through the process behind the building of the Brutal Legend world. Brutal Legend is definitely a beautiful game, and Lee is responsible for a great deal of that, so excuse him if he isn’t quite as dynamic as…
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Mad Catz Street Fighter IV Controllers Round 2
Round One is over, and judging by the amount of Street Fighter IV sticks and controllers Mad Catz sold, the peripheral company came out on top. Now it’s time for Round Two. Round 2 of Mad Catz officially licensed Street Fighter IV controllers features the same Tournament Edition FightSticks and FightPads as the first batch,…
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Aion’s Global Community
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/global-community-aion/56332 The fourth episode of the Aion video podcast takes a look at the global community, while answering important questions about PVPVE, crafting, player housing, and how awesome associate producer Lani Blazier is. Speaking of long queue times, last night was simply amazing. I spent 40 minutes in the queue at first, and then my…
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Get Cash Back On Your Xbox 360 Elite
Microsoft sweetens the deal on the newly $299 Xbox 360, offering a $50 rebate on all Elite consoles purchased between now and October 5th. It’s 14 days of savings! Simply purchase an Xbox 360 Elite at the regular price, visit http://www.xbox.com/eliterebate (once it goes live), jump through whatever hoops they require you to jump through…
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Reviews
Persona PSP Review: This Time It’s Persona
Thirteen years ago, Atlus did a bad bad thing, butchering its Japanese RPG Megami Ibunroku Persona in order to release it in North America as Revelations: Persona. Can a PSP remake undo the damage? Shin Megami Tensei: Persona for the PSP is where the Persona series got its start. Like many other games in the…
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XBLA This Week: Zombies, Warriors, And Particle Physics
This week in the Xbox Live Arcade the Warriors come out to play; Zombies take over the earth; and Ion Assault ruins a perfectly good intro sentence by being a particle physics shooter. Not that a space shooter where you use the free particles floating in space to fight off swarms of aliens isn’t a…
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Frankenreview: Halo 3: O.D.S.T.
Halo Wars showed us that a Halo game in a different genre can do moderately well without Master Chief, but a first-person shooter? Can O.D.S.T. pull that off? Master Chief is such an iconic gaming figure that it almost seems wrong to have an FPS with the Halo name on it without him. It’s like…
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Holy 2.5 Million Units Shipped, Batman!
2 million units sold is impressive, sure, but now that the PC version is out and about, Eidos celebrates passing along 2.5 million units to retail shelves since the launch of Batman: Arkham Asylum. Eidos celebrates the “must-have game of Summer 2009” today, announcing some rather large shipping numbers for the first Batman game in…
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Aion’s Early Start So Far
This is what Aion looked like for those of us who managed to log in at around 12:02PM Pacific time yesterday, two minutes past the servers going live. If you look closely, you can see my chanter-to-be Caliban, lost amidst a sea of people acting how they normally do when gathered in large groups via…
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The Nintendo Download: You, Me, And The Cubes
There’s tennis, a last ninja, a little strategy, and a shot of MySims in this week’s Nintendo Download, but once you get past those it’s just Me, You, and the Cubes. You, Me, and The Cubes is a puzzle game for WiiWare from Kenji Eno of D and Enemy Zero fame. Shake your Wii remote…
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Dungeon Fighter Online Enters Open Beta
What happens when you take a 2D side-scrolling beat-em up and transform it into an online game? Dungeon Fighter Online happens, and its open beta happens to kick off tomorrow. Nexon America‘s latest addition mixes arcade action with RPG leveling, allowing players to step into the role of a Fighter, Gunner, Priest, Mage, or Slayer…
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Inside The Saboteur’s Belle De Nuit
See if you can tell the difference between the screenshots and video depicting The Saboteur’s Belle De Nuit night club, and try not to get fired, as a couple of the screens are slightly NSFW. Yes, we’ve posted a couple of these screens before, with the E3 trailer that first took us outside the Belle…
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Chaos Rises In Dawn Of War II
The Chaos Space Marines enter the fray in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising, bringing new single-player and multiplayer content to the acclaimed real-time strategy game. Chaos Rises next spring, when THQ releases the next chapter in the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War saga, Chaos Rising. The Chaos Space Marines, a dark…
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Blur Release Blurred To 2010
Another game drops from the 2009 holiday season lineup, as Activision pushes the finish line on Bizarre Creations‘ Blur into 2010. It’s all in the name of multiplayer, according to the Activision press release announcing Blur’s move into next year, a move that will give the development team “more time to enhance the game’s innovative…
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Tomorrow Is Pirate Day In The World Of Warcraft
You know Talk Like a Pirate Day is getting out of hand (or hook!) when it gets its very own celebration in World of Warcraft. Yes, tomorrow, September 19th, is Talk Like a Pirate Day, and the folks at Blizzard have whipped up a nautical celebration in Booty Bay that’s sure to please fans of…
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APB Is So Very GTA
If the latest gameplay trailer for Realtime Worlds’ APB doesn’t have you drawing comparisons to Grand Theft Auto, then you probably haven’t played Grand Theft Auto. McWhertor mentioned the similarities between the two titles in his impressions of APB from Gamescom in Germany last month, and this gameplay clip completely backs him up. Of course…
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And Here’s A Wii Football Accessory
We mention a plastic football accessory for the Wii in our radio show this week, and a plastic Wii football accessory appears! Coincidence? Probably! Could a plastic football accessory make Madden sell better on the Wii? CTA Digital, the company behind the Wii bowling ball and iPhone steering wheel accessories would like to think so.…
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