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Red Faction: Guerrilla DLC Covers New Ground
Another victory for Martian guerillas today, as THQ announces three packs of downloadable content for Red Faction: Guerrilla, beginning with Demons of the Badlands, which takes players to an all-new section of the Martian landscape. Of course the new areas included in August’s Demons of the Badlands DLC are still a rather coppery color, but…
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Sega Still Keen On Mature Wii Games
Despite the poor sales of House of the Dead: Overkill and MadWorld, Sega still has plenty of publishing love set aside for mature games on the Nintendo Wii. House of the Dead: Overkill only sold 45,000 copies in its first month. MadWorld sold 66,000. The numbers paint a dismal picture, but as Sega’s MD of…
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City Of Heroes Vigilantly Launches Issue 15
The heroes are much more heroic and the villains exponentially more vile with the release of City of Heroes Issue: 15: Anniversary, with cosmetic changes and mission architect tweaks the order of the day. Aside from a new 5th Column Task Force / Strike Force series of missions, the bulk of the Issue 15 update…
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Gears Of War 2 Continues In Jacinto’s Remnant
New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss picks up the story of Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago where Gears of War 2 left off, with next month’s release of Gears of War: Jacinto’s Remnant. As this novel is a direct sequel to Gears 2, those of you who haven’t finished it yet might want to…
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Forza 3 Races Through Japan
We’re well aware that Forza Motorsports 3 looks amazing, but where will it look amazing? Microsoft highlights the legendary racing tracks of Japan in their latest update, revealing a handful of new cars in the process. The latest Turn 10 update for Forza 3 reveals four new tracks across three classic Japanese racing venues for…
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Carmack: Just About Everything id Makes Coming To iPhone
Doom Resurrection and Wolfenstein 3D Classic are only the beginning for id Software on the iPhone, with everything from Wolfenstein RPG to the upcoming Rage making their way to Apple’s platform. As a matter of fact, Wolfenstein RPG has been completed for quite some time. As id’s John Carmark explains it, his excitement over getting…
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First New Rock Band Unplugged DLC Hits
A rather nice variety of tracks make up the first batch of new DLC for Rock Band Unplugged since launch, with Stone Temple Pilots, Mötley Crüe, Avenged Sevenfold, and Dream Theater getting the Frequency treatment. The downloadable song grand total for Rock Band Unplugged rises from ten to fourteen today, with the introduction of four…
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Doom Resurrection: The iPhone Game That Nearly Wasn’t
With the rail-shooter Doom Resurrection for the iPhone hitting the App Store at any moment, Kotaku spoke to John Carmack about design decisions, multiplayer, and why the game was nearly canceled months into development. id Software‘s John Carmack is one of the masterminds behind some of the greatest first-person shooters of all time, often referred…
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This Week On Live Arcade: Worms And The King Of Fighters
Two completely different types of combat hit the Xbox Live Arcade service this week, with Worms 2: Armageddon and The King of Fighters ’98 Ultimate Match. Worms 2: Armageddon is the sequel to Worms Armageddon, released 10 years ago for the Dreamcast, PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo 64. The gameplay is tried and true: use various…
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Marvel VS Capcom 2: Claws Versus Fireballs
So Marvel VS Capcom 2 isn’t coming until the end of July. That just means more time for Capcom to release promotional strategy videos! While I’m not sure what the above clip is supposed to be, I do know the ones below are demonstrating how to handle the game’s two most iconic characters in head-to-head…
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Celebrate Independence Day With The Sacktue Of Liberty
Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free, and Media Molecule will give them a free costume that embodies their hopes and dreams in LittleBigPlanet. Media Molecule follows up last week’s free druid costume with another new outfit for your sackboy, or perhaps sackgirl, in this case. The Sacktue of…
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Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Launch Trailer
Tomorrow you can play the game based on the upcoming movie based on the book you’ve probably already read, in EA’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Harry gets stronger, magical crimes run rampant, and a guy sharing a name with my cat Rufus takes over as Minister of Magic in the sixth book of…
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Pre-Buy The Next Final Fantasy XI Scenario Next Week
While there’s no word on when you can play the second of three new Final Fantasy XI scenarios. A Moogle Kupo d’Etat – Evil in Small Doses, now we know when you can buy it. Starting on July 5th, Final Fantasy XI players will be able to purchase the follow-up to A Crystalline Prophecy –…
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Fragile Breaks Into Europe With Rising Star
Celebrate the newly-announced European release for Tri Crescendo‘s Wii RPG Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon, with a batch of new screens courtesy of publisher Rising Star Games. So Fragile is making it to the states courtesy of XSEED, and now Europe is getting the game sometime in the first quarter of 2010 via Rising…
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The Nintendo Download: Summertime In The Fantasy Zone
It’s summertime, and on top of the usual crop of random puzzle games and a return to the Fantasy Zone, Nintendo has a couple of games available for download today that accurately simulate being outside. What’s outside, you ask? No earthly clue. As far as I am concerned my world ends at that heavy curtain…
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The King Of Fighters XII – Triumph Of Combat
Giddy after the triumph of winning three Best of E3 awards for Best Fighting Game for The King of Fighters XII , Ignition Entertainment rushes out this latest trailer without removing the opening slate. Sure, we could have edited the slate ourselves, but then how would we preserve the excitement? Simply telling you about it?…
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New Section 8 Screens Drop In
TimeGate Studios dropped us some new screenshots for their Xbox 360 and PC shooter Section 8, showing off….the graphics for Section 8, of course. Luckily their aim was off a bit, as even a screenshot is instantly fatal when dropped from 15,000 feet in the air. Dropping from on high onto the enemy is probably…
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inFamous Home Space Coming Soon
Snuck in at the very bottom of a post on important inFamous facts and figures, Sony has announced that Sucker Punch‘s free-roaming superhero game would soon be getting its own home in PlayStation Home. The announcement is hidden at the bottom of an otherwise unspectacular post regarding some fun facts and figures that Game Informer…
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Old Vivendi Digs Put To Constructive Use
Vivendi’s Los Angeles headquarters at the Howard Hughes Center might be gone, but what’s taken its place will leave a lasting impact on LA drivers for years to come. Following the 2007 merger between Activision and Blizzard, the old Vivendi headquarters at 6060 Center Drive became redundant, closed as a cost-cutting measure to help streamline…
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Tiger Redeems Himself On Late Night…Sort Of
After losing to Jimmy Fallon in a round of EA’s Tiger Woods 10 for the Nintendo Wii in Times Square yesterday, Tiger managed to defeat Fallon in the televised rematch…but just barely. Tiger came on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show last night to see if he could make up for his humiliating loss…
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