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And Now DC Comics Does Aion
No video game is safe from DC Comics‘ WildStorm imprint, as NCsoft’s Aion becomes the latest title to get the comic book treatment, with a special issue available at PAX or with purchase at GameStop. “Aiva’s Story” tells the story of a young Asmodian warrior named Aiva, which seems completely appropriate given the name of…
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Scenes And Screens From LostWinds: Winter Of The Melodias
Frontier Developments once again puts the power of the wind in your hands in LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, the follow-up to the acclaimed WiiWare launch title. Here’s what it looks like. The art style remains intact, but the play style has changed a little bit. As mentioned in Owen’s article on the game this…
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Scene It? Coming To Wii And PS3
The movie trivia party game that gave four new colored bits of plastic to the 360 is now making its way to the PS3 and Wii with Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! Screenlife’s adaptation of the DVD-based movie trivia game for the Xbox 360 has sold well across two different iterations, so the company…
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BattleForge Invaded By Renegade Cards
EA’s free-to-play card-based real-time strategy game BattleForge scores an expansion today, with 60 new units ready to be added to your deck in the Renegade Edition card set. The BattleForge Renegade Edition card set is an expansion of the Renegade Campaign introduced earlier this year, which added the Southern Wastes region of Nyn to the…
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How PhysX Makes Batman: Arkham Asylum Better
Now that many of us have experienced Batman: Arkham Asylum on the console, let’s see if it was worth delaying the PC version to add support for NVIDIA’s PhysX technology. The verdict? While it certainly doesn’t seem to effect the gameplay, little touches like the flowing of his cape, the swirling of debris, and the…
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Funcom Brings The Fun To Montreal
Incentive programs, an excellent talent pool, and that famous Canadian hospitality has MMO developer Funcom setting up a new development house in Montreal. Funcom’s new Canadian headquarters will be put to use immediately, with skilled teams being formed to work on both Age of Conan and the upcoming MMO The Secret World, which the company…
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PS3 Bayonetta Not Looking So Good
At an event held in Tokyo over the weekend, Sega invited gamers to come and witness the debut of Bayonetta on the PlayStation 3 in all its blurry, stuttering glory. Up until now, Sega and Platinum have chosen to show off Bayonetta on the Xbox 360, and judging from 1UP’s reaction to the title, the…
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Here The Wild Things Are
Where are the wild things? They are sprinkled copiously amidst these screenshots for the Nintendo Wii, DS, and Xbox 360 screenshots for the video game adaptation of the new Where the Wild Things Are movie. Two different developers contributed to these screenshots, with Amaze Entertainment handling Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 development while WayForward handles…
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McFarlane Does The Prince of Persia
McFarlane Toys and Disney are teaming up to deliver a little shirtless Jake Gyllenhaal to the masses, with a massive toy line planned to coincide with the release of the film. Looks like LEGO isn’t the only toy line getting a piece of the Prince next year, with McFarlane Toys getting ready to roll out…
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Codemasters Says Goodbye To ArchLord
Codemasters has lost the rights to operate its first free-to-play MMO ArchLord in North America and Europe, but a new operator is stepping up to make sure the players can keep playing. The Orcs, Elves, and Humans of Chantra will be moving to a new home on October 3rd, when Korean publisher Webzen takes over…
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Play Dragonica Online, Win Real Loot
Players who participate in the open beta test for THQ*ICE’s Dragonica Online could find themselves on the receiving end of fabulous prizes, including a trip to Korea to meet the game’s developers. The Dragonica Online open beta kicks off this week, running from September 3rd to October 27th. During the open beta, monsters will be…
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Splinter Cell: Double Agent And GRAW Now Slightly On Demand
Two Tom Clancy titles are added to the Xbox 360 Games on Demand service, unless you don’t live in the UK or Europe (excluding Germany), in which case there’s just the one. The first Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter game is now available everywhere but Australia, New Zeeland, and Korea for the low price…
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Red VS. Blue VS. Halo 3 ODST
The Red vs. Blue team from Rooster Teeth‘s machinima series take a look at the "normal soldiers" of Halo 3: ODST. Their reaction was pretty much the same reaction I have to a new Halo game. I think, “Hooray! I shall be at the same skill level as many other people for a short period…
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The Disney Marvel Team-Ups We’d Like To See
Now that Disney will soon be the parent company of Marvel Entertainment, we can begin brainstorming the ultimate video game crossovers between the House of Ideas and the Magic Kingdom. Marvel Kingdom Hearts Yeah, this one is easy. So easy that Kotakuite Goldenhearted already had the image above created before I even saved this article…
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Eve Online: Dominion Coming This Winter
Developer CCP sets its sights on redefining EVE Online‘s end game in EVE Online: Dominion, the 11th free expansion for the massively-multiplayer space sim, due out in winter 2009. While work continues on the eagerly anticipated Walking in Stations update for EVE Online that will introduce avatars to the mix (recently renamed Incarna), EVE’s 11th…
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Champions Online: A Tale Of Four Heroes
Join us, brave adventurers, as we put four superhero characters through their paces in Cryptic’s Champions Online. Fear the trickery of Bullshot! Feel the blades of Becca Danger! Generally look out for Super Crecente! The early head-start for Cryptic’s new superhero MMO Champions Online kicked off this weekend, and despite having many other plans, I…
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GTA: Episodes From Liberty City Box Looks Like This
Here’s the final box art for Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, the stand-alone versions of Grand Theft Auto IV’s first and second doses of downloadable content. Rockstar sure has been busy this weekend, releasing a set of screenshots for The Ballad of Gay Tony, announcing Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Beaterator for…
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Shadow Complex Sets Xbox Live Sales Record
Chair Entertainment’s Shadow Complex is officially the most downloaded single-player title in Xbox Live Arcade history, with 200,000 copies purchased during its first week of release alone. We loved Shadow Complex, and so did you folks apparently, with stellar review scores and one-week sales so spectacular that Microsoft had to issue a celebratory press release.…
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Celebrate PAX 09 With A Cheaper Precipice 2
PAX 2009 is just a few days away, and to celebrate, Microsoft discounting Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode Two as its Xbox Live Deal of the Week. On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is of course the Penny Arcade roleplaying game, developed by Canada’s Hothead Games. Hothead’s creative director is…
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Rapala: We Fish Makes Fishing “Wacky”
If you love fishing video games but felt that there just wasn’t enough wackiness involved, then Activision’s Rapala: We Fish might just catch your eye with its family-fun hook. Due out September 29th for the Nintendo Wii, Activision is touting Rapala: We Fish as the “first fishing title developed specifically for Wii”, injecting just the…
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