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Aion Preview: Onward Towards Ascension
After taking part in several weekend beta test events, we’re finally ready to turn a slight more critical eye on NCsoft’s latest massively-multiplayer offering, Aion. What Is It? Aion, formerly Aion: The Tower of Eternity, is a massively-multiplayer online roleplaying game created by Korean developer NCsoft. It takes place on the world of Atreia, which…
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Dragon Age: Origins Ogres Are Not Loveable
The ogre depicted in this new bath of screens for BioWare’s Dragon Age: Origins is not cuddly, nor does it have layers, like onions. I’d say it’s an accurate assumption to say that they do not fall in love with lady ogres voiced by Cameron Diaz, or befriend talking donkeys or cats with Spanish accents.…
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Don’t Copy That Floppy: The Next Generation
MC Double Def DP’s 1992 hit “Don’t Copy That Floppy” is getting a modern-day update, once again unleashing the industry’s number one weapon against software piracy – rap music. Kids, if you pirate software, your mother will be dragged into the street and beaten by the police. At least that seems to be the message…
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BioWare: Sometimes Sex Makes Sense
A blast for the not-too-distant past today, as BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk revisits the Mass Effect sex scene controversy, explaining that sometimes sex just makes sense. CVG interviewed Zeschuk recently, touching on the subject of the Mass Effect sex scene, a subject that drove the uninformed media wild around the time of the game’s initial…
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The Witcher Patch Removes DRM, Adds Adventure
Patch 1.5 for CD Projekt Red‘s award-winning PC roleplaying game The Witcher is now available, removing the pesky digital rights management while adding five new player-created adventures to the game. Those of you pondering removing The Witcher install from your PC in order to free up space might want to hold off a little bit…
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Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Freedom Dated
Turbine has selected an early August date for the release of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited, the update that switches the massively multiplayer D&D game to a free-to-play business model. Early August brings massive changes to Dungeons & Dragons Online, with a new class, new dungeons, and a new free-to-play, micro-transaction-based financial model that…
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Battlefield 1943 Establishes Beachhead
Battlefield 1943 is available today for purchase and play on Xbox Live Arcade, and the quote-laden launch trailer is here to compel you. This is the UK launch trailer for DICE’s big thing in a small package Battlefield release, but luckily for those of us in the U.S. they included a quote that lists the…
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EA Re-NERFs The Wii
Packaging a video game with a NERF gun worked so well the first time that EA’s doing it again, adding secret decoder functions to the arsenal in NERF 2: “N-Strike” Elite for the Nintendo Wii. NERF 2 is being developed partially in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the NERF brand, and perhaps mostly due…
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Underground Railroad Video Game Tells The Whole Story
After what she says was ages of misrepresentation in books, films, and television, Norfolk University history professor Cassandra Newby-Alexander wants to tell the true story of the slave-liberating Underground Railroad using a video game. “The underground Railroad was a much more complex issue that it’s been made out. When you push a person to a…
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Wolfenstein The Animated Graphic Novel Part One
This first in a four-part series of animated Wolfenstein graphic novels from Activision tells the story of the original Wolfenstein 3D. Really out of date spoilers follow. It took me a moment to get my bearings while watching this first in the Wolfenstein animated graphic novel series. I had assumed that it was simply a…
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Age Of Conan Expands At GamesCom
A work in progress for the better part of a year, Funcom is finally ready to take the next step with Age of Conan, teasing an expansion announcement to take place in Germany next month. After months spent tweaking and polishing the game play and overall experience of their massively multiplayer take on the Conan…
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A Look At ODST’s Halo 3 Maps
As promised, Bungie has delivered three shots of the new Halo 3 multiplayer maps included in the add-on disc shipping with Halo 3: ODST. If the above image seems familiar, that’s because the new Heretic map revisits Halo 2’s Midship map, allowing players to plasma grenade each other all over the interior of the Pious…
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Elves Add Classes To Runes Of Magic
The elves are bringing two new playable character classes to Runes of Magic, along with the usual pointy-ears and naked mailbox dancing. The Warden and the Druid join Runes of Magic’s diverse cast of character classes when the second chapter, The Elven Prophecy, hits the game this September. The Warden is at one with the…
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Duke Nukem 3D To Kick iAss On iPhone
Duke Nukem Forever might be dead, but the spirit of the name lives on, as MachineWorks Northwest prepares to release an updated version of Duke Nukem 3D for the iPhone. Yes, MachineWorks is delivering a smoothed-over but faithful port of the original Duke Nukem 3D to the iPhone. MachineWorks is the same team that brought…
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Happy Bungie Day!
On the seventh day of the seventh month, the team at Bungie crawled out of their darkened office to take on the world in Halo 3, during their annual Bungie Day celebration. Bungie has a thing for the number seven, documented by the research team at Halopedia, and so they picked July 7th (7/7) as…
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Champions Online Versus Your Computer
It’s an all-out battle between your computer and the forces of system requirements, as Cryptic reveals the stats your PC needs to roll to run Champions Online. Judging from the game’s simplistic, stylized look, you wouldn’t think you’d need a powerful machine to run it, and you’d be correct in that thinking. Champions will run…
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SimAnimals Bless The Rains Down In Africa
The wild dogs cry out in the night, as they grow restless looking for some solitary company in SimAnimals Africa, EA’s follow-up to their charming animal simulator for the Nintendo Wii and DS. If you want compelling animal drama, you go to Africa. Natsume knows this, as does Majesco. Now EA is getting in on…
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Explore NeoTokyo In Half Life 2
Colorful cityscapes hide dark intriguing in the streets of NeoTokyo, the newly released Source mod freely available to anyone with Steam and a Souce SDK title. Nearly five years in the making by Studio Radi-8, NeoTokyo borrows inspiration from Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell and Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, plunging players into a future Japan…
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The Warriors Of Aion
New screens from NCsoft’s Aion highlight the warrior class. front-line fighters which eventually choose between the path of the Templar or the Gladiator. This weekend’s Aion beta test session allowed players to progress past level 10 for the first time, so I go a chance to level up a warrior from 1 to 11, earning…
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Marvel VS Capcom 2: Hulk Smash Puny Wrestler
First it was Ryu versus Wolverine, and now the green goliath takes on the Russian bear in the second installment of Capcom’s Marvel VS Capcom 2 strategy series. It’s the same drill as last week. Capcom takes two of the most iconic fighters on either side of the Marvel VS Capcom 2 conflict and pits…
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