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First ModNation Racers Trailer Played, Created, And Shared
Here’s the first official trailer for ModNation Racers, United Front Games’ urban vinyl meets kart racing take on Sony’s Play – Create – Share concept. As I mentioned in my E3 impressions of ModNation Racers, you can see the game certainly doesn’t skimp on charm, and the amount of options for customizing your racer, kart,…
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Plants VS Zombies Pollinating Other Platforms
One of the strangest tower defense variations around is spreading its seed, as PopCap Games reveals plans to spread the Plants VS Zombies PC love to other platforms. In an interview with Kombo, PopCap’s senior director of public relations Garth Chouteau talks about migrating the company’s more popular games to other platforms, and PC title…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Script More Than 40 Novels Long
In a blog post on the Star Wars: The Old Republic website, director of audio and localization Shauna Perry talks about the challenge of recording voice overs for every character in a massively-multiplayer universe. When they first announced that The Old Republic would be fully-voiced during E3 2009, those of us involved in the more…
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Japanese LittleBigPlanet Site Ain’t Afraid Of Posting Ghostbusters DLC
The Japanese LittleBigPlanet website beats North America to the punch, revealing downloadable Ghostbusters costumes of Slimer, all four Ghostbusters, and the Littlest Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Media Molecule and Sony have been teasing the Ghostbusters downloadable content for LittleBigPlanet for a good week now. While we’re still waiting for the big reveal as of this…
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Are These Cat Lips On DC Universe’s Comic-Con Poster?
Match the lips to the character in this teaser image from the San Diego Comic-Con exclusive poster for DC Universe Online. This teaser image popped up on the DC Universe Online MySpace page yesterday, along with a bit of overly-obvious teaser text: “I just saw the poster that we’re giving out at San Diego Comic-Con…
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Hudson Soft Dials Up The Horror With Calling
Hudson Soft takes a stab at the horror genre with Calling for the Nintendo Wii, which transforms your Wii remote into a cell phone with direct dial service to the damned. The Calling plays on classic Japanese horror films like Ringu, with a mysterious website called the Page of Black. A simple black page with…
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Starfy Parties In Rockefeller Plaza
Nintendo celebrates the release of the first Starfy title in the United States this weekend, inviting children of all ages to the Nintendo World Store in New York City for hot face painting action. The Legendary Starfy for the Nintendo DS might have been released in North America early last month, but it’s never too…
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Why It’s Hard To Make Today’s Games Funny
Video games have been generating laughter since the days of text-based adventures. Can today’s more complicated titles keep up with the comedy of their beloved point-and-click ancestors? Comedy isn’t easy, especially in the medium of the video game. Injecting humor is more than simply having a character say something funny. It takes precise timing, a…
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Disgaea 3 Getting Trophies In Exchange For Save Data
Disgaea 3 is finally getting trophy support next week, which means it’s time to dust off those discs and back up your save files, because once you patch the game, they’ll be completely useless. The Disgaea 3 trophy patch goes live on July 16th, adding in the ability for players to earn coveted trophy points…
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Jack Black Has An Axe To Grind
There’s nothing quite as terrifying as Jack Black swinging around a giant battle axe, as evidenced by episode 4 of Brutal Thoughts with Jack Black. Eddie Riggs wields a battle axe with skill and grace in Brutal Legend. Jack Black, on the other hand, kills the boom operator. Are you kids out there getting the…
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Need For Speed Nitro Still Stylin’
The Nintendo Wii entry in EA’s reboot of the Need for Speed series continues to impress with sharp, stylish visuals. The DS version? Not so much. See if you can spot the difference! Sure it isn’t a hyper-realistic racer that lets you see your own reflection in the rear-view mirror. That’s not really what the…
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2009 Summer Of Arcade: What’s Out When
Five major Xbox Live Arcade titles make up Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade lineup, and now we know exactly when each is coming out, from Turtles in Time to Shadow Complex. We’re getting one big release per week starting July 22nd and running through August 19th, when the Summer of Arcade promotion delivers its last quality…
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DJ Star Scratches Your DS
Not every upcoming DJ game requires a large extra piece of plastic, as Game Life‘s DJ Star for the Nintendo DS readily proves. Maybe it’s just me, but I find the concept of scratching to music much more compelling on the DS than I do sitting in front of my television with a special controller,…
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Still Alive Free For Rock Band Unplugged
The latest batch of downloadable songs for Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP includes the stirring love anthem “Still Alive” from Portal, which will be available, free of charge and includes delicious cake. I almost missed the inclusion of Jonathan Coulton’s masterpiece in the list of new songs coming to the Rock Band Unplugged Music…
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Ghostbusters Demo Now Available
If you’ve been too frightened to pick up a copy of Ghostbusters: The Video Game for the Xbox 360, a demo is now available to help you determine if bustin’ makes you feel good. I can certainly understand why one would hesitate to pick up a copy of Ghostbusters until now. After all, it is…
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Marvel VS Capcom 2 Release Date Wrestled To The Ground
While Marvel’s release date prediction for Marvel VS Capcom 2 fell through, we’re pretty confident that the July release date Capcom just announced for the Xbox Live Arcade version is reliable. Marvel might have been a bit off when they suggested a June 29th release for Marvel VS Capcom 2, but they were pretty damn…
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Yes, EA Just Announced Command & Conquer 4
In answer to McWhertor’s question from yesterday afternoon, yes. EA has just announced Command & Conquer 4, the dramatic conclusion to the Tiberium saga. The year is 2062, and the world is about to end. In six years, the Tiberium that has been the focus of such contention over the course of the Command &…
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Funcom Wants You Back In Age Of Conan
It’s been a year of big changes for Age of Conan, and developer Funcom thinks it’s time that everyone who fled the game comes back and see how the renovations have gone. Age of Conan launched to a massive response last year, only to quickly begin hemorrhaging players due to a lack of promised features…
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Superman’s First Look At His NBA Live Cover
See Orlando Magic center Dwight “Superman” Howard’s eyes light up like a kid at Christmas as he sees his NBA Live 10 cover for the very first time on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. His ‘obligatory honor statement’ in the official announcement of his scoring the cover to EA Sports‘ NBA Live 10 was certainly…
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Frankenreview: Call Of Juarez: Bound In Blood
Grab your hat and strap on your irons, we’re going on a Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood review round-up! Developer Techland revisits the Spaghetti Western in Bound in Blood, the sequel to 2007’s Call of Juarez. This time around the game focuses on Thomas and Ray McCall, the original protagonist’s step-father and uncle respectively,…
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