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IRS: Second Life Saves Taxpayers Millions
The Internal Revenue Service isn’t all about taking your money. It’s also about saving you money by foregoing NASCAR sponsorships in favor of a virtual presence in Second Life. See, instead of spending millions of dollars on recruitment advertising no one will actually see, the IRS instead spent thousands of dollars to create an IRS…
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APB Beta Application A Little Nosey
Realtime Worlds is looking for beta testers for their upcoming MMO APB, and you could be one of the few, once you finish filling out one of the more intrusive beta applications we’ve seen. The application actually seems like it’s part beta tester app, part demographic survey. Along with the normal questions like processor type…
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Ultimate Alliance 2 Wouldn’t Be The Same Without Ms. Marvel
The Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 website’s VIP section updated yesterday, revealing that Carol Danvers, better known as Ms. Marvel, will making a return appearance in the sequel. Very good news indeed, at least for me. Ms. Marvel was a staple of my team in the first Ultimate Alliance, though I always preferred her in her…
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BlazBlue Coming To Europe In 2010 With New Characters
European fighter fans who haven’t already imported Arc System Works’ BlazBlue will be rewarded for their patience early next year, with exclusive characters and moves only available in the European release. The release comes as a result of publisher PQube and Zen United, a consortium of Japanese and Asian developers targeting the European market. The…
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Red Alert 3 Commander’s Challenge Rolls Ric Flair To Consoles
Previously exclusive to the PC version of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, EA is bringing the Commander’s Challenge add-on to consoles this fall, adding much-needed (Ric) Flair. The Commander’s Challenge add-on provides the player with a series of 50 challenges against a set of nine different commanders, one of which is “Nature Boy” Ric…
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New PAIN Character Brought To You By AXE
Meet Smooth Jarvis, the new character for the PlayStation Network game PAIN, brought to you by the fine folks at AXE deodorant. In-game advertising gets ridiculous with the introduction of Smooth Jarvis, whose “Double Pits to Chesty” special move mimics the actions involved in applying AXE brand deodorant products. Players who use PAIN’s in-game video…
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Dark Age Of Camelot Expansions Set Free
Mythic would like to remind everyone that they had an MMO before Warhammer Online, and if you’d like to come back and try it again you’ll get the two later expansions free of charge. We don’t hear much about Dark Age of Camelot these days, and really haven’t heard all that much since the Labyrinth…
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Mini Ninjas Sneak Up On September Release
IO Interactive‘s tiny little messengers of death are launching an all-out assault across multiple gaming platforms next month, as Eidos cuts down a September release date before it even has time to scream. The world lies on the brink of chaos, and only mini-ninja Hiro and friends can set things right again. The journey to…
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FEAR 2’s Slow-Mo Deathmatch Took A Montage
If you want to get Slow-Motion deathmatch into F.E.A.R. 2 and the odds are against you, you’ll need a montage – an 80’s science montage! The same group (of developers) that brought us the generational anthem “Miniature Replica Soldier” return to herald the coming of another F.E.A.R. 2 update, the Slow-Motion deathmatch. Announced at the…
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Meet Muramasa’s Momohime
Ignition Entertainment has released a Muramasa: The Demon Blade character profile trailer for Momohime, following the possessed princess from battle to bath time. Momohime is the female lead of Muramasa: The Demon Blade, driven by the evil spirit inhabiting her body to seek out the 108 cursed demon swords. She then uses the powers of…
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Buy Avatar Clothes From Your PC
Now you don’t even have to leave your computer to buy clothes for your little Xbox person or purchase full 360 titles, as Microsoft adds the Avatar Marketplace and Games on Demand to Xbox.com. I’m not sure if there are people who sit around work all day, watching the clock for their opportunity to rush…
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Onyxia Gets A Makeover For WoW’s 5th Anniversary
Once the most-feared name in Azeroth, the Onyxia is making a comeback for World of Warcraft’s 5th anniversary, transforming into a bigger and badder brood mother than ever before. Once a level 60 40-man raid, Onyxia has become a bit of a joke over the years. Now that the level cap is 80, her head…
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Rock Band Metal Pack Throws Up Horns In October
ESRB entries and leaked achievement lists be damned! MTV Games and Harmonix have officially announced the Rock Band Metal Track Pack, a stand-alone disc with 20 tunes guaranteed to shake the very foundations of heaven. On top of the five songs already revealed through the various leakages, the Rock Band Metal Track Pack features fifteen…
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Fairytale Fights Features Naked Man With A Sword
Don’t worry, the latest new character for Fairytale Fights isn’t always a naked man with a sword. Sometimes he has an axe. Two new characters join the lineup for Playlogic’s Fairytale Fights today, bringing the roster for the hack n’ slash Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 title up to four characters. Joining Snow White and…
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Need For Speed Nitro Gets All Artsy
Need for Speed Nitro for the Nintendo Wii capitalizes on its stylized graphics, signing up tokidoki, Upper Playground and i am 8-bit to provide exclusive car skins and artwork for the game. Nitro’s animated style gets a bit more animated with the inclusion of custom car skins from celebrated brands tokidoki and Upper Playground and…
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Army Of Two: The 40th Day Is In January
EA has nailed down a January 2010 release date for Army of Two: The 40th Day, with exclusive access to the game’s Extraction multiplayer mode for those putting down their money early. Army of Two: The 40th Day is the eagerly anticipated sequel to Army of Two, in which Salem and Rios struggle to ignore…
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PAX 2009 Schedule Drops – We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Calendar
The full schedule for the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo has been posted on the PAX website, featuring 43 hours of programming, all over the course of three days, all for you. It looks like Totillo and I are going to have our hands full when we drop in on PAX 2009 September 4th through the…
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If Wolfenstein Beats Madden, Wolfenstein Is Free
Raven Software designer Manveer Heir has mounted a one-man Twitter Wolfenstein marketing campaign, offering to pay for your copy of the game if it manages to outsell Madden 10. Yes, he’s completely serious folks. If the latest game in the long-running first-person shooter franchise manages to topple the game that generally dominates the month of…
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Halo: Evolutions – Essential Tales Of The Halo Universe
Republic Commando author Karen Traviss takes her first stab at the Halo universe in Halo: Evolution, a story anthology coming in November from Tor Books. Halo: Evolutions presents fans of Halo literary fiction a little light reading to help them pass the time before Greg Bear’s Halo trilogy kicks off in 2010. Tor has lined…
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Go Play Lumberjacks So You Don’t Have To
It’s been quite awhile, but now we’re back, playing the Nintendo Wii family party game Go Play Lumberjacks, so you don’t have to. Go Play Lumberjacks is, oddly enough, part of Majesco’s new Go Play line of family-friendly titles. Of course, on the Nintendo Wii, family-friendly generally translates into mini-games, and Lumberjacks is no different.…
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