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The Sims 3 Boldly Goes Where Many Have Gone Before
What better way to market the latest version of EA’s life simulation series than to tap into one of the biggest movies of the year? While I am a little disappointed at the lack of pointy-ear options indicated by this Star Trek send-up, I was rather ticked by the red shirts dying horrible deaths, so…
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High Voltage: The Conduit Different From Other Core Sega Wii Titles
High Voltage chief creative officer Eric Nofsinger explains why The Conduit won’t suffer the same poor sales as Sega’s other core Wii titles, MadWorld and The House of the Dead: Overkill. Both MadWorld and The House of the Dead received praise from game reviewers, but the sales for both titles we rather abysmal, especially when…
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Dragonica Online Preview Beta Coming Soon
THQ’s first foray into the world of imported massively multiplayer online gaming is off to a good start, as THQ*ICE announces a preview beta for Dragonica Online at the end of May. Things seem to be ahead of schedule for THQ’s first online game. The company has selected Hypernia Hosting Corporation as their server provider,…
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Secret Of Monkey Island Special Edition Sails To 360?
Both a mysteriously disappearing German rating and sources close to Adventure Gamers seem to indicate that a special edition of The Secret of Monkey Island is on its way to the Xbox 360. We first caught wind of this via GamerBytes, who managed to snag a picture of the German listing before it was removed…
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Hi-Rez Studios Bringing Global Agenda To E3
Hi-Rez Studios is heading to E3 2009, yanking their action-oriented massively multiplayer game Global Agenda away from alpha testers long enough to give the convention going public a little taste. E3 2009 will mark the first major public showing of the game, which has until now been shown off at the odd public charity event…
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What Went Wrong With Demigod
Stardock CEO Brad Wardell exhaustively details the whys and hows behind Demigod’s crippling networking issues in a blog post aptly titled “Demigod: So what the hell happened?” The early release and subsequent rampant piracy of Gas Powered Games‘ action real-time strategy title were just the beginning of the networking problems that Demigod has been plagued…
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When Robot Chicken And Spore Collide
Witness the Robot Chicken creative team using the Spore Galactic Adventures editor to create their own fanciful tales of poo-flinging. Hot on the heels of this morning’s announcement that the Robot Chicken team was providing downloadable adventures for Spore’s Galactic Adventure’s expansion comes this video, proving the fact. It features one hell of a Spore…
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Drum King Is Now Rolling Stone: Drum King
The fact that all of Drum King’s musical selections are covers now makes sense, as 505 Games teams with the world’s foremost music magazine, transforming the title into Rolling Stone: Drum King. Rolling Stone is famous for its covers, and perhaps Rolling Stone Drum King will be as well. Developed by Arc System Works and…
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APB Putting In Appearance At E3
Crackdown developers Realtime Worlds aren’t keen to miss another chance to show off their upcoming massively multiplayer online crime fest, announcing that APB will definitely be making this year’s E3 Expo. While the timing just wasn’t right last year, this year Realtime Worlds seems to be on point, announcing their E3 2009 presence via the…
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Capcom Tries To Teach Us Monster Hunting
Capcom has released the first in a series of video tutorials for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on the PlayStation Portable, in which a man with far too thick an accent discusses porcupines. At least I think he said porcupines. The narrator, assumedly one of the four expert monster hunters from Capcom’s Encyclopedia Gigantica website, explains…
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World Of Warcraft Equipment Manager Patched In
The introduction of the long-awaited Equipment Manager feature in today’s patch 3.1.2 makes playing World of Warcraft even easier, if that’s possible. Originally scheduled to be released alongside patch 3.1’s dual talent specs, the Equipment Manager is one of those features that World of Warcraft players have using add-ons to take care of for years.…
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Next Tomb Raider Film Features Younger Lara Croft
It looks like Angelina Jolie’s time as Lara Croft could be at an end, with the next Tomb Raider movie being an origin story featuring a much younger Lara Croft. Speaking in an interview with About.com during the premier of Terminator Salvation, producer Dan Lim explains that the new Lara Croft film will be an…
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Zoë Mode Expands Into San Fran
That enigmatic blonde girl from Brighton sets her eyes on the states, with independent music and party game developer Zoë Mode launches a San Francisco studio next month. Zoë Mode, the Kuju Entertainment subsidiary perhaps best known for Sony’s SingStar series, is making the move to San Francisco next month with the June 1st launch…
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Explore Strategic Options In Halo Wars Today
Players looking to add a little more meat to their Halo Wars experience need look no further than Xbox Live Marketplace, where the Strategic options downloadable content is now available for purchase. Announced last month, the Strategic Options pack introduces three new single and multiplayer skirmish game types to help players play out the war…
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Robot Chicken Invades Spore Galactic Adventures
The secret behind the mysterious Spore WTF website is revealed, as Maxis announces day one downloadable content for the Spore Galactic Adventures expansion from the deranged minds behind Robot Chicken. Robot Chicken co-creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich conceptualized a special campaign for Spore Galactic Adventures, which was then handed off to their writing team…
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Daisy Fuentes Brings Pilates To The Wii
Sega is finally bringing Pilates to the Wii this Summer, and who better to present the early 20th-century German physical fitness system than the Cuban-born former co-host of America’s Funniest Home Videos, Daisy Fuentes? We’ve got plenty of yoga games, but Sega is the first to dedicate a title to the other popular exercise regiment…
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Tatsunoko VS Capcom Confirmed, Playable At E3
Capcom has confirmed that a North American version of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom for the Nintendo Wii is indeed one of their two secret games for E3 2009, debuting in playable form at the Capcom booth. The magazine scan we posted Saturday is from the new issue of Nintendo Power, which features the exclusive reveal of…
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High Voltage To Reveal New Original Title At E3
With The Conduit as good as released, High Voltage Software plans to use this year’s E3 to reveal their all-new original IP to the world at large, and they couldn’t wait until then to tease it. No matter how you feel about announcement announcements, there’s no way we’re going to get the game companies from…
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Dead To Rights: Retribution – Welcome To Grant City
Dead to Rights: Retribution‘s Grant City has gotten one hell of a makeover since last we visited. I believe the team at Volatile Games was going for filthier, slightly more industrialized New York City, or at least I hope they were, because that’s certainly what they ended up with. A few of the new shots…
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ArmA II Pushed Up A Week
With Codemasters’ Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising missing its originally planned summer release, original Flashpoint developer Bohemia Interactive scootches its spiritual successor’s release up a week. ArmA II will now be shipping for the PC on the 19th of June, one full week ahead of the originally planned release date. For awhile it seemed like Codemasters’…
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