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More Testers Wanted For League Of Legends
While Riot Games‘ League of Legends is speeding towards a September release, the company still craves your testing acumen, and isn’t above bribing you with exclusive Champion skins. League of Legends is an online persistent massively-multiplayer real-time strategy title, and Riot Games wants to make sure they don’t flip the switch in September only to…
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Madden Isn’t The Only NFL Game In Town
Gameloft recently announced NFL 2010 for the iPhone, a fully-licensed National Football League video game that neatly bypasses EA’s exclusivity arrangement. EA’s exclusive rights to create video games utilizing the NFL license doesn’t extend to mobile games. This is how Gameloft has continuously released NFL titles for normal mobile phones over the past few years,…
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Creating A Character In Aion
NCsoft’s second dev diary for the upcoming massively-multiplayer online game tells you everything you need to know about creating a character in Aion. Thank goodness for developer diaries. I was getting very tired of explaining the tiered class system and combination skills to all of my friends. Now I can take care of it in…
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Nearly 100 Exhibitors Lined Up For PAX 2009
With the sixth annual Penny Arcade Expo a mere month away, PAX organizers have released the full list of nearly 100 exhibitors strutting their stuff at the show. By nearly 100 they actually mean 90, with everyone from 2K Games to Zalman USA packing the show floor with stuff to see and do. Notable events…
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A Closer Look At Zafina’s Butterfly Bra Costume
We can never get enough of the Mutsumi Inomata-designed butterfly bra costume for Tekken 6’s Zafina. Namco gives us our fix. As we’ve mentioned previously, Mutsumi Inomata is a designer on Namco Bandai’s Tales of franchise, as well as being the butterfly enthusiast’s best friend. While I can’t see much of a Tales influence in…
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Pure Pwnage Becomes A Real TV Show
It’s been nearly a year since the last episode of internet gaming comedy Pure Pwnage went live, and now the reason behind the hiatus becomes clear – real television fame, in Canada no less. In case you don’t understand the video, Pure Pwnage is coming to Canada’s Showcase cable channel in 2010, with eight full…
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Street Fighter II Coming To Zen Pinball
Zen Pinball creators Zen Studios are ready to start releasing new content for the PlayStation Network pinball game, spin-kicking things off with a Street Fighter II-themed table. Zen Pinball is essentially the PlayStation Network version of Xbox Live Arcade’s Pinball FX, albeit with a different set of tables. Last year Zen released a Street Fighter…
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Six Days In Fallujah Causes Casualties At Atomic Games
Atomic Games, the developer behind Six Days in Fallujah, have been forced to cut their development staff due to a lack of funding for the controversial game. It’s been a bumpy ride for Atomic. In May they had a high-profile title in development and a publishing agreement with Konami. Unfortunately the backlash caused by the…
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Edna & Harvey Coming To America
Daedelic Entertainment’s Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, voted “Best Adventure Game of 2008” at the German Game Developer Awards, is making the trip stateside courtesy of Merscom. Edna & Harvey: The Breakout is a 2D adventure game that tells the story of Edna, a perfectly sane girl who wakes up in a mental hospital with…
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And The Edge Interactive Innovation Award Nominees Are…
Edge Magazine has revealed the shortlist for its 2009 Interactive Innovation award, which recognizes titles that have done the most to steer videogaming in a new direction. So who made the list, aside from LittleBigPlanet? LittleBigPlanet is an innovation award machine, so it stands to reason that it would be on the list. We knew…
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Castle Wolfenstein Has Come A Long Way
Okay, so it might not be THE Castle Wolfenstein, but it’s a castle in Activision’s upcoming Wolfenstein game, so we’re running with it. Wolfenstein is, of course, another prequel to the game that started it all, Wolfenstein 3D. It may seem funny, this game being set before that relatively primitive example of 3D technology, but…
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Persona PSP Gets PlayStation Network Release
Come September 22nd, PSP owners won’t even have to leave their homes to pick up Atlus’ Persona remake, which is now launching simultaneously at retail and on the PlayStation Network. With the PSPgo coming out in October, it makes sense that Atlus would choose to release Persona PSP on the PlayStation Network simultaneously with the…
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Your U.S. Xbox 360 Games On Demand Launch Titles
The Xbox Live summer update is right around the corner, and Microsoft has released a list of the Xbox 360 games you’ll be able to download directly to your hard drive at launch. Along with Avatar clothing and accessories, movie sharing, and the ability to update your Netflix queue directly from your television (yes!), one…
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World At War Map Pack 3 Launch Trailer
The third map pack for Call of Duty: World at War comes out tomorrow for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which means it’s time for a launch trailer, complete with monkey. Honestly I haven’t had much time to play World at War outside of the initial launch and our video podcast with the developers,…
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Serious Sam Slightly More Serious In HD
Feast your eyes on the latest set of screens for Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, the high-definition makeover of the tongue-in-cheek shooter, coming to Xbox Live Arcade and PC this fall. These screens are from the PC version of the HD update, but considering they aren’t doing a full-on current generation PC update, there…
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A Steering Wheel For Your iPhone
From CTA Digital, creators of the Wii Bowling Ball, comes an innovative steering wheel controller and stand for the iPhone. If I were a big face of racing games on the iPhone and had really large pockets, this product might be right up my alley. Your iPod Touch or iPhone fits snugly in the middle…
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Bakugan Collector’s Editions Have Balls
Fans picking up the first run of Bakugan Battle Brawlers for the Nintendo DS this October can score the Collector’s Edition, which comes packed with a limited edition ball for them to play with. Bakugan is big with the kids, or it was last time I checked, which was a year ago, so the Nintendo…
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Heed The Call Of The Argent Crusade
The Call of the Crusade trailer for World of Warcraft shows off the snazzy new arena-based raids and the new battleground added in yesterday’s 3.2 patch. These are the kind of raids I could really get into. No mucking about running all over the pace, opening doors and such. No “Dammit, Fahey fell off the…
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Postcards From A Fallen Earth
The folks at Fallen Earth have passed along some exclusive postcards, showing off some of the prominent places in the post-apocalyptic Grand Canyon area of their upcoming MMO. Why don’t we take you to…Monkeytown? Yes, scenic Monkeytown, a former animal testing site now inhabited by intelligent talking gorillas who just want to be left alone…
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Blur’s Store-Exclusive Preorder Benefits
Bizarre Creation’s combat racer Blur is speeding to store shelves this November, and which store you buy it from determines what bonus gear you drive off with. As usual, GameStop winds up with the best incentive to preorder the game, with a “Multiplayer Advantage Booster Kit” that gives players “unparalleled multiplayer benefits.” Those benefits include…
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