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The Fighters Of Samurai Showdown: Edge Of Destiny
The Samurai Showdown series continues in North America this fall with Samurai Showdown: Edge of Destiny, and Ignition Entertainment has sent along a video so we can keep track of who is fighting who. Thirteen classic SS characters and eleven newcomers gather in this latest entry to do battle with the villainous Golba, rendered in…
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Free Realms Gets Guilds
Free Realms might have had a lot to offer players in terms of game play, but it lacked one major massively multiplayer feature, until today that is. Sony Online Entertainment today finally launches a guild system for Free Realms, allowing friends and like-minded players to unite under a single chat channel and head tag. Any…
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What’s New In Dungeons And Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited
Not just about making the game free-to-play, the upcoming Eberron Unlimited upgrade for Dungeons & Dragons Online brings new adventures, a raised level cap, and a whole new class – Favored Soul. While raising the level cap to 20 and adding in The Plane of Battle and Crime Syndicate Adventure Packs to Dungeons and Dragons…
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Aion Video Podcast Series Start
If you’ve got questions about the upcoming massively multiplayer online roleplaying game Aion, NCsoft’s new video podcast series should provide all the answers you need. The first entry in the Aion video podcast series features members of the development team explaining everything you need to know about the game’s back story and lore. Why is…
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EA Combines Mythic And BioWare Into A Giant RPG Robot
EA is merging their two top roleplaying game developers, BioWare and Mythic, into one massive RPG group, with BioWare’s co-founder Ray Muzyka taking the lead and Mythic’s Mark Jacobs taking a powder. Creating what is effectively a massively multiplayer RPG development juggernaut, EA has tapped Muzkya to become Group General Manager of their new RPG/MMO…
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Second Hitman Movie Has A Writer
Love it or hate it, the movie adaptation of Eidos’ Hitman series made 20th Century Fox a great deal of money, and now they’ve hired screenwriter Kyle Ward to make them some more. The news of Ward’s hiring comes by way of IESB, who confirmed with 20th Century Fox that the young writer had been…
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Age Of Conan Ventures Into Tarantia Commons
Funcom has just launched Update 5 – Gangs of Tarantia for their massively multiplayer online roleplaying game Age of Conan, introducing a whole new area, new storylines, and fundamentally changing how the game is played. Yes, along with the new areas, which can be seen in the lovely screenshots here, Update 5 is another step…
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The Lonely Island Plays Doubt: The Video Game
Who hasn’t been eagerly awaiting the video game adaptation of Doubt, the 2008 film that cast Phillip Seymore Hoffman as a Catholic priest involved in an inappropriate relationship with an altar boy? We missed out on this Lonely Island short, which originally aired during the 2009 MYV Movie Awards, as we were rather busy getting…
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The Latest Graphical Intel From Global Agenda
The latest batch of screenshots for Hi-Rez Studios‘ massively multiplayer online shooter Global Agenda show s off exactly how good you can look while being slaughtered by giant killer robots. It seems like every time I see Global Agenda it looks just a little more polished than before. The armor definitely looks polished, as do…
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Dirt 2 Wii Looks Rather Clean
The second game in the Colin McRae Dirt racing franchise marks the debut of the series on the Nintendo Wii. Here’s an idea of what that will look like. The game actually doesn’t seem to have suffered too much from the transition. Sure, it’s nowhere near as detailed as its big brothers on the PlayStation…
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Reserve Assassin’s Creed II, Get The Palazzo Medici
Placing your money down on a copy of Assassin’s Creed II at your local GameStop not only reserves you a copy of the game, but also your very own Renaissance palace to romp through. The Palazzo Medici was designed by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo for Cosimo de’ Medici of the famous Medici family. Built between 1445…
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Reviews
Eduardo The Samurai Toaster Micro-Review
If anything, Semnat Studios‘ Eduardo the Samurai Toaster for WiiWare deserves a spot in the head-turning game title hall of fame. Formed in 2005 by Daniel Coleman and Robert DeMaria, Semnat Studios is a tiny little development company that started off crafting smaller PC projects, one of which eventually grew into Eduardo the Samurai Toaster,…
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Realtime Worlds Has Another MMO Up Their Sleeves
While Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds focus might be on getting APB out the door early next year, they’ve already got another massively multiplayer project in the pipeline. During his keynote presentation at this year’s GameHorizon conference, Realtime Worlds creative director David Jones told the crowd that the company’s next massively multiplayer online title, the first…
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Best Buy Testing Used Game Market Waters
Electronics retailer Best Buy is stepping on a few GameStop toes in Texas this week, using the state as a test bed for game trade-in kiosks and used game sales. Video game specialty chain GameStop may have the lion’s share of the used market currently, but the vultures are definitely circling. This week, several Best…
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Aion’s Western Launch Dated
The long wait is only going to be a little longer now, as NCsoft announces a September release date in North America and Europe for their highly anticipated massively multiplayer online game Aion. Released in November in South Korea and April in China, North American and European gamers have been chomping at the bit to…
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Celebrate Sonic’s Birthday With Sega Swag
It’s Sonic the Hedgehog‘s 18th birthday today, and in order to celebrate, Sega Europe has been giving away Sonic swag all day via Twitter and Facebook. Our favorite blue hedgehog is already 18-years-old? It seems like only yesterday he was being placed in mediocre game after mediocre game, making millions of dollars per title on…
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Jimmy Page And Jack White Aren’t Fond Of Music Games
During a press conference promoting the documentary It Might Get Loud, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and The White Stripes’ Jack White had some harsh words for music-based video games. It seems that the two famous guitarists, both starring in the documentary on the history of the electric guitar along with U2’s The Edge,…
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360 Wireless Mic Stands Alone This Fall
Microsoft is taking the wireless microphone from their Lips and sending it packing, making its increased game support even more appealing by releasing it on its own this fall. With support recently introduced for both Guitar Hero: Metallica and Rock Band 2, the wireless microphone double-packed with copies of Microsoft’s karaoke game Lips are rather…
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The PlayStation Network Gets Punished Next Week
There’ll be nowhere to hide for PlayStation 3 owners next week, when Frank Castle bursts onto the PlayStation Network guns blazing in Zen Studios‘ The Punisher: No Mercy. ‘The Punisher: No Mercy is a first-person shooter starring the Marvel Comics character that has failed to truly take off outside of the comics scene and t-shirt…
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