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Aion Beta Finds Its Voice
The fifth beta event for Aion kicks off tomorrow, with the NPCs greeting players with a hearty hello now that voice has been added to the game. NPCs and player characters alike have been oddly silent in Aion, until now. Players preparing for tomorrow’s beta weekend will find a hefty patch waiting for them, bringing…
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Sign Up For The Champions Online Newsletter, Score A Free Pet
Cryptic wants you to sign up for the Champions Online newsletter so badly that they’re passing out a free in-game pet to everyone who adds their email to the mailing list. Calling it a sign of appreciation for all of the Champions Online fans out there, Cryptic will award all existing newsletter subscribers as well…
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Stoked DC Assaults K2
Bongfish’s follow-up to the Xbox 360 snowboarder Stoked has players barreling down the perilous slops of K2, the second largest mountain in the world. For every four people who have reached the summit of K2, one has died trying. Luckily, climbing will be the farthest thing from your mind in Stoked DC, which turns the…
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World Of Warcraft’s U.S. Sales Numbers Are Massive
Between collectors editions and normal retail boxes, the core game and expansions, the NPD reports that World of Warcraft has pushed 8.6 million units in the U.S. to date. Following up on the news that EA’s The Sims 3 had sold 800,000 copies in its first month, Gamasutra decided to find out how well the…
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Who Is The Mystery Darkside Chronicles Cover Character?
Capcom’s newly-released cover art for Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles contains a mysterious figure of mysterious mystery to puzzle players until it game comes out. While Leon, Claire, and Steve are clear enough of the cover of the next entry in the Resident Evil rail-shooter series for the Wii, who is that shadowy character in…
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Doc Louis Will End You
He made you, and he can break you. Here’s four new shots of the officially-named Doc Louis’s Punch-Out!!!, one of the rewards you can choose for being a Platinum member of Club Nintendo. Nintendo passed along these new screens in order to help anyone still struggling with the choice between this downloadable game and the…
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Oh Yeah, Resident Evil 4 iPhone Now Available
Sneaky parasitically-controlled humans! Capcom has officially released Resident Evil 4 for the iPhone, placing the power of Leon Kennedy at your fingertips. After a bit of a false start, Leon returns, laying waste to countless infected Spanish people in this iPhone version of the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Nintendo Wii masterpiece. A virtual joystick controls…
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Buy The Summer Of Arcade, Get $10 Back
Microsoft wants to pay you $10 for purchasing all five of the games showcased in this year’s Summer of Arcade promotion. U.S. Xbox 360 owners who shell out the 5600 Microsoft Points necessary to net them Splosion Man, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Turtles in Time Re-shelled, Trials HD, and Shadow Complex between now and August…
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EVE Online: The Butterfly Effect
Perhaps developer CCP hasn’t made it perfectly clear how big a part you could play in the universe of EVE Online. Perhaps this new video will rectify that oversight. This is an example of what could happen if you find yourself flying the sometimes friendly skies in EVE Online, CCP’s massively-multiplayer online space sim. I’ve…
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inFAMOUS Movie In The Works
Sony Pictures is working out a seven-figure deal with producers Avi and Ari Arad and screenwriter Sheldon Turner to bring the PlayStation 3 exclusive inFAMOUS to the silver screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Turner pitched the movie to Sony Pictures, which pre-emptively caught it, and the studio is now working out a deal for…
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A Bit More Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Coming In October
Get ready to pay full price for a little more content, as Nintendo confirms an October release date for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. You Pokémon fans know the drill. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky combines the best-selling DS titles Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness, adds an additional five starter Pokémon…
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Aliens Vs. Predator: The Prey
A new trailer for Rebellion’s upcoming Aliens Vs. Predator showcases the game’s third faction, the defiled corpses Marines. The game is called Aliens Vs. Predator, not Aliens Vs. Predator Vs. Marines. An obvious fact, but one that bears mentioning here. The humans have never really shined in the Aliens movie series, and with the exception…
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Now Free Realms Is A Comic Book
DC Comics‘ Wildstorm imprint will publish anything video game-related, as evidenced by the new comic based on Sony Online Entertainment’s family-friendly MMO Free Realms. Rather than worry about issuing a preview comic months in advance like some video game adaptations, the Free Realms comic series kicks off today, with issue one arriving on comic store…
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NPR Takes On Six Days In Fallujah
NPR revisits the controversy behind Atomic Games‘ Six Days in Fallujah once again, presenting a strong argument in favor of the release of the “game-amentary.” The usual suspects line up in favor of the game, with Atomic Games’ boss Peter Tamte and retired Marine Captain Read Omohundro explaining that the game is meant to inform…
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Champions Online Open Beta Detailed
Champions Online developer Cryptic has dropped details and dates for its upcoming “open” beta test, with 50,000 keys up for grabs worldwide via IGN’s FilePlanet. Yes, Cryptic and FilePlanet have teamed up to help streamline the beta testing process. There are now two ways to get beta keys, either by actually preordering the game at…
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Aksys Suggestively Bringing “Soul Breeding” Game Stateside
Aksys Games has launched a placeholder website for Record of Agarest War, the “soul breeding” Japanese strategy RPG that is completely distracting me with its teaser image. What were we talking about again? Oh yes! Record of Agarest! We’ve mentioned the game on several different occasions, generally in the middle of the night when the…
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NBA 2K10: Draft Combine Gives Fans A Head Start
2K Sports takes advantage of today’s download friendly consoles, giving fans an early taste of this year’s basketball with NBA 2K10: Draft Combine. Available in September on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network, the NBA 2K10: Draft Combine is a downloadable game that allows players to fully customize their own player and put them…
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Risen Trailer Flaunts Symphonic Gothic Metal
This new trailer for Piranha Bytes‘ RPG Risen features music by Nightwish, "the most successful symphonic/gothic metal band world-wide." I’m not sure what that means. I’m sure there’s a large symphonic/gothic metal band scene that I am completely unaware of. In fact, the comments section could potentially fill up with arguments on which of those…
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Scott Pilgrim VS. Your Game Console
Scott Pilgrim, the heroic comic tale of triumph over evil ex-boyfriends, is getting a movie adaptation next year, and Ubisoft has signed on to create the game of the movie of the comic. Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim is a digest-sized comic series from Oni Press that follows the tale of Canadian slacker bassist Scott…
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Poor Rock Band Sales Blamed For Declining Viacom Revenues
Viacom’s second quarter 2009 financials dropped this morning, singling out lower than expected Rock Band sales as one of the primary causes of the company’s 14% drop in revenue over the previous year. A little over a year ago Viacom was singing the praises of Rock Band, heralding the rhythm game as the driving force…
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