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Two Madden 10 Demos Out This Month
The latest version of EA Sports‘ NFL game has gone gold, with a demo coming later this month to help fans determine if they should buy Madden 10 at midnight or wait til morning. I mean, let’s be real here. Those who are going to purchase Madden NFL 10, are going to buy Madden NFL…
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Mini Ninjas: Meet Futo
Eidos introduces us to the least-mini of the Mini Ninjas, Futo, with the stirring story of the love that forms between a young overweight child and his sledgehammer. Futo is of course the powerhouse of Mini Ninjas’ trio of characters, which in video game terms means he is slow but powerful. He (literally) rounds out…
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Blizzard Rolls Out WoW Mobile Armory
Clean those third-party World of Warcraft applications off of your iPhone or iPod Touch, because Blizzard’s free official Mobile Armory application is go. The World of Warcraft Mobile Armory takes all the functionality of the full armory website and places it at your fingertips. The iPhone app allows players to immediately access character, guild, and…
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Creating a Character In Champions Online
Champions Online executive producer Bill Roper walks us through creating a character in Cryptic’s upcoming massively-multiplayer online superhero game. Champions Online takes the rich character creation that Cryptic created for NCsoft’s City of Heroes and brings it to the next level. Not only can you spend hours designing the perfect superhero costume, the ability to…
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Free Monster Hunter Quests At Comic-Con
Fans who bring their PSP and a copy of Monster Hunter Freedom Unit to the San Diego Comic-Com next week can score up to eight free quests, courtesy of Capcom. The Capcom booth at the San Diego Comic-Con will feature a download station where players can snag any or all of the eight free quests…
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IMDB Lists More Characters For Arkham Asylum
Are there more villains lurking within the walls of Arkham Asylum that we’ve been told about? The Internet Movie Database listing for Batman: Arkham Asylum points in that direction. The IMDB listing, pointed out to use by Kotakuite Jippon, lists several characters we already know about, including Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Bane, and of course…
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Activision Teams Pros With GI Joes
Activision is teaming up with nonprofit troop support organization Pro vs. GI Joe for the Activision Showdown series, pitting pro-athletes against our troops overseas in games like Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. Call of Duty seems like a rather odd choice of games to play with troops who regularly see live combat, which is…
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Mai Tease In The King Of Fighters XII Legacy Trailer
.html Of all of the shots of the original The King of Fighters ’94 to show off in this trailer for the latest version, Ignition had to go with a Mai Shiranui shot. Mai’s absence in The King of Fighters XII is being felt keenly by fans, and while she could be showing up as…
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Great Moments In Video Game Cycling
The annual Tour de France bicycle race is going on as we speak, inspiring MTV Multiplayer to look back at some great moments in video game cycling. Did they miss any? MTV’s list of three of the biggest moments in video game cycling seems rather complete at first glance. They’ve covered Little Mac training in…
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WoW ‘Kidnapper’ Gets Nine Years In Prison
The Alabama World of Warcraft player who was arrested last year after transporting his 14-year-old in-game love interest across state lines for sex has been sentenced to nine years in prison. What seemed like a simple case of transporting a teen across state lines became a much darker story as more details emerged. 27-year-old Morgan…
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Hear Your Words In Tales Of Monkey Island
How has Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate, wronged you? Tell your tale to Telltale and you might hear it in the final chapter of the episodic Tales of Monkey Island. Telltale Games has launched a contest that could see your words immortalized in the final episode of the five-part Tales of Monkey Island adventure game serial.…
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Hear Your Words In Serious Sam HD
CDV Software and Majesco are giving players a chance to put their words in Serious Sam’s mouth, with the Serious Tweet contest. Serious Sam HD is coming to Xbox Live Arcade and the PC this year, and you can have your own witty quip immortalized in the game. Between July 15th and July 30th, fans…
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The Darkest Of Days Falls In September
Would Custer’s last stand have been his last if the General brought an M-16 to the party? These questions and more are answered in Darkest of Days, coming September for the Xbox 360 and PC. Darkest of Days is a time-travelling first-person shooter, developed by 8monkey Labs and published by Phantom EFX, hitting retail shelves…
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A Look At The G.I. Joe Extras
Can the extras packed into the video game tie-in for the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie possibly make up for the lackluster game play we’ve seen so far? As a game, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra hasn’t been all that impressive. I got my hands on the Contra-fied shooter at E3 2009,…
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Nostalgia’s Airships Make Us Nostalgic
Ignition Entertainment‘s Nostalgia for the Nintendo DS lives up to its name, bringing to mind roleplaying games of ages past with battling airships. Nostalgia basically takes the same sort of airship travel as we’ve seen in earlier entries in the Final Fantasy series and countless other roleplaying games and pimps it out, letting the player…
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Mana Khemia 2 Gets Premium Treatment In August
NIS America has narrowed down the release date for Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy to August, released as a premium package with the usual goodies. Developed by Gust, Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy is of course the sequel to Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis. New subjects have been added to Al-Revis Academy’s curriculum,…
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League Of Legends Won’t Cost You A Dime
Riot Games announces today that its upcoming Warcraft III mod turned full game League of Legends will be free-to-play, with a premium retail edition available for those that would rather pay. League of Legends is an action-strategy game with roleplaying elements, fashion after the Warcraft III Defense of the Ancients game type. The player takes…
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Wolfenstein The Animated Graphic Novel Part Two
Now that Hitler is dead, it’s time to backtrack, stealing the Spear of Destiny back from the Nazi’s in part two of Activision’s Wolfenstein animated graphic novel series. I had almost forgotten that Spear of Destiny was a prequel to Wolfenstein 3D, but I suppose it makes sense. Once you kill Robo-Hitler you can pretty…
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Darkfall Descends On North America
After months spent using Europe as one gigantic beta test, Adventurine’s massively-multiplayer online game Darkfall Online has finally launched its first North American server. Darkfall Online is an online roleplaying game that places an emphasis on player freedom and real-time action in an expansive fantasy world. The European servers opened in February, and despite some…
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Blue Toad Murders On The PlayStation Network
PlayStation 3 owners are getting a bit of episodic adventure in their lives later this year, as Relentless Software announces Blue Toad Murder Files exclusively for the PlayStation Network. With Telltale trying to juggle putting out new games with porting their existing technology to the PlayStation3, PS3 owners are feeling a bit neglected when it…
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