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Eidos Brings A Fistful Of Action To E3
Eidos has confirmed the three major titles they’ll be bringing to E3 2009, featuring three different types of agents of dark justice – small, medium, and Batman. The recently acquired Square Enix subsidiary remains mum on the Tomb Raider and Hitman fronts leading up to the show next week, instead singling out three previously-announced action…
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What’s In The Aion Collector’s Edition Box?
Let’s take a look at the lovely swag NCsoft is including in the $69.99 Limited Collector’s Edition of their upcoming massively multiplayer online game Aion. The Box itself, along with a limited edition the female winged Asmodian Daeva Aiva. Along with what is pictured here, the box also includes two exclusive emotes, and exclusive title,…
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Win Stan Bush Swag If You’ve Got The Touch
Activision passed us some Stan Bush swag in celebration of “The Touch” being available as free downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour. If you know your Transformers the Movie trivia, it could be yours. Here’s how this is going to work. We have two XL Stan Bush t-shirts and five signed copies of Stan’s…
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Kotaku Robot Wars Round Three: Salvation
The Kotaku Robot Wars continue on the other side of the world, as Osaka Japan and Canberra Australia are reduced to steaming piles of rubble and broken robot parts…but whose broken robot parts? Once more we pit the power of human intuition against the mechanical will of Crecente’s R2-D2 robot to try and predict the…
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Dead Space Extraction Extracts Itself In September
EA has given the Wii installment of their survival horror franchise a release date, with Dead Space Extraction scheduled to hit a little under a year after the original game. September 29th marks the date that Wii owners get shot of EA-flavored survival horror. Dead Space Extraction is an on-rails shooter that tells the story…
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Robots We Love: Pin*Bot
While video game robots are all well and good, it takes a special sort of robot to carry a pinball game. Sure, he may bear a striking resemblance to Cobra Commander, but we love Pin*Bot. Pin*Bot originates from the 1986 Williams pinball table of the same name. As you attempt to advance your silver ball…
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PlayStation Home Getting 64-Player Buzz! Trivia Game
Trivia fans will soon have their own haven in PlayStation Home, as Sony reveals the Buzz! HQ, a Buzz!-centric space complete with a 64-player trivia showdown. How does a 64-player trivia game work on PlayStation Home? Players gather on a gigantic game board with four colored squares. Questions are pulled from the MyBuzzQuiz.com website. When…
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Natsume’s E3 Plans Much More Than Harvest Moon
Natsume has revealed their full game line up for E3 2009, and this time around only 40% of the games have Harvest Moon in the title. By far the most exciting title Natsume will be showing at E3 is the long-awaited PlayStation 3 title Afrika, which we’ve been waiting for since the title was first…
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A Guided Tour Of Burnout Paradise’s Big Surf Island
In the latest episode of Crash TV, Criterion takes us on a guided tour of Big Surf Island, the major chunk of new real estate coming to Burnout Paradise next month. After a year of driving around Paradise City, the prospect of new places to play is immensely inviting. The 45 new billboards and 75…
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Sega Wheels Out Sonic All-Star Racing
Sega continues to milk their blue hedgehog for all he’s worth, with the announcement of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, which takes the world’s fastest video game character and puts him in a car. Sonic & Sega All-Star Racing, due out in 2010 for the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo DS, is just…
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Neo Steam Open Beta Full Steam Ahead
Atlus Online throws open the doors to Neo Steam, launching the open beta test for their first massively multiplayer online offering. JoyImpact’s Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent is the first of many games to be available through Atlus’s online gaming and anime portal. Initially announced in February of this year, the game has passed through…
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Night Elf Druid Bears Shall Look Like This
Blizzard continues its slow reveal of the upcoming druid animal form changes for World of Warcraft, showing off what the fashionable Night Elf druid bears will be wearing next season. Like the new Tauren druid bear forms, the new Night Elf models are very reminiscent of the old, but they definitely aren’t exactly the same.…
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Xbox 360: More Than 30 Million Served
Microsoft has announced that global sales of the Xbox 360 have now surpassed the 30 million mark, with the Xbox Live community swelling to 20 million active members, all swearing at each other. The new statistics arrive with the announcement of record growth for the console so far this year, celebrating a 28 percent jump…
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And Then Free Realms Surpassed 2 Million Players
A week and a half after reaching the million player mark, Sony Online Entertainment‘s Free Realms has gone and doubled it. The player population of Free Realms continues to grow at a ridiculous rate, hitting the two million player milestone within a month of the game’s official launch. According to SOE, the game is a…
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Kotaku Robot Wars Round 2: The Quickening
The first round of Kotaku’s Robot Wars have left four U.S. cities in ruins and four video game robots nothing more than mounds of melted plastic and metal. Who survived to fight again? Well that all depends on who you ask. As we mentioned yesterday, we’re doing this three ways. The actual outcomes have been…
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Unknown Worlds Triumphantly Teases Natural Selection 2
The developers of popular Half-Life mod Natural Selection are preparing to release standalone sequel Natural Selection 2 this year via Steam, and we’ve got the exclusive teaser trailer to prove it. Last we heard, the development of the standalone sequel to one of the most played Half-Life 2 mods had hit a financial snag, with…
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Reviews
Bionic Commando Review: Grabbing Hands Grab All They Can
Capcom and GRIN spring Nathan “RAD” Spencer from prison, dust off his shiny metal arm, and turn him loose against the forces of evil in Bionic Commando, the sequel to the original NES classic. Much has changed since Nathan Spencer first took on imperialist Nazi forces on a mission to rescue Super Joe. Ten years…
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Robots We Love: Clank
Even endangered furry space creatures are enamored with our mechanical pals, as evidenced by the latest robot we love, Clank. Insomniac’s little robot buddy is the co-star of one of the most consistently excellent platforming game series ever to grace a PlayStation console. Clank manages to kick ass in any situation, whether he’s transformed into…
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Ubisoft Believes In Price Drops And Fitness Games
During Ubisoft’s financial earnings call today, CEO Yves Guillemot highlighted the importance of fitness games, suggesting that coming console price drops could drive the growing genre to even greater heights. Responding to a question on growing trends in the games industry, Guillemot singled out both fitness games and lowered console prices before expertly tying the…
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Shaun White Rides On The World Stage
Skateboarding Wii owners get another excuse to break out their Balance Boards this holiday season, as Ubisoft announces Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage. Following up on the success of last year’s Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip, World Stage is another Wii exclusive snowboarding title featuring cartoony characters. This time around, players will find themselves following…
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