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Rock Band Country Track Listing Stumbles In Late Reeking Of Beer
Country music loving Rock Band owners who’ve exhausted all their favorite genre has to offer will soon be on the road again, as Harmonix reveals the track list for the Rock Band Country Track Pack. While eight of the twenty-one songs in the Rock Band Country Track Pack have already been released, thirteen of the…
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Three New Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Screens
While other developers tend to keep their PlayStation Portable game screenshots small, Konami has no such qualms, delivering three hi-res screens of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The new screens don’t really show us much outside of what we’ve already seen in the announcement trailer from E3. We’ve got multiple Snakes in various outfits, leading…
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The Nintendo Download: Toast, Rainbows, And Plumber Utilities
This week in the Nintendo Download we have three catchy new WiiWare titles, one welcome to the Fantasy Zone, and another clock/calculator combo for the DSi. It’s a triple dose of WiiWare this week, and at least two of them seem pretty interesting. You can’t help but be curious about a game called Eduardo the…
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Console Owners Love Their Streaming Video
A study conducted by market research firm In-Stat indicates that video game consoles are the preeminent device for delivering web video to televisions in the U.S., generating $2.9 billion in revenue by 2013. A few years ago, analysts predicted that media-center PCs would be showing up in huge numbers across the country as more people…
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iPhone Gets It’s Own Advance Wars…Sort Of
Luc Bernard bounces back from the release of Eternity’s Child with Mecho Wars, an Advance Wars-esque strategy game now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Remember back when we reported that Mecho Wars was due out in March? We were a little off. It’s available on the iTunes App Store now for $4.99 though,…
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BioWare Officially Unveils Old Republic Smuggler Class
A Star Wars character hiding behind a crate with a pistol in his hand can only mean one thing: BioWare has gone and unveiled the Smuggler class for Star Wars: The Old Republic. We knew they were coming, but it’s nice to see them anyway. BioWare has posted information on the Smuggler, the latest class…
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The Air Force Has Video Games Too
Just like the Army, the U.S. Air Force uses games to help potential recruits connect with their organization. Just not quite as well. The Games and Extras page of the official U.S. Air Force website is chock full of interesting little activities to help demonstrate how much fun it is to be in the Air…
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Placing Your Face In Fight Night Round 4
The only thing better than beating up famous boxers in EA’s Fight Night Round Four? Beating up your friends, family, and yourself. Somehow I don’t think people will be limiting their custom boxers to themselves when Fight Night Round Four comes out on June 23rd. Not when you can use both your USB camera and…
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Runes Of Magic Getting Much-Needed Elf Injection
What’s a massively multiplayer online fantasy roleplaying game without playable elves? It’s Runes of Magic, at least until the September release of Chapter II – The Elven Prophecy. Frogster has released a set of new Runes of Magic screenshots, showing off the elves and the green, leafy areas they will inhabit come September. They’ve been…
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The Scratch Turntable In Action
Take a look at Numark’s "first and only legitimate DJ controller for gamers" in this turntable hyping video for Scratch: The Ultimate DJ. I suppose it is the first video game controller created by a company that mainly manufactures DJ equipment, but to call it a only “legitimate” DJ controller seems like a direct dig…
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Neo Steam Lurches To Life
The beta has closed, the servers are open, and Atlus Online officially has its first active online game in Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent. Following a successful open beta that kicked off in late May, Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent is now fully operational, free to play for anyone who has signed up at the…
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Next Week In Rock Band: This Is New Spinal Tap
Faux rockers Spinal Tap are releasing Back From The Dead on June 16th and Harmonix is on point, with three songs from the new album hitting Rock Band next week, along with a little Evanescence. “Back from the Dead,” Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare” and “Warmer Than Hell” comprise three of the four tracks in the…
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Tecmo Deals iPhone DoA Kasumi Blackjack
Who in their right mind would pay good money to play blackjack on their iPhone with a 3D model of Kasumi from Tecmo’s Dead or Alive series? Me, apparently. Upon being tipped off to the game’s availability on the iTunes App Store I hopped right over and picked it up, just to see what it…
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Free Realms Player Watch: We Have 3 Million
Sony Online Entertainment‘s Free Realms just surpassed 3 million players, leading us to suspect that perhaps the original million is just creating new accounts to get more free celebration gear. And more celebration gear is indeed on the way. Following the free t-shirt and Sony Station Cash given to players at the 1 million milestone…
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Dante’s Inferno Dev Diary Makes My Head Hurt
Conflicting emotions run rampant as I watch this developer diary for EA’s Dante’s Inferno, which turns one of the great works of literature into an over-the-top action game. The game seriously makes my head ache. I made a study of Dante’s Divine Comedy in High School, probing deep into the themes, his representation of hell…
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Gears Of War 2 On PC? Try Bears Of War
Rumors are circulating regarding a possible December release for a PC version of Gears of War 2, but the site the rumors reference might have its compass pointed in the wrong direction. IGN points to a site called Beantown Games, explaining that “there were plenty of details that appeared to be pulled from an upcoming…
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Persona PSP Packed With Persona Soundtrack
The Atlus Spoils customer appreciation program continues to live up to its name, with the announcement that every launch copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona for the PSP comes packed with a two-disc soundtrack. That’s right, two-discs, not just half the soundtrack, like the disc that shipped with Persona 4 for the PlayStation 2. The…
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Video Games Live Has Its Own MP3 Player
The Video Games Live concert tour kicks their merchandising up a notch with this new VGL-branded VIVO MP3 player, loaded with unreleased recordings from Kingdom Hearts, Halo, and more. The 2GB MP3 player is now available for sale at the Video Games Live online store, and will also be making appearances at the merchandising tables…
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Spore Galactic Adventures Attacks The Mothership
EA only has a week and a half left to convince you that the Spore Galactic Adventures add-on is worth your time and money. Let’s see if this trailer helps! I can’t help but think Ratchet and Clank as I watch this trailer for Mothership Down, one of the Maxis-created adventures included with Spore Galactic…
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Zenonia Micro-Review: Unexpectedly Epic
Korean developer Gamevil seeks to pack an epic experience into a tiny space with Zenonia, an action roleplaying game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Zenonia follows a young man named Regret as he searches for answers to the mystery surrounding his birth after the sudden death of the man who raised him. Players start…
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