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Ryu And Momiji Work Well Together
Here’s five minutes or so worth of the co-op gameplay PS3 owners will see when Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 launches this September. It looks like a great deal of fun, doesn’t it? I haven’t really gotten into the Ninja Gaiden games since the first one on the original Xbox kicked my ass from here to…
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GameStop Has Street Fighter IV Ridiculously Cheap
In case you were either holding out or saving up for Street Fighter IV on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, now would be an excellent time to scrape up those pennies and head to GameStop. How cheap is cheap? How about $40 off the normal retail price? That’s right, GameStop has marked down Street…
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More Quantum Screens Emerge From Cover
This new set of screens Tecmo’s East-meets-West third-person shooter Quantum highlights the game’s strange mix of Gears of War-esque characters in a high fantasy setting. I first saw Quantum (formerly Quantum Theory) at E3 this year, and boy was I confused. It looks and plays a bit like Gears of War, but the environments are…
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Bionic Commando PC Swings Into Action
Nathan Spencer is back and he’s pissed, as Capcom’s remake of Bionic Commando attempts to grab PC gamers where it counts – Steam and retail. Ascension City has been taken over by terrorists, which turns out to be good news for Nathan R.A.D. Spencer, pardoned from execution at the very last minute and sent behind…
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Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Dated And Detailed For America
Tecmo has announced a late September release date for the PlayStation 3-exclusive Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, with a limited edition available at GameStop for those of you with excess monies. North America is beating Japan to the punch by a whole two days, with a release date of September 29th as opposed to Japan’s October…
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Where Will You Preorder Champions Online?
Cryptic has announced the preorder bonuses for their upcoming massively-multiplayer online superhero game Champions Online, with what you get depending on where you buy. No matter where you preorder Champions Online you’ll gain access to the open beta test on August 17th, 30 days game time, and five in-game microtransaction dollars, but after that it…
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DJ Hero Scores The Fresh Prince’s Other Half
DJ Hero might be scoring quite a few new preorders with the news that DJ Jazzy Jeff is contributing his likeness and tracks to the game. While we kid DJ Jazzy Jeff for his ties to Will Smith’s Fresh Prince character, the man is actually a damn fine DJ, as well as a record producer…
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Coloring In Your City Of Heroes Powers
During Comic-Con 2009 I got to spend some time hanging with NCsoft’s Matt “Positron” Miller, who walked me through how to show your true colors in the upcoming Issue 16: Power Spectrum update. According to Positron, power customization is something they’ve wanted to include in the game from the very beginning, only to have the…
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Kevin Conroy Doesn’t Remember Batman: Rise Of Sin Tzu
I’m not sure if the fact that the voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy, not remembering doing the voice work for Batman: The Rise of Sin Tzu is a good thing or a bad thing. A roundtable discussion with the legendary voice of Batman kicked off on Saturday at Comic-Con with Conroy addressing the question, “Is…
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The Fat Princess Battle Begins This Week
Hats will fly this Thursday afternoon, when Titan Studios’ Fat Princess finally waddles her way onto the PlayStation Network. The eagerly-awaited multiplayer game of fantasy combat and cake eating is coming with this week’s PlayStation Store update on the 30th, priced to move at $15.00. For those of you unfamiliar with the title, it’s a…
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Splinter Cell Conviction And Red Steel 2 Slip To 2010
The fall gaming season grows sparser still today, as Ubisoft announces the delay of Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2, with I am Alive and Ghost Recon slipping into the next fiscal year. Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2, two of the breakout titles from this year’s E3 Expo, won’t be making their…
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Arkham Asylum’s Scarecrow Design Is BioShock Creepy
This Friday, GameStop revealed their preorder exclusive Scarecrow Challenge Maps for Batman: Arkham Asylum, and the villain’s new look certainly coincides with his fear-inducing powers. Players who preorder Batman: Arkham Asylum from GameStop will gain access to the Dem Bones Scarecrow Challenge Maps for the game, which pit Batman against a horde of skeletal hallucinations…
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The Other Real-Life Inspiration For The Saboteur’s Hero
Pandemic’s art director Chris Hunt found the inspiration for The Saboteur‘s main character at a concept artist convention, but not how you’d think. Saboteur protagonist Sean Devlin may have been inspired by real-life Grand Prix motor racing driver and special agent William Grover-Williams, but Grover-Williams’ look didn’t quite fit what Pandemic was looking for in…
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The Nintendo Download: Pirates And Musketeers, Living Together
Pirates and musketeers battle card sharks and…Sudoku this week in the once again Virtual Console-less Nintendo download. This marks the second week in a row that we’ve seen no classic games added to Nintendo’s Virtual Console, but with Guybrush Threepwood making his WiiWare debut in the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island (1,000 WiiWare…
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2009 San Diego Comic-Con Round Up
In case you had trouble following our flurry of coverage from the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con, we’ve gathered it all together into one giant mass of cosplay, toys, previews, comics, and gaming news. Pre-Show Warm Up Sony Bringing Ratchet, Clank & Drake To Comic-Con Valve Brings Left 4 Dead 2 To Comic-Con, Reveals “Swamp Fever”…
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South Park Tower Defense’s Working Titles Sucked
While South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! is a long title for the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game, some of the working titles were even more of a mouthful. Snowballing, anyone? At the “Save South Park One Snowball At A Time” panel at Comic-Con yesterday, South Park Digital’s Chris Brion explained how the tower…
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Comic-Con Cosplay Stories
Why does Wonder Woman remind me of my mother? Does dressing as Starfox make you a furry? Isn’t being asked to pose every other minute annoying? These questions answered in my last Comic-Con cosplay post. My mother, a 5’11” tall former dance instructor with long, dark hair (it’s reddish now, but don’t let the dye…
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NECA’s Other Video Game Toys
Here’s a look at the video game toys NECA is producing or pitching when they aren’t recreating Rapture denizens or defying the laws of thigh physics. The main focus this year at the NECA booth seems to have been Street Fighter IV and Gears of War, the two great tastes that sounds great together when…
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How Much Would You Pay For Capcom’s Marvel VS Capcom 2 Mixtape?
Capcom’s extremely limited-edition vinyl version of the hip-hop soundtrack to Marvel VS Capcom 2 can be yours at Comic-Con 2009, as long as you’re willing to shell out big bucks. While a few lucky members of the gaming public made it out of yesterday’s Capcom Fighting Game panel with a copy of the hip-hop mixtape,…
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