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A Little inFamous To Tide You Over
If you can’t wait until next week and the demo just isn’t giving you enough inFamous, perhaps the official inFamous Mini-Game can be of service. Developed by Kerb and hosted exclusively at Spil Games‘ network of online casual gaming portals, the inFamous Mini-Game is a 2D platformer starring the full game’s protagonist Cole, who must…
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Next Week On Live Arcade: Wallace, Gromit, and Yosumin Live
It’s Memorial Day weekend, so Microsoft has gone ahead and revealed next week’s Xbox Live Arcade titles so they can completely devote Monday to memorializing. Sure it’s been out for two months on the PC, but how many of us actually own computers? Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures finally hit Xbox Live Arcade next week,…
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LittleBigPlanet Getting Web-Based Level Sharing Portal
Sharing LittleBigPlanet levels with your friends and strangers will soon be a lot easier, with a web-based portal on the way that will allow players to queue up levels using a handy web link. At the moment, sharing a LittleBigPlanet level involves giving other players your PlayStation Network handle and then having them search in-game…
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Damnation Multiplayer – Aim For The Zip Line
Damnation hits store shelves tomorrow everywhere but North America, and to celebrate Codemasters has released a new multiplayer trailer to show us Americans what we’ll be missing. It certainly looks like the vertical nature of the maps should provide some entertaining multiplayer situations, but as a sniper at heart, I’m planning on finding a nice…
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DC Universe Online Much Brighter With The Flash
Here’s some new concept art and screens from Sony Online Entertainment, showing how the Wally West version of The Flash appears in DC Universe Online. A profile shot. The Flash uses this for his Facebook listing. That there’s the fastest head on the planet. Surprise! The Flash is running! And running some more. The Flash…
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The Chronicles Of Spellborn Free Level Cap Increased
Apparently 7 free levels weren’t enough to entice players to pay up, as Acclaim raises the free-to-play level cap for The Chronicles of Spellborn to 9.9. Acclaim refers to The Chronicles of Spellborn as a “Freemium” massively multiplayer online game. This means the game limits free customers to a specific area and enforces a level…
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Brutal Thoughts with Jack Black
Jack Black hams it up in the first of a series of live-action shorts promoting Brutal Legend, with a guest appearance by insane game developer Tim Schafer. I don’t know about you, but for me it’s gotten to the point where I prefer to see animated characters with Jack Black’s voice over actually seeing Jack…
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PlayStation 3 Getting The Total Watchmen Experience
The PlayStation 3‘s Blu-ray drive has its advantages, as proven by the Watchmen: The End is Nigh The Complete Experience, a two-disc set collecting the game and the film for the PlayStation 3. While the Xbox 360 is getting Watchmen: The End is Nigh Parts 1 and 2 as a standalone retail release, the PlayStation…
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Armin Van Buuren Gets His Own DJ Game
The relentless march of DJ rhythm games continues, as TransGaming launches their new development studio with Armin van Buuren – In the Mix for the Nintendo Wii. Perhaps best known for enabling PC games to play on the Mac, TransGaming now enters the full-on game development biz, partnering with Foreign Media Games on Armin van…
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The Queen Of England’s Gold-Plated Wii
THQ knows that if you’re going to deliver a Wii to Buckingham Palace to promote your new game no ordinary console will do, so they had one gold plated. The shiny Nintendo console was delivered to Buckingham Palace today as part of a marketing stunt meant to promote BIG Family Games, the latest title in…
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Blur’s Shocking Teaser Trailer
Following up yesterday’s screens from Bizarre Creation’s new weapon-based racer comes this teaser trailer, which demonstrates that good looks only get you so far in Blur. Teaser trailer? More like taser trailer. While the screenshots did an admirable job of showing off the game’s graphics, I believe this teaser trailer captures the game’s essence. This…
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North American Pangya Back In Business
The North American version of Ntreev’s popular online fantasy golf game Pangya is officially back in business as of today. Pangya is a free-to-play, microtransaction-based online game that banks on players purchasing new costumes and equipment for their adorable anime avatars. Previously operating in North America under the name Albatross 18, the games was to…
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GameStop Reports Record Quarter As Used Game Sales Flourish
Video game retailer GameStop reports record sales and earnings for first quarter 2009, with a slight drop in new game sales bolstered by a significant rise in used products. Despite the unstable economy, GameStop once again delivers a report indicating record sales and earnings for the first quarter 2009. Sales were up 9.2% compared to…
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Resistance Finally Comes Home
Things heat up on PlayStation Home this Thursday, as the long-promised Resistance home space finally appears in a hail of turret-fire. The ruined cityscapes of Resistance comes to life tomorrow, when it will be filled with countless lifeless avatars running about, eager to win Resistance-themed prizes via the “Four Barrels of Fury” mini-game. The game…
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KoF XII – Getting To Know Elisabeth And Mature
Let’s take a more intimate look at Elisabeth and Mature, the two new female fighters recently added to the roster of The King of Fighters XII. So who are these two new ladies, and where do they fit into the ongoing King of Fighters saga? Here’s the official word. Mature is pretty quick on her…
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Reviews
Star Trek D-A-C Micro-Review
Riding the warp trail of the smash hit J.J. Abrams movie comes Star Trek D-A-C, a top-down space shooter for Xbox Live Arcade. Lacking the time to create a full-fledged movie tie-in for the new Star Trek film, Naked Sky Entertainment instead decided to create a quick and dirty online shooter set in the Star…
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Frankenreview: Punch-Out!!
Everything old is new again, as Nintendo and developer Next Level Games brings the classic boxing game Punch-Out!! to the Nintendo Wii. It’s the original game all over again, with a colorful cast of boxers both old and new, with the player stepping into the familiar shoes of Little Mac, the definitive, scrawny underdog amidst…
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Killzone 2 Flash And Thunder DLC Is A Blast From The Past
The second batch of downloadable content for Killzone 2 is due out next month, bringing two maps from the first Killzone to the PlayStation 3. The Flash and Thunder Pack contains two classic Killzone maps remade from the ground up for Killzone 2. The Beach Head map sees the ISA defending a coastal stronghold against…
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Aliens VS Predator: First Screens, Teaser, And Campaign Details
Today Sega delivers a wealth of screens, details, and even a teaser video for the upcoming update to Rebellion’s original Aliens VS Predator. Like the PC original, the new Aliens VS Predator title will feature three separate campaign modes, one for each of the three factions represented in the game. Players will be able to…
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Congress Identifies Piracy Priority Countries
The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus asks that Canada, Russia, China, Mexico, and Spain please cut down on the software piracy. Thanks! The five countries are the ones singled out by the Anti-Piracy Caucus as priorities for 2009, with Congress urging said countries to improve enforcement legislation and practices. How are they urging? Through a series…
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