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Mass Effect 2: Meet Grunt
BioWare has revealed the second party member to join Commander Shepard’s motley crew in Mass Effect 2, Grunt, a violent and unpredictable Krogan fighter. Grunt joins the assassin Thane as part of Shepard’s decidedly darker posse in the second game in BioWare’s epic space adventure. He may be untamed and untrustworthy, but he’s an important…
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Getting Around In Champions Online
The Champions Online open beta is now in full swing, and here’s a look at how you’ll be swinging, flying, and burrowing your way through the new superhero MMO. My favorite feature of Cryptic’s last superhero game, City of Heroes, was the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound, teleport about the city,…
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Guild Wars 2 Hype Machine Rumbles To Life
Amidst all of the sound and fury surround the impending release of Aion, NCsoft has been quietly gearing up for a big reveal of Guild Wars 2. The teasing has begun, the website is stirring, and the official Guild Wars 2 Twitter is now active, pointing the said web page, where the above image hovers,…
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Bethesda Clarifies No Elder Scrolls V Statement
Last week at QuakeCon 09, Bethesda’s Todd Howard was quoted as saying the company had “no current plans” for a fifth Elder Scrolls game. According to Bethesda, that’s not what Howard said at all. The developer’s Pete Hines posted a statement on the Bethesda Blog today, clarifying Howard’s comments regarding the future of the Elder…
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Champions Online Open Beta Leaps Into Action
Time to put Cryptic’s latest massively-multiplayer online superhero game to the test, as the FilePlanet open beta for Champions Online launches with only a few slight snags. Right now FilePlanet subscribers and those with preorder codes for Champions Online can download the game and start playing immediately, as long as they don’t run into any…
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A Sight-Slicing Tour Of Muramasa’s Locales
We know we’ll be killing tons of strange creatures when Ignition releases Muramasa: The Demon Blade for the Nintendo Wii, but where will we be killing them? This locations trailer has the answers. They will fight in the forests…the will fight on the beaches, and in the fields, and on the rooftops…the two main characters…
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Earthworm Jim Coming To Wii, PS3, and 360
Seems like your vote for the 20th anniversary Sega Genesis title to hit Xbox Live might not matter much, as Gameloft and Interplay announce Earthworm Jim for WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade, and the PlayStation Network. Interplay has granted Gameloft exclusive rights to develop, distribute, and publish Earthworm Jim as a downloadable title across the current…
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Academy Of Champions Got Moves
Check out Altair performing his Eagle Strike and the Rabbids’ Plunger Shot in this batch of Gamescom clips and screens of Ubisoft’s Academy of Champions. Ubisoft’s magical cartoon soccer academy game basically does what Nintendo did with Mario Strikers and gives it an Ubisoft spin, with characters from your favorite titles appearing amongst generic children…
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Celebrate EverQuest’s 10th With A Coffee Table Book
First announced at CES earlier this year, The 10th Anniversary EverQuest Collector’s Edition coffee table book is now available for purchase at Sony Online Entertainment‘s store, or on my recliner. More than just an art book, this large, hard-bound special edition tome is filled from cover-to-cover with the history of the EverQuest franchise, from the…
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DiRT 2 Is Rally Rally Good
Don’t blame us for the horribly punny headline. Responsibility lies squarely on the shoulders of Codemasters’ marketing and PR department. This DiRT 2 vid features the hottest cars on the hottest tracks, with real-life and in-game footage mixed together in an inspirational music video format that rally fans just can’t resist. Can you tell the…
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Swine Flu: The Video Game
While it might not actually be Swine Flu: The Video Game, a flash game created by Dutch researches aims to raise the awareness of similar outbreaks by having the player control the deadly Gamers Flu. The Great Flu casts the player as the head of the fictional World Pandemic Control. Pick a strain of flu…
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Phoenix Wright Gets UDON Art Book Treatment
How big a following does the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series have? Large enough to spawn a 240-page art book, due out in October from UDON Entertainment. The Art of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney collects all of the artwork from the three Nintendo DS Phoenix Wright titles as well as Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, into…
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A Mini Demo Of Mini Ninjas This Week
Take Eidos’ adorable little assassins for a spin later this week, as a demo of IO Interactive’s Mini Ninjas hits the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. Join mini-ninja Hiro, maxi-ninja Futo, and girlie-ninja Suzume as they embark on an epic adventure to bring harmony to a world teetering on the edge of total chaos.…
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Nexon’s Next One: Dragon’s Nest
Nexon dropped us a line to let us know that they’ll be showing up at PAX 2009 next month, showing off Dungeon Fighter Online and their latest MMO, Dragon’s Nest, in a compromising position. Dragon’s Nest is a game developed by Eyedentity Games, a Korean developer compromised of former members of NCsoft, Webzen, Gravity, and…
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Arkham Asylum: Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys?
When you’re one man against an asylum full of maniacal killers, it helps to have millions of dollars worth of technology at your disposal. Take a look at some of the toys the Dark Knight gets to play with in Batman: Arkham Asylum, due out later this month for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.…
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Vote For The Next Xbox Live Genesis Game
Sega is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Genesis by letting fans vote for the next Genesis title to appear on Xbox Live Arcade. Earthworm Jim fans unite! Oh that’s right. I just used Kotaku to further my own agenda. I wouldn’t begrudge you a vote for Toejam & Earl either. Hell, just vote for…
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Pokémon Heart And Soul Laid Bare This Spring
Due out in Japan next month, Nintendo has just announced a spring 2010 release target for the North American and European remakes of Pokémon Gold and Silver for the DS. Johto – I’m still in Johto. Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, two of the most ridiculous names we’ve ever come across, are remakes of the original…
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Aion’s Story Explained With CG
This CG trailer for NCsoft’s Aion tells the entire background story for the game, saving me the trouble of typing it all out. Here’s a quick synopsis: watch the video. There’s plenty of screaming and fighting and world shattering, so it’ll be just like watching the evening news, only prettier.
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Happy 20th, Sega Genesis!
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. release of the Sega Genesis, the game console that briefly put Sega on the video game hardware map. Sega shook the very foundations of the newly reborn U.S. gaming industry on August 14th, 1989, when the Sega Genesis made its North American debut in New York and…
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