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Lord Of The Rings Online Expands With Siege Of Mirkwood [Update]
The Lord of the Rings Online world expands further this fall, as Turbine unveils the Siege of Mirkwood, a newest expansion pack for the Middle Earth-flavored massively multiplayer online game. Update: Turbine has clarified the pricing of the upcoming LOTRO expansion, writing: “Siege of Mirkwood will have a base price of $19.99. As with Moria…
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Star Trek Online Opens Closed Beta Hailing Frequencies
Who’s ready to sign up with the United Federation of Planets? Cryptic has launched the registration page for the closed beta testing phase of Star Trek Online. Closed beta – the initial frontier. These are the voyages of the Star Trek Online beta tester. Your continuing mission? To explore strange new worlds; to seek up…
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PAX Invades Rock Band Next Week
Relive this weekend’s PAX concerts next week in Rock Band, with a triple dose of Freezepop and a three-pack of PAX songs from Jonathan Coulton, MC Frontalot, and Paul and Storm. The 2009 PAX concerts will ring in our ears long after the weekend is passed thanks to Harmonix, with six songs from PAX artists…
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Penny Arcade Expo 09: Kotaku Has Arrived
Kotaku has arrived in Seattle at the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo for a weekend filled with news, interviews, hands-on time with all of the latest games, and enough Seattle’s Best coffee to fell a rhino. Seattle’s Best will definitely figure into the equation, as we’ve flown our two East coast writers over to the West…
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Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles PAX Gameplay
Capcom rolls out two new gameplay clips for PAX from Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, the second installment in their light gun rail shooter for the Nintendo Wii. Zombies! Targeting reticules! Reloading! What more could you want from a Resident Evil-themed shooter, except perhaps the ability to move of your own accord? I kid the…
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Tricell Invites You To The Resident Evil 5 PC Launch Party
Capcom, Intel, and Tricell Pharmaceutical Corporation invite PAX attendees to join them in celebrating the launch of Resident Evil 5 for the PC with a night of “games, fun and horror.” Resident Evil 5 PC will have a big presence at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo, and fans that stop by Capcom’s booth (#670) to…
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Beaterator: So Simple A 12-Year-Old Can Do It
Sure, we’ve got the official trailer for Rockstar’s music-creator Beaterator for the PSP, but it’s got nothing on these adorable little scamps showing us how its done. I’ve played other music creation titles in the past with varying levels of success. The main obstacle is always accessibility. It looks like Rockstar has made Beaterator so…
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Sony Twitters MAG Beta Codes
Zipper Interactive and Sony are so excited about tomorrow night’s first 256-player battle at the MAG-themed PAX meet-up that they’re tossing out beta codes to followers of the PlayStation Twitter. Tomorrow night at the Penny Arcade Expo, Sony’s MAG finally achieves its full potential, showing off the massive, 256-player action gameplay that gave the game…
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Which Three Children’s Hospitals Get A Game Room Makeover?
The Children’s Miracle Network and Xbox have joined together to outfit three children’s hospitals with a $10.000 game room, and you get to help decide which three, potentially winning a 360 in the process. From now through October 16th, visitors to xbox.childrensmiraclenetwork.org can cast their vote for the children’s hospitals they feel are most in…
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The Secret World Secrets Surface, Beta Access Teased
Norwegian website Dagbladet.no has scored the exclusive continuation of Funcom’s teaser trailer for The Secret World, and a chance at beta access has appeared on the game’s official website. The trailer, much like the frozen treats trailer previously released, is full of carefully distilled win. A blonde woman walks through a playground at night; a…
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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising’s Skira Island
Explore the history of Skira Island, the fictional setting for Codemasters upcoming Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, coming in October for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. Skira Island has long been a place of turmoil. Luckily its real-life inspiration, Kiska Island, which was the scene of much strife during World War II. In 1942 the…
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World Of Warcraft Faction Changes Go Live
The Horde doubtlessly doubles in size today, as players rush to join the winning team courtesy of Blizzard’s newly-activated faction change service for World of Warcraft. First announced back in June, the faction change service allows Alliance players to switch to the Horde side of things, choosing a new race on the opposing side and…
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Enter Drawn: The Painted Tower
Big Fish Games presents Drawn: The Painted Tower, a simply gorgeous PC puzzle adventure game available for digital download this Friday. In a bleak world, legend tells of a child queen who will one day rise to give hope to a world filled with despair. In Drawn, you must unlock riddles and solve puzzles as…
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Can You Beat These Wii Sports Resort Scores?
Video game record keeper Twin Galaxies has posted the first official record scores for Wii Sports Resort. Have you got what it takes to oust the champions? Can you top 105 in Archery on expert difficulty? How about 999 on the Table Tennis return challenge? Probably not, but if you’ve got a bit of free…
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Square Issues Order Of War This Month
Square Enix releases their first Western-developed game outside of Japan this month, bringing Wargaming.net’s World War II strategy title Order of War to North American PCs on September 22nd. Order of War is only the first of three Western-developed titles coming to North America via Square Enix and its new global agenda, along with Gas…
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Namco Bandai Launches Namco Sounds On iTunes
The music of Pac-Man, SoulCalibur, and Xevious are now waiting to be nestled gently within your iPod, courtesy of Namco Bandai‘s newly-launched iTunes music label, Namco Sounds. Namco Bandai will be using the Namco Sounds label to release exclusive re-mastered tracks from its extensive stable of classic games. To inaugurate the launch of the label,…
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So When Is Take-Two Announcing The Next GTA?
During yesterday’s Take-Two Interactive third quarter 2009 fiscal report conference call, chairman Strauss Zelnick laid out the company’s non-strategy for announcing the next Grand Theft Auto game. Responding to a question about the announcement strategy for the next GTA from Arvind Bhatia of brokerage firm Stern Agee, Zelnick made Take-Twoe’s stance on the subject perfectly…
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Muramasa Moment In Art
Ignotion Entertainment’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade will be in stores soon, so the company has released a "Moment in Art" trailer to make sure everyone who owns a Wii sees how lovely it looks. See? Isn’t that lovely?It could be the prettiest thing you’ll see on your Wii this year. While you desperately struggle not…
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Tetris Gives You Thicker Brain Meats
A study conducted by neuroscientist Richard Haier has determined that performing a “challenging visuospatial task” like Tetris can actually alter the structure of your brain. Or at least the brains of adolescent girls, who were the subject of the study, funded by Tetris marketer Blue Planet Software. Adolescent girls’ brains are still developing, as any…
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