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The Sims 3 World Adventures Goes Underground
The Sims 3 expansion pack World Adventures brings with it a basement tool, which everyone will use to build tombs, and not underground Sim torture chambers. The new basement tool allows The Sims 3 players to create underground structures up to four levels deep, and EA has plenty of new tomb objects in store in…
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Next Week On Rock Band: Backspacer
Next week is Pearl Jam week in the Rock Band Music Store, as their brand-new album, Backspacer, is released for the Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Pearl Jam reinvents themselves a bit in Backspacer, their 9th studio album, due out in stores on September 20th. As reported previously, the entire album will be up…
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Brutal Thoughts: Roadies Have Giant…
Jack Black takes us through the anatomy of a roadie, highlighting some larger-than-normal body parts in this latest installment of Brutal Thoughts. I don’t know. I think having those particular body parts enlarged would be more of a liability than anything. You might as well paint a target down there. Okay, a larger target then…
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PlatinumGames On PS3 Bayonetta: Sega Did It
Don’t blame PlatinumGames too much for the potential failings of the PlayStation 3 version of Bayonetta. According to the company’s CEO Tatsuya Minami, that ball is in Sega’s court. When Sega showed off the PS3 version of Bayonetta at an event in Tokyo late last month, spectators were disappointed by the blurry graphics and erratic…
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Hooray! Aion Drops GameGuard For Launch
NCsoft thrills the Aion community with the news that it’s dropping INCA Internet’s intrusive, problem causing GameGuard anti-cheating software from the game in order to ensure a smooth launch. It certainly says something about nProtect GameGuard when a major MMO developer out of Korea decides that removing it is the best course of action. Commonly…
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Reviews
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Review: It Takes Two, Baby
Marvel’s mightiest heroes converge once again in Activsion’s Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 to face a foe far deadlier than any they’ve encountered thus far: themselves. Okay, so Marvel characters tend to fight each other on a regular basis, generally before teaming-up to take out a mutual enemy, but never quite on the scale of Marvel’s…
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Five New Champions Enter The League Of Legends
Riot Games today adds five new characters to the ever-expanding roster of champions in League of Legends, the upcoming multiplayer online battle arena. Champions are the characters that your Summoner summons to represent them on the field of battle, and Riot is going out of its way to make sure there’s a large selection available…
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PSPgo Has ESRB Ratings Packed Right In
The only way parents could possibly miss the ESRB Video Game Ratings Guide loaded onto the new PSPgo is if they never actually touch the system themselves, and what are the chances of that? ESRB president Patricia Vance discusses the PSPgo’s built-in ESRB ratings guide over at the PlayStation Blog, praising it as a “straight-forward…
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Frankenreview: Scribblenauts
Your vocabulary is your power in Scribblenauts, 5th Cell’s innovative new puzzle game for the Nintendo DS in which write makes might. We’ve been enthralled by the concept of Scribblenauts since we first received word of the game in December of last year. Your goal is simple: help Maxwell collect the Starite in each level…
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Ubisoft’s Guillemot Is The 2009 ESA Champion
The ESA Foundation’s annual Nite to Unite for Kids charity event takes place next month, with Ubisoft chairman and CEO Yves Guillemot receiving top honors as a video game industry visionary. The Nite to Unite for Kids is an annual event presented by the Entertainment Software Association and hosted by the ESA Foundation that raises…
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Powerful New Weapons Plague Liberty City
Sticky bombs, advanced sniper rifles, automatic shotguns, exploding bullets, and a rocket-equipped military grade helicopter known only as “The Buzzard”, all in this special news report from Liberty City’s Weazel News. These new weapons are coming to Grant Theft Auto IV by way of the Ballad of Gay Tony and the Episodes from Liberty City…
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Target Circular Adds Fuel To The Wii Price Drop Fire
An anonymous tipster sends us this picture of an alleged Target circular for the week of September 27th, joining Wal-Mart and Toys R Us on the $199.99 Wii price drop bandwagon. Sure it’s blurry and only a partial picture of the full page, but the information in this picture coincides with the information we’ve seen…
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NCsoft: Aion Is The “Biggest MMO Launch Of The Year”
The latest figures for Aion have NCsoft declaring it the “biggest MMO launch of the year,” with nearly 400,000 preorder customers waiting to become winged warriors upon next week’s launch. For an Eastern import, Aion has been making quite a lot of noise among MMO circles, taking the beauty of a Korean game and marrying…
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Brutal Legend Early Access Demo Is Go
Gamers eager enough to preorder Brutal Legend from GameStop are rewarded today with early access to the demo on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The rest of you can wait your turn. Starting today, preorder customers can play through Brutal Legend’s entire opening chapter, from the stage accident that renders Eddie Riggs unconscious as…
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Halo ODST: Breaking The Mold
Explore Halo 3: ODST‘s journey from DLC to full game, or in the words of cinematics director CJ Cowan, "Here’s an engine, here’s a story, you got a year. Go." Cowan’s quick and dirty summary of the project might be accurate, but it downplays the sheer amount of work that Bungie has put into Halo…
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Naruto Clash 3 Preorder Has A Nice Ring To It
If you recognize this thumb ring, then you should probably preorder Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 from your local GameStop. The Sasori Akatsuki thumb ring is one of two separate exclusives that GameStop is featuring for the November release of Clash of Ninja Revolution 3, available to anyone who preorders the regular $39.99…
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Konami Reflects On DSiWare
Konami throws its hat into the DSiWare ring with Reflection, a puzzle platformer from Intrinsic Games that has the player controlling one character twice over. Reflection stars Kirra, a young adventurer tasked with retrieving the pieces of a broken magical mirror that has ripped reality in two. Kirra herself is split in two as well,…
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Forza 3: So Many Ferraris
It’s Ferrari week at Forzamotorsport.net, with Microsoft and Turn 10 showcasing the 29 different models of the legendary Italian sports cars, along with a new original track set along the scenic Amalfi Coast. The only thing I could really tell you about Ferraris is the fact that I will never own one. It’s not because…
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SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3 Lands In November
Sony has announced a November release date for SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 for the PSP, with two well-armed special units available to those keen to preorder. Fireteam Bravo 3 is being deployed to the PSP on November 24th, making it the perfect stocking stuffer for the new PSP or PSPgo owner in…
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