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Shattered Horizon: One Giant Whoops For Mankind
On this, the 40th anniversary of man walking on the moon, Shattered Horizon developer Futuremark Games Studio reminds us why humanity can’t have nice things. Shattered Horizon is a first-person shooter which has players fighting in zero-gravity amidst the remnants of the moon, blown to bits during a mining explosion. In case you were wondering…
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The Nintendo Download: My Life As A Darklord
Nintendo only adds four titles to the Wii and DS this week, with the Virtual Console passed up completely, but hey…one of the games has “Final Fantasy” in it, and the kids love Final Fantasy. Of course it also has “Crystal Chronicles” in it, which tends to make many a Final Fantasy fan cringe, but…
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BioShock 2’s “The Sisters” By Jhonen Vasquez
2K introduces the BioShock 2 Artists Series today, with a rendition of sisters both big and little by Jhonen Vasquez, creator of Invader Zim and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. Several talented artists will be contributing to the BioShock 2 Artists Series, which celebrates the impact the look and feel of Rapture has had upon the…
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Red Faction: Guerrilla’s Road Warriors Of The Badlands
See Red Faction: Guerrilla‘s chief mechanic Samanya channel her inner road warrior in this set of screens from the upcoming Demons of the Badlands downloadable content. Demons of the Badlands, the first of three planned DLC packs for Red Faction: Guerrilla, is a new story arc that takes place three years before the start of…
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Surprise! Your Disgaea 3 Saves Are Safe After All
NIS America‘s warning that the Disgaea 3 trophy patch would render previous saved games useless turns out to have been a false alarm, with multiple readers reporting that their saves work just fine. We’ve been emails since yesterday regarding the Disgaea 3 update, which was originally thought to provide trophy support for the PlayStation 3…
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Layoffs Hit Sony Online Entertainment
Despite the runaway success of Free Realms and the growing anticipation for DC Universe Online, Sony Online Entertainment feels the layoff lash, confirming a 5% workforce reduction with Kotaku. Upon getting word of the layoffs from IndustryGamers, we contacted our SOE rep to see if we could glean any more information regarding the layoffs, which…
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APB Won’t Have Normal Subscription Fees
While players will still have to pay to play Realtime Worlds’ massively-multiplayer online game APD, head honcho David Jones says they won’t be paying a flat monthly fee. APB has cost Realtime Worlds around $30 million between development data centers, and hardware, so we’d certainly forgive them if they wanted us to pay a monthly…
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Vaughn Gittin Jr. Drifts Through Need For Speed: Shift
Slightly Mad Studios is serious about drifting in the upcoming Need for Speed Shift, tapping champion drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr, to make sure everything feels just right. Vaughn, commonly referred to as JR in racing circles, is a world-class drifter, which sounds an awful lot like a guy who just moves around from place to…
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WipEout HD Fury Add-on Drops Next Week
Three new race types, twelve new tracks, thirteen new ships, and six new music tracks are coming to WipEout HD next week, when the Fury add-on pack hits the PlayStation Store. Thursday, June 23rd is when the WipEout HD Fury pack races onto the PlayStation Network, trailing along tons of new game play in its…
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City Of Heroes Issue 16: Power Spectrum Revealed
Last month’s teasing comes to fruition as NCsoft pulls back the curtain on City of Heroes Issue 16: Power Spectrum, putting the power to customize powers in the players’ hands. It really wasn’t much of a secret, now was it? My biggest gripe about City of Heroes has long been the fact that I can…
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Kings Of Leon And Rancid Debut In Rock Band
The first tracks from Kings of Leon and Rancid hit Rock Band next week, topping a massive list of tracks dropping across all three consoles. The addition of Rancid’s “Ruby Soho” to Rock Band next week fills a hole in my heart that I didn’t realize was there until just now. It’s part of the…
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Wolfenstein The Animated Graphic Novel Part Three
Activision returns to Castle Wolfenstein in the third chapter of their animated graphic novel….Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Return to Castle Wolfenstein is yet another prequel to the original Wolfenstein 3D, because that’s what you have to do when your protagonists kills Hitler in the first act. U.S. Army Ranger William “B.J.” Blazkowicz is back, taking…
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Resident Evil 5 PC Dated, Benchmarked
Capcom not only brings us the final September release date for Resident Evil 5 on the PC, but a benchmark program to see if we’re better off buying a console instead. New costumes, an improved Mercenaries mode, and support for NVIDIA’s new GeForce 3D Vision tech will have PC gamers lording their superior versions of…
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At Least Sega’s Monkey Ball Countdown Is Interactive
It may be another countdown clock, but Sega’s mysterious Jackpot page does have one thing most others don’t – a clickable button. Between that and the hidden Super Monkey Ball reference, we’re intrigued. It’s just a tiny difference, but we’ll take what we can get. The countdown page, located at www.Sega.com/Jackpot, features a circular tumbler…
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Reviews
Droplitz Micro-Review: Dripping With Strategy
From the creators of the Burger King promotional Xbox 360 titles comes Droplitz, a pipe-connecting puzzle game for Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Best known for filling GameStop locations around North America with countless used copies of Pocket Bike Racer, Sneak King, and Big Bumpin’, Blitz Arcade has left the King behind to…
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Kojima On Peace Walker: “This game is an MGS5-class game”
In a press release Q&A issued by Konami today, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima stresses the importance of the PSP installment of the Metal Gear Solid series, calling it, “a MGS5-class game.” While the PlayStation Portable is no stranger to side stories and throwaway tie-ins to otherwise major game franchises, that simply isn’t the case…
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EA Mixes It Up With Club Fight Night
EA beats Acitivision’s DJ Hero to the punch, launching its own DJ game as part of Club Fight Night, the newly-opened addition to the EA Sports Complex in PlayStation Home. While the Club DJ mini-game looks rather entertaining, the real action is in the main ring, where two giant, player-controlled robots rock and sock each…
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Runes Of Magic: The Changing Face Of Taborea
September’s Chapter II update for Runes of Magic isn’t just adding elves to the game, but a rather large chunk of new real estate as well. The Elven Legacy free expansion for Runes of Magic adds several new areas to the Taborean map, from the Northeast’s Weeping Coast to the Savage Lands, a rainforest area…
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Marvel VS Capcom 2 PS3 Coming In August
PlayStation 3 owners are going to have to wait a couple of weeks longer than Xbox 360 owners to get their hands on Marvel VS Capcom 2. At the time the July 29th release date was announced for the Xbox Live Arcade version of Marvel VS Capcom, the Capcom Europe website contained an image showing…
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Dirt 2 Release Date Set In Mud
The PC version might have been pushed back, but Codemasters is still dumping Dirt 2 onto consoles and handhelds in early September. September 8th is when the next version of Codemasters’ venerable rally racing series hits North America, dishing Dirt 2 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, DS, and PlayStation Portable. Three days…
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